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This Giving Tuesday, we’re excited to introduce our Collective Impact Funds, developed to reflect Vancity Community Foundation’s (VCF) new strategic plan and priorities. These funds are designed to make giving simpler, more impactful and rooted in trust.
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Insights: How much affordable housing can we build on public land? Most cities and towns have vacant or underutilized land owned by the municipality and other levels of government. For instance, an easy walk from my home takes me past a vacant patch of land where an old firehall was demolished when a bigger one was built nearby. While previously...
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Since 2007 alone, the Van Tel/Safeway Legacy Fund has granted more than $1.5 million back to the community. But that is just dollars. The magnitude of the real gift is much larger, as it lives on in the lives of every person touched by the hundreds of organizations that received funding, and in all the future grants to come, built on the 60-year history of these credit unions and the goodwill of thousands of their members.