{"id":10875,"date":"2023-03-31T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/oom-recipients\/gail-asper\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:19:53","slug":"gail-asper","status":"publish","type":"oom-recipients","link":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/oom-recipients\/gail-asper\/","title":{"rendered":"Gail Asper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gail Asper is president of CanWest Global Foundation, corporate secretary of CanWest Global Communications Corp. and managing director of The Asper Foundation which is currently spearheading the establishment of the $311-million Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Asper is well known for her support of the arts and her volunteer efforts encompass a myriad of causes. She has served on the boards of numerous not-for-profit groups and was the 2002 campaign chair for the Winnipeg United Way Campaign which raised a record $13.8 million under her leadership and is now president of the board of United Way. She has also served as president of Manitoba Theatre Centre and co-chaired its successful $6-million capital campaign and ongoing $10-million endowment campaign. She sits on the board of directors for the National Arts Centre Foundation and is a governor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among numerous honours, she is the recipient of the YMCA\/YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Community Voluntarism (2002); the Children\u2019s Charity of Manitoba, Gold Heart Humanitarian of the Year Award (2004); and the Governor General\u2019s Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts (2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-10875","oom-recipients","type-oom-recipients","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients\/10875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oom-recipients"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}