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In the summer of 2010, South Hill Vancouver community resident and artist, Shary Bartlett, was inspired to develop a project in her community that could bring her neighbourhood together. She...
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May 26, 2010
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April 07, 2010 - Vancouver Foundation held its first-ever forum on youth homelessness today. Youth workers shared the successes and challenges they’ve experienced trying to link young people who are...
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April 7, 2010
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Vancouver Foundation has been honoured with two top awards from the Council of Foundations in the United States. Every year, COF holds the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards, which recognize excellence in...
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March 15, 2010
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For 2010, the Foundation will provide $800,000 in grants to arts and culture groups -- more than double its contribution in 2009. In education, $600,000 has been allocated for 2010 -- an increase of...
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March 11, 2010
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January 25, 2010 Despite a challenging financial picture in 2009, Vancouver Foundation continued to support important community projects throughout British Columbia. Fraser Valley Kelowna Lower...
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January 25, 2010
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January 19 - 2010 -- In 2009, Vancouver Foundation, through its Giving in Action Society (GIA), gave a total of $7.3 million to 224 families in BC who care for a family member with a disability. The...
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January 19, 2010
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January 18 - 2010 -- Vancouver Foundation today announced the details of four projects it recently funded for a total of $825,000. The following projects are designed to specifically address the...
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January 18, 2010
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“You never know how lucky you are until you’ve been unlucky,” philosophizes the 59-year old Vancouver businessman as he recounts the day when, as a 13-year old, his home burned to the ground in rural...
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December 18, 2009
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December 18, 2009 By Andrea Majorki Photo: Stock Xchng From Vancouver Foundation Magazine Spring 2009 Shaw Communications gives more than just dollars It’s been 60 years since William Anstis, class...
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December 18, 2009
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Setting fields aside allows farmland to rejuvenate while creating vital habitat for birds like the short-eared owl, says David Bradbeer, Program Coordinator of Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust...
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December 18, 2009
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Playing on his family’s rotten, splintery deck was a problem for Matteus Preusse, who has spina bifida, and a nightmare for his mother, Celia. His lower legs are paralyzed, and in those areas, he can...
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December 18, 2009
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There is no more fitting place to celebrate the achievements of Arthur Erickson than Simon Fraser University. And some would say no other place where the dialogue between building and setting can be...
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December 18, 2009
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Nanaimo’s south end is a neighbourhood in transition, caught between the high-density development of downtown, the glitz of a waterfront conference centre that looks to the future and low-slung...
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December 18, 2009
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Peter Webster has crammed more into 66 years than some people could manage in two lifetimes. A successful business career, entrepreneur, accomplished nordic and alpine skier (Jackrabbit Johansen...
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December 18, 2009
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“The classroom was so quiet that community centre staff kept peeking in. They thought the kids may have lost interest in my workshop and gone home.” This is the way Doug Harder describes the first...
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December 18, 2009
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The atmosphere verges on tribal. A group of 30-something men walk in a small circle swinging their babies gently as they sing softly, “Zoom, zoom, zoom, we’re going to the moon.” Then there’s a...
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December 18, 2009
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It starts with one ball … dropping onto the hard gym floor at RayCam Community Center in East Vancouver. The basketball hits the floor with the distinctive “thunk” of rubber on laminated wood, and...
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December 17, 2009
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Susan Faehndrich-Findlay is a grassroots community leader in south Vancouver, a mother of four and until recently a wannabe canner. Living sustainably is important to her. And so is the health of her...
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Customs for Urban Teens (CUT) “We brought a perfectly good car in here,” says Mark McKim. “And then we cut it up.” McKim is pointing to a hulking piece of dark blue metal. It’s a car alright – a 1965...
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December 17, 2009
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Red Cross Many refugees arrive in Canada with nothing. Sometimes they are distressed or demoralized from years in refugee camps. The Red Cross Society’s First Contact Program helps them get the...
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December 17, 2009
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In the film classic Citizen Kane, the “do good” idealism of the lead character, Charles Foster Kane, fades as his business empire burgeons. Like Kane, local forestry titan Jake Kerr built an...
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December 17, 2009
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It’s a warm August evening in the Downtown Eastside, and a community room at the Portland Hotel Society is filled with women being pampered with haircuts, manicures, massages, makeup applications and...
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December 17, 2009
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As the general director of Vancouver Opera (VO), James Wright is ultimately responsible for all programming, artistic and administrative functions of this popular company, including strategic and...
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December 17, 2009
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Broadway Youth Resource Centre Time was running out. Seventeen-year-old Vanessa (not her real name) had overstayed the limit at a temporary shelter in East Vancouver and her options were dwindling...
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December 17, 2009
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