Glee actress Jane Lynch appeared on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show this week to recall the late Cory Monteith, a co-star on the Fox dramedy, as generous and  “a real giver.”

Vancouver casting director Maureen Webb, who also runs Project Limelight, a free performing arts program for kids living in the city’s downtown east side, can attest to that.

Two days before the Canadian actor died on July 14, Monteith and his manager had dinner in Vancouver with Webb in a restaurant that adjoins a Project Limelight rehearsal space.

“We wouldn’t be where we are today without him (Monteith),” Webb tells Playback.

Monteith, in videos produced for Project Limelight and posted on its website and online, talked about what the kids charity meant to him.

“He was central to the design of this program,” Webb adds.

A week ago, over dinner, Webb and Monteith discussed how to raise yet more money to run Project Limelight.

A few days later, in the immediate aftermath of his death, Monteith’s family and close friends and the Glee series designated Project Limelight as one of three charities to receive donations in his memory.

The candlelight vigil outside the Fairmount Pacific Rim hotel, where Monteith died of an accidental overdose of heroin and alcohol, is to culminate with a Friday night gathering.