Initiatives

Initiatives

Learn more about our work-- the breadth and type of projects and initiatives we're supporting, inspiring stories, and news from Vancity Community Foundation and from our community partners.

Initiatives

We deliver, support, and/or engage in projects and initiatives that advance social justice, financial inclusion, and or environmental sustainability.

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Insights & Research

Learning, research and advocacy are essential for driving impact. We develop and support research that illuminates community needs, facilitates targeted solutions and fosters the exchange of knowledge to balance power and spur innovation, responsiveness, and progress toward a common goal.

News

VCF's project was selected as a CMHC Housing Supply Challenge semi-finalist!

Vancity Community Foundation is excited to share that the Vancity Affordable Community Housing Program’s project “Reaching New Heights: Scaling the Vancity Affordable Housing Accelerator Program across Canada” received support and funding from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Housing Supply Challenge Level-Up Round, which supports innovative solutions that remove barriers to increasing housing.

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Vancity Community Foundation is hiring! (March 2024)

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International Women's Day 2024

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2024 BC Budget Highlights

Reaching Home - Greater Vancouver Designated Community Services Call for Proposals 2024-2026

Black History Month 2024

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Stories of Change

Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society

Creating Homes for Ten Years

2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society (SHHS). Over the past ten years the Society has provided over $3.5 million in funding to Surrey organizations that assist people experiencing homelessness. The Society has supported 55 projects with more than 50 partners assisting over 500 individuals, including children, who were homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness.

Calling Attention to Youth Aging Out of Care

Fostering Change moves to First Call

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.

Arts for Life Fund

We Can't Afford Poverty

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.