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In the wake of recent acts of anti-Black violence and discrimination in Canada and the United States, Vancity Community Foundation expresses our solidarity with Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour, and the changemakers fighting for racial justice and an end to racialized violence. We share in the outrage over the senseless deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Chantel Moore, George...
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Fund will support services and programs designed for the most vulnerable populations across British Columbia Friday, March 20, 2020, Unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations/Vancouver B.C. — A collection of British Columbia organizations announced today the creation of the Community Response Fund — a special fund to rapidly deploy essential relief to organizations that provide frontline services to...
Vancity Community Foundation Receives Provincial Grant To Help Expand Access To Community Rent Banks
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The Province of B.C. has granted $10-million to the Vancity Community Foundation to develop a sustainable provincial rent bank program. Rent banks provide emergency low- or no-cost loans to help renters facing eviction. The funding announced earlier today by the Honourable Shane Simpson, Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, means more renters facing short-term financial difficulties will soon have better access to assistance from community rent banks.
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Sometimes what makes the biggest difference in a person’s life is the sense of confidence that comes from getting back to work and belonging in the community. Last year, Nicole Thurgood was looking too long and hard for work. She began feeling low, asking herself: “What am I going to do? How do I feed my family?” The 46-year-old Strathcona resident turned to a job-readiness program with Mission Possible, a Vancouver community development agency and accepted a six-month transitional job in one of its social enterprises, MP Maintenance, which provides exterior building cleaning services and landscape maintenance.
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Hamsa Jaser has a new dream that feels like hope: A cozy family restaurant that brings “a small part of her home country to her new home” in Richmond, with a few traditional Iraqi dishes such as quozi, lamb shank with traditional herbs and spices, served like home with starters, complimentary soup and a sauce.
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Vancity Community Foundation received more than $18 million in gifts in 2018 from more than 1800 individuals, members, and community partners to advance and strengthen charities and community initiatives. View our 2018 Annual Report to learn more.
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The purpose of the Goodly Foods Fund is to generate income to support our programs, operations and activities that help grow our social and environmental impacts as a budding social enterprise that is repurposing surplus produce, creating unique employment opportunities, and feeding people in need.
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As an independent non-profit urban development organization based in Vancouver, BC Artscape aims to create the conditions for artists and creative communities to thrive by developing and managing affordable space, programs and services.
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Open each winter season, Aunt Leah’s lots sell high-quality Christmas trees and accessories, including stands, wreaths, swags and greenery, across Metro Vancouver. The lots are run by a combination of employees and volunteers and also provides training and employment opportunities to at-risk youth.
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Vancity Community Foundation supported ShredMasters to participate in a custom marketing workshop to build internal marketing capacity while completing a marketing plan. CSE also received support to hire a sales person to grow the client base for both ShredMasters and ValleyRecycling, a commercial and residential supportive employment recycling social enterprise the organization also operates.