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Building vendor confidence with sales training

As part of VCF’s commitment to strengthening social enterprise, and in order to help vendors with their sales our social enterprise developer worked with Megaphone to develop a workshop that would give vendors some tools to better understand where their customers are coming from.
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Aunt Leah's Tree Lots
Aunt Leah's Tree Lots

Stopping the Cycle of Foster Care and Homelessness

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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Pledge to Care 2017 Photo by Sarah Race
Calling Attention to Youth Aging Out of Care

Fostering Change moves to First Call

At just 19 years old, youth in the BC foster care system “age out” of eligibility for services and supports and are assumed to become fully independent. The effects of this loss of support are devastating. Former youth in care are over represented in homelessness, poverty and the mental health and justice systems.
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Former Vancity Community Foundation executive director Derek Gent joins vendor Bob Dennis for Megaphone Magazine’s annual Big Sell on January 20, 2018

Vancity Community Foundation Leadership Update

Allison Felker has been named as interim executive director of Vancity Community Foundation (VCF) following the departure of Derek Gent after 10 years at VCF and 7 years at Vancity. In May, Derek advised VCF’s board of directors that he would step down as executive director at the end of June. Derek says he was looking for something new at this stage of his life and career. “I am very proud of the work we’ve done here and what has been accomplished together with our many partners, donors, co-investors and the organizations we have supported that are affecting positive change in our communities...
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Healing space opens for families and survivors affected by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Former Vancity Community Foundation executive director Derek Gent joins vendor Bob Dennis for Megaphone Magazine’s annual Big Sell on January 20, 2018.

Megaphone Magazine’s 2018 Big Sell

First Call Gala (Credit: Sarah Race)

First Call Gala honours Raffi and calls attention to Indigenous Child Welfare

Guidebook to Impact Investing for Foundations Released

Vancity Community Foundation, 2016 Annual Report

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