Nonprofit Organizations in Vancouver

With a mission to "Inspire Musical Excellence" and a life-long love of music VKMF is a in it's 95th year. Taking place April 9-30th in  various venues across Vancouver, with over 6000 participants of all ages attending. Volunteer for  a variety of exciting roles and shifts. We can not make this festival happen with out volunteers like you. Please register: vkmfestivals.org

 

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.

Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth!

Part science fair, part county fair, and part something-entirely-new, Maker Faires are family-friendly showcases of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness that bring together tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, food artisans, hobbyists, engineers, science clubs, artists, students, and commercial exhibitors. Makers come to show their creations and share their learnings. Attendees flock to Maker Faires to glimpse the future and find the inspiration to become Makers themselves.
The first Maker Faire was held by Make magazine organizers in April 2006, in San Mateo, California to "celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset". Since then, the Maker Movement has gone international, and many smaller independently-organized events (Mini Maker Faires) have been established. Vancouver Mini Maker Faire is one such event, and has been a yearly Maker celebration since 2011.

Vancouver Opera is the second largest opera company in Canada. It is regarded worldwide for its fine mainstage productions; for its country-leading education programs, which have reached more than 1.6 million children and their families in more than 40 years; for its innovative and award-winning community programs; and for forging groundbreaking cross-cultural creative partnerships that have brought opera to new generations of Canadians.

At VOKRA, we rescue, heal, then place cats - first in our network of foster homes, then in carefully matched, loving, forever homes. We're a passionate, volunteer-driven charity with extensive cat care experience.

Access Services provides adapted recreation opportunities for people with disabilities.

The Vancouver Police Museum and archives is an independent museum run by the Vancouver Police Historical Society, a registered charity. The museum’s foundations began in celebration of the Vancouver Police Department’s centennial anniversary in 1986 and have since expanded beyond the blue lens of local law enforcement to include the history of the Vancouver Coroner’s Services and the historic City Analyst Laboratory that houses the museum. All admission and donations support museum programming and exhibitions.

Vancouver Pride Society strives to produce inclusive, celebratory events, and advocate for LGBTQAI2S+ communities through an intersectional lens.

We offer services to people in recovery from addiction and alcoholism. This includes many different 12 step fellowships that individuals can attend. Information and referral assistance, a homeless outreach program, individual counselling and a volunteer program. We offer these services 7 days a week.

The Settlement Workers In Schools (SWIS) Program is a school-based settlement service for immigrants, refugees and other eligible clients to meet their immediate settlement and ongoing needs after their arrival in Canada.

Vancouver Second Mile Society’s (VSMS) mandate is to improve the quality of life for seniors and people with disabilities living in SRO (single room occupancy) hotels, rooming houses and low-income housing. We work with seniors living in the downtown south and the downtown eastside to build and strengthen their community by establishing social support systems. We focus on providing program participants with a quiet welcoming
space to be and to connect with others.

 

The Juno and Grammy-award winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is the largest arts organization in Western Canada and third largest orchestra in Canada. We present passionate, high-quality performances of classical, popular and culturally diverse music, creating meaningful engagement with audiences of all ages and backgrounds wherever we perform and developing and delivering inspirational education and community programs.