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The summer sun streams into the Teen Lounge at Surrey’s City Centre Library. The “hangout” room is designed specifically for youth. It’s a fitting location to interview Saad Al-Samarrai, a...
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December 17, 2012
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January 15, 2006: a Sunday in the dead of winter. But for Canadian soldier Captain Trevor Greene this was a winter day like nothing he had experienced before. Rather than cold winds and blankets of...
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December 17, 2012
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Bill Nimi’s memory isn’t as good as it used to be. But even at 80 years old, he can still recall many details about his father’s drugstore . “The address was 331 Powell Street,” he says without...
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December 17, 2012
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Bill and Manny are enjoying their retirement. They both worked hard and invested their money wisely – Bill was a chartered accountant, and Manny (who trained as a miner in Germany) worked in the...
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December 17, 2012
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When Yosef Spivak laughs, he makes a sound like warm wind, and his eyes completely disappear behind red, round cheeks. He’s a cheerful guy. It’s his nature, even though, at 22, he’s had a lifetime’s...
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December 17, 2012
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We all know that coffee can help kick start our day. But can coffee help to propel a movement, change a neighbourhood, or transform an individual? According to Collette Bennett, marketing manager for...
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December 17, 2012
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As a toddler, Larry Wong would wake each morning to the staccato rhythms of his father’s Singer sewing machine. By the afternoon, he would be crawling on the floor, playing amongst clippings of silk...
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December 14, 2012
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Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things You...
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December 14, 2012
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November 28, 2012 -- Vancouver Foundation announced today that “Gen Why Media” is the winner of a special $5,000 grant inspired by the findings of the Foundation’s 2012 Connections and Engagement...
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November 28, 2012
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October 22, 2012 -- The family of Amanda Todd has created two different funds at Vancouver Foundation in honour of their daughter. The 15-year-old Port Coquitlam girl died last week after years of...
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October 22, 2012
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October 10, 2012 -- Today’s launch of the Vancouver Rent Bank means low-income residents facing potential eviction or loss of essential utilities due to a temporary financial crisis will be able to...
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October 10, 2012
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October 4, 2012 -- (Vancouver, B.C.) Today, in preparation for the Seventh Annual Homelessness Action Week (October 7 – 13), the Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness released...
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October 4, 2012
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Connections and Engagement, A Closer Look: When we feel we have nothing to offer One of the most surprising findings from our Connections and Engagement Survey came from a question that we thought we...
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September 15, 2012
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We walked with Legacy Donors through the beautiful gardens of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gardens on a guided tour and learned a bit of the vast history that lives within the enclosed walls...
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September 11, 2012
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August 9 , 2012 --The City of Vancouver has set out a plan to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. Today, Vancouver Foundation announced a call for proposals from community organizations...
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August 9, 2012
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Connections and Engagement, A Closer Look: The benefits of neighbourliness A neighbourhood is so much more than a geographically localized area. It is the place we call home, where our children play...
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July 15, 2012
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June 27 , 2012 -- Vancouver Foundation today announced the recipients of the first round of Generation Green Grants for 2012. Six projects will benefit from grants totalling $37,460. One of those...
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June 27, 2012
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One in three people living in metropolitan Vancouver say it can be difficult to make friends here. Seventy per cent have never had a neighbour over. And 47 per cent do not trust or do not know if...
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June 18, 2012
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Harry Jerome was a Canadian track-and-field athlete who competed in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He won bronze in the 100 metres in 1964, and gold in the 1966 British Empire and...
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June 18, 2012
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When Diego Cardona was four, his father went to a meeting... and never came back. The meeting was with members of a Colombian insurgent group to discuss a parcel of family land the insurgents had...
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June 18, 2012
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Every year, approximately 2,000 temporary farm workers from Mexico come to the Fraser Valley on a government work program. Most of us never see these men, working on tree farms, in nurseries and...
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June 17, 2012
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“I heard a bluebird singing one day.” An elfin, tousled-haired girl sings onstage at Burnaby’s Museum Village, sweeping a broom and blowing bubbles . . . “He seemed a messenger of happy news. But now...
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As a community foundation, it is critical we understand our community – its strengths and its weaknesses. It is also important to know where we can make the best investments and have the most impact...
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June 17, 2012
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Some images stay with you for a long time. Figure skating fans of a certain age will always remember the World Figure Skating Championships of 1973 in Czechoslovakia, when a young 21-year-old from...
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June 17, 2012
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June 4 , 2012 --Today, Vancouver Foundation joined other charities, organizations and individuals across Canada in expressing concern about the federal government’s proposed legislation in Bill C-38...
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June 4, 2012
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