Vancity and Vancity Community Foundation have proudly partnered with the City of Vancouver and Government of Canada to invest in two new affordable housing projects.

With humility, we mourn alongside the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc and all our Indigenous colleagues, friends, partners and family. We recognize as a charitable foundation we have an immediate responsibility to understand our own complicity in the devastating legacy of the residential school system and colonization, and must actively contribute to Reconciliation and systemic change. To support our collective Reconciliation journey...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – June 22, 2021 – JUDI.AI, a fintech leader in small business lending and growth analytics, is immensely proud to announce they have pledged 1% of their equity to Vancity Community Foundation. This donation will be made through The Upside Foundation of Canada upon a successful liquidity event. “Vancity Community Foundation is excited to welcome JUDI.AI as...

The full report on the 2020 Homeless Count in Metro Vancouver provides new details on homelessness prior to the pandemic. Data shows number of people experiencing homelessness changed little from 2017; however, the changes brought on by COVID-19 mean the final report may not adequately reflect regional homelessness. Indigenous people and racialized groups continue to be over-represented among those experiencing...

At the end of the period, 2019, Vancity Community Foundation held $88,227,587 in consolidated assets and had distributed $3,954,398 to charities and community initiatives. Please review our 2019 Annual Report for more information.

In the wake of recent acts of anti-Black violence and discrimination in Canada and the United States, Vancity Community Foundation expresses our solidarity with Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour, and the changemakers fighting for racial justice and an end to racialized violence. We share in the outrage over the senseless deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Chantel Moore, George...

Fund will support services and programs designed for the most vulnerable populations across British Columbia Friday, March 20, 2020, Unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations/Vancouver B.C. — A collection of British Columbia organizations announced today the creation of the Community Response Fund — a special fund to rapidly deploy essential relief to organizations that provide frontline services to...

During this time of uncertainty,the Foundation’s priorities are to ensure the health and safety of our staff while continuing to work with donors and partners to support our community, particularly those who are most vulnerable. Adapting our operations Our staff began a work from home program on March 13 and on March 17 we closed our physical office. Staff continue...

As climate change transforms global ecosystems, our awareness and ability to take action on the climate emergency is of the highest importance. Reflecting on the news coming out of Australia, Vancity wanted to find a way to help their co-op cousins.

The Province of B.C. has granted $10-million to the Vancity Community Foundation to develop a sustainable provincial rent bank program. Rent banks provide emergency low- or no-cost loans to help renters facing eviction. The funding announced earlier today by the Honourable Shane Simpson, Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, means more renters facing short-term financial difficulties will soon have better access to assistance from community rent banks.