Nonprofit Organizations in Vancouver
Discover local nonprofit organizations making a difference in our community.
The BC Highland Games is a non-profit, volunteer-run event. The 89th BC Highland Games will be held June 20, 2020 at Lafarge Lake Park in Coquitlam. The Games attracts more than 10,000 individuals, families, pipe bands, competitors, vendors, heavy event athletes, dancers, singers, Gaelic speakers and lots of artisans. We had 180 volunteers in 2019, and we are now looking for one (or two) Volunteer Coordinators to run our crucial volunteer program. All the templates and resources are available, including last year's Vol. Coordinator. It's a job that starts now.
Love Builder Non-profit Society is striving to create awareness and establish a custom of respecting and caring for seniors among the younger generation through our Love Caravan Inter-generational Program.
Carrie Brown Management is a year-round volunteer management service for music festivals and live events in Canada.
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre is a multi-use facility in Burnaby, BC. Nikkei Centre’s mandate is to promote a better understanding and appreciation by all Canadians of Japanese Canadian culture and heritage; and an awareness by all Canadians of the contribution of Japanese Canadians to Canadian society, through public programs, exhibits, services, publications, public use of the facilities and special events.
Midtwenties Theatre Society is a non-profit theatre company dedicated to producing and showcasing original theatrical plays that focus on adolescence and coming-of-age themes.
The North Vancouver Museum & Archives is a community-focused organization, and is operated under the auspices of the City and District of North Vancouver, as a municipal agency. It exists to engage, strengthen and inspire our community and its visitors. Its vision is to be recognized and respected as a dynamic and relevant organization that provides access to and gives authentic voice to the stories of North Vancouver’s people and places by creating a deeply engaging cultural heritage organization that connects in transformative ways with core audiences.
Nestled in the heart of North Vancouver’s Lower Lonsdale, Presentation House Theatre has become a neighbourhood cultural hub, providing the community with a dynamic mix of professional theatre, music, and dance productions — all just a Seabus away from downtown Vancouver. We are the North Shore’s professional theatre company. For more than 40 years, we’ve entertained audiences with innovative programming and quality professional productions in our wonderfully intimate space. We are committed to presenting and producing shows of the highest standard, and appealing to the diversity of North Shore audiences. We proudly offer programming for children and youth, adults young and old.
Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) was the first arts council in North America and will celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2021. Since 1946, CACV has been a contributor to shaping the cultural life of Vancouver through development of the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse Theatre, City of Vancouver Archives, UBC School of Music, Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver International Film Festival, The Opheum and others. CACV is an independent non-profit charitable organization, unaffiliated with any government department.
VISION and MISSION
Our vision is of a socially-engaged, inclusive, and vibrant city alive with community arts. Our mission is to further the development of community arts throughout Vancouver.
Community arts is made by, with, for, and because of people sharing a sense of community, with the support of professional artists. Please consider joining the CACV Board and help us expand the community arts in Vancouver.
CACV programs address social exclusion and accessibility of creative opportunities, Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships, and sustainability in the arts sector including Reframing Relations, Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival, Community Arts Network – GATHER, and Artist in Residence partnering with John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland.
CACV completed a new 3-year strategic plan in 2019, including a comprehensive capacity enhancement plan.
The British Columbia Francophone Calendar (Calendrier francophone de la Colombie-Britannique) was founded primarily to meet the demand of Francophone youth and adults to be informed of events that will take place in French in their region. Our goal is to set up a calendar of Francophone events to facilitate public access to activities and events in French in British Columbia. Since 2016, the CFCB has communicated with the community via Facebook, Instagram, our online calendar and newsletter, all the information relating to French-speaking events across the province.
Urban Ink is a Vancouver-based professional theatre company that produces works by Indigenous and diverse artists. We put the power in the hands of Indigenous and culturally diverse artists to tell their own stories from their own unique voice.
Our MissionÂ
Urban Ink uplifts Indigenous and diverse voices through live performance.
Our Story
Established in 2001, the company was founded by Métis artist Marie Clements as an Indigenous and multi-cultural theatre company and produced over a dozen new works for the mainstage. In 2007, Diane Roberts became artistic director, creating new work, touring internationally to the Caribbean, and working in collaboration with rural Indigenous communities. In 2014, Oji-Cree First Nations theatre artist Corey Payette became artistic director. Corey is committed to deepening Urban Ink’s strong tradition of developing and investing in the voices of Indigenous and diverse artists to create work that celebrates the diversity of Canadian theatre.
For several years the CII has proudly and successfully facilitated the economic and social integration of countless members of the immigrant community. We owe our success to our innovative employment and education programs, and community engagement initiatives.
The Eastside Arts Society [EAS] is a registered charitable society that represents the highest concentration of artists per capita in the country. This vital organization’s initiative is to build capacity and sustainability for artists. It offers nationally recognized juried exhibits, it connects the community with local artists, and it provides arts programming for inner city schools.
EAS programs the signature Eastside Culture Crawl visual arts festival held in November, an open artist studio event, along with workshops and demonstrations, increases the public’s understanding and appreciation of the many varied visual art practices in our city’s Eastside. EAS has also launched a new summer festival, the CREATE Arts Festival, and is developing the Eastside Arts District. ART HAPPENS HERE!
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