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October 14, 2020
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Vancouver Foundation is launching the LEVEL BIPOC Grants that will offer flexible, general operating grants of $50,000 to BIPOC-led organizations. These grants are to invest in BIPOC leaders in the charitable sector to be able to pursue the hopes and aspirations they have for building a more just...
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 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...
June 16, 2020
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UPDATE: October 5, 2020 Applications for Phase II of the ECSF are open until October 30, 2020. Please click here for more information. The Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF) offers grants of up to $50,000 to charities working with vulnerable populations impacted by the COVID-19 crisis in the...
April 9, 2020
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July 27 Update: Note: We are no longer accepting donations or new applications to the Community Response Fund at this time. We encourage further donations to address pressing community needs, such as COVID-19 response and recovery, through our Community Impact Fund . We’re all feeling it lately...
March 24, 2020
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Last updated: October 5, 2020 Note: We are no longer accepting donations or new applications to the Community Response Fund at this time. We encourage further donations to address pressing community needs, such as COVID-19 response and recovery, through our Community Impact Fund . The Community...
March 16, 2020
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UPDATE: Vancouver Foundation has joined a multi-sector partnership to launch a Community Response Fund to support community through this unprecedented time. The Fund will rapidly deploy essential relief to charities that provide frontline services to people and organizations that are...
February 11, 2020
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Today, Vancouver Foundation is launching the new brand and website for Neighbourhood Small Grants (NSG) as we open applications for the spring cycle of NSG grants. The program is based on the idea that the best people to effect change in a community are the ones within it. So we provide small...
January 10, 2020
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“Walk a Little, Rest a Little, Smile for a While, Enjoy” This poem is placed on a park bench on the Vancouver seawall donated by philanthropist and Vancouver Foundation donor Monty Jang. Right next to it sits another bench dedicated to his late wife, Kay. “Kay did everything to support the family...
December 19, 2019
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Vancouver Foundation is proud to announce our role as a regional partner to Community Foundations of Canada in the Investment Readiness Program (IRP), a federally funded initiative for social purpose organizations to become investment ready through activities like developing or scaling up a social...
November 5, 2019
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From now until December 12, the LEVEL Youth Policy Program (LEVEL YPP) is accepting applications for its second cohort. The LEVEL Youth Policy Program is a six-month leadership program for a cohort of 12 young BC residents to learn how to influence the public policy process and address issues...
August 26, 2019
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Our President and CEO, Kevin McCort has been appointed to Canada’s Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector (ACCS), which was announced on Friday, August 23 by the Minister of National Revenue. The ACCS is a significant development for the charitable sector in Canada. It’s an opportunity for the...
August 19, 2019
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Earlier this year, we launched a granting program for BC’s community foundations to build capacity and strengthen their community leadership role. In 2019, our granting pool was $150,000. We are so happy to share with you the projects that are being implemented right now around the province. What...
July 23, 2019
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Nov.7 update: Learn about what kinds of projects we fund on our social media channels. Every Monday and Wednesday on Twitter ( @vancouverfdn ), we'll post a new #GrantAtAGlance highlighting a project supported by a Systems Change or Participatory Action Research grant. Vancouver Foundation is proud...
July 15, 2019
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Vancouver Foundation manages 700 endowment funds for 500 charities across Canada. We are honoured to support these charities with their long-term success. I recently sat down with Dee Dee Sung, Board Chair of Saint James Music Academy in Vancouver to learn about how their organization is...
June 25, 2019
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In 2018, Vancouver Foundation launched LEVEL Youth Granting, a grant program to promote youth leadership within the non-profit and charitable sectors by creating pathways for staff and governance leadership for Indigenous and racialized immigrant/refugee young adults. In its first year, LEVEL Youth...
June 24, 2019
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Since 2015, systems change grantmaking has become the primary focus of Vancouver Foundation’s responsive, discretionary granting. From 2015 to 2017, Social Innovation Grants (renamed to ‘Systems Change Grants’ in 2018) funded over 366 projects in communities across BC for a total of more than $27...
May 24, 2019
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Many donors want to improve our communities and feel the best way to do that is to leave it to the expert advisors at Vancouver Foundation. Did you know that through a Donor Advised Fund at Vancouver Foundation you can support an area of interest without having to select a particular charity? When...
May 2, 2019
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How would you choose to spend your 100th birthday? I suppose that is not a question we often ponder. For centenarian Vivian Henning, the youngest of two daughters, born in Saskatchewan and raised in Vancouver’s Dunbar area, who built a life with her late husband, Jack, filled with travel and the...
April 30, 2019
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Women Deliver is the world’s largest conference on the health, rights, and wellbeing of women and girls. It brings together more than 6,000 advocates and allies from all sectors across the globe to achieve a more gender equal world. This year’s conference, happening in Vancouver from June 3-6, is...
March 25, 2019
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Did you know? Surprisingly most people spend more time researching a vehicle purchase than they do for retirement planning. To help shed some light on retirement planning, we invited Michael Erez, Vice President, Director at Odlum Brown Financial Services * to speak to the factors that should be...
December 13, 2018
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The Neighbourhood Small Grants program is a 50/50 co-funding partnership between Vancouver Foundation and communities around the province to support projects that help people connect with one another and make neighbourhoods a better place to live. However, we’ve heard from many communities about...
December 12, 2018
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We’ve heard from many organizations that a significant barrier to applying for funding at Vancouver Foundation is the 50% fund matching requirement. So, we’re making some changes. Starting 2019, both Systems Change Test Grants and LEVEL Youth Granting – Test Grants will only require applicants to...
December 5, 2018
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If you are considering making a donation before the end of the year to ensure a 2018 tax receipt , please keep in mind the following dates: December 14th - Deadline to request a grant and for securities donations . December 31st - Deadline for online and cheque donations. Cheques must be post...
November 13, 2018
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In 2017 Vancouver Foundation released our second report on loneliness and social isolation, called Connect & Engage . Through this research, we learned that people are yearning for connection; specifically offline and face-to-face. We closed that report with a call to action for each of us to...