Nonprofit Organizations in Vancouver
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The Vancouver Art Gallery is a not-for-profit organization supported by its members, individual donors, corporate funders, foundations,
the City of Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
We’re reaching out to 27,000 British Columbia seniors and their families to get first-hand feedback on the quality of their residential care and accommodations.
The results from this survey will give residents and their families a voice. They will provide a road map for improvement of the quality of care and services provided to residents and their families in residential care.
This project is being led by the BC Office of the Seniors Advocate, an independent office of the provincial government. The project is being managed by the BC Patient Centred Measurement Working Group and Providence Health Care. The project has been informed by the BC Office of the Seniors Advocate’s Long-Term Care Consultation Group.
The project is working in partnership with all health authority owned and operated sites, as well as all contracted sites (private-for-profit and private not-for-profit).
The project is working with a survey vendor, the National Research Corporation of Canada, to collect and collate the resident and most frequent visitor survey data.
The interviews are volunteer-powered, with over 900 volunteers needed contributing their time and effort across BC.
History
The Greater Vancouver Food Bank was set up as a temporary relief to the hunger crisis in 1983 and has grown significantly in the four decades since then.
Today the GVFB sees over 800,000 visits from clients annually across Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster and the North Shore.
Who We Support
52% of the food distributed by the GVFB goes to individuals in four locations across our catchment area: Vancouver (57%), Burnaby (25%), New Westminster (9%), and the North Shore (8%). Of these clients 31% are children and 15% are seniors. The remaining 48% of the food distributed goes to our network of Agency Partners. These partners use GVFB food to fuel their food programs, including small community food banks, daily snack and meal programs for shelters and community housing, school nutrition programs, and more.
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is a unique, community-based celebration of the finest in contemporary and traditional folk and roots music from around the world. It is an event that connects generations of families, groups of friends, and community members who come to enjoy the music, dance, food, children’s activities, and the very special ambiance of Jericho Beach, one of Vancouver’s sea-side jewels. There are 7 stages, over 300 musicians, 1500+ volunteers and 35000 guests that help make it successful every single one of it's 39 years.
With 10 large-scale events being operated across Canada this year, Hockey Night in Canada’s Play On! is one of Canada’s Largest Street Tournaments and Hockey Festivals. The event represents a unique and true celebration of both Canadian culture and sport and allows adults and kids to channel their inner NHL superstar!
This year, we are thrilled to bring Play On! Vancouver (www.playon.ca/events/vancouver) to its new home at the YPK Integrated Training Centre in Pitt Meadows on June 25-26, 2016.
Portobello West fashion and art market is a monthly market held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The Market is a regular monthly event from March to December at which local designers and artisans can sell their creations directly to the public. It was established in August 2006 by Carlie Smith, a graduate of the University of Victoria who, after living in London, England for two years, wanted to bring the European style market atmosphere to her home town. Carlie envisioned a regular event that would raise the profile of local designers and artisans as well as be a regular outdoor community event.
For 26 years, the Harmony Arts Festival, presented by Odlum Brown Limited, has been one of the North Shore’s more popular community events. The festival draws crowds from all over the Lower Mainland to celebrate a harmonious balance of visual, culinary and performing arts on the spectacular West Vancouver waterfront. Whether it’s world-class musical performances, inspiring visual art, mouth-watering gastronomic events or simply the natural beauty of the setting that gets your heart beating a little faster, there is something for everyone at the Harmony Arts Festival.
The Harmony Arts Festival takes place in West Vancouver along the waterfront on Argyle Avenue, from 14th Street to 16th Street. Festival sites include John Lawson Park, Millennium Park, the Music Box and the Ferry Building Gallery. For more information about these arts facilities, visit the District of West Vancouver website, or view our festival site map.
The 10-day festival attracts some 130,000 visitors. Strong sponsorship support, artist participation and volunteers have helped to build and define the Harmony Arts Festival.
Join us from July 29 - August 7, 2016 for the 26th Annual Harmony Arts Festival.
GoodLife Fitness City Chase is Canada's largest urban adventure race. It is a mix between a 10k road race and the amazing race. Racers are teamed up and required to solve a clue sheet that will lead them to scattered locations across the city.
For more than 130 years, The Salvation Army has had the privilege of serving vulnerable people in communities across Canada. Last year, we helped over 1.8 million people in the Vancouver area. The Salvation Army not only provides the necessities of life such as food, clothing and shelter, but our programs address needs such as language barriers, loneliness, unemployment and family challenges.
The BC Cancer Foundation is the fundraising partner of the BC Cancer Agency and the largest funder of cancer research in this province. We enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on improvements to cancer care for patients in British Columbia.
The Chill Foundation is a non-profit charity that inspires youth through board sports. We run a snowboarding, skateboarding and paddle-boarding program in the winter, summer and fall seasons, reaching 150+ local youth in our communities. Chill uses Positive Youth Development (PYD) techniques throughout our programming to empower youth working through adversity, and support them with opportunities to build resiliency through every aspect of their lives.
For 20 years, Breakfast Club of Canada has been nourishing children’s potential by making sure as many of them as possible have access to a healthy morning meal before school, in an environment that allows their self-esteem to grow and flourish. But the Club is much more than a breakfast program: we take a broader approach that promotes the core values of engagement, enrichment and empowerment, and we team up with communities and local partners to develop solutions adapted to their specific needs. Operating from coast to coast, the Breakfast Club of Canada helps feed 167 271 students every day in 1,455 schools.
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