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Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy (RH) is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada. Reaching Home is funded by the Government of Canada and delivered by a local Community Entity. The program directives can be found at Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy Directives. To learn about the projects and their impact, please visit the Community Entity...
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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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BC Rent Bank is a project of Vancity Community Foundation, funded by the province of British Columbia. Regardless of where you live in the province, you can access a rent bank and its support services to help stabilize your rental housing during unanticipated short-term financial challenges.
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British Columbia's 2025 Budget was delivered Tuesday morning on the same day tariffs by the United States on Canada kicked off an unprecedented and unpredictable trade war. For the third year in a row, Vancity Community Foundation was there in Victoria to help deliver you the highlights from the announcement.
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Here at Vancity Community Foundation, we know that strong government funding is key to building communities that are affordable, resilient, equitable, and in Right Relations with the land. A major part of this work includes our advocacy to government. That is why we had a team in Victoria for today’s budget announcement to help make sense of the numbers and provide some important highlights.
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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.
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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...
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Low- to moderate-income renters in every part of British Columbia now have access to rent bank services through an extended partnership between BC Rent Bank and the Kamloops and District Elizabeth Fry Society.
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Since 2007 alone, the Van Tel/Safeway Legacy Fund has granted more than $1.5 million back to the community. But that is just dollars. The magnitude of the real gift is much larger, as it lives on in the lives of every person touched by the hundreds of organizations that received funding, and in all the future grants to come, built on the 60-year history of these credit unions and the goodwill of thousands of their members.
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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.