Nonprofit Organizations in Vancouver

VoteNowBC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that provides an online information and discussion platform for BC voters. Our goal is to easily provide BC voters with the information and tools they need to make an informed vote during municipal and provincial elections. We understand the challenges of staying politically informed because we know that  British Columbians have many commitments such as work, family and other day-to-day commitments. VoteNowBC believes that everyone has a right to be politically informed and we aim to eliminate these barriers in order to ensure that everyone can vote for a candidate that best represents their interests.

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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.

Our mission is to improve the health, safety and well-being of women who are involved in Vancouver’s street-based sex trade. Our vision is for every woman to have access to opportunities to make free, healthy and positive choices.Women who engage in sex work are some of the most vulnerable in our society. Those who engage in street-based sex work are even more at risk of social stigma, violence and health crises.

WISH Drop-In Centre Society provides support to women who work in the street-based sex trade—60 percent of whom are homeless, and half of whom are Indigenous.

In the face of this trauma, WISH offers a range of services to support women who are often denied both their basic needs as well as a sense of dignity and self-worth. We host a nightly <a href="https://wish-vancouver.net/program/drop-in-centre/">Drop-In Centre</a> open 365 days per year, providing a safe place to rest, have a hot meal, shower and connect with community. We check the safety of women working on the streets, and offer harm reduction supplies, through our <a href="https://wish-vancouver.net/program/mobile-access-project-map-van/">Mobile Access Project (MAP) Van</a> which drives across the city every night. We also provide far-reaching opportunities designed to enable longer-term support, such as our <a href="https://wish-vancouver.net/program/learning-centre/">Learning Centre</a>, <a href="https://wish-vancouver.net/program/supportive-employment-program/">Supportive Employment Program</a> and <a href="https://wish-vancouver.net/program/music-therapy/">Music Therapy Program</a>.

Women in the WISH community—while they face incredible challenges— are resilient, intelligent and strong. They survive, create and care for each other in a society that routinely denies them a voice and discounts their humanity.

In a place of compassion and trust and without judgement—a place where all women are valued—sex workers can begin to make healthier, more positive choices to enhance the quality of their lives. WISH is such a place.

World Wildlife Fund Canada is the country’s largest international conservation organization. Guided by the best scientific analysis and Indigenous knowledge, we work to conserve species at risk, protect threatened habitats, and address climate change. Our long-term vision is simple: to create a world where nature and people thrive.

Water Polo West is the Provincial Sport Organization for water polo in British Columbia.

Children are the future of the nation and the future of the world. The healthy growth of adolescents and children is a key factor in the development of a country. But there are still 1 billion people living below the extreme poverty line in the world, tens of thousands of children are homeless and unable to attend school. WE ARE THE WORLD are a organization that are donating money for School In a Box, a activity UNICEF made to let more kids who don’t have the opportunity to go to school, get the chance to receive their education. WE ARE THE WORLD are going to help those kids by raise funds through various methods such as charity sales, charity performances, fundraising, and public fundraising.

West Coast Beach Volleyball Society (WeCoBeVo) was born from a shared desire across the beach volleyball community to create a new path for youth in Western Canada to play and train, and have an equal chance to dream about representing Canada on the international
stage. At present, the only option is for athletes (of all ages) to move to Toronto to do so. The roots of our goals has led WeCoBeVo to becoming a community connector, a change instigator, and a fundraising entity that provides unique events that bring together all
facets of the volleyball community.

Funds raised are currently going towards: (1) helping support developing athletes in Western Canada to compete nationally and internationally; (2) enhancing Western Canada’s reputation as a competitive volleyball market that is developing future leaders in the sport; (3) developing a community spirit such that young athletes know they are supported through encouragement, development and financial opportunities as possible; (4) donations to
Jumpstart Charities, whose sole focus is to remove financial barriers for kids to participate in and learn from sport.

WCDWA is a non-profit community legal clinic in its 30th year of operation. WCDWA provides legal assistance and community support to live-in caregivers and temporary foreign workers in British Columbia. WCDWA is also engaged in public legal education, advocacy and law reform initiatives. For more information, see: www.wcdwa.ca

Do you have a passion for saving the environment? Do you want to make Canada a more sustainable place to thrive in? Do you want the opportunity to build your resume while contributing to a good cause? If you answered yes to these questions please consider joining our Street Legal Team here at West Coast Environmental Law.

West Coast LEAF’s office is located on the unsurrendered homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (also called Vancouver, BC).

West Coast LEAF is a legal non-profit and charitable organization with a mandate to advocate for inclusive and intersectional gender equality. We use law reform, public legal education, and litigation strategies to achieve systemic transformation, collaborating directly with communities impacted by gendered harms. We are committed to advancing an inclusive vision of feminism that defends the right to be free from discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. As a predominantly settler-led organization working within colonial legal frameworks, we take responsibility for positively transforming our relationships with the Indigenous people on whose homelands we predominantly work.

Car Free Day celebrates the vibrancy of Vancouver’s diverse neighborhoods by organizing a multi-site annual arts and culture festival that reclaims traffic thoroughfares as community focused public spaces. This allows artists, local residents, performers, artisans, non-profits, and businesses to interact, engage, and re-imagine spaces normally reserved for vehicle traffic. We continue to be a green and grassroots effort, directed and organized by the local residents in each Car Free Day neighborhood.  <strong>This year the 11th Annual West End Car Free Day will take place on June 16, on Denman between Robson St. and Beach Ave.</strong>

Our Vision

A Vancouver community that supports and empowers older adults to live involved, healthy and fulfilling lives.

Our Mission

To enhance the quality of life of older adults by providing social, recreational, educational and supportive programs and services that foster connection and inclusion in the broader community.

Our History

On August 15, 1979, a meeting was held at the local office of the Provincial Ministry of Human Resources, comprised of representatives of government, the Vancouver Health Department and West End older adults. In this meeting, they examined the findings of a field-study conducted by the undergraduates of UBC’s School of Social Work on the needs of senior citizens. As a result, the West End Seniors’ Council selected an executive body to discuss and find solutions to the current needs of this community.

Funded by a Federal New Horizons Program grant, an Information and Referral Centre was opened in 1982, operating 3 days a week and staffed by older adult volunteers with support from a paid, part-time Coordinator.

West End Seniors’ Network become an incorporated society in BC in October 1982, and has been a registered charity since July 1984. Currently, there are over 950 members of the Network, 15 paid staff members and more than 250 active volunteers who contribute over 20,000 hours a year.

The West End Seniors’ Network now operates from three different locations. In Denman Place Mall we run a thrift boutique, Clothes and Collectibles, and an Information and Referral centre, Kay’s Place. WESN’s main offices are located in Barclay Manor, a space dedicated by the City of Vancouver for older adults, where we work co-operatively with the West End Community Center Association to provide a variety of programs and activities.