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The North Shore Community Resource Society Endowment Fund was created to support the programs of the North Shore Community Resources Society (NSCR).
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This Fund provides the physically challenged and or their families and friends, with wheelchair accessible and affordable respite housing for rest or short term lodging while attending hospital or treatment facility appointments. Donations to this Fund will help support provisions of accessible housing on Vancouver Island and grow to establish similar accessible dwellings throughout the province.
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The Pang Kui Chiu Fund provides grants to those pursuing national and international economic/self-realization/community economic development initiatives aiming to help eliminate poverty.
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It has been named "Saa-ust" Centre, which means "to lift up" in Coast Salish. Through the newly opened Saa-ust Centre, trauma-informed counselling services, ceremony space, and access to Elders and Knowledge Keepers will be made available to families and survivors affected by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Opened on March 18, the healing centre...
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The work of Mom2Mom (M2M) Child Poverty Initiative Society is based on research in child development and neuroscience, which has shown that enriching children’s environments by lowering levels of family stress, and connecting mothers to their child’s school and to community, leads to positive changes in children’s learning and development. When these things are in place, children are happier, better...
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At just 19 years old, youth in the BC foster care system “age out” of eligibility for services and supports and are assumed to become fully independent. The effects of this loss of support are devastating. Former youth in care are over represented in homelessness, poverty and the mental health and justice systems.
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The Lily Dekraker Memorial Fund supports various organizations in the community.
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The Strandberg Family Fund supports initiatives that advance a sustainable marketplace
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This Fund is dedicated in their honor to other human and non-human animals who are victims of injustice, or perhaps just need some support because of circumstances beyond their control.
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BC has had one of the highest poverty rates in Canada for the last 15 years. There are almost 600,000 people in our province desperately trying to make ends meet and keep their heads above water. The We Can’t Afford Poverty campaign is a community art-driven campaign to eradicate poverty from British Columbia, starting with raising social assistance rates.