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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...
Initiative
Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy (RH) is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada. Reaching Home is funded by the Government of Canada and delivered by a local Community Entity. The program directives can be found at Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy Directives. To learn about the projects and their impact, please visit the Community Entity...
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Developing practical tools and addressing key questions We initiate research projects to address specific questions and gaps that are important to our work and that of our community partners. Many result in practical tools and resources developed together with community. Our research and tool development complement and strengthen the work we do in granting, impact investing and advocacy. To learn...
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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!
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BC Rent Bank is a project of Vancity Community Foundation, funded by the province of British Columbia. Regardless of where you live in the province, you can access a rent bank and its support services to help stabilize your rental housing during unanticipated short-term financial challenges.
Fund
When you give to the Community Rent Bank Fund, you’re helping rent banks around the province to provide accessible, timely, relevant support to meet the needs of low-to-moderate income renters across BC. Your support makes it possible for community rent banks to provide financial services and assistance to renters when their housing is at risk.
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Today is International Women’s Day and March, Women’s History Month. It’s an opportunity for us to reflect on the women and girls in our lives and celebrate the achievements of women here at home and around the world in pushing for a more equal and just world.
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Barb and John Taylor were individuals who worked tirelessly to preserve and improve the quality of life for all people and animals, and to ensure the physical world on which we all depend remains healthy. It was their intention in setting up their donor advised fund that they might continue to support organizations doing this important work in perpetuity.
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Vancouver, BC; November 16, 2023 – A new report released today by Vancity Community Foundation shows that accelerating non-market housing will help dramatically boost affordability across Metro Vancouver for those who need it most.
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Marta and Stefan deeply appreciated the opportunities they received in Canada as Holocaust refugees, starting over with very little in a strange and new home. This Legacy Fund is dedicated to supporting refugee settlement; efforts to alleviate poverty, housing and food insecurity; environmental and climate solutions; and the arts.