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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.
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Developing practical tools and addressing key questions We initiate research projects to address specific questions and gaps that are important to our work and that of our community partners. Many result in practical tools and resources developed together with community. Our research and tool development complement and strengthen the work we do in granting, impact investing and advocacy. To learn...
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Insights: How much affordable housing can we build on public land? Most cities and towns have vacant or underutilized land owned by the municipality and other levels of government. For instance, an easy walk from my home takes me past a vacant patch of land where an old firehall was demolished when a bigger one was built nearby. While previously...
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Vancity Community Foundation is excited to share that the Vancity Affordable Community Housing Program’s project “Reaching New Heights: Scaling the Vancity Affordable Housing Accelerator Program across Canada” received support and funding from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Housing Supply Challenge Level-Up Round!
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In 2017, with an investment from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s Affordable Rental Housing Innovation Fund, the PDF Loan program expanded and introduced a new Pre-Construction loan that provides additional and longer-term capital into non-profit affordable rental housing initiatives.