This Giving Tuesday, we’re excited to introduce our Collective Impact Funds, developed to reflect Vancity Community Foundation’s (VCF) new strategic plan and priorities. These funds are designed to make giving simpler, more impactful and rooted in trust.

As we approach September 30th, which is Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we invite settlers and non-Indigenous Canadians to join us in taking reconcilACTION by participating in the One Day’s Pay campaign.

As we approach National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30, we’d like to share some of the activities, deep learning and reoriented practices we have undertaken as an organization over the past year.

Learning about and supporting Indigenous-led organizations through a donation, without the expectation of a tax receipt, is an opportunity for settler Canadians to take action on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

VCF's Truth and Reconciliation Journey

The Greater Vancouver Community Advisory Board (CAB) and the Community Entity (CE) Lu’ma Native BCH Housing Society, in partnership with Vancity Community Foundation, is pleased to open the Call for Proposals (CFP) for Services Projects that seek to prevent and reduce homelessness in the Greater Vancouver region.

Greater Vancouver Designated Community Call for Proposals – Capital Projects OPENS: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, April 29, 2022 – 5:00 PM (La version française suit.) The Greater Vancouver Community Advisory Board (CAB) and the Community Entity (CE) Lu’ma Native BCH Housing Society, in partnership with Vancity Community Foundation would like to acknowledge the traditional and ancestral unceded...

With humility, we mourn alongside the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc and all our Indigenous colleagues, friends, partners and family. We recognize as a charitable foundation we have an immediate responsibility to understand our own complicity in the devastating legacy of the residential school system and colonization, and must actively contribute to Reconciliation and systemic change. To support our collective Reconciliation journey...

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...

This discussion paper has been prepared as part of an ongoing project on Investment and Reconciliation with the support of the Edmonton Community Foundation, Inspirit Foundation, the McConnell Family Foundation, and Vancity Community Foundation.