You can support the causes closest to your heart without having to choose a specific charity. By directing your gift to a Focus Area, our experts and advisors will ensure your gift responds to the most relevant, pressing needs of the community — now and into the future.
Donate to BC Social Services
Everyone should have access to the things they need to feel safe, healthy, and like they belong. In reality, many people face unfair barriers. A person’s class and income levels, the colour of their skin, their culture, who they’re attracted to, their gender, their abilities, and more can mean society doesn’t give them the same opportunities to participate.
Thankfully, donors like you can increase access to social programs for these community members. When you fund charities for social services, the focus area experts at Vancouver Foundation can direct the funds where they are needed most. Let’s help create healthy, safe and supportive environments for people and their families.
Focus Areas are Guided by Community Advisors
When you support a Focus Area, you join a powerful force of like-minded donors and community advisors to make a profound impact on the causes you care about. Our Focus Areas fuel our grant programs. Each program also has its own team of community advisors who are all experts in their fields. This team reviews grant applications and directs your donation to the ones.
Funded Projects
Learn about the great work that our donors have supported through the Social Services Focus Area, like these projects:
Watari Counselling and Support Services Society is connecting isolated agricultural migrant ... read full story ...
The Social Services Focus Area has also supported the crucial work of organizations like:
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To get started, please contact our Donor Services team by emailing donorservices@vancouverfoundation.ca, or give us a call at 604.688.2204.