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September 15, 2020
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Carles and Brian established the Gari & Grace Family Fund as a way to remember their parents. What we now call planned giving was part of everyday life. A few coins were to be taken out of our allowance to give away. Grandparents’ wills all included legacy gifts to their communities. Brian’s...
Gari and Grace Family Fund
September 3, 2020
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The Gloria Gutman Fund for Elder Abuse Prevention was established in 2020 for the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (CNPEA). The fund’s aim is to foster the sustainability and growth of CNPEA, so it can carry out its mission to raise awareness, inform, train...
Gloria Gutman Fund for Elder Abuse Prevention
August 27, 2020
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After more than a year of planning to launch, Vancouver Food Runners could never have anticipated all that hard work would culminate in responding to a global pandemic. Vancouver Food Runners is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization aiming to address hunger in the city, minimize food waste, and...
August 24, 2020
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August 12, 2020
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Since it’s inception in 1978, the Vancouver International Children’s Festival has provided world-class Canadian and International live performances and hands-on arts activities for children, parents and teachers at our annual Arts Festival. As a non-profit charity, private funding subsidizes our...
The Children's Festival Fund
August 12, 2020
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Vancouver Foundation is pleased to announce 43 recipients of a Systems Change or Participatory Action Research Grants. We have released a total of $6,214,284 into BC communities funding new projects tackling social, environmental, and cultural issues. Of this, more than $5.8 million was through our...
August 7, 2020
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The most recent groundswell of anti-racism support has held a mirror to Canada’s history as a country founded on white supremacy, systemic racism, and genocide. At the time Vancouver Foundation was founded in 1943, white supremacy remained the dominant way of thinking. Today’s policies and...
August 7, 2020
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Throughout the pandemic, accurate and timely information has been a critical part of BC’s progress in flattening the curve. But essential information has been inaccessible to some communities — and organizations like hua foundation are stepping up to help. hua foundation, based out of Chinatown in...
August 5, 2020
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At the beginning of 2020—prior to the pandemic—Vancouver Foundation partnered with InWithForward on a project called BetaPhil , to better understand systems change grantmaking and re-imagine ways to recognize and shift the power imbalances within it. An independent evaluation of the Systems Change...
July 28, 2020
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When Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) had to cancel their largest fundraiser in March due to COVID, they knew it was critical for them to find new ways to raise funds and continue their services. PADS breeds, raises, and trains assistance dogs to provide life-changing independence to people...
July 28, 2020
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Kristine has seventeen years of experience in general accounting, audit and tax practices. She has worked with all areas of the public sector and NPO audit engagements in British Columbia which include school districts, health authorities, universities, colleges, crown corporations and agencies,...
July 28, 2020
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Aileen works with select business owner and high net worth clients of RBC to help them with succession, tax, retirement and estate planning. Her passion is to help clients to understand their current planning, work with them to craft a plan that reflects their needs, wants, and desires and help...
July 22, 2020
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In December 2019, Vancouver Foundation partnered with Community Foundations of Canada to launch the Investment Readiness Program (IRP) . The program supports social purpose organizations like charities, non-profits, co-ops, and for-profit social enterprises prepare for social finance investment...
July 17, 2020
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LEVEL Youth Grants support projects that invest in the leadership capacity of Indigenous youth as well as racialized immigrant and refugee youth in the nonprofit sector. In doing so, we hope to advance racial equity in the nonprofit and charitable sector. Six charities were awarded a LEVEL Develop...
July 8, 2020
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The Kory Nagata Memorial Fund was established to honour Kory’s remarkable life. His family hopes to carry on his legacy and his selfless, generous spirit which never failed to draw others to him and help lift them up. Kory’s young life was cut short in a tragic accident at the age of 24. He was an...
Kory Nagata Memorial Fund
July 6, 2020
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The Law Foundation of British Columbia is a non-profit foundation created by legislation in 1969 to receive and distribute the interest on clients' funds held in lawyers' pooled trust accounts maintained in financial institutions. The Law Foundation’s funds are directed to five mandated areas: 1...