Nonprofit Organizations in Vancouver
Discover local nonprofit organizations making a difference in our community.
Neworld Theatre creates, produces, and tours new plays and performance events. We tell stories that are as complicated and contradictory as the enormously small country we live in. Historically, our work is rooted in an experience of ethnic and cultural diversity. While diversity remains a core value, our programming now asks a broader range of questions about responsibility, identity, and difference.
Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festivals is the oldest and largest music festival in BC with a mission to help “Inspire Musical Excellence”. VKMF produces four annual festivals encompassing the Jazz Band Festival, Choral Festival, Concert Band and Orchestra Festival and the Solo and Small Ensemble Festival.
The ACT Arts Centre, open since 2003, provides excellence in Arts Programs, Gallery Exhibitions and Performing Arts Presentations, along with being home to many cultural and community events, reaching over 70,000 patrons annually. The award winning ACT Presents Season offers 30-50 performances each season. These presentations attract close to 10,000 patrons annually, while the ACT Art Gallery sees over 7,000 guests. Our Arts Learning Programs register approximately 3,500 participants annually.
We are a non-profit hub for dance, psychology, and philosophy. Our priority is creation of meaning-oriented, contemporary dance that helps people connect on a genuine level. We value interdisciplinary collaboration and work with artists in other fields. We are inspired by humanistic psychology and philosophy in all that we do.
We are a non-profit organization that brings together both Latin Americans and Latin enthusiasts living in BC.
Canadian Museums is an organization dedicated to compiling and promoting the museums of Canada on a single website to preserve, educate and spread information about our Canadian roots, cultures and legacies to local residents, tourists and to the world on-line.
The Britannia Mine Museum Society is a registered charity incorporated in 1971. Our mandate is to preserve BC's mining heritage and to educate the public about mining through the operation of the Britannia Mine Museum.
OUR MISSION
To inspire the exploration of individual and societal connections to British Columbia's mining; its past, present and future.
OUR VISION
To provide unique, entertaining, and memorable educational experiences that engage visitors of all ages in the spirited history of Britannia, highlighting the role of the Canadian mining industry in the past while focusing on its commitment and leadership in creating a sustainable future.
About FIXT POINT’s previous work:
To date, we've interviewed over 3,000 Canadians from every province and territory in almost 200 communities in our storymobiles (mobile recording studio on wheels); edited and posted hundreds of oral histories on our storymap; produced two seasons of a TV/web series for TVO; and, most recently, we were awarded Touring Artist of the Year from the Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA).
- The Tale of a Town Story Map
- TVO Series
- Empathy Squad Podcasts
About FIXT POINT Arts and Media:
FIXT POINT is a Toronto-based arts & media company with national reach. Our mandate is to inspire audiences and artists to imagine change, and our mission is to promote local culture and preserve local heritage through the telling of tales across multiple platforms. We endeavour to be leaders in public engagement, embedding training and outreach into our process of creation and dissemination. FIXT POINT was founded in 2006 and incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 2011.
Find out more at www.fixtpoint.com
Apathy is Boring is a national non-partisan, youth-led organization that supports youth to become change-makers in their everyday lives and communities.
Ruby Slippers Theatre’s vision is a world where diversity is celebrated through a deeper understanding of each other. To bring this vision to reality, RST illuminates under-represented perspectives and inspires independent critical thought by giving voice to diverse, female-identifying artists and by premiering significant Québec works in English translation on the West Coast.
The Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society is a registered secular non-profit organization with year-round programming in the arts and culture scene. Our mission is to foster, promote and celebrate the arts and cultural diversity that Asian-Canadian communities bring to Canadian society.
Since 1996, VAHMS has worked closely with local Asian-Canadian communities and organizations that support our vision of becoming the main hub for celebrating Asian-Canadian arts and culture in the Metro-Vancouver area. Our signature project is explorASIAN, a Metro-Vancouver festival showcasing pan-Asian Canadian arts and culture during Asian Heritage Month in May. This year (2021) is the 25th anniversary of both VAHMS and explorASIAN.
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W.I.N.D. (We Inspire New Directions) International Film Festival, a non-profit organization with IMDB qualification designed as a networking opportunity promoting all filmmakers, entrepreneurs leaders, innovators. Festival activities to promote you will include a press conference, and photoshoot of you with celebrities, broadcasted interviews, as well as master workshops for all attending filmmakers and being published on the cover of some amazing Magazines
Our Mission:
WIND Film Festival is trying to Promote all attendees to its best. In the Red Carpet event we'll have many celebrity photographers , Publishers Press & magazines to promote you to our best.We help you and distribute your film to some of greatest TV channels.
The festival attracts celebrities, media journalists, civic and community leaders, film crews and film enthusiasts from around the globe, as well as the In previous years, WIFF wowed attendees & enthusiasts with award-winning performances along with special guest and Hollywood celebrities appearances with seven Emmy, two Golden Globe, One Grammy and two times Oscar Nominee Grammy Award Winner Emmy Award Winners
W.I.N.D. Film festival will help your work to be seen by Award winning filmmakers, acclaimed juries and A list talents all around the globe.We want to make a bridge between the East and the West to promote all talents & filmmakers and bring more diversity to Hollywood & the film industry.
W.I.N.D. stands for
- W= Women
- I = Inspiration
- N = Nation
- D= Diversity
"WIND International Film Festival " is a unique competition with Live screenings and Red Carpet exposure in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, CA, in December 14-16, 2016.
Submission is open for all filmmakers around the globe to take participate and to be honored as our winner. Please use any of the link below.
W.I.N.D. International Film Festival is a non -profit organization designed to promote all filmmakers, especially those, with Female-Inclusive talents, crews and story lines.
Our main mission is not only to raise local and international awareness about issues related to women, and social issues in general, but also to recognize and reward films of peace, love, and humanitarian topics.Our goal is to inspire and empower all, especially women around the world.We want to help all filmmakers to raise their unique voice based on our main factors.We want to bring more diversity in to Hollywood and make an effective positive change of low ratio of female filmmakers working in this business.We want to create a bridge of peace and friendship between Est and West part of the world to have a better world to live for us and future generation through art.
If your films is related to peace, humanity, Inspiration, Equality and love among human beings you can to submit to our film festival and be sure it will be considered. We are choosing all good works related to factors mentioned above if they pass cinematic standard value with no competing with others filmmakers.
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