Nonprofit Organizations in Vancouver

Project Empathic seeks to bridge the gap between elementary school students and unhoused people through card-making, detailing homelessness and creating a sense of community.
We aim to elevate the voices of unhoused people by teaching the students why card-making and further actions are important through educational workshops so society may develop empathy and unlearn the stigma of homelessness.

Project Hastings is a high-school student-led nonprofit organization that combats poverty and hunger in the Vancouver, Downtown Eastside through monthly meal and care package distributions. Since 2020, Project Hastings has distributed over 10,000 sandwiches and has had assistance from over 150 volunteers from the Metro Vancouver area.

Project Oaks is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the stigma of mental illness through sharing personal stories. We currently operate in Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Vancouver. As a whole, Project Oaks seeks to reduce social isolation, increase accessibility to mental health care, and prevent suicide through stigma reduction.

Orbis is a global leader and innovator in the fight to end avoidable blindness. We collaborate with our local partners to create long-term, sustainable eye care solutions in low- and middle-income countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Working side by side with local hospitals, ministries of health, like-minded NGOs and community groups, our mission is to make quality eye care accessible to everyone, everywhere – from bustling cities to the most remote rural villages.

- We combine traditional hands-on skills transfer with the latest in medical simulation and telemedicine technology to empower entire eye care teams with the knowledge and skills to tackle the most pressing eye health needs in their own communities. Whether it is an eye doctor performing complex surgeries in an urban hospital, a nurse treating patients in a rural clinic, or a primary health care worker screening children in her own community.
- We strengthen eye care systems, infrastructure and patient referral networks to build eye health capacity and increase access to quality eye care – now and for the future.
- We educate communities and increase awareness about the importance of eye health as a critical component of better overall health and well-being.
- We deliver community-based eye health outreach initiatives, ranging from eye screening programs for children in rural schools to the mass distribution of antibiotics to treat and prevent infectious causes of blindness.
- We advocate for equal and equitable access to eye health to help ensure no woman, man, girl or boy has to live a life of darkness, dependence and inescapable poverty caused by vision loss that could be easily prevented.

While ending avoidable blindness is our mission, Orbis’s work is about much more than helping people see. The link between poverty and vision loss is clear – poverty causes poor vision and poor vision leads to poverty. Orbis helps break this vicious cycle. By restoring sight, we empower people with the ability to go to school, get an education, work to earn a living and take care of themselves and their families. Removing the burden of blindness eliminates barriers and creates opportunities for people to live better, healthier, more productive and more prosperous lives. As a result, individuals, families and entire communities, health systems and economies become stronger.

Orbis is also working to close the blindness gender gap and help women and girls reach their full potential. Our gender-focused eye care projects not only help ensure equitable access to high-quality eye care for women and girls, but also create training and employment opportunities, and engage women to play a leading role in eye health in their communities. When we break down gender barriers and create gender equality in eye care, we empower women and girls to be change makers. And when we create opportunities for women and girls to reach their full potential, the result is measurable social, economic and cultural change and a better world.

Orbis Canada is an affiliate of Orbis International, headquartered in New York City.

The overall goal of the Prospera Valley Granfondo is to create a legacy event for the Fraser Valley, by partnering with likeminded organizations such as Cycling BC, the vision of CVEMS can be realized by targeting youth within the local education system and guiding them to make healthy living choices. This in turn will help nurture the next generation that will result in a net positive benefit for the society of the Fraser Valley as a whole.

Protein Project subsidizes much needed protein for Food Banks in BC & Alberta. The Protein Project is a community partner in the 50 Million Meals Campaign offering Fair Trade Kampot Pepper - the best pepper in the world. If 1/10th of one percent of pepper lovers chose Kampot Pepper we can deliver 50 Million Meals through the food bank system.

Providence Health Care (PHC) is the largest Catholic-operated health care organization in Canada and provides health care services to all ages across the full continuum of care. Providence Health Care is comprised of eight health care providers which include: Holy Family Hospital, Mount Saint Joseph Hospital, St. Paul’s Hospital, St. Vincent's Brock Fahrni and Langara, Youville Residence, St. John’s Hospice, Honoria Conway.

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January, the PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts.

The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local artists and mixes them together with an alchemy that inspires audiences, rejuvenates artists, stimulates the industry and forges productive relationships around the globe.

This is an initiative started during Covid Pandemic to help teach Punjabi to people of all ages. We have been remotely teaching Punjabi to students all around the world. Our volunteers are fluent in both Punjabi and English. Since Punjabi Schools and Traditional methods of learning Punjabi were challenged during the lockdown, we have created a system that allows you to take full benefit of learning Punjabi and getting your volunteer hours based on your availability and flexibility in your schedule.

 

We are a public elementary school in Vancouver with a Parent Advisory Committee planning a Gala Fundraiser for a new Outdoor Greenscaping Project.

RAVEN is a non-profit charitable organization that provides financial resources to assist Aboriginal Nations within Canada in lawfully forcing industrial development to be reconciled with their traditional ways of life, and in a manner that addresses global warming or other ecological sustainability challenges.

The GranFondo is North America's largest Fondo and Canada's largest cycling event. It is a world class ride from Vancouver to Whistler along the Sea to Sky Highway. The course is 122km and leads to an exciting celebration in Whistler.