The results of your Generosity

A summary of projects and activities funded by Vancouver Foundation and our donors in 2011 Vancouver Foundation By the Numbers 2011

Vancouver Foundation manages more than 1,400 funds.

200 community impact funds For donors who want to address the most pressing needs of the community (and want our expert advice to do that).

450 donor-advised funds For donors who want the flexibility to make their own granting decisions.

550 agency funds For organizations who trust us to manage their endowment and produce a consistent source of income.

200 designated funds For permanent support to specific agencies.

In 2011, Vancouver Foundation and its donors made more than 3,800 grants totalling more than $41 million to registered charities: Community impact funds: 257 grants approved, $6 million in grants awarded Donor-advised funds: 1,950 grants approved, $19 million in grants awarded Agency funds and designated funds: 1,650 grants/distributions approved, $15 million in grants awarded

Since 1943, Vancouver Foundation has received almost $861 million in donations and given out more than $871 million in grants and distributions. Your generosity is the beginning

One of the best things about my work with Vancouver Foundation is that it allows me to see, first-hand, the generosity of the many people who share our vision of strong, vibrant communities across British Columbia.

Our long-term goal is to achieve more compassionate and caring communities; communities where people work together for the greater good; where there is trust, well-being and a sense of belonging.

In the short-term, with the support of our fundholders, donors and community partners, we are striving to help strengthen and deepen people’s connection with their communities.

The programs and projects listed in this book demonstrate those efforts. They represent the commitment of our donors, our fundholders, and our volunteers to making this province a healthier and safer place to live.

I am also pleased to include highlights from other community work in 2011. We embarked on a priority-setting initiative that yielded some surprising results. We supported successful youth engagement projects (such as “Generation Green”). We created new opportunities for women in philanthropy, supported social enterprises, celebrated our Vancouver Foundation family, and much more.

I hope you will find the information contained in this booklet informative and inspiring.

Faye Wightman President and CEO Vancouver Foundation

1 Your generosity is the beginning Contents

A Year in Review 3

VF Granting Programs 6

Youth Homelessness 8

Youth Philanthropy Council 9

Children, Youth and Families 13

Health and Social Development 21

Health and Medical Education/Research 27

Education 29

Arts and Culture 34

Environment 45

Animal Welfare 50

Special Thanks 52

Estate Gifts 68

Vancouver Foundation Board of Directors Gordon MacDougall, Chair Dr. Vera Frinton Brandt C. Louie Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman Yuri Fulmer John McLernon, Vice-Chair Kevin Bent Anna Fung, Q.C. Floyd Murphy, CLU, CH.F.C Tom Bradley Ida Goodreau Malik Talib Tung Chan Paul Lacerte Vancouver Foundation Executive Faye Wightman, Diane Fulton, Craig Hikida, President & CEO Chief Investment Officer VP, Development & Donor Services Catherine Clement, William J. Hallett, Andria Teather, VP, Public Engagement VP, Finance & Operations VP, Grants & Community Initiatives & Communications

2 A Year in Review

2011 was a year of discovery and accomplishment at Vancouver Foundation …

We set out on a journey to learn which community issues people in metro Vancouver cared about most. The goal was to help us decide where, over the next few years, we could focus more of our ideas, energy and resources. It involved a wide-ranging public consultation and survey of non-profits. We were very surprised by what people told us.

The issue that people said concerned them most was a growing feeling of isolation and disconnection; the notion that we live increasingly in silos, separated by ethnicity, culture, language, income, age, and even geography. The impact, people said, is isolation, a retreat into ethnic enclaves, and increasing civic malaise and indifference.

The people we consulted felt the best investment Vancouver Foundation could make would be to help create bridges between our various communities — between neighbours and neighbourhoods; between residents of different ages, cultures and backgrounds; between marginalized people and the larger community — with the goal of helping residents of metro Vancouver to connect and engage for the greater good.

Our work, as we move into 2012 and beyond, will be to heed this craving for connection. We already do a great deal of work in this area, as evidenced by the projects in this booklet. But we will do more. And we will continue to tackle, as a priority, youth homelessness. Too many young people are living on the streets or at risk of becoming homeless and falling prey to addiction, mental illness, and poverty. We will continue to work hard to help these vulnerable young people.

2011 was a year of achievement at Vancouver Foundation. There are too many successful initiatives to list, but here are a few of the highlights:

Engaging Youth in Greening Neighbourhoods In January, a new program was launched to support the City of Vancouver’s 125th birthday and its goal of becoming the Greenest City in the world by 2020. The Generation Green Awards program provided cash awards for environmental projects created by young people aged six to 24. It also included a weekly “Green Quiz,” testing the green IQ of respondents, a photo contest and the “Generation Green Vote,” in which the public voted on the green idea they wanted to see more of in their neighbourhoods. Over 100 project submissions were received from individuals and groups; 19 projects received cash awards totalling $137,000. Eleven of these projects took place in Vancouver schools. The Generation Green Awards will continue in 2012, featuring the theme of “sustainable food” – the winning theme of the Generation Green Vote. www.vancouverfoundationawards.ca

Connecting Neighbours in Community Conversations The 2011 Vital Signs Community Conversations were a series of six free community dialogues throughout metro Vancouver (Richmond, North Vancouver, New Westminster, White Rock, Maple Ridge and Vancouver) that took place in June. The goal was to build on the knowledge from the 2010 Vital Signs report by focusing on the theme of “Belonging”, drawn from the results of the public opinion survey. More than 330 people participated in the dialogues on how to build more welcoming communities and neighbourhoods. www.vancouverfoundationvitalsigns.ca

3 New Provincial Partnership on Youth In October, Vancouver Foundation partnered with the BC Representative for Children and Youth on the Champions for Children and Youth 2011 – BC Summit. Staff and members of the Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Council worked with the Representative’s office to plan the summit, which brought together community, business and political leaders to hear from the growing and dynamic youth immigrant and refugee population in metro Vancouver. The forum resulted in extensive media exposure, and created the environment for a continuing relationship, as follow-up meetings were scheduled between youth and government representatives to further the work on the conference outcomes.

Giving Well – Celebrating Women in Philanthropy In the spring of 2011, Vancouver Foundation established Giving Well, its first giving circle. Eight women participated and supported two projects ― BC Society of Transition Houses, and RAIN (a magazine) ― with grants of $5,000 and $3,000 respectively. In the fall of 2011, the group gave $7,000 each to Beauty Night Society’s “Life Makeover Program” and the Immigrant Services Society’s “Afghan Women’s Support Project,” and membership grew to 18 participants who collectively support women’s issues. www.vancouverfoundation.ca/givingwell

Building Resilient Communities In November, Vancouver Foundation and Vancity introduced the Resilient Capital Program -- an innovative, high-impact investment program that will make up to $15 million available for qualifying social enterprises. It also includes a new product for depositors who want to make a guaranteed fixed return on their money, while backing social enterprises that are making a positive impact in the community.

Over $10.35 million of capital has been made available through the program, which is administered by Vancity. The goal is to make individual loans and investments to qualifying social enterprises in the range of $100,000 to $1.5 million. To date, the Resilient Capital Program has made three loans and investments totaling $1.17 million in innovative social enterprises. www.resilientcapital.ca

Community Foundations of Canada 2011 Conference: A World of Opportunity In May, Vancouver Foundation welcomed the world as host of the Community Foundations of Canada Conference in Vancouver. Highlights included speeches by Governor General David Johnston, former US President Bill Clinton and human rights activist Naomi Tutu. Vancouver Foundation staff also arranged tours of various agencies for many representatives of the 600 community foundations who attended, to see first-hand the results of our granting in Vancouver.

Celebrating Our Community In October, Vancouver Foundation’s Community Celebration took place at VanDusen Botanical Garden’s newly- built Visitor Centre – a building partly funded by Foundation donors. Close to 500 donors, fund holders, grantees and community partners attended. The event featured a wrap-up of the successful Generation Green Awards, along with a special exhibition presented by the young people who led the awarded projects and a keynote speech from Lewis Feldstein, co-author of Better Together, on the importance of strong community connection and engagement.

4 Vancouver Foundation has created numerous programs that address important issues and engage citizens. Some have grown into independent organizations. Others, like the following, are affiliates operating under the umbrella of Vancouver Foundation:

Giving in Action Society (GIA) Established in 2006 by Vancouver Foundation, the Giving in Action Society is a registered charitable organization that helps families who care for a member with a disability. Support from the Ministry of Children and Family Development, and Community Living BC, allows GIA to provide grants for home renovations -- including lifts, elevators, ramps, flooring, and door widening -- and to purchase wheelchair-accessible vehicles. Since 2006, GIA has provided almost $34 million in support to 964 families for home renovations and vehicle purchases or modifications. www.givinginaction.ca

Immigrant Employment Council of BC (IECBC) The Immigrant Employment Council of BC connects employers with immigrant talent. Since 2008, IECBC has been developing solutions to connect businesses with this unique talent pool to improve their bottom line, build local communities and contribute to BC’s economy.

Last January, IECBC implemented an employment mentoring program which was piloted with the City of Vancouver and is now being further developed in partnership with the Province. The program is expected to be implemented province-wide in April 2012. www.iecbc.ca

Labour Market Partnership (LMP) The Labour Market Partnership addresses human resource issues in the non-profit sector. As of this past year, the LMP is now under the stewardship of the Non-Profit Sector Employers’ Council (the Employers’ Council). The primary role of the Non-Profit Sector Employers’ Council is to build its own capacity and the capacity of all non- profit employers to work together to achieve significant growth and development of the sector’s workforce. The ultimate goal of the Employers’ Council is to become BC’s non-profit labour market sectoral council within five years. www.vancouverfoundation.ca/lmp/

The Government/Non-Profit Initiative (GNPI) The Government/Non-Profit Initiative (GNPI) is a vehicle to strengthen the way government and the non-profit sector work together to support stronger communities for British Columbians. Vancouver Foundation’s President and CEO, Faye Wightman, co-chairs the GNPI on behalf of the non-profit sector, with Mark Sieben of the Ministry of Children and Family Development representing government.

This past fall, the GNPI conducted nine regional roundtables with over 400 participants across the province to gauge, among other issues, 'the state of the relationship’ between government and the non-profit sector. The roundtables culminated in GNPI's 4th Annual Summit in Vancouver on November 24, with 150 leaders from the sector and government in attendance. www.nonprofitinitiative.gov.bc.ca/index

BC Unclaimed Property Society (BCUPS) Millions of dollars go unclaimed by British Columbians every year: forgotten credit union accounts, unpaid wages, and overpayment to debt collectors, as well as unclaimed proceeds from courts, tax offices and estates. In 2003, the Province entered into an agreement with Vancouver Foundation to administer the unclaimed property program. Services are provided through the BC Unclaimed Property Society and controlled by Vancouver Foundation, while the Province retains a governance role. www.unclaimedpropertybc.ca

5 VF Granting Programs: Connecting and engaging our community

We are passionate about community at Vancouver Foundation. We recognize that communities are complex. That is why we take a broad approach to our work and fund across a wide range of issues.

Increasingly, we are focusing our efforts on work that strengthens people’s connection and engagement in their community and on youth engagement, particularly youth homelessness. Our grants help:  Connect and engage people in their neighbourhoods.  Connect and engage people who are disadvantaged or marginalized, and as a result, unable to fully participate in the life of their community  Connect and engage people who are different from one another.

In this section, you will find the different ways we helped make our communities stronger and more vibrant through our 2011 granting programs.

Some grants are administered directly by the Foundation, others are decided on by members of the community. Each year, we receive hundreds of proposals for so many worthwhile projects. Unfortunately, we cannot fund them all. Over 150 volunteer experts — scientists, academics, researchers and front-line staff — volunteer their time to help us make informed decisions. They share with us their expertise and intimate knowledge of the issues, the needs of the community, and the organizations active in their fields. Thanks to them, our donors can be assured that Vancouver Foundation is supporting the most worthwhile and effective projects in communities throughout the province.

The majority of the grants in the following pages have been made possible through the generosity of Vancouver Foundation fundholders and donors, who we thank on page 52.

Neighbourhood Small Grants (NSG) The Neighbourhood Small Grants Program was created in 1999 and promotes and supports resident involvement in leading community projects to build stronger, more connected neighbourhoods in metro Vancouver. Each NSG project is initiated by a resident who has applied for a small grant of up to $500. Grant proposals are reviewed by resident-led advisory committees of community organizations who partner with Vancouver Foundation to administer this grant program. Although originally in five neighbourhoods in metro Vancouver, this program has proven so popular that it has expanded. Thanks to support from the Cities of Vancouver and Surrey, we were able to pilot the NSG program in four more neighbourhoods in Vancouver and Surrey. www.vancouverfoundation.ca/specialprojects/neighbourhoodsmallgrants

NSG has funded hundreds of projects over the years including:  a free model-making workshop for kids living in a low-income neighbourhood in Burnaby.  local gatherings and block parties that help neighbours from diverse cultural backgrounds get to know one another.  the creation of community gardens where people share a plot of land and grow their own flowers and vegetables.  supplies and training for children to participate in a lantern parade.  a knitting circle that encourages inter-generational learning.

6 NSG by the numbers:  9 neighbourhoods in the following areas: Mount Pleasant, Little Mountain, South Vancouver, Collingwood, Frog Hollow, Kiwassa, Cedar Cottage, and South Burnaby and in the Strathcona, Ray Cam, and Carnegie Community Centres  4 new pilot locations: Kitsilano, Gordon, and North Shore Neighbourhood Houses, and Oak Avenue Neighbourhood Hub in Surrey  2 funding partners - City of Vancouver and City of Surrey  753 project submissions  604 approved community projects  $350,000 in grants distributed.

Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grants Program Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a hotbed of artistic activity. But many artists in this neighbourhood lack the financial means to advance their careers. Vancouver Foundation created the Small Arts Grants Program in 2008, in partnership with the Carnegie Community Centre, to provide opportunities for artists to expand their portfolios and showcase their work. Grant decisions are made by an advisory committee made up of fellow residents and artists from the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

The DTES Small Arts Grants program is intended for artists who demonstrate a history of original art practice, and show a vital engagement with the DTES community. With small grants of $500 - $1,000, the program is an opportunity for DTES artists to take their art and their career to the next level. In 2011, these grants supported a wide range of projects in visual art, photography, performance art, fashion design, music, film, jewelry design, ceramics, and carving. www.vancouverfoundationsmallarts.ca

DTES Small Arts Grants by the numbers:  126 project submissions  67 artists awarded grants (51 emerging artists,12 mid-career artists, 4 established artists)  $100,000 allocated for the program.

Disability Supports for Employment Fund (DSEF) The Disability Supports for Employment Fund (DSEF) promotes new approaches to employment for people with disabilities. DSEF grants are available to eligible organizations throughout BC who are working to increase employment opportunities and the overall rate of employment for persons with disabilities in their communities. Projects are designed to promote the social and economic independence of individuals with physical and/or mental disabilities who face barriers to employment.

DSEF by the numbers:  39 applications received  $1.94 million in total requests  26 applications approved  $1.02 million in total grants.

Endowment 150 Endowment 150 offers eligible people with disabilities a one-time gift of $150 to help their Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) grow. This fund was made possible through a $5 million grant from the Province of BC. In 2011, 269 applications totalling $40,350 were approved and awarded. www.endowment150.ca

7 Youth Homelessness

There are an estimated 700 homeless youth in Vancouver, and many more in metro Vancouver. This includes those sleeping on the streets and in shelters as well as youth who are couch-surfing, squatting, or living in poor, unsuitable conditions. Without adequate housing and support, these young people are at risk of becoming chronically homeless. Without that basic need met, they cannot become connected and engaged citizens.

Vancouver Foundation identified a gap in services to this vulnerable group and an opportunity to break the cycle of homelessness. In 2008, we created the Youth Homelessness Initiative, which focuses on youth aged 16 to 24 and supports local efforts to link the most vulnerable of these young people to housing and support services. Youth homelessness remains a key priority for the Foundation.

Project: Housing First for Youth Granted: $255,000 Location: Vancouver Project description This project will provide 15 low-threshold housing units – including two emergency shelter beds – for youth aged 19 to 25 with multiple barriers. The Strathcona Mental Health Team, Portland Hotel Society, Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, YouthCO AIDS Society and the Urban Native Youth Association will partner to build on existing 24-hour staffing by adding case management, programming, outreach, clinical supports, employment and nutrition. Priority will be given to Aboriginal youth with mental illnesses. Organization: PHS Community Services Society (Portland Hotel) Funded in part by the Motamedi Pfeifer Fund

Project: Co-Creating Unique Outcomes for Granted: $250,000 LGTBQ2S Homeless Youth Location: Vancouver Project description RainCity Housing and Support Society will develop culturally competent housing for Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual, Questioning and Two-Spirit (LGTB2S) youth who are experiencing homelessness. This two-year pilot project will build community support – providing opportunities for employment/education and strong peer networks – and social inclusion. Organization: RainCity Housing and Support Society Funded in part by an anonymous fundholder

Project: Route 29: The Road Home Granted: $260,000 Location: Maple Ridge Project description The 2011 Homeless Count found 29 homeless youth in Maple Ridge. Over three years, this project will find and improve youth access to housing and build connections and continuing relationships with youth aged 17 to 24. Each youth will be supported in their own unique journey to maturity and to becoming healthy, happy people, with a secure home and the capacity to maintain their housing. Organization: Alouette Home Start Society

8 Youth Philanthropy Council

The Youth Philanthropy Council (YPC) is a group of 20 young people, ages 14-25, who work, play and learn in metro Vancouver and want to make a difference in the health of their community.

The YPC is one of nine volunteer advisory committees at Vancouver Foundation and makes grants to projects and programs that benefit youth in metro Vancouver. The YPC members consider applications for projects that meet the following criteria:  are youth-led or youth-initiated,  have support of the community (other youth, programs, and other funding sources),  directly involve affected youth, or youth who will benefit from the project, and  reflect inclusiveness and respect for cultural diversity.

Project: RAIN Granted: $5,000 Location: Vancouver Project description RAIN is an all-ages magazine founded in 2008 by a collective of five women aged 15-55. The group has published five issues to date. Each issue featured 30 to 35 contributors and sold all of its 250 print run. The project also includes art installations, community engagement and public events, shows at local cafes, in parks and at community events. RAIN also includes outreach in schools, community centres, youth programs and new zines. Organization: The Purple Thistle (which is a part of the Arts in Action Society)

Project: OneLove Youth Committee Granted: $1,817 Location: Vancouver Project description Ten youth representing diverse ethnic, socio-economic, LGBT, and other marginalized communities in Vancouver will receive professional training in fundraising, marketing, public relations, human resources, and event coordination. Youth participants will apply the skills they learned by organizing and coordinating the OneLove Show where local and global youth are recognized for their social and environmental leadership through a visual/performing arts show. Organization: The Purple Thistle (which is a part of the Arts in Action Society)

Project: Permanent Place Granted: $2,500 Location: East Vancouver Project description Working with youth, families and seniors, this project will create two intergenerational and multicultural murals. Local artist Yoko Tomita will help participants plan and design these murals, and mentor two youth artists. This inter-generational project will bring together adults, seniors, children and youth in the neighbourhood to envision, draw and paint the murals. Organization: Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House (which is a part of the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC)

9 Project: Youth Engagement Art Project Granted: $5,000 Location: Metro Vancouver Project description The Youth Engagement Art Project is a multi-session project that engages at-risk youth in the creation of an artistic project aimed at raising awareness on the issue of sexual exploitation, while fostering youth leadership and voice. The type of creative project (skit, mini-play, visual art piece, written project, social media campaign or other) will be chosen by the youth. The process will culminate in a final art exhibition event to share the project with the larger community. Youth participants will receive an initial sexual exploitation prevention and education workshop. Organization: Children of the Street Society

Project: Youth Connexions Granted: $4,100 Location: Vancouver Project description Based on the successful Youth Mentorship Initiative project, Youth Connexions brings senior high school students from the Douglas Park Leadership programs to mentor pre-teen youth. Mentorship training will be provided, mentorship pairings will be made, and each week, mentors and mentees will meet for two hours to participate in facilitated games, trips, and recreational activities. This mentorship program will support pre-teen youth to develop confidence and social skills, while providing an outlet for high school youth leaders to exercise their leadership abilities and develop mentorship skills. Organization: Douglas Park Community Centre Association

Project: Architects of a Green Legacy Granted: $5,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Architects of a Green Legacy engages marginalized youth from diverse backgrounds who typically do not have the opportunity to participate in environmental stewardship activities while empowering them to be leaders. Through workshops, youth will learn skills in conflict resolution, project development, budgeting, and multicultural communication, and then use these skills to create urban greening projects that celebrate creative expression and cultural diversity. Organization: Evergreen Foundation.

Project: NuYu Express Multi-Media Granted: $3,500 Arts Location: Metro Vancouver Project description The NuYu Popular Theatre Project addresses issues faced by newcomer immigrant and refugee youth including racism, bullying, intergenerational conflict and language barriers. It allows these youth to establish peer-support networks, build leadership skills, confidence and self-expression. Participants are decision makers on which art forms to work with (such as drawing, painting, collage, photography, video), which themes to explore, potential partnerships and potential locations for the show. Organization: MOSAIC

10 Project: Catching the Spirit Youth Granted: $2,500 Environmental Stewardship Program Location: Metro Vancouver

Project description Catching the Spirit Youth Society (CtS) develops leadership and social responsibility in youth ages 12-18 through environmental awareness and stewardship, outdoor recreation and youth ownership. CtS offers free overnight summer camps in four Metro Vancouver Regional Parks. Participants do park restoration and maintenance projects plus leadership training and recreational activities. A year-round youth council facilitates stewardship projects (such as planting 800 trees at Tynehead Park), community volunteerism (serving 3,000 meals at Oppenheimer Park’s Christmas dinner), and outdoor recreation (snowshoeing). Organization: Pacific Parklands Foundation.

Project: "What's Going On?" - Urban Granted: $5,000 Arts & Youth Resiliency Location: Downtown Eastside Project description This youth-led program is an after school drop-in empowerment program for youth ages 14-20 in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In collaboration with Ray Cam Cooperative Centre's Hastings Media Lab, it creates safe spaces for marginalized youth labeled as "at-risk." Seeking to unite youth across lines of difference, the program harnesses the strength and agency of young people through heart- centered empowerment and arts-based education with a focus on urban arts. The program produces a full-length Hip Hop Hope! album expressing youth voices around the issues and ideas participants are most passionate about. Organization: Power of Hope Society.

Project: Go Green Youth Committee Granted: $700 Location: Surrey Project description Students from Tamanawis Secondary School have formed the Go Green Youth Committee to raise awareness amongst youth on environmental issues. Their intent is to start Global Awareness clubs in schools throughout the Surrey School District and encourage environmental awareness through activities such as planting trees or shrubs in local parks and doing door-to-door information sessions. Organization: Tamanawis Secondary School – Board of Education School District #36, Surrey

Project: John Oliver Dance Squad Granted: $4,572 Location: Vancouver Project description This is a youth-driven program where approximately 70 dedicated, committed and multicultural students pool their various dance experiences. It will provide everyone with an equal opportunity to experience the world of dance by breaking down various barriers and stigmas, while equipping members with a sense of identity, commitment and responsibility. Students organize their own practices, facilities, and registration for competitions and performances. Any student is welcome to join, regardless of their culture, socio-economic class, ethnicity, special needs or audition results. Organization: John Oliver Secondary School - Board of Education School District #39, Vancouver

11 Project: Youth4Tap Churchill Granted: $1,100 Location: Vancouver Project description Youth4Tap is a student-driven project aiming to mitigate and eventually end the sale of plastic bottled water throughout the Lower Mainland school districts by promoting consumption of tap water. Plastic water bottles create large amounts of waste while creating environmental, social and financial burdens. As an alternative, this group will be promoting the use of reusable, BPA-free water bottles and the improvement of existing water infrastructures and policies within schools across Vancouver. Organization: Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School – Board of Education School District #39, Vancouver

Project: Pedal Powered Generators Granted: $700 Location: Vancouver Project description Students from Windermere Secondary will create and build pedal-powered generators. The project will lessen the reliance on conventional electricity, educate elementary school students about sustainable energy and allow them try to generate their own power through a bike. Windermere high-school students will also mentor and teach elementary school students about the science behind the generator. Organization: Windermere Secondary School - Board of Education School District #39, Vancouver

Project: Out In Schools National PSA Granted: $5,000 Competition Location: Metro Vancouver Project description This anti-bullying initiative uses video and peer-to-peer messaging to promote safer learning environments for all youth. Young people will create their own 30-second video messages to directly address homophobia and bullying in their schools. The videos will be presented at the annual Youth Focus, as part of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. This project enables youth to develop their cultural voice, learn media skills and allows them to engage their peers on issues of human rights by directly participating in creating positive social change. Organization: Vancouver Out on Screen Film & Video Society.

Project: Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Granted: $2,500 Group Project Location: Vancouver Project description In this peer-based community youth theatre project, Vancouver youth collaboratively write and perform an original play with guidance from professional theatre artists and public performances with audience talk back sessions. It inspires community building, open-mindedness, wellness, confidence, communication, problem-solving skills and creativity. Past play topics include: crystal meth; depression; identity; anxiety; finding happiness; loss; peer pressure; and isolation and communication. Organization: Watari Research Association.

12 Children, Youth and Families

Healthy, resilient children, youth and families are the building blocks of a healthy society.

From addressing bullying, to supporting diverse immigrant families with small children, to helping marginalized seniors, these projects are strategic investments. By increasing the health, well-being and resilience of children, youth and families in British Columbia, they help create a brighter future for us all.

Project: Intergenerational Resiliency Project Granted: $50,000 Location: Vancouver Project description This two-year intergenerational project focuses on supporting protective factors for impoverished, culturally diverse immigrant participants aged 10-18 years, their family members, and marginalized seniors living in the Hastings-Sunrise area. It offers attractive and innovative skill-building workshops, including hands-on culinary skills and intergenerational family support. Organization: Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House Funded in part by the Blank Canvas Fund

Project: Pre-Teen Nights Granted: $85,000 Location: Metro Vancouver Project description Pre-Teen Nights will offer evening pre-teen drop-in programs in seven locations which will integrate social activities with discussions and themes related to participants’ needs. Participants determine social activities and discussions. Trained staff provide mentorship and support to make a safe environment where participants feel comfortable to raise issues that are affecting their lives. Organization: Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Vancouver Funded in part by the Blank Canvas Fund, the Windsor Plywood Fund and the Kurt and Else Maurer Fund

Project: Speaking Rights: A Community Granted: $25,000 Building Project for BC Youth Location: Province-wide

Project description Speaking Rights is a participatory education project that engages youth 12 -18 years old in identifying strategies to address discrimination, bullying and exclusion, and creating a space for dialogue and action on these issues. Over 25 organizations in BC will benefit from training, coaching, education resources, support in developing youth-led community projects, follow-up and sharing lessons learned. Organization: Britannia Community Services Centre Society Fully funded by the Odlum Fund

13 Project: Youthspace.ca Granted: $71,000 Location: Victoria Project description Youthspace.ca is a safe, moderated online service offering emotional support, crisis intervention and information to youth under 25 in Greater Victoria. It provides a staff-moderated forum, private one-on-one chats and the option of emailing a counsellor directly. It supports youth experiencing mental health, addictions and/or other crises with referral information and acts as a bridge to other local services. The program also engages Victoria youth as volunteers in a significant way in their community by providing volunteer training and a direct way to support their peers. Organization: Crisis Intervention and Public Information Society of Greater Victoria Funded in part by the Crescendo Fund

Project: Creating a BC Network of Girls’ Granted: $31,000 Programs Location: Province-wide Project description This project will offer networking and skill-building activities that will allow 40 community groups to collaborate year-round. It will implement outreach, workshops, online communication mechanisms and best practices-sharing for these organizations. Two partner organizations will offer programs for Aboriginal and racialised girls and young women in their communities. Organization: Girls Action Foundation Funded in part by The Grayross Foundation

Project: MY Circle Transitions: Enhanced Granted: $90,000 Newcomer Leadership Training Location: Metro Vancouver Project description This project will develop and deliver eight to 10 training modules for immigrant and refugee youth leaders in areas youth have identified, including conflict resolution skills, LGBTQ/migrant identities, migration, multiculturalism and indigenous perspectives. Curriculum will be developed in the first year and delivered, evaluated and fine-tuned in the second and third years, with a target of training 40 newcomer youth. Organization: Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia Funded in part by the Seaview Fund

Project: Mothers for Recovery Mentorship Granted: $40,000 Program Location: Kamloops Project description This project addresses the addiction issues of mothers and pregnant women with peer support through weekly workshops run alternatively between professionals and mentors. This program directly benefits the community at large, increases use of existing services, decreases the risks of child apprehension and fills a need unmet by other service providers. Organization: Kamloops Family Resources Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

14 Project: Food Skills Capacity Building Granted: $35,000 Location: Vancouver Project description The project will engage and train at-risk children, youth and parents in community food security (life skills, leadership, Food Safe, food preparation, cooking and healthy nutrition.) Three neighbourhood single parents will be trained and employed as part-time kitchen trainees to help prepare and cook nutritious food for residents involved in Kiwassa programs. The trainees will be supported to find entry-level employment in the hospitality industry, leading to increased financial security. Organization: Kiwassa Neighbourhood Services Association Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: Mothers for Recovery Support Group – Granted: $40,000 Prince George Chapter Location: Prince George Project description This project is a women-centered, peer-driven initiative that offers support, encouragement, awareness in personal journeys and mentoring for mothers struggling with addiction. It aims to enhance the group by providing bi-weekly mentorship workshops for the mothers, including resources and wages for two senior mothers in recovery to facilitate one mentoring workshop a week. The second workshop every week will be facilitated by community professionals on various topics pertaining to the recovery process. Organization: Northern Family Health Society Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: The Power To Be Wilderness School Granted: $20,000 Location: Victoria Project description The Power To Be Wilderness School is a five-year program for youth that fosters positive social development and life skills through outdoor adventure activities. Using nature as a classroom, the program offers weekend trips once a month and extended summer expeditions for youth in need of extra support. School officials nominate kids who are not thriving in traditional school environments. Organization: Power To Be Adventure Therapy Society Funded in part by The Grayross Foundation and Tula Community Fund

Project: Fraser Lands Family Resource Granted: $40,000 Program Location: Vancouver Project description This project will create a transition program for four-year-olds entering kindergarten as well as a parent education component. Immigrant families who tend to have more challenges in accessing services will be targeted. Organization: South Vancouver Family Place Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

15 Project: Engaging Families, Children and Granted: $22,000 Youth for Poverty Reduction in BC Location: Province-wide Project description The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition aims to create a comprehensive poverty reduction plan with legislated targets and timelines. To do this, a community organizer will engage BC families, children and youth affected by poverty. The Coalition will also launch a social media campaign, and engage with municipal decision-makers about the need for a provincial strategy to reduce poverty. The Coalition will maintain a Secretariat (housed at Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) that will coordinate its work and support the Poverty Reduction Campaign. Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, British Columbia

Project: Early Care and Learning in BC Granted: $40,000 Location: Province-wide Project description This project will build public support for a public system of integrated early care and learning that meets the needs of BC children, families and communities. In 2010, an Emerging Plan shared with thousands of British Columbians was well received by the public. In 2011 and 2012, the project will produce a final plan and undertake public education and community engagement activities to build awareness and support for the plan. Organization: Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia

Project: Sustain Granted: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Sustain uses new media as a platform to engage marginalized youth in environmental and social justice issues and empowers them to become active participants in systemic change through sharing their visions with their community. Ten youth will receive intensive training in diversity, media and communications, and will then work on new media endeavours that build awareness. Organization: EYA Environmental Youth Alliance Society

Project: Hear the Child Granted: $35,000 Location: Province-wide Project description Hear the Child will serve BC children, youth and their families, professionals providing non-therapeutic child interviews in family cases, and legal professionals who need their services to implement BC law. It will start a non-profit society that promotes professional education for non-therapeutic child interviewers, where BC families and legal professionals can learn about a service available to them to support children and youth; and where BC children and youth are given an opportunity to share their views with qualified interviewers where their best interests are determined. Organization: International Institute for Child Rights and Development

16 Project: Burnaby Youth Services Hub Support Granted: $30,000 Location: Burnaby Project description The Burnaby Youth Hub provides educational, health and therapeutic services to vulnerable youth with complex needs who are not connected to the community through school or work. Services include an educational program, a youth clinic, and a youth centre. The Hub also offers counselling services, job readiness and skills training. This project will assist with staffing costs to provide oversight of the network of agencies that work at the Hub and promote the Hub to the community. Organization: Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families

Project: Neighbourhood-Based Family Granted: $100,000 Connections Location: Surrey Project description Surrey has experienced huge growth recently, particularly in diverse families with young children, but distance and transit issues make it hard to access supportive resources. This project provides enhanced supports and resources to families through family resource networks or hubs. Organization: Options Community Services

Project: Building Inclusive Communities (BIC) Granted: $70,000 Location: Metro Vancouver Project description BIC brings youth together with older community members to develop and share facilitation and community engagement skills, culminating in inter-generational community projects. Each year, 14-16 registrants participate in six days of facilitation training focused on engagement practices and concepts. PeerNetBC’s youth and community program staff facilitate, mentor and coach as the project evolves, supported by The Society for Children and Youth. Organization: Peernet Association of British Columbia

Project: Soaring Spirits Camp Granted: $20,000 Location: Prince George Project description This project will complete the new Soaring Spirits Camp where outdoor skills training is provided by building a covered Council fire site that will become the heart of the camp, a large root cellar for winter storage of organic garden produced at the camp and a traditional Gitksan smokehouse to teach participants the traditions of curing salmon. Organization: Rediscovery International Foundation

Project: Youth on Water (YOW!) Granted: $20,000 Location: Skeena Project description YOW! is an outdoor recreation and education program that empowers regional youth through water activities that connect participants with local rivers, a sense of adventure, environmental awareness and technical guide training, providing transferable job skills and confidence as raft guides.A highly visible and successful program, it grew to four communities in 2010. Organization: Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition

17 Project: Rural Aboriginal Youth CORE Training Granted: $35,000 Project Location: Province-wide Project description This project will expand the current Aboriginal Youth Program by adding two three-day peer education CORE training sessions per year, one in Vancouver and one in Prince George. Up to 12 rural Aboriginal youth will participate per session. Priority will be given to participants who are infected with, affected by, or at risk of and/or vulnerable to HIV, Hepatitis C and other infections. Organization: YouthCO AIDS Society

Project: Best Moms and Dads Program Granted: $10,000 Location: Cariboo/Chilcotin Project description The Best Moms and Dads program helps improve parents’ literacy levels, in order to improve their children’s literacy and health. Program structure, outcomes and goals are different for each participant depending on their need. Small group size allows for individual education plans. All participants learn parenting, budgeting, nutrition, lifestyle choices and literacy. Activities are participant generated and a broad range (financial, math, reading) of free literacy tutoring is provided. Organization: Neighbourlink Vanderhoof

Project: Ehattesaht Playground Granted: $10,000 Location: Vancouver Island Project description Currently, the children of Ehattesaht play on a busy logging road because they have no alternative. Ehattesaht will build a culturally appropriate playground in the main part of the village, adjacent to the Youth Centre that will also eventually house a Headstart program to increase children’s success in, and attachment to, school. (One of the requirements of Headstart is a fenced playground.) The project will create a safe place for Ehattesaht children to play and contribute to social development activities. Organization: Ehattesaht Tribe

Project: Building Capacity and Continuity Granted: $10,000 Through Volunteerism Location: Vancouver Island Project description Ladysmith is filled with people who are looking for ways to meaningfully connect. This project provides those opportunities while strengthening our Family Resource Program. It will formalize and strengthen existing volunteer activities, build on relationships with senior and youth volunteers, and form connections between and within social networks and generations. Intergenerational understanding and learning opportunities will become part of our everyday operations. Organization: Ladysmith Family and Friends Society

18 Project: Speaking Rights – Participatory Granted: $10,000 Human Rights Education Toolkit Location: Metro Vancouver Project description Speaking Rights is a human rights education project that engages 13-17 year olds to work together to address discrimination, bullying and exclusion. Youth workers and youth receive leadership training. Youth participate in activities and community projects from the toolkit which creates a space for dialogue and action on issues such as leadership, active citizenship, self-esteem and relationships, violence and intimidation, rights and responsibilities, gender roles, exclusion, discrimination and racism. Organization: Britannia Community Services Centre Society

Project: I Can Cook A to Z! Granted: $8,150 Location: Northwest BC Project description I Can Cook A to Z! works through the ingredient alphabet, introducing participants to healthy foods they may have seen in the store but never tried before. The program engages Fireweed clients and their families in 26 weekly cooking sessions, building cooking skills and increasing literacy and reading skills. It uses low-literacy cooking resources recently developed by Fireweed, and will result in the publication of a cookbook and kitchen skills handbook for participants to use at home. Organization: Fireweed Collective Society

Project: The Living Wage Investor Project Granted: $4,000 Location: Vancouver Project description This grant will support the Living Wage for Families project by engaging institutional investors in a living wage policy and action framework. In Britain, the US and now in Canada there is increasing support for a “living wage” as a way to ensure that families have enough income to develop in a healthy and socially inclusive way. Organization: Family Services of Greater Vancouver

Project: Latin American Families: Kitchen Granted: $2,888 Connections Location: Vancouver Project description This grant will pay for the salaries of two program facilitators for the Latin American Families Kitchen Connections project. The project brings together multiple community partners to provide health, social development and settlement supports for newcomer Latin American mothers and their children under six years of age. Organization: Watari Research Association

19 Project: Early Years Community Development Granted: $7,500 Institute (EYCD) Location: Province-wide Project description The EYCD Institute will build better early childhood systems by strengthening the practice of EYCD professionals. The ultimate impact of a stronger early childhood system will be reflected in improved measures of child development outcomes and community capacity. The first phase will build the capacity and competency of EYCD Professionals. Organization: UBC Human Early Learning Partnership

Project: Maxxine Wright Early Care and Granted: $10,000 Learning Centre Location: Vancouver Project description The Maxxine Wright Early Care and Learning Centre is a 59–space daycare associated with Maxxine Wright Place, a comprehensive residential and health/emotional support program for women who are pregnant and/or early parenting and at risk. Organization: Atira Women’s Resource Society

Project: Bring Your Boomers: Activism for Granted: $7,500 Everybody Location: Vancouver Project description Gen Why’s Bring Your Boomers: Activism for Everyone is a pilot event for a larger, four-part intergenerational dialogue series designed to address the new challenges and opportunities arising from changing demography. Bring Your Boomers: Activism for Everyone will bring together influencers and innovators across generations to explore diverse approaches to civic engagement and activism. The project encourages constructive dialogue to discover generational understanding to explore issues of youth voter apathy, demographic cultural shifts, access to social resources, political power dynamics, economic disparity between generations and generational stereotypes. Organization: SFU – Morris J. Wosk Centre For Dialogue

20 Health and Social Development

Healthy individuals make for strong communities. But for some members of our community it can be a struggle just to meet basic needs. These grants ease the effects of poverty and help citizens live healthier, more productive lives. From helping people develop appropriate skills, to encouraging healthy lifestyles, or engaging people who are marginalized, these grants build stronger communities from the ground up. Health and Social Development grants support projects that are designed to enhance the capacity of adults, families and communities to create healthy, caring, safe and supportive environments for all.

Project: Carnegie Community’s Vision for Change Granted: $110,005 Location: Vancouver Project description This project will implement the “Vision for Change” created over two years of consultation with 1,200 Downtown Eastside residents. Residents will participate in: city-planning processes such as the Local Area Planning Process; reviews of official development; revitalization; hotel maintenance and housing plans; and a social impact study of market development. Key action items include getting more social housing in the DTES, slowing gentrification, tackling systemic poverty, improving services and involving local residents in making decisions about their own community. Organization: Carnegie Community Centre Association Funded in part by the Windsor Plywood Foundation and the Odlum Fund

Project: Seniors Health Information Training Granted: $40,000 Location: Port Alberni Project description This project will adapt and deliver four educational workshops for seniors in three key rural/suburban areas on Vancouver Island. Planned and delivered in collaboration with local project partners, the workshops will aid participants in developing skills to effectively navigate the Home and Community Care System, as they engage with health professionals and support one another in accessing care. Organization: Alberni-Clayoquot Continuing Care Society Fully funded by the G & G Fund

Project: Safety for Aboriginal Women and Granted: $65,000 Children Through Community Location: Northwest BC Project description This 18-month project aims to increase the safety of on and off reserve Aboriginal women and their children in the Smithers region. It will increase the capacity of two well-respected Aboriginal anti-violence workers to build relationships, share knowledge and develop community safety protocols with Aboriginal leaders and other Aboriginal social and health service providers. The project will address sexual and domestic violence, and create a legacy of safety through the tools, coordination agreements and knowledge generated from the project. Organization: Ending Violence Association in partnership with Northern Society for Domestic Peace Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

21 Project: Afghan Women's Support Project Granted: $30,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Afghan Women's Sewing and Craft Cooperative (Malalay) supports the socio-economic development of Afghan women in BC. This project will: develop increased knowledge and skills for co-operative and society members; refine business and marketing plans; revise the co-operative by-laws; and increase engagement of members. Organization: Immigrant Services Society of BC in partnership with Afghan Women’s Support Society Fully funded by the Roberta Lando Beiser Fund, the Elsie and Audrey Jang Fund and the Patricia Anne Lyon Memorial Fund

Project: Prisoners’ Health Care Granted: $65,000 Location: Province-wide Project description This project will provide prisoners in BC with legal assistance on health care issues by employing a Prisoners’ Health Care Legal Advocate. The Advocate may provide summary legal advice, act on behalf of prisoners with staff at the prisons, write submissions to prison officials or tribunals, or represent prisoners at hearings where health care is an issue. Organization: John Howard Society Fraser Valley Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: Downtown Eastside Kitchen Tables Granted: $110,000 Location: Vancouver Project description This project works with multiple stakeholders to create systemic change in the Downtown Eastside food system, aiming to replace an unsustainable, charity-based system with a holistic community economic development system by building a sustainable food procurement, processing and distribution system that reflects the community’s identified values and priorities of food security. Organization: Potluck Café Society Funded in part by the Blue Moon Fund and Windsor Plywood Foundation

Project: Surrey Rent Bank Granted: $30,000 Location: Surrey Project description Since March 2010, the Surrey Rent Bank has delivered 65 loans, which have kept 200 people housed. The rent bank also encourages low-income earners to mend relationships with landlords and connect with mainstream banking institutions. The goal of this project is to prevent homelessness and increase housing stability by delivering a minimum of 45 new loans while promoting asset building via access to financial literacy. Organization: Sources Community Resource Centres Society Funded in part by The Brian D. Graves Fund

22 Project: Kamloops Life Skills Coordination Granted: $6,000 Location: Kamloops Project description Life skills training is a key step to ending homelessness. Life skills such as critical thinking, emotional control and stress management overlap in complex ways with skills such as hygiene, budgeting, and home maintenance. This project will hire a trained evaluator who will design and facilitate workshops and interviews to evaluate current Life Skills Training, then provide the information to assist agencies in their development of Life Skills Programs related to homelessness. Organization: Thompson Nicola Cariboo United Way in partnership with Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan

Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: Umbrella Mobile Health Clinic Granted: $36,140 Location: Fraser Valley Project description Approximately 4,000 temporary foreign agricultural workers come from Mexico to the Lower Mainland each year. Although they have mandatory, self-paid, private health insurance, many of these workers face language, cultural and logistical barriers to accessing health services. The Umbrella Mobile Clinic provides culturally- appropriate health services via a van converted to a medical clinic, staffed by a site coordinator, a BC-licensed physician, a cross cultural health broker and volunteers. It also provides health promotion workshops (as requested by the patients), and is expanding ongoing relationships with farm owners and extend outreach to local pharmacies, laboratories and hospitals. Organization: BC Multicultural Health Services Society Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: Community Response Networks Granted: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Community Response Networks are a proven vehicle for service providers and community members to develop a coordinated response in the detection, intervention and prevention of abuse. This developmental grant will allow for further development of the necessary groundwork to support the originally proposed project, to work with local communities within the city and surrounding municipalities over a three-year period to form up to 10 networks in order to resubmit the original proposal for future consideration. Organization: BC Association of Community Response Networks

23 Project: Healthy Homes Granted: $27,000 Location: Surrey Project description Tenants in Surrey often have to live in housing that is bad for their health because the property is poorly maintained. This project will strengthen dialogue between city staff, politicians, tenants and other key stakeholders. The civic debate and conversations that follow will include affected low- and moderate-income tenants, and concern policy solutions that the city can enact or amend to build a livable city for everyone. Organization: ACORN Institute Canada (BC Branch)

Project: Community-Based Seniors Granted: $145,000 Transportation Location: Province-wide Project description Access to transportation has become more difficult for frail and elderly seniors, especially those in rural BC. This project will provide hands-on training in feasibility analysis, business planning, and operations management for local agency transport services to eight senior-serving agencies per year for three years. It will also provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis of accessible transportation needs in rural BC. Organization: Better Environmentally Sound Transportation Association

Project: Homes for All: Building Granted: $21,000 Communities, Building Homes Location: Burnaby Project description This project will mobilize community support for a continuum of housing and associated services, bringing together groups including the City of Burnaby, the provincial and federal governments, and the Burnaby Board of Trade to collaborate on addressing affordable housing and homelessness. A full-time coordinator will build community support and the relationships needed to achieve a common vision and commitment to address this urgent social issue. Organization: Burnaby Community Connections Society

Project: Public Education About Sex Work and Granted: $60,000 Sexual Exploitation Location: Vancouver Project description This project will develop and deliver public education and training about sex work, sexual exploitation, increasing sex workers’ health and safety, and ways to address neighbourhood impact. It will also develop and offer training to service providers who interact with sex workers, including paramedics, police and mental health workers. Public education dialogues will raise awareness of sex work and prevent sexual exploitation. As Aboriginal, immigrant and ethnic minority women are over-represented in sex work, cultural competence will also be addressed. This project aims to increase the sense of belonging and inclusion for all community members. Organization: Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society in partnership with Living in Community

24 Project: Building a Sustainable Food System Granted: $30,000 for BC's Capital Region Location: Victoria Project description This project will develop an implementation strategy for the regional food security plan, and initiate two major demonstration projects in municipally-supported agriculture. It will provide both an enabling policy environment for a sustainable food and agriculture system and support two practical initiatives in rural and urban-rural interface settings. The project is supported by municipalities that will create new supports, infrastructure, learning, land leases, marketing and community garden opportunities. Organization: Community Social Planning Council of Victoria in partnership with Capital Region Food and Agricultural Initiatives.

Project: Building Community Cohesion in Granted: $35,000 BC's Capital Region Location: Victoria/Esquimalt Project description This demonstration project will support social innovation by community groups concerned with poverty and social inclusion in neighbourhoods facing socio-economic challenges across the Capital Region. A learning community of active citizens and practitioners will share results, document lessons learned, and influence policy to enable asset-based community development. The project will culminate in a learning event for community activists, practitioners, government, private sector and other stakeholders to create an ongoing agenda for community-based poverty reduction and social inclusion. Organization: Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria

Project: Green Building with Clayoquot Granted: $10,000 Sound First Nations Location: Clayoquot Sound Project description This project continues with designing a green housing plan for First Nations communities in Clayoquot Sound that will use local materials and labour, be well-suited to the climate, and affordable to build, maintain and heat. The project will produce designs incorporating green building options and culturally appropriate building elements for each community accompanied by a financial plan to enable them to actually be built. Organization:Ecotrust Canada

Project: Sustaining Food Security in North Granted: $34,000 Kootenay Lake Location: Kaslo Project description This project builds a sense of community around food availability and sustainability, dietary education, and emergency food supply. This grant will fund efforts to share the program’s successes and challenges in a tangible way and growth towards the next phase of food self-sufficiency. It will also fund “A Food Security Handbook for Small Neighbourhoods”, investigate the accessibility of crown land for farming, and research the use of heat generated by the Kaslo Arena to heat a community greenhouse that provides seedlings for urban gardens as an education tool. Organization: North Kootenay Lake Community Services Society

25 Project: North Shore Food Policy Granted: $18,000 Advisory Body Location: North Vancouver Project description The annual “Table Matters” community discussion around food security and urban agriculture has engaged hundreds of policy makers, local businesses, health professionals, teachers and other community members. It has helped develop priority areas around food security and urban agriculture and a community reference group. This grant would support participants by helping them connect with municipal staff, formalizing the food policy council while making the group more effective and increasing capacity for real systematic change. Organization: North Shore Neighbourhood House

Project: Aging Out: Belonging in Health Care Granted: $60,000 for LGTB Seniors Location: Province-wide Project description Aging Out is a three-year public education and policy development project aiming to increase inclusion and belonging for lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual (LGTB) seniors in BC’s health care system. Workshops will increase awareness among health care providers of the health-related needs specific to LGTB seniors. Public dialogues will help create community-driven policy on health care for LGTB seniors. Work within health/ community care facilities will decrease barriers LGTB seniors face in accessing health care. With the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a community-driven document of policies and practices to improve health care for LGTB seniors will be developed and delivered to the BC Ombudsperson’s office. Organization: Pacific Foundation for the Advancement of Minority Equality in partnership with Qmunity

Project: ALIVE's Place-Based Urban Aboriginal Granted: $15,000 Strategy: Where Change Happens Location: Vancouver Project description Supporting Aboriginal peoples’ engagement in developing programs and services for Aboriginal and mainstream communities through Aboriginal sharing circles. This developmental grant will allow for further advancement of the necessary groundwork to support the originally proposed project, promoting Aboriginal people as active citizens, providing training and leadership development that support Aboriginal ways of learning to increase confidence to move into mainstream institutions. Organization: Ray-Cam Community Foundation in partnership with Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement (ALIVE) Society

Project: Prince George Rent Bank Granted: $35,000

Location: Prince George Project description This project will enable rent banks throughout BC to meet annually to exchange information and jointly review their products and processes, produce annual housing stability reports, and seek stable funding from the provincial government. Organization: The United Way of Norther British Columbia in partnership with Prince George Aboriginal Business Development Association

26 Health and Medical/Education Research

Vancouver Foundation supports community-based health research. This approach involves individuals affected by the condition or issue under study. They are active participants in each stage of the work — from conception and design of a plan, implementation and analysis, to the dissemination of results and conclusions.

This approach requires community voices to be heard in asking critical questions, documenting and interpreting the findings, and creating the systemic change in local, provincial, and national policies that will respond to the findings.

Our community-based health research grants support initiatives that ensure British Columbians are involved in advancing the health of their own communities. These grants allow researchers and non-profit organizations to collaborate and undertake relevant research at the community level.

Project: Inviting Voice/Creating Space for Granted: $261,445 Cowichan Valley Women Location: Vancouver Island Project description This project will investigate how Cowichan women's experiences of marginalization and social exclusion affect their participation in community life as well as their health and well-being. The project will also develop a collaborative strategy for women's health action, by identifying the actions or systemic changes that will facilitate safety, well-being and social inclusion if implemented as health promotion strategies. This three-year project will generate locally relevant actions at both service and policy levels. Organization: Cowichan Women Against Violence Society Funded in part by the Junior League of Greater Vancouver Foundation

Project: Dignified Access to Local Healthy Granted: $44,000 Food for Marginalized Populations Location: Province-wide Project description Marginalized populations have less access to local healthy food because of systemic barriers caused by unemployment and low income, rising food prices, inappropriate public responses to their food security needs, and literacy barriers. Most programmes improving food security for marginalized groups are based on a charitable model of hand-outs. This project will create new knowledge about the ways in which marginalized groups can be supported to gain dignified access to healthy food, leading to changes in the way that marginalized populations and food providers interact. Organization: Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia Funded in part by an anonymous fundholder

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Project: Digital Stories: Disease Prevention Granted: $145,300 and Culture Preservation Location: Vancouver Island Project description This project aims to revitalize First Nations cultural practices and preserve cultural knowledge digitally while increasing community research capacity. Aboriginal youth will document elders’ knowledge of health, lifestyle and community history, and transmit this knowledge to other youth. The project will enhance intergenerational knowledge-sharing and connection to community while promoting healthy lifestyles. It will also enhance the youth’s capacity to engage in digital media, create digital stories, and develop facilitation and research skills. It’s long-term goal is to reduce the disproportionate number of individuals in First Nations communities suffering from diabetes and other chronic diseases. Organization: Vancouver Island University – Community-Based Research Institute

Project: Learning About Illicit Alcohol Harm Granted: $51,980 Reduction Options In BC Location: Province-wide Project description This project will train and take facilitators (themselves drinkers of non-beverage alcohol) to 10 communities outside the Greater Vancouver area to research how people who drink illicit alcohol see and experience the harms associated with their alcohol consumption and their ideas about solutions. They will share findings with decision-makers and work to see their recommendations implemented. Organization: Hope in Shadows Inc. in partnership with Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

Project: Mitigating Mining-Induced Health Granted: $140,000 Impacts Location: Northeastern BC Project description This project will develop an intervention to mitigate the impacts of mine development on the health of two Northern communities, located near BC’s newest approved mine. It will bridge issues of health and mining engineering as well as an Aboriginal and a non-Aboriginal community (Nak'azdli and Fort St. James), using a community-based participatory approach and knowledge translation to maximize mining-related social, economic, and health benefits. Organization: UVIC - Faculty of Human and Social Development

Project: Transitional Housing in Health and Granted: $65,014 Recovery from Homelessness Location: Victoria Project description Transitional housing has been shown to be effective in helping people move from homeless to housed, but little is known about staff and residents’ perspectives on this housing or how experiences vary with gender and history of substance abuse. This project will gather data on how these factors affect transitions out of homelessness and will also provide evidence on how, or if, transitional housing can or should be supported as an intervention in response to homelessness in Canada. Organization: UVIC - Centre for Addictions Research

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Education enables people to improve their lives. When everyone has access to learning, our entire society is more vibrant and adaptable.

From engaging potential learners who would otherwise be left behind, to developing sustainability curriculum, the education grants provided by Vancouver Foundation donors enhance the quality of, and access to, education and lifelong learning opportunities for all British Columbians.

Project: Math Achievement among Granted: $60,000 Students in Aboriginal Location: Northwestern BC Communities Project description In response to teachers’ and community leaders’ requests for curriculum and training, this two-year pilot project in seven schools in Nisga’a, Terrace, Kitwanga and Kitkatla communities will reach 930 students each year. It will increase math achievement among all students, while eliminating the gap between Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal students, increase math teaching skills of over 50 teachers in Aboriginal communities, eliminate math anxiety among teachers and students, and demonstrate efficacy of the program through evidence-based evaluation. Organization: Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies (JUMP) Funded in part by the Josephine Baulne Henderson Fund

Project: Take a Hike Expansion Granted: $55,000 Location: Vancouver Project description This project will empower communities to adopt (and adapt) the Take a Hike program to suit their specific needs so more youth can experience the life-changing benefits that Take a Hike has to offer by creating a resource kit and training program. Organization: Take A Hike - Youth at Risk Foundation Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: East Richmond Schoolyard Program Granted: $35,000 Location: Richmond Project description This project expands previous projects to 1) work with areas that have a higher proportion of low-income and recent immigrant youth, 2) incorporates an intergenerational program of having seniors with gardening/farming experience mentor students and 3) begin training other trainers for the program so the project can be expanded. Organization: Terra Nova Schoolyard Society Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

29 Project: Parents As Literacy Supporters in Granted: $45,000 Aboriginal Communities Location: Surrey Project description This project will involve five Kekinow Native Housing Complexes and five elementary schools with the highest Aboriginal populations. The intest is to increase participation levels of Aboriginal parents and their children (0- 6) in mainstream Early Childhood Programs; promote positive home-to-school transitions; and ensure Aboriginal children are ready for school. An Aboriginal Early Childhood Educator and an Aboriginal Elder will engage approximately 300 Aboriginal children and their families in APALS sessions over three school years. Organization: The Board of Education School District #36 (Surrey) Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: Meeting the Needs of First-Generation Granted: $25,000 and Aboriginal Students Location: Kamloops Project description This project has two components: the first is summer camp workshops that will encourage Aboriginal high school students to plan for success in post-secondary education and promote their interest in potential careers in science and health sciences. The second is a mentoring program that will provide students who are the first generation to attend a post-secondary institution with support and comprehensive knowledge of university services and resources. Organization: Thompson Rivers University Foundation Funded in part by the Tula Community Fund

Project: Changemakers Competition on First Granted: $50,000 Nations, Métis and Inuit Education Location: Province-wide Project description This project will find, map and generate innovative ideas and strategies to improve First Nations, Métis and Inuit students’ engagement and success in education through the Changemakers online platform, which connects 130,000 contributors globally. Top entries will be recognized with prizes awarded at a closing summit. Additional prizes will acknowledge outstanding entries from specific geographic regions or thematic topics. Organization: Ashoka Canada

Project: Path to Learning Pre-course Granted: $60,000 Location: Province-wide Project description This project will develop a specialized pre-course to engage potential learners who are continually left behind. The Path to Learning Pre-course (PLP) will be developed through an Aboriginal self-reflective lens while bridging other cultures and will include a mentoring component to build capacity and self-esteem. There will be two days of on-site course offerings with 10 hours of mentoring, and will enable learners to recognize and adjust to the rigors of post-secondary education, build confidence and dispel the fears of school, understand why post- secondary learning is vital to their work with families, and understand the foundations of family support theory and practice. Organization: B.C. Association of Family Resource Programs

30 Project: Sustainability Studies Curriculum Granted: $10,000 Development Location: Clayoquot Sound Project description This project would develop curriculum for an upper-level, elective course entitled “Sustainability Studies” to be offered in Clayoquot Sound that would build environmental awareness and leadership in high school students through innovative education. The course will focus on the connection between people and their environment, with units on topics such as sustainable development, ecosystem-based management and civic engagement. The content will be developed through a collaborative process with input from students and teachers. As a regularly offered elective, the course will create an ongoing structure for youth engagement and hands-on learning. Organization: Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Society

Project: Be the Change Student Initiative Granted: $30,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Learning by doing, students make “sustainable lifestyle choices” in this innovative 16-week module that features: inspiring, educational, video-enriched school presentations; a “Student Action Guide” filled with important actions to choose from; a Facebook application that makes tracking actions fun and easy; a dialogue process in “Action Circles” where students report on actions and dialogue on personal experiences; and a teacher training course/manual to make it easy for any teacher to deliver the curriculum. Organization: Multifaith Action Society of B.C.

Project: Virtual Rainforest Initiative Granted: $70,000 Location: Bella Bella Project description This educational program uses new technology, experiential learning and locally-relevant resources to connect youth to the lands and waters of their traditional territories. Interactive white boards, remote wildlife webcams, and outdoor natural history training are used to cultivate a new generation of stewards and natural resource managers. It aims to develop an educational model that will provide youth with the passion and skills needed to pursue education and employment opportunities in science and conservation for years to come. Organization: Pacific Wild

Project: Residential Schools – Truth and Granted: $40,000 Learning Location: Province-wide Project description This project will develop engaging educational resources for students within the school system to supplement current Social Studies curricula that illustrate the history of Indian Residential Schools (IRS), the role of churches and government, and the impact on First Nation’s people and non-natives. The interactive, multi-media displays will enhance the in-class curriculum and generate additional interest in the subject. Organization: Residential School Survivors Society

31 Project: Continuing the Journey with the Granted: $60,000 Elders Location: Cranbrook Project description The project will enable Mount Baker Secondary School to continue having three Ktunaxa Elders and two Metis Elders as part of the school’s comprehensive plan to support Aboriginal learners and Aboriginal education. The Elders teach cultural practices, help students research their ancestry, support and teach Ktunaxa language and support Aboriginal Education programs. They are also part of Restorative Justice, develop leadership skills with students, are role models, are advisors on Aboriginal Education, and take part in events. Organization: The Board of Education School District No. 5 (Southeast Kootenay) in partnership with Mount Baker Secondary School

Project: Haida Gwaii Semester in Natural Granted: $60,000 Resource Studies Location: Haida Gwaii Project description The Haida Gwaii Semester in Natural Resource Studies addresses the paucity of post-secondary opportunities for residents of Haida Gwaii and provides economic development for rural communities. It allows students to learn from local knowledge holders, academics and researchers, providing critical linkages between traditional knowledge and western science. This dialogue between knowledge systems reinforces collaboration and partnership between aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities. Organization: Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society

Project: Metro Region Environmental Granted: $20,000 Learning Dissemination Project Location: Metro Vancouver Project description This project will disseminate the Environmental Learning and Experience guide in Metro Vancouver from 2011- 2013. Through professional development sessions, conferences and networking events, and new efforts to revise learning resources in the non-formal sector. Iin collaboration with institutions like Science World and Vancouver Aquarium, this project is focused in the heart of the province’s urban and suburban population base, where sustainable development and place-based education are much needed and highly relevant. Organization: The Institute for Environmental Learning

Project: Teaching Teachers about Granted: $27,200 Homelessness Location: Metro Vancouver Project description Learning about Homelessness in BC: A Guide for Senior High School is a new resource that provides lesson plans and materials for high school teachers interested in teaching about homelessness. This pilot project will support the dissemination of this guide through a series of workshops in up to 10 school districts across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. An Advisory Committee will be established to provide guidance in the design, delivery and evaluation of the teacher training workshops. Organization: SPARC BC Society

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Project: Through a Different Lens Granted: $50,000 Location: South Okanagan Project description This project will expand the number of teachers allowing students to use their preferred method of demonstrating their learning and to build the capacity of these teachers to assess the intended learning outcomes regardless of the methods students choose. It will require the introduction of teaching and assessment strategies allowing for alternate demonstrations of understanding in regular classroom practice; implementation of new instructional and assessment methods, involving coaching by the mentor teachers as well as side-by-side teaching as these strategies are incorporated into actual classrooms; evaluation and fine-tuning. Organization: Board of Education School District No. 67 (Okanagan Skaha)

Project: Southlands Elementary International Granted: $50,000 Baccalaureate Primary Years Program Location: Vancouver Project description This three-year evaluation research process will assess the impact of new International Baccalaureate program and Musqueam culture programming on the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students who attend Southlands Elementary, a public Vancouver school in which a significant proportion students are Aboriginal. This study will discover whether the local Musqueam First Nation community finds the new school programming an effective model of schooling for their children. Organization: The Board of Education School District No. 67 (Okanagan Skaha) in partnership with Southlands Elementary School

33 Arts and Culture Arts and culture have the power to enrich, educate and inspire. They are powerful avenues for expression and understanding.

In 2011, Vancouver Foundation supported everything from new plays to youth choirs to festivals in far-flung regions of the province. In doing so, we have encouraged excellence in arts and cultural activities among diverse cultural communities throughout BC.

Project: BC Youth Choir 2011 in Prince George Granted: $3,500 Location: Prince George Project description The British Columbia Youth Choir (BCYC) is a core program of the BC Choral Federation, which promotes and encourages choral activities through British Columbia. Entirely managed by 60 young volunteer singers from across BC, BCYC program engages top choral professionals to conduct and accompany the choir, recruits, auditions and encourages young singers, ages 16-25, and produces and promotes the program throughout the year. In 2011, the BCYC program took place in Prince George. Organization: The British Columbia Choral Federation Fully funded by the Hollyhock Endowment Fund

Project: BC Books Online: Delivery of an eBook Granted: $30,000 Collection to BC Libraries Location: Province-wide Project description The BC Books Online consortium delivered a collection of BC-published books in e-book format to every public, academic and school library in the province. In partnership with the Association of Book Publishers of BC, BC Books hired staff to create marketing and information packages for the libraries, worked with publishers and writers to develop terms of trade, and developed a program to sustain the project over time, ensuring access to the BC Books Online collection across the province and creating a significant literary legacy. Organization: The British Columbia Library Association Funded in part by The Grayross Foundation and the Crescendo Fund

Project: Working People: The Unknown Granted: $60,000 History of British Columbia Location: Province-wide Project description The Knowledge Network commissioned, produced and broadcast three original half-hour documentaries, each made up of ten 2-3 minute short films, telling the stories of ordinary people who played extraordinary roles in the evolution of British Columbia. Working People: The Unknown History of British Columbia reached almost two million people in BC through television and the Internet. It challenged filmmakers, engaged viewers and created a lasting legacy. Organization: Knowledge Network Funded in part by the Seaview Fund

34 Project: Hansel and Gretel Granted: $45,000 Location: Province-wide Project description For the 2011-2012 Vancouver Opera in Schools touring season, Vancouver Opera created a new production of the classic fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel. This production became a cornerstone of the program, providing numerous students in BC with the opportunity to experience the magic of opera in their schools. This project produced an adaptation of the full length opera to a 45-minute opera in English, a new transportable set and new costumes. Organization: Vancouver Opera Funded in part by the Crescendo Fund

Project: Composer Mentorship Program Granted: $60,000 Location: Province-wide Project description Canadian Music Centre’s BC Associate Composers took part in a mentorship outreach program serving both schools and emerging composers across BC. This project encouraged music students and faculty to collaborate with the creative writing, drama, dance and math departments. CMC senior composers worked closely with emerging composers to foster and support their creative endeavors. Organization: The Canadian Music Centre Funded in part by the Crescendo Fund

Project: Being: 10th Anniversary Performance Granted: $15,000 for Scotiabank Dance Centre Location: Vancouver Project description Aeriosa Dance Society combines dance artistry with rigging systems used in mountain climbing to suspend their dancers from the sides of public buildings and other structures. Aeriosa created a site-specific show for the Scotiabank Dance Centre’s 10th anniversary on the Scotiabank Dance Centre building in downtown Vancouver. For four nights, Aeriosa staged free-admission performances at Granville and Davie of a mesmerizing dance entitled Being. Organization: Aeriosa Dance Society

Project: KHAOS, the Opera Granted: $30,000 Location: Nelson Project description This grant funded the premiere production and tour of KHAOS, an opera that re-imagines the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone set in a contemporary world of climate change and looming global catastrophe. KHAOS asks the question, ‘What if Persephone were prevented from returning from the underworld to console her mother? Would Demeter’s continuing grief and despair end life on Earth as we know it?’. Organization: The Amy Ferguson Institute

35 Project: Scar Tissue Granted: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Project description This theatre production is based on Michael Ignatieff’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, an intensely personal work about family, with love in all its guises and the ultimate triumph of life over loss. This project helped foster and engage the writing community by giving more writers opportunities to produce this piece of work. Organization: The Arts Club Theatre Company

Project: Marilyn – Anyone Can See I love You Granted: $30,000 Location: Victoria Project description This opera is based on aspects of the life of actress Marilyn Monroe, with libretto from BC author and poet, Marilyn Bowering. Marilyn – Anyone Can See I Love You examines Marilyn Monroe’s intellectual and emotional relationship to death and love. The performance interweaves what is taking place on stage with the trajectory of Monroe’s life through relationships, fame and myth. Organization: Aventa New Music Society

Project: New Adaptation and Production of Granted: $9,000 Henry VI, the Wars of the Roses Location: Vancouver

Project description Henry VI, The Wars of the Roses was the premiere production of a newly adapted work, which distilled the texts of three plays into one. The production was rehearsed by Bard Studio Stage company over a six-week period and had 38 performances at the 2011Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. Organization: Bard on the Beach Theatre Society

Project: The Trail’s End Granted: $20,000 Location: Armstrong Project description Caravan Farm Theatre commissioned, developed, and produced a new play called The Trail’s End. This professional theatre company is housed on 80 acres of farm land 11 kilometers outside of Armstrong, BC, specializing in innovative outdoor staging. This play takes place in a small BC town in 1933 during the Great Depression. It tells the story of a poor young man and woman who fall in love and share dreams of escaping their small-town existence. They begin to commit petty crimes and rise to fame as notorious bank robbers. The play poses the questions, to what lengths would you go to achieve your dreams? And, in the face of adversity, what is the price of freedom? Organization: Caravan Farm Theatre

36 Project: Chronicles of Form and Place: Works Granted: $20,000 on Paper by Takao Tanabe Location: Burnaby

Project description The Tanabe exhibition, publication and online resource is a lasting contribution to the art history record, especially in the context of an important Canadian artist continuing to produce work in Canada. Tanabe’s unusual dexterity in a variety of media provided the Burnaby Art Gallery with a touring show of some 75 drawings, watercolours and collages reflecting key themes and conceptual shifts the artist experienced during his career. Organization: The Burnaby Art Gallery

Project: Our Culture and History Go Mobile Granted: $35,000 Location: Campbell River Project description This project placed a user-activated, large screen kiosk, akin to an ‘iPod on wheels’ in the foyer of the Campbell River museum. The kiosk offers layers of interpretation with interview clips, slide shows, video clips, narration and images, both archival and current, grouped by thematic icons. Custom programming allows for easy updating and adding of content and images. Organization: The Campbell River and District Museum and Archives Society

Project: Cultural Development Worker - Granted: $8,000 Downtown Eastside Location: Vancouver

Project description The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) is establishing a Community Arts Fund (CAF) with the Downtown Eastside community. This grant supported a Community Arts Cultural Development Worker. who organized the Council’s new Downtown Eastside Community Arts Program Committee and the local funding program, including criteria and support to community organizations. Organization: Community Arts Council of Vancouver

Project: Peninsula ArtSea Festival Granted: $4,600 Location: Saanich Peninsula Project description The Peninsula ArtSea Festival enhances the reputation of Sidney and the Peninsula as a cultural destination and encourages further community involvement in the arts, to attract visitors to the Saanich Peninsula over the festival period. This festival builds on the success of the Sidney Fine Art Show and the Fall Studio Tour which attracts many thousands of people to Sidney and the Peninsula. Organization: Community Arts Council of the Saanich Peninsula

37 Project: Re:Union Granted: $14,000 Location: Vancouver Project description The play Re:Union examines parallels between the Vietnam War and the aftermath of 9/11 using the touchstone of a real event, when a Quaker set himself on fire and died below the Pentagon window of US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, to protest the escalating Vietnam War. First Pacific Theatre Society also presented a community outreach program ‘The Activist City: An Inter-Community Dialogue’ to extend the social impact of the work. Organization: First Pacific Theatre Society

Project: 2012 Powell River Film Festival Granted: $10,000 Location: Powell River Project description The 2012 Powell River Film Festival will be a celebration of the local and regional arts, including documentaries, dramas, & animation. Local, BC and Canadian films will be presented by the filmmakers to provide maximum public engagement. This project will also include a film camp, film contest, and a focus on Media Arts for schools and youth. Organization: Friends of Film Society of Powell River

Project: ArtsWells Pre-Festival Workshops Granted: $10,000 and Performances Location: Gabriola Island Project description This initiative comes from the need to enhance brown public spaces and provide artistic expression on the Island. Individual artists will create new public art installations in a high-visibility site in each Island neighbourhood. The artworks will be a collaboration between an established professional artist, an emerging artist, and a neighbourhood. Currently Gabriola Island only has one mural at the ferry terminal, so these additional public art pieces will showcase the local talent with pride. Organization: Gabriola Arts Council

Project: Golden’s Masque Parade Granted: $8,500 Location: Golden Project description In partnership with Kicking Horse Culture, this project is a community arts celebration that honours the history and cultural heritage of the Golden and District area. This community engagement initiative will bring artists and performers into neighbourhoods, which will be particularly helpful for isolated seniors with limited activities during the winter. Organization: Golden and District Community Foundation

38 Project: Praxis: Past and Present Granted: $13,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Praxis: Past and Present is an art exhibition that examines Vancouver’s identity and history . The exhibition toured civic and university libraries throughout the city. A symposium was also held to bring together international, national and local librarians, community leaders and artists. Organization: I.E. Artspeak Gallery Society

Project: ArtsWells Pre-Festival Workshops and Granted: $12,000 Performances Location: Wells Project description This project was part of the ArtsWells Festival of All Things Art. Two workshops assisted professional and emerging artists with skill development. The youth workshop dealt with songwriting and spoken word poetry and helped build confidence and self esteem through performance and audio recording — each participant took home a recording of the songs they wrote. Organization: Island Mountain Arts Society

Project: Debt Granted: $10,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Debt is a contemporary horror show inspired by the classic stories and poetry of Edgar Allen Poe. It was performed as a promenade play at The Roedde House Museum, a heritage home located in the West End. This is ITSAZOO’s first foray into horror, a genre rarely seen in the contemporary theatre landscape. This original script by emerging playwright Mackenzie Gordon is a combination of the stories and poems of Edgar Allen Poe, 1980’s slasher films, old radio dramas and haunted houses. Organization: ITSAZOO Productions Society

Project: Music Rules in Schools Literary Project Granted: $10,000 Location: Langley Project description This project focuses on the craft of songwriting as a literary art of poetry to music. An established artist will present this workshop, and will interact with the students by taking keywords, stories, and ideas from the students to write a song together.This experience will emphasize the importance of literacy and reading, and the importance of telling a story that is relevant to society. Organization: Langley Arts Council

Project: Dance Floor Granted: $4,000 Location: Kelowna Project description This grant will help build a professional dance floor to improve the artistic experience for dancers of all skill levels and ages. This space is used frequently by dancers in the Kelowna community. It is estimated that the proposed dance floor will last 15 years. Organization: Kelowna Visual & Performing Arts Centre

39 Project: Farm Fragments: An Installation by Granted: $5,000 Jean Pederson Location: Kimberley Project description The installation piece used fragments from the past and present social fabric of rural community to depict all that is left of a century of farming on the Prairies. A video made by the artist was projected in an adjoining room of the exhibition. The organizing committee learned new techniques in preparing, organizing, and hosting a major exhibition under the guidance of a professional consultant. Organization: Kimberley Arts Council, Centre 64

Project: Creating Space Granted: $12,000 Location: Castlegar Project description This project turned a storage area into a more functional space, creating new workshop possibilities, exhibition opportunities and public programming for the people of the Kootenay community. This space is entirely used for arts purposes. Organization: Kootenay Gallery of Art, History and Science

Project: Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Granted: $28,000 Poetry Location: Vancouver Project description Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry examined paintings, sculpture, photography and film produced by Morris around the time he organized an important exhibition of concrete poetry at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery in 1969. The exhibition recognizes Morris’ immense contribution to the development of Vancouver as a global contemporary art city. Organization: The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Project: First Nations Curator Granted: $5,000 Location: Nanaimo Project description The Nanaimo Art Gallery engaged a First Nations curator to develop a First Nations program for the Gallery including plans for a major exhibition of the work of established First Nations artists in 2012. This project commissioned new work of First Nations public art and plans for a major exhibition of local Coast Salish art in 2013. Organization: Nanaimo Art Gallery

Project: Japanese Canadian Museum Granted: $33,000 Collections Community Outreach Location: Vancouver, New Denver and Kamloops Project description The Japanese Canadian National Museum worked with volunteers in Vancouver, New Denver and Kamloops to catalogue and scan photographs and documents of Japanese Canadians. The archival material is from the period of the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II and is available to all Canadians. Organization: National Nikkei Hertiage Centre Society.

40 Project: The 605 Collective: Inheritor Album Granted: $20,000 Project Location: Vancouver Project description The play, The Inheritor Album is a new, full-length presentation of multiple short works derived from contrasting notions of “inheritance”. Much like songs in a recording artist’s album, each piece is distinct but when combined, creates a cohesive album that pulls apart the roles of inheritor and predecessor, capturing brief snapshots of these ideas from the perspective of this group of emerging artists. Organization: New Performance Works Society

Project: Blue Box Granted: $12,500 Location: Vancouver Project description Blue Box is a one-woman play performed and written by Chilean-Canadian, Vancouver-based theatre artist Carmen Aguirre. Based on Carmen’s experience as an underground resistance fighter in Chile in the 1980s, Blue Box is a dark comedy about a revolutionary in hot pursuit of love, sex and danger. It weaves multiple stories into a provocative and personal investigation of a revolutionary living in post-revolutionary times, while undergoing her own sexual revolution. Organization: NeWorld Theatre Society

Project: Studio Building Upgrade Granted: $4,704 Location: Oliver Project description The Oliver Community Arts Council owns and operates the Quail’s Nest Arts Centre. This project will replace two large bay doors on the Studio Building. Currently, they are uninsulated, mechanically faulty, dangerous and difficult to operate. The doors will increase heating efficiency, light, attractiveness of the space (inside and out), and the number of artistic users. Organization: Oliver Community Arts Council

Project: Carving on the Edge Festival 2011 Granted: $10,000 Location: Tofino Project description The Carving on the Edge Festival is a celebration of Tofino’s rich cultural history of wood carving arts and its re- emergence through various contemporary fine art forms. This festival hosted a First Nations fine art exhibition with a three-day forum of workshops and storytelling, Contemporary Carvers showed, a 10-day traditional canoe- making workshop, documentary filming , and various other community opportunities for demonstrations and discussion. Organization: Pacific Rim Arts Society

41 Project: Livepod — Visions of Vancouver Granted: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Four Vancouver-based playwrights each wrote a short play expressing their personal visions of Vancouver as part of the Vancouver 125th anniversary celebration. Each playwright partnered with three community representatives, selected from outside the arts community, who offered factual experiences or emotional responses to the work as it developed. The plays were performed by an inter-cultural repertory company of five professional actors, digitally recorded live and made available as audio Podcasts, creating both a live performance event and a way to explore Vancouver through an innovative use of technology, content and form. Organization: Pi Theatre

Project: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Granted: $20,000 Location: Vancouver Project description The Last Days of Judas Iscariot places Judas on trial for betraying Christ, calling individuals such as Satan, Mother Teresa, Saint Peter, Pontius Pilate and Sigmund Freud as witnesses. Using fresh, urban dialogue and current references, the play casts contemporary light on classical events. It was produced in association with Pacific Theatre and Neworld Theatre and headlined Rumble’s Tremors Festival. Organization: Pound of Flesh Theatre Society

Project: Revelstoke Spirit Festival 2 Granted: $10,000 Location: Revelstoke Project description The Revelstoke Spirit Festival 2 is a winter festival to commemorate and rekindle the spirit generated by the Olympic Flame celebration in February, 2010. This festival is an opportunity to bring artists to this community and celebrate arts in a predominantly tourist destination for winter sports. Organization: Revelstoke Arts Council

Project: Conde & Beveridge Community Granted: $10,000 Collaboration Location: Richmond Project description Nationally respected artists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge will come to Richmond for a one-week residency. The artists proposed this project, intrigued by the concentration of cultural organizations and the broad public attendance at the Richmond Cultural Centre. They will work with the local cultural organizations and community, exploring the idea of work in the cultural sector and the ways the public perceive and value such work. Organization: Richmond Arts Council

42 Project: The Vancouver Directors’ Lab Granted: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Project description The Vancouver Directors’ Lab was a series of workshops and public performances that enabled participants to refocus and grow as artists. This particular workshop allowed directors to work with plays they have always wanted to work on but have never had the occasion to explore. Three of Canada’s finest Master Directors push participants to rise to the level of their material and to showcase their work and their directorial visions. Organization: Rumble Productions

Project: Sooke Philharmonic Fling Granted: $5,800 Location: Sooke Project description The Philharmonic Fling was an open air concert showcasing familiar classical pieces with a dance performance by Sooke Ballet School students. The event also featured selected works by Vancouver Island composer Stephen Brown, traditional greetings by the T’Sou-ke Nation and a kick-off from Sooke Pipes and Drums. Organization: Sooke Philharmonic Society

Project: Music in the Mountains Granted: $14,400 Location: Cranbrook Project description This pilot project featured work from well-known Aboriginal composer Barbara Croall and local Aboriginal storytellers and dancers. It was a cross-cultural venture with the Ktunaxa Nation, coinciding with Aboriginal Day to recognize Aboriginal peoples’ important place in Canada. Organization: The Symphony of the Kootenays

Project: Activating the Archive Project Granted: $25,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Activating the Archive involved the digitization and web publishing of substantial sections of grunt gallery’s 26+ year archives, consisting of documentation of over 300 exhibitions, 200 performances, 100 conferences, festivals and special events, with over 200,000 slides and digital images, 10,000 hours of videotape, and thousands of pages of printed materials. The archive contains significant exhibitions and performances by Canadian artists and national Aboriginal artists which is not available in any other collection. Organization: grunt gallery

43 Project: Ian Wallace Exhibition and Publication Granted: $90,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Vancouver Art Gallery presented the first major Canadian retrospective of internationally renowned Vancouver artist Ian Wallace, celebrating his pioneering use of large-format images juxtaposed with monochrome painting, which has raised the status of photography nationally and internationally. Wallace mentored Vancouver artists including Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Ken Lum, Rodney Graham and Jeff Wall. The exhibition catalogue is the first publication to fully assess Wallace’s career by combining interpretive essays, images of the artist’s work and selections from his extensive theoretical writings. Organization: Vancouver Art Gallery

Project: Cherry Blossom Umbrella Dance Granted: $10,000 Location: Vancouver Project description As part of the Cherry Blossom Festival, this project celebrates Vancouver’s iconic cherry blossoms through dance by bringing hundreds of dancing people sporting pink umbrellas together in a new Umbrella Dance downtown as well as many other flash mobs throughout Vancouver neighbourhoods. Organization: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

Project: Celebrate Queer Vancouver Granted: $18,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Celebrate Queer Vancouver presented a multidisciplinary body of work commissioned by Out On Screen from 18 celebrated Canadian artists and more than 250 community participants. The works spoke to the valuable contributions queer people have made to Vancouver’s history and identity. Organization: Vancouver Out on Screen Film and Video Society

Project: New Work by Wen Wei Dance Granted: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Project description In his new full-length dance for seven performers, Wen Wei Wang explores the human quest for connection. In examining the body’s intrinsic abilities and limits, and the emotions that are hidden within it, the deeply personal is relayed between performer and audience. Organization: Wen Wei Dance

44 Environment

BC has many environmental issues that are unique to our geography, economy and our people.

At Vancouver Foundation, we understand that resolving these issues can be complex. Our goals are three-fold: to support innovative policy and practice that address the root causes of environmental issues; to increase public awareness, understanding and engagement; and to ensure that people and communities closest to environmental challenges are included in the solutions.

From 2011 to 2014, Vancouver Foundation is focusing on two areas: freshwater and habitat protection.

Project: Uncover Still Creek Granted: $15,000 Location: Vancouver Project description Through the “Uncover Still Creek” program, Evergreen will work with the City of Vancouver to rehabilitate priority municipal lands into spaces that welcome community members to spend time, provide vital habitat for terrestrial and aquatic species and mitigate high stormwater flows and poor water quality. The program aims to connect citizens with their watershed, encouraging them to take action both locally and as a community to ensure the health of Still Creek’s waters. Organization: Evergreen Fully funded by the Crescendo Fund and an anonymous fund

Project: Fraser River Discovery Centre’s Granted: $10,000 Outdoor Interpretive Panels Location: New Westminster Project description The Fraser River Discovery Centre will replace existing damaged and dated panels with a series of exciting and thought-provoking interpretive panels, which will be displayed along a 1.3km riverfront boardwalk. The panels will heighten awareness of environmental issues related to the Fraser River watershed; stimulate river advocacy and interpretation; and encourage community participation by fostering a stronger understanding, ownership and desire to act positively to affect the river's health. Organization: Fraser River Discovery Centre Society Funded in part by Windsor Plywood Foundation

Project: Restoring Wetlands in the Quamichan Granted: $15,000 Watershed Location: Duncan Project description The water quality of Quamichan Lake is negatively impacted by surface runoff. This project will involve watershed residents in the restoration of wetlands that will trap pollution, improve water quality, provide habitat for wildlife and offer a meaningful opportunity for the community to be involved in a local stewardship initiative. Organization: Quamichan Watershed Stewardship Society Funded in part by Windsor Plywood Foundation

45 Project: Protecting Fish Habitat and Granted: $40,000 Freshwater in the Upper Fraser Basin Location: Northern BC Project description This project will further the work between the First Nations of the Yinka Dene Alliance and Dr. Jack Stanford, a Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana specializing in river and freshwater ecology. It will combine Dr. Stanford’s impact assessment of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline on the Sutherland, Stuart, and Salmon Rivers within the traditional territories and with the traditional ecological knowledge holders of the Alliance First Nations. Organization: Tides Canada for Headwaters Initiative Funded in part by the McGill Family Fund

Project: Enabling a Greener BC Economy Granted: $40,000 Location: Province-wide Project description Policies are urgently needed in British Columbia to protect the environment and sustain BC communities in an era of climate change. This multi-year project will assess the existing laws governing BC forests (approximately 80% of BC’s land base) and advocate for corresponding law and policy reform. Organization: West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation Funded in part by the Crescendo Fund

Project: Lifelines – Protecting BC's Wild Granted: $35,000 Species and Spaces Location: Province-wide Project description Lifelines will educate British Columbians about endangered species, focusing on connecting children and youth to 10 flagship species at risk in BC. BC is one of only two Canadian provinces without an endangered species law. This project will mobilize the public to act to protect BC’s wild species and spaces. Organization: Western Canada Wilderness Committee Funded in part by the McGill Family Fund

Project: Keeping the Peace Fully Wild Granted: $60,000 Location: Northern BC Project description The Peace River Break is the only connection between the abundant wildlife of northern BC and the Rocky Mountain Parks. This key ecosystem is currently threatened by poorly-planned road networks, coal mines, hydroelectric projects and other renewable energy developments that are outpacing the understanding of the area’s value to wildlife and traditional land uses. This project will raise of the region’s ecological importance and build the capacity of local organizations to advance policies and practices that protect and restore the vitality of the Peace River Break. Organization: Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Funded in part by the Harry and Henrietta Kostman Family Fund

46 Project: Tapping Into New Ideas – Promoting Granted: $7,500 Sound Water Management in BC Location: Province-wide Project description This project will address key tools needed to better manage provincial water resources and to ensure their conservation. A water policy brief will be produced that outlines a new framework for water use reporting (British Columbians do not have access to anything approaching a usable, publicly accessible database on water allocations and usage). Organization: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives, British Columbia Office

Project: Bertrand Watershed Education Team Granted: $25,000 (B-WET) Location: Langley Project description The B-WET project will foster private land stewardship on properties adjacent to Bertrand Creek, raise citizen awareness of watershed issues, and enhance and protect critical habitat for native and endangered species. To achieve this, Langley Environmental Partners Society will deliver stewardship information packages; work with property owners to provide practical stream stewardship advice; and work with landowners who are willing to enhance their riparian area (the bank along the creek). The team will also offer watershed walking tours and Streamkeeper training (a watershed education program); watershed information presentations; school workshops; stream clean-up, invasive species removal, streamside treeplanting and stormdrain marking events. Organization: Langley Environmental Partners Society

Project: Green Shores Granted: $7,270 Location: BC Southern Coast Project description Shoreline aquatic habitats, and the wildlife that depend on them, face increasing threats due to increasing coastal settlements, lack of education and poor shoreline planning. This initiative will work with waterfront property owners locally and regionally, to address erosion challenges while conserving and enhancing wild ecosystems as part of the Islands Trust Green Shores for Homes Program. Activities will include mapping, monitoring and conducting educational workshops for the public and local governments. Organization: SeaChange Marine Conservation Society

Project: Our Water BC: Growing Support for a Granted: $20,000 Modern Water Act in BC Location: Province-wide Project description Support and participation from engaged citizens is critical to develop a robust water law in British Columbia. Sierra Club of BC will grow and nurture a provincial water movement that is ready to engage in the current Water Act policy process. They will use public events, social media and community organizing tools to build a large pool of engaged citizens eager to learn more about the issue and ultimately be willing to make their desires known to government for an equitable water future for BC. Organization: Sierra Club of BC

47 Project: Achieving Water Sustainability: BC Granted: $90,000 Water Law and Policy Reform Location: Province-wide Project description This project seeks to enable a comprehensive approach to water law and watershed governance in BC. Public policy and law reform on water resources and management is about to take a major leap forward. There is an opportunity to affect laws, policy and governance resulting in lasting impacts on the ground through organizing a range of actors and communicating leading practices from around the world. Organization: University of Victoria – POLIS Project on Ecological Governance

Project: Elk River Alliance Community-Based Granted: $25,000 Water Monitoring Location: Kootenays Project description The Elk River Alliance (ERA) encourages citizens to understand water quality, quantity and the water decision- making process as a necessary bridge to ensure long-term sustainability of water quality and flows. The project will integrate holistic watershed planning within the watershed and engage grassroots community participation. Through this project, the ERA aims to demostrate that community-based water monitoring can build relationships of accountability, transparency, respect and trust between citizens, government and private landowners. Organization: Wildsight for Elk River Alliance

Project: Young Naturalists’ Club Granted: $10,000 Nature Mentors Initiative Location: Province-wide Project description The Young Naturalists’ Club of BC (YNC) gets children aged 5-14 outside discovering nearby nature and experiencing hands-on learning about the natural sciences through: volunteer-led Nature Clubs in communities across BC, field trips with inspirational local experts, Citizen Science Projects and an Action Awards program. This grant will support the development of a nature mentors program by developing a database linking passionate biologists, naturalists and environmental educators with BC youth, creating a legacy of environmental awareness and action. Organization: Young Naturalists Club of BC

Project: A Regional Biodiversity Strategy for Granted: $40,000 the Sunshine Coast Location: Sunshine Coast Project description The Lagoon Society will work collaboratively with other organizations and residents to increase the capacity on the Sunshine Coast to undertake sound stewardship of biodiversity and ensure the region maintains a connected, biologically diverse network of habitats, healthy, resilient ecosystems and ecosystem services. Organization: Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve Society

48 Project: Nanakila Guardian Watchmen Granted: $10,000 Location: Kitamaat Project description Funding will be used for small capital and equipment improvements that enhance the capacity of Nanakila Guardian Watchmen to deliver programs. The mission of the program is to conserve and restore all resources in Haisla and surrounding territory. Organization: Haisla Nation Council

Project: Building Grassroots Action in British Granted: $35,000 Columbia Location: Province-wide Project description The Small Change Fund works to connect community projects, especially those in remote and rural areas, with donors through their innovative crowd-funding platform and communications campaigns. Funding will specifically be used for BC-based issues such as struggles around resource development and Aboriginal rights. Organization: Small Change Fund

Project: Green Building with Clayoquot Granted: $10,000 Sound First Nations Location: Vancouver Island Project description This project supports community consultation work to develop a strong implementation and financing plan associated with the design of a green and culturally significant housing plan for First Nations communities of the Clayoquot Sound. This grant builds on a previous grant made in 2010 and is being matched by the Health and Social Development Field of Interest. Organization: Ecotrust Canada

49 Animal Welfare

Animals play a valuable role in our society. How we treat and care for them reflects on our community as a whole. Vancouver Foundation is committed to supporting strategies that protect and enhance the welfare of all animals, wild, domestic and farm, in BC through research, outreach, education and direct care. British Columbia is home to a wide-range of charitable organizations with a mission to improve the welfare of animals. Many of these are grassroots, volunteer-run organizations with small operating budgets. They often struggle to find funding to invest in repair, renovation and expansion of facilities that are critical to their ability to provide proper animal care and shelter.

In 2011, Vancouver Foundation issued a one-time Request for Proposals for small capital projects in order to improve and increase the capacity of these organizations. In total, over $200,000 was granted to 20 projects which will benefit a range of animals including donkeys, owls, and dogs. Please contact Vancouver Foundation if you would like descriptions or more information on any of the grants.

Project: ChickenOUT! Granted: $10,000 Organization: Vancouver Humane Society Fully funded by the G & G Fund

Project: Advanced Kennel Rehabilitation Granted: $15,000 Organization: Pacific Assistance Dogs Society

Project: Wooden Building Renovation Granted: $9,314 Organization: Small Animal Rescue Society of BC

Project: GROMPP: Get Rid of Muddy Paddocks and Pathways! Granted: $4,000 Organization: Pacific Riding for Developing Abilities

Project: Dog Run/Fenced in Area at Transition House Granted: $1,450 Organization: Howe Sound Women's Centre Society

Project: Fenced Enclosure for Rest.Q Safe House Granted: $13,300 Organization: Rest.Q Animal Sanctuary Society

Project: Critteraid Farm Environmental Improvements Granted: $5,027 Organization: Summerland Cat Sanctuary Society

Project: Chicken/Duck/Turkey Enclosure Granted: $15,000 Organization: Senior Animals in Need Today Society

Project: Marine Mammal Rescue Pool Platform & Stairs Project Granted: $13,721 Organization: Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre

Project: Rabbit Rescue Sanctuary Granted: $11,080 Organization: The Responsible Animal Care Society

50 Project: Barn Enhancement Project Granted: $13,268 Organization: Turtle Valley Donkey Refuge Society

Project: Rest.Q Safe House - Galiano Island, BC Granted: $10,000 Organization: Rest.Q Animal Sanctuary Society

Project: Improving the Welfare of Cats in BC SPCA Shelters Granted: $12,000 Organization: BCSPCA

Project: Isolation Unit Upgrade Granted: $4,640 Organization: Fraser Valley Humane Society

Project: Ksan Pets Program Granted: $15,000 Organization: Ksan House Society

Project: Rain Water Retention Granted: $6,860 Organization: Circle F Horse Rescue Society

Project: Intake Barn Project Granted: $2,950 Organization: Newbark Canine Rescue Rehoming Society

Project: Sanctuary Improvements Granted: $10,757 Organization: Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary

Project: Rehabilitation Clinic Granted: $15,000 Organization: South Okanagan Rehab Centre for Owls

Project: Building Enclosures for the Smaller Animals Granted: $10,760 Organization: Critter Care Wildlife Society

Project: Food Preparation Room Granted: $7,422 Organization: North Island Wildlife Recovery Association

Project: Ungulate Facility Expansion Project Granted: $12,458 Organization: Northern Lights Wildlife Society

51 Special Thanks It is only through the generosity and foresight of the donors who established the following endowment funds that Vancouver Foundation was able to support the projects and programs listed in this booklet. Some have focused their support on a specific area of funding, others have established Community Impact Funds, giving Vancouver Foundation full discretion to fund urgent and emerging needs.

Community Impact Funds

Alma VanDusen Fund Grace Lim Legacy Foundation Sarah Agnes Berryman Memorial Fund Alice G. MacKay Memorial Fund Lance and Nonie Bissett Fund Norman and Julie Mackie Memorial Fund Harry and Elva Borgerson Fund Frances Mastrandrea Fund Jean Hamilton Brakenridge Memorial Fund The Catherine Jane McClelland Memorial Fund Brink Family Fund The McCorkell Fund British Columbia Unclaimed Property Society Helen Eileen McCurrach and Helen Isobel McCurrach Memorial Fund Burrard Lions 60th Anniversary Community Services Fund The William McMahan Fund Dr. William Keith Burwell Fund Evelyn R. McMann Estate Fund Laura E. Cameron Memorial Fund Walter John Misener Memorial Fund Joan and Clodagh Insull Fund Katherine Moffatt Memorial Fund The Community Fund George W. Norgan Fund Janet Cramsie Memorial Fund Opeongo Trust James and Gladys Cunningham Fund Frederick Hyden Pearson and Isobel Mary Pearson Trust Fund The Ralph and Norma Cunningham Memorial Fund Otto and Anna Peterson Memorial Fund Dashwood-Jones Fund Catherine Pryde and Peter Pryde Endowment Fund Frederick James Dawson Fund Leslie and Mildred Quartermaine Fund Gordon James Dickie Memorial Fund Bernice Mary Margaret Ramsay Fund Alice Muriel Barbara Duff Estate Fund Cresswell Bonny and Louisa Jane Rickard Fund Fellowship Lodge No. 137, A.F. & A.M. Endowment Fund Catherine Rickey — Ross Ramsey Fund Susan and Barrie Forbes Community Foundation The Robson Family Fund Frinton Fund The Bernard and Ria Rowe Foundation John D. Gibson Family Fund Scotties’ Fund Harry and Pearl Gillespie Fund Shaughnessy Hospital Auxiliary (1946-1983) Trust Fund Helene Edna Gradley Fund The Charles E. and Laura E. Thompson Fund The Andrew Brown Graham Fund Elsie & Albert Took Memorial Fund Phillip and Jean Green Fund Widmer Van Halm Fund George E and Loucil Marie Griffin Memorial Fund Vancouver Foundation Employees’ Community Fund Marion & Samuel Hartin Fund Mildred W. Walker Memorial Fund Winifred Townley Hill Memorial Fund Roxie Joan Wallace Fund J. Norman Hyland Fund The Lester M. White Fund The Irish Canadian Fund Widmer/ Weedy Fund Alexander and Julia Kurlak Fund (Start-up Fund) Bruce Witherspoon Memorial Fund Lang Family Fund … and four anonymous funds Kelvin D.M. Large and Frances M. Large Memorial Fund Isabel Macmillan Latta Fund Arthur and Lenore Law Memorial Fund 52 Special Thanks Field of Interest Funds Endowment Fund for Education Endowment Fund for Environment

The Acorn Fund Endowment Fund for Health & Medical Education/Research The Margaret Winifred Charlotte Almond Memorial Fund Endowment Fund for Health & Social Development The American Woman’s Club of Vancouver Endowment Fund for Homelessness Dorothy Anderson Family Foundation Endowment Fund for Youth (YPC) Animal Welfare Endowment Fund The Norman and June English Medical Research Fund Anniversary Fund for Animal Welfare The Gordon Fahrni Family Fund Assante Vancouver Centre Fund The Edith Annie Faunt Endowment Fund The B.C. Heritage Fund Kathleen Helen Ferries Memorial Fund Thelma Barkley Fund Beverly Field Fund BC Aboriginal Network on Disability Society Endowment Fund The Robert & Florence Filberg Fund Tracy Betel Fund Margaret J. Ford Fund Birdie’s Fund Monty and Kathleen Foster Trust Fred Boyd Brown Fund Four Pillars Fund (Action on Addictions) Robert L. Boyes Fund The Thomas and Eunice Fraser and Allen Fraser Pike Memorial Fund Pearley and Norine Brissenden Fund The Florence L. Fyfe-Smith Fund Joanne Victoria Brown Memorial Fund Dr. George R. Gayman Memorial Fund The Henry A. Bulwer Fund Ida Goodreau Fund Bumblebee Fund (Start-up Fund) Phyllis Griffin Memorial Fund Butterfly Foundation Linda & Paul Gronert Community Fund The Robert and Irene Carpenter Children’s Fund Fred J. and Adelaide M. Grover Fund Alexander Carruthers Fund The Margaret Haney Fund The Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Carson Fund Lewis Crowhurst Henry Fund Barnet and Janet Carswell Fund The Jan Howarth Fund The Thomas George Edward Cartier Fund The Helen M. Humphrey Trust Douglas Cherrington Legacy Fund James and Helen Hunter Fund Robert B. and Margaret G. Cherry Fund The Ingledow Bursary Fund The Children’s Fund William and Marion Johnson Trust Ronald Laird Cliff Fund Henry and Annie Kaulback Memorial Fund The Mark and Phae Collins Fund The Alice M. and Donald J. Kerr Medical Research Fund Jane Helen Mary Corcoran Memorial Fund The King’s Daughters and Sons Vancouver Fund Ollie Coyes Memorial Fund Robert and Anna Koerner Foundation Fund The Edna and Elliott Crookshanks Family Fund The Toni Korsan Fund Muriel Annie Cunliffe Memorial Fund The Norman Russell Lang Memorial Fund Esther Dang/Wing You Wong Charitable Trust The Earle M. and Minnie C. Lawson Fund F. Danielson Foundation Kenneth Angus MacRae Memorial Fund Drent Family Fund Doreen Martin Margetts Fund for Animal Care The Elizabeth Droemer Fund Helen and Oscar Marrion Fund for Medical Research Early Childhood Development Legacy Fund McEachern Keen Fund (Start-Up Fund) Early Childhood Development Legacy Program: FAS Education and Prevention Fund McFarlane-Karp Fund Early Childhood Legacy Fund: Carol Legge FASD Endowment Edward B. and Ruby R. McIntyre Fund Victor S. Elne Memorial Fund Marketa Michal Fund Endowment for Financial Literacy Marion Mitchell Memorial Fund Endowment Fund for Arts & Culture Jean & David Molson Fund Endowment Fund for Children, Youth & Family The Doris M. Murray Endowment Fund

53 Neale Fund Allard Prize Fund in International Integrity The New Bastion Theatre Company Endowment Fund Alpha Delta Phi British Columbia 2010 Endowment Fund Manh Hung & Thi Tham Nguyen Community Fund Alzheimer’s Disease Research Fund The Northward Bound Endowment Fund Anderson Family Fund May Maynard Ough Endowment Fund Ann Claire Angus Fund Milton Owen Memorial Youth Fund Anmar Fund Beatrice Donalda Pilon Memorial Fund AREA Endowment Fund The George and Rae Poole Family Memorial Fund AREA Fund W.J. Sager Fund Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia Outreach Rosamond Helen Sarles Fund Education Fund Alfred Schuller Fund Harry Astoria Memorial Gliding Award Fund The Seniors Benevolent Fund B.C. First Call Endowment Fund Alex Sereth Fund B.C. Medical Services Foundation Scholarship Fund Karen Shklanka and Eric Lanoix Fund (Start-up Fund) B.C. Tech S.V.P. Fund No. 1 The Sick Children’s Research Foundation Fund B.C. Tech S.V.P. Fund No. 2 Silver Maple Fund Bachechi Bros. Realty Fund The Howard A. Simons Fund for Medical Research The Paul Robert Badre Bursary Fund The John Bryden Stevenson Fund BakeMark Canada Awards Fund Vancouver Humanitarian Fund (Start-up Fund) Charlotte Jane Banfield Legacy Fund (Legacy Fund) The VanDusen Foundation Ryan Barclay Memorial Fund Donald and Virginia Waldock Relief of Distressed Animals Fund Battersby Howat Endowment Fund Evelyn Webster Fund George and Donna Battye Fund The Welfare Fund for Children and Youth Josephine Baulne Henderson Fund Faye Wightman Fund The Robert and Susan Bauman Fund The Alan and Agnes Williamson Fund BB Wise Fund Women’s Fund BC Arts Renaissance Fund Dr. Lawrence and Mrs. Sally Wong Community Fund BC Camping Association Lorne Brown Campership Fund James W. Wright Fund (Start-up Fund) BC Water Sustainability Endowment Fund The John Wright Douglas Trust BCIC Aquaculture Program Fund The Roy and Bertha Wrigley Fund BCIC Entrepreneurship @ UBC Program The Olive Wyatt Trust Fund for Abused Children BCIC Graduate Student Scholarships Program ... and one anonymous fund. BCIC Innovation and Commercialization Strategic Development Program Fund BCIC Natural Resources and Applied Sciences We also express our gratitude to the Endowment Fund many community fundholders who Beacon Fund continue to put their faith in Roberta Lando Beiser Fund Vancouver Foundation’s deep community John Robert Belyea and Joan Elsie Belyea Scholarship and Bursary Fund knowledge and trusted reputation. Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation Fund Donor Advised Funds Beyrouti Family Charities Fund Joseph Beyrouti Memorial Fund Black Pearl Family Foundation 2004 Abbotsford Heat Foundation David Black and Maya Russell Fund (Start-up Fund) Aboriginal Leadership Initiative Fund Deborah Carswell Black Fund ACCESS Memorial Fund for Pinky Ryan Blank Canvas Fund Agape Catholic Charities Fund The Blenheim Trust Lydia Cerrano Albert Child Care Support Fund Blue Moon Fund

54 Ursula Botz Fund (Start-up Fund) The George T. and Myrtle W. Cunningham Fund Charles W. Brazier Fund Frank & Frances Darling Family Fund The Brenner Fund Lillian and Ross Davidson Fund Brimacombe Fund R.H. “Slim” and Margaret Davidson Memorial Awards Fund British Columbia Building Envelope Council Education Davis Family Fund (Legacy Fund) Foundation Fund – Cameron Harrison Memorial Award Gabe and Andi Davis Foundation British Columbia Building Envelope Council Education Jack Davis Scholarship Fund Foundation Fund – Tom Morstead Memorial Award Dawson Family Fund British Columbia Building Envelope Education Foundation Fund Joseph and Marion Delesalle Fund British Columbia Bursary for Students with Visual Impairments or Blindness (BCBSVIB) Champa and Dhiru Desai Family Fund British Columbia Parks Fund Deverall Family Fund (Legacy Fund) British Columbia Parks Permanent Fund Disability Supports for Employment Fund Barry Brookes Fund (Transferable Fund) Ken Dobell Public Service Education Fund Neil E. Brown Family Foundation Alanna Donahue Fund (Start-up Fund) Jill Buchanan Education Fund Gladys H. Dunn Fund The Thomas and Dorothy Burgess Fund Emergency Medical Assistants Education Fund Ruth Byman Memorial Fund Endangered Ecosystems Fund C H C Endowment Fund, Vancouver Endowment Fund for the Promotion of B.C. History Colin Campbell Award Fund (Start-up Fund) Edna Mei Eng Fund Canada Tibet Committee Fund Arthur Erickson Foundation for Excellence in Architecture Canadian Chapter of International Society for Business Bruce Eriksen Memorial Fund Educators Fund Fairway Fund (Legacy Fund) The Canadian Clubs of British Columbia Fund Fairweather Fund Canadian Learning Disability Legacy Fund Family Independence Fund Catherine M. Carmack Memorial Cello Scholarship Fund Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Endowment Fund Carmichael Foundation Maurice A. and Anne Favell Mesothelioma Research Fund Carnahan Educational Fund Alan John Ferguson Fund The M & H Carpenter Fund Financial Executives Institute Vancouver Scholarship Fund Cassils Family Foundation Charles and Lucile Flavelle Family Fund Robert B. Caton Scholarship Fund The Andrew Baker Fleck Foundation Judy Cavanagh Fund Flowerdew Family Endowment Fund (Start-up Fund) Centre for Child Honouring Fund (Start-up Fund) Harold Scanlon Foley Junior Memorial Fund Tung and Shirley Chan “Ji Shen” Fund Susan and Barrie Forbes Family Foundation (Legacy Fund) John Ka Kin Cheung Memorial Scholarship Fund Forward Family Fund Mary M. and Lincoln Chew Fund Isabel Loucks Foster Public Health Scholarship Fund Children and Youth with Special Needs Supports Fund Alain Fournier Memorial Fund Children’s Mental Health Fund Freyvogel-Preiswerck Fund Chilvers Family Fund Friends of Tupper Fund Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Memorial Fund Fritz Ziegler Fund Cliff-Marcel Trust Fund Yuri Fulmer Community Fund Cody’s Fund G & G Fund Commissionaires BC Charlie Brown Memorial Bursary Fund Jack Gin Family Foundation Concord Pacific Harmony Trust Endowment Fund Jack Gin Family Foundation (Paydown Fund) Concord Pacific Harmony Trust Fund Giving Well ConeTec Education Foundation Cliff & Pat Glen Fund Murray and Peter Corren Foundation Gordon Fund for Children Crescendo Fund Gracie Waddell Fund

55 Graham Family Fund (Legacy Fund) Jags Fund #2 The Helen Graham Canada Prize Fund Jags Fund #3 (Masi Youth Project) Brian Grant Scholarship Fund Saralee James Memorial Award Fund The Brian D. Graves Fund JAMMCO Family Fund The Grayross Foundation Elsie and Audrey Jang Fund Howard C. Green Memorial Fund Monty and Kay Jang and Family Fund The Greene Family Education Initiative Fund JBH Fund Donald Greenwell Foundation Fund Harry Jerome Scholarship Fund Greygates Foundation JFH Faith Fund Charles Douglas Grieve Fund Ting Ting Jiang Memorial Fund Linda & Paul Gronert Legacy Fund (Legacy Fund) Dave Johnson Memorial Endowment Fund Jennifer Gudewill Fund Joan Johnston Memorial Fund Liz Haan Fund Shirley & James Johnston Fund (Legacy Fund) Bob and Judy Hager Family Fund Junior League of Greater Vancouver Foundation John & Cecilia Hall Fund (Legacy Fund) Junior League of Greater Vancouver Legacy Fund Hamilton Family Fund Walter Kalyn Fund The William D. and Eleanor Gerrie Hamilton Fund The Kanya Student Aid Trust Fund for St. George’s, Hansen Family Foundation Shawnigan Lake Schools and Brentwood College The Hardwick Family Fund KCS Fund (Start-up Fund) Hardy Scholarship Fund Frances Keen, Noreen M. and C.C. (Mickey) Halleran Memorial Scholarship Fund (or Keen Halleran Fund) Harmelina Fund Art Kelm & Mary Lewis Endowment Fund (Legacy Fund) Eric Hatlelid Memorial Fund Kelt Family Fund HeadCase Foundation Linda Kendall Fund (Legacy Fund) Peter H. Hebb Fund Charles Chan Kent Golden Wedding Fund The Edwina and Paul Heller Fund Marilyn Kerfoot Fund Heritage Legacy Fund of British Columbia Jake and Judy Kerr Foundation Fund Hibler/Lamoureux Fund Pete Ketcham Memorial Scholarship Fund Hill Family Foundation 2011 The Cy and Emerald Keyes Fund Sydney F. Hillis Fund Judy & Bill Killam Fund Maria Mimie Ho Foundation The Klebang Fund Matt & Janet Hoffar Foundation Jake Koch Fund (Legacy Fund) The Madge Hogarth Foundation Kogawa-Nakayama Fund Hollyhock Endowment Fund Harry and Henrietta Kostman Family Fund Honos Foundation Scott Kruse Foundation (Legacy Fund) Irene and Julian Hoogstra Fund The DD Kugler Contemporary Arts Fund (Legacy Fund) Howe Family Foundation Labour Market Partnership David Huang Memorial Scholarship Fund Dr. Akbar and Shamin Lalani Fund Jonathan Hungerford Trek Fund Lambda Alpha International Vancouver Chapter Fund Beatrice and David Hunter Endowment Fund Frank and Eleanor Lane Memorial Fund Claire Huxtable and Colin L. Campbell Foundation for Forestry M.R. Lang Fund for Young Families Catherine and Richard Hyland Wildlife and Domestic Animal Fund (Start-up Fund) The Doreen Lawson Burnaby Lake Memorial Fund Brenna Innes Memorial Scholarship Fund Doretta Lee Memorial Fund Barry Inouye Fund James Lee Foundation International Foundation of Learning Legacy Fund Liber Ero Foundation Ann & Sam Isaacs Fund Lightburn 4 Pillars Fund Jags Fund Grace Lim Family Foundation

56 Living Rivers Trust Fund Mount Pleasant Area Endowment Fund Emily Longworth Flow Through Fund Mount Pleasant Legion/Col. C.C.I. Merritt, Emily Longworth New Teachers’ Creative Activities Fund VC Memorial Scholarship The Lord Strathcona Fund Mount Robson Provincial Park World Heritage Endowment Fund Keith Lord Sport Foundation Fund Mountain Enterprise Ltd. Penticton & District Building Fund Patricia Anne Lyon Memorial Fund Mountain Equipment Co-op Annual Fund Elmer MacDonald Memorial Fund Carole and David Muller Family Fund The M. Gail MacDonald Memorial Fund Irma Muntanion Fund (Start-up Fund) MacDonald-Merritt Fund for Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School Floyd and Gloria Murphy Charitable Fund Gordon and Barbara MacDougall Fund Elizabeth Breeze Murray Endowment Fund The Anne Fergus MacKay Groundwater and Muriel Ross Robert MCGregor Murray Fund (Legacy Fund) Groundwater Educational Fund Myers-Smith Family Fund (Legacy Fund) The Karen Magnussen Foundation Joanne and Neil Naiman Fund (Legacy Fund) The Majorki Fund for Kids Jack Neil Memorial Fund Majormaki Foundation Nitikman Fund The Ian F. Manning Memorial Fund North Peace Savings & Credit Union Endowment Fund Mannion Fund Odlum Fund Denise Mara Foundation The O’Keefe Foundation Kenneth Broadway and Ralph Markham Fund (Legacy Fund) Oliver Fund Chris Markoff Memorial Fund Aidan Oloman Fund Brad Martin and Family Charitable Foundation Orcutt Family Fund Audrey Mason Fund (Legacy Fund) C. Paul Osmanski Fund Kurt and Else Maurer Fund Pacific Canada Legacies Foundation Alexis Mazurin Memorial Fund Pacific Foundation for Understanding Nature Society Fund The Ritchie W. McCloy Award Fund Panago Scholarship Fund The John Haley McDonald and Janice Mary McDonald Fund Paper Dolls Fund McEwen Family Fund (Paydown Fund) Parker Family Foundation McGill Family Fund The Dr. Donald Paterson Foundation McGrane - Pearson Endowment Fund Lorne Patterson Scholarship Memorial Fund Joan & Philip McLeod Fund (Legacy Fund) Patty’s Ladybug Cancer Fund John and Peggy McLernon Fund (Start-up Fund) Pavri Family Fund (Legacy Fund) MEC Endowment Fund for the Environment Peace Pilgrim II Memorial Fund for Teaching Edward J. Meilicke Fund Peaceful Behaviours Mellquist Family Fund Peace Pilgrim II Memorial Fund for Teaching Peaceful Behaviours Michalson Foundation Marion Pearson and Jim Orr Fund Middleton Family Fund The Pender Fund Harue and Torasu Mimoto Fund George Pensom Bursary Fund Mirhady Family Fund Richard and Ruth Percy Fund (Start-up Fund) Moore Family Endowment Fund Performing Arts Recognition Fund D.L. ‘Buzz’ Moore and David M. Frid Bursary Fund Dick and Leona Peter Graduate Student Dwight Moore and Rosamond Eben Moore CVWMA Residential Bursary Fund Wetland Sciences Scholarship Fund Phi Kappa Pi Fund Greg Moore Foundation Conrad & Dorli Pinette Fund The Bill and Elsie More Indian Bursary Fund Pirie Family Fund Susan More Fund (Legacy Fund) Pisapio Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Motamedi Pfeifer Fund The Helen Pitt Fund for Fine Arts Mount Benson Elementary School PAC Legacy Fund

57 Josh Platzer Memorial Fund – The Ford and Bea Smith Memorial Fund Teen Suicide Awareness and Prevention Smith-Sigurdson Fund (Start-up Fund) The Point Grey Class of 75 Foundation Dr. Charles Snelling Bursary and Captain Alex Blake Memorial Pollock Family Philanthropic Fund (Start-up Fund) Bursary Fund Public Health Bursaries of the Associated Boards of Health of BC The SPCA Vancouver Hospital Trust Fund Quan Family Fund Spectra Energy Fund – Rainbow Fund Canada Education/Innovation /Research Sunset Fund Kaija and Erkki Rautiainen Fund Spectra Energy Fund – Canada Education/Innovation/ Research Permanent Fund Realtors Care Charitable Fund Spectra Energy Transmission (SET – Canada): Red Hibiscus Foundation Regular and Volunteer Grant Programs Fund The Flora Mary (Dougan) Reddyhoff Memorial Bursary Fund Spencer McBride Memorial Fund Barry Reed Fund Spike’s Fund Registered Disability Support Plan Fund STAND Foundation (RDSP - Endowment 150) Starbucks Canada Charitable Fund Knox Reid Memorial Trust Bobbie Steen Legacy Foundation Resilient Capital Fund Judith A. Stein First Nations Wellbeing Trust Fund (Start-up) Dal Richards Foundation Stewart Fund Christopher, Alison, Kirkpatrick and Matthew Richardson Fund Strat Fund The Rix Family Fund Strathcona Alumni Fund Jeannie Robertson Memorial Scholarship Fund The Seanna and Nicole Strongman Memorial Fund James H.G. Roche Memorial Fund Alexander T. Stusiak Community Service Award Fund The Ernest Theodore Rogers 1939 Fund Superior Tofu Community Fund Rolston-Mollard Endowment Fund Sustainability Project Award Fund John Rose Memorial Bursary Fund Synergy Fund Julia Rose Fund (Start-up Fund) Tanabe/Thorne Fund Marian Rowat Memorial Fund Tatshenshini-Alsek Foundation Society Fund (Start-up Fund) RPC Family Foundation Breton Thomas Memorial Fund Run for One Planet Legacy Fund The Norman G. Thompson Memorial Bursary Fund Paul & Dorothy Ryan Fund William Thompson C.F. Lung Transplant Memorial Fund Sadler Jackman Family Foundation (Start-up Fund) Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Fund (2006) The Sa-Hali Fund Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Fund (2010) Sam-I-am Fund Jack and Mary Topolewski Fund Sandpiper Foundation Towler Fund SAP Vancouver Fund Triple EFF Fund SAP Vancouver Fund #2 Tula Community Fund Sawers Family Fund Chris Turner Memorial Fund Wilf and Peggy Schofield Memorial Fund UNBC Wilp Wilxo’oskwhl Nisga’a Endowment Fund Seaview Fund University of British Columbia (UBC) Botanical Garden The Second Generation Fund Endowment Fund Berta and Arun Sen Fund (Legacy Fund) Garry & Mary Vallance and Patricia Strang Fund Shalom Branch Veterans Community Service Endowment Fund Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation Ken & Kim Shannon Foundation The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Trust Shaun G Foundation Carl Vanderspek Fund Lori Sheppard Memorial Fund W.J. VanDusen Forestry Fund Shiff Family Vancouver Fund The Syd Vernon Fund for the Disabled Jenny Sigurdson Alumni Scholarship Joseph Victor and Luann Neratini Legacy Fund Small Potatoes Fund The Vinten Fund

58 Elisabetta Marani Tassinari Visscher Foundation Kathleen Winnifred Bradshaw Foundation (Start-up Fund) The Douglas McK. Brown Chair of Law Endowment Fund Rolf Wagner Memorial Bursary Fund The Frank C. Brown Memorial Fund The Walden Family Fund The Ernest E. Buckerfield Fund Isaac and Sophie Waldman Endowment Fund The Francis J. Burd Fund Kenneth and Joyce Walley Family Fund Burhenne Scholar in Abdominal Radiology Daniel M. Walsh Asylum/Torture Protection Fund Alicia Burns Bequest Fund Aukea Rienks Walters Fund (Legacy Fund) Alexandra Mary Burwell Memorial Fund David M. Walton Foundation for Youth Cartwright Gallery Foundation Professor Madanlal T. Wasan Family Fund Cedar Lodge Endowment Fund Cecil White Scholarship Fund The Central City Mission Fund Whittall Family Fund Rene Charbin Fund The Marilyn Williams St. Thomas Aquinas High School Child Abuse Research & Education Endowment Fund Memorial Scholarship Fund Chrisholme Madsen Endowment Fund June Philippa Wilson Fund (Legacy Fund) The CKNW Orphans’ Fund Tessa Wilson Fund (Legacy Fund) Chair of Immunology Endowment Fund Tony & Stojna Wind Family Foundation Jack Coblenz Memorial Fund Windsor Plywood Foundation Ruth Isabel Colbourne Fund Lyn and Jim Wisnia Fund (Start-up Fund) Collingwood Amenities Endowment Fund Dr. Shirley M. Wong Foundation Samuel and June Comber Fund James William Wood Endowment Fund The Cooper Fund for Chamber Music G. John C. Woodward Memorial Foundation The Fitzalan V. and Mabel G. Cornwall Endowment Fund Shauna and Kevin Woolliams Family Fund (Start-up Fund) The John and Doris Corrigan Fund for Workplace-Family Wellness Community Fund Visually Impaired Young Persons Workplace-Family Wellness Research Fund Vivien Miller Coster and Arthur Coster Memorial Fund Yosef Wosk Libraries, Museums and Archives Fund The David Diamond Memorial Fund Jan and Blanche Ydenberg Fund Frederick H. Dietrich Memorial Fund Carmelle Yelle Palliative Care Fund George and Jean Donbrovo Fund K.W. and Betty Yue Fund The Laura and J. Willox Duncan Fund Wim Zylmans Agriculture Memorial Fund Clair G. Dunham and Helen L. Dunham Fund … and 14 anonymous funds George R. and Augusta F. Dunn Fund Gordon H. Dunn Fund Designated Funds Economic Independence for Women Through the YWCA Fund Agnes Dunceeth Evans (“Rosalie”) Memorial Fund Aircrew Association, Greater Vancouver Branch Mya Domeij Evenden Memorial Fund Scholarship Fund Dr. and Mrs. Victor Fenyo Fund The Clara and Amondes Anderson Fund The Guy Flavelle Memorial Fund Archibald P. Glen – U.B.C. Scholarship and Bursary Fund Louise Fletcher Memorial Fund The Auxiliary to the Vancouver General Hospital Edna Leckie Fraser Memorial Fund B.C. Disaster Relief Fund Ingrid Frederickson Memorial Fund B.C. Hydro Commonwealth Legacy Fund The Reg Fry Endowment Fund B.Y. Nakano Fund Fyfe-Smith Fund for the Vancouver SPCA David M. Bachop Award Fund Bernice and Robert Gilbert Fund Bergquist Family Memorial Fund Gordon Wagner St. Andrew’s Cemetery Foundation The Geraldine Biely Endowment Fund Penny Gorham Memorial Scholarship and Bursary Fund The Herman Bischoff Foundation Carson Graham Basketball Fund The Bishop’s Foundation – Diocese of New Westminster The Ruby Rachel Graham Fund Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Greater Vancouver Bursary Fund

59 Anna Ruthven Greig Fund S.K. Lee (Grace Vancouver Reformed Presbyterian Society) Douglas Haig Gross Memorial Fund Endowment Fund John Grot Memorial Fund S.K. Lee (Vancouver Academy of Music/S.K. Lee College) Endowment Fund No. 2 George Halpern Fund S.K. Lee Academy (C.C.C.) Endowment Fund The Carl and Elsie Halterman Research Fund S.K. Lee Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Fund The Carl and Elsie Halterman Scholarship and Bursary Fund Harold W. Lefever Fund The Dal Hawkshaw Fund for Vancouver Rowing Club – Centennial 1986 The Elda Lindenfeld Memorial Fund Amy Dundas Head Memorial Fund Margaret Stevenson Loch Memorial Fund Florence and Hedley Hipwell Fund Catherine Yunion Long Fund The Margaret J. Hoare Fund Lygo Scholarship Fund The Dr. J.D. Hobden Scholarship Fund DJ & JM Macaulay Fund The Madge Hogarth Fund James and Ina Mackay and Family and Agnes Mackay Groundwater Publicover Fund Bob and Molly Hole Fund Jean Leitch Mackay and Agnes Mackay Hope Family Memorial Fund Groundwater Publicover Fund The Donna Hossack Fund The Leon C. and Helen Macken Fund The John E. and Louise Howson Fund Jessie Main Fund William L. Hurford Memorial Trust Fund Eleanor and H. Richardson Malkin Fund William E. and Marion (Thelma) Ingledew Fund Lydia Dorothea Minaty Memorial Fund International Foundation for the Arts Endowment Fund Marshall-Stevenson Wildlife Sanctuary Fund Firoozeh Shahryar Iranshad Memorial Fund Donald Matheson and Audrey Matheson Fund Jambor Family Fund Mathews Family Fund Stanley and Hilda James I.O.D.E. Fund Louise McGregor Charitable Fund Elsie and Audrey Jang – Langara College, Studio 58 Theatre Ellen Ethel McHattie Memorial Bursary Fund Arts Endowment Fund The Senator & Mrs. S.S. McKeen Memorial Fund Robert E. Jefferson Memorial Fund Evelyn de Rostaing McMann Fund Svend Jakob Jensen Memorial Fund McPhedran-Schlotzhauer Memorial Fund Harry W. Jerome Commemorative Society Fund Hugo E. Meilicke Fund Nellie and Bernard Johnson & Son, Edwin Johnson Memorial Fund The Cecil Merritt and James and Frances Bathurst Fund Marie Elizabeth and Adolphe William Pal Jones Fund Muriel Mildenberger Fund Brad Joseph Fund The Reg G. Miller Memorial Fund Janusz and Zofia Kaller Memorial Fund Barry and Ruth Miller Memorial Fund G. Peter and Barbara E. Kaye Fund The Cornelius Leonard Mitchell Scholarship Fund George P. Kelly Memorial Fund The Wilma Mitchell Memorial Fund Robert Kenny Fund Ted and Mae Monkhouse Trust Myrtle Lorena Kievell Memorial Fund Dorothiruth Meilicke Moore Scholarship Fund Betty Kinnear Memorial Trust Fund The Bill Morgan Memorial Trust Klemanski Endowment Fund Marion L. Morgan Fund Dr. Kirk Finlayson Koerner Memorial Fund The George E. Morrison Fund Kwantlen Faculty Association Fund Anne Louise Mundell Memorial Fund The Bernard and Kathleen Lazarus Fund Native Brotherhood of B.C. Jubilee Scholarship Fund Donal Rowan Lazier and Phyllis Audrey Lazier Fund Judith Neild Memorial Fund for Queen Margaret’s School Scholarship and Bursary Endowment Leadership Vancouver Endowment Fund Nelson and District Hospice Society Endowment Fund Elizabeth Evelyn Ledingham Fund The George W. & Mary E. O’Brien Fund S.K. Lee (B.C. Chinese Music Association) Endowment Fund The Walter S. Owen Chair of Law Endowment Fund S.K. Lee (Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden) Endowment Fund Walter S. Owen Fund

60 PACE Bursary Trust Fund The Edith Tweedie Memorial Fund Pacific Christian School Foundation Endowment Fund The Sarah Tweedie Memorial Fund Georgette and Walter Paltins Family Fund Unit Association 12 (Vancouver) Medical Company Dr. Donald Paterson Memorial Fund Museum Fund The Rachel Paul Memorial Endowment Fund The Vancouver Council of B’nai B’rith Men and Women Endowment Fund Jamshed K. Pavri Memorial Fund Vancouver Opera Association Endowment Fund Peggy and Howard Naphtali Family Memorial Fund Isaac and Sophie Waldman Israel Student Fund The Ross and Agnes Pendleton Fund Isaac and Sophie Waldman Jewish Library Estate Fund Penticton Skaha Rotary Endowment Fund Isaac and Sophie Waldman Jewish Library Fund Pieters-Horstman Foundation Ethel May Wellburn Memorial Fund Charles H. Pitt Fund The Edgar B. Westby Fund The Thelma and Stafford Plant Trust Fund J.D. Wilson Charitable Trust Ralston Family Fund C.N. Woodward Chair of Surgery H. Keith and Edith M. Ralston Fund David R. Wright & Bessie D. Wright B.C. The Real Estate Institute of British Columbia U.B.C. Fund “A” S.P.C.A Building Fund Wendy & Leslie Rebanks Fund Hua Xia – B.C. Chinese Music Association Fund Ellinor Richards and Hazel Richards Loane Fund York House School Founders Scholarship Fund Dr. Raymond, Violette and Auguste Rochat Family Fund Mel Jr. and Marty Zajac Memorial Fund The Edward W. and Dorothy Rogers Fund The William E. and Emily Ross Fund Agency Endowment Funds J.B. Russell Fund S S Master Society Endowment Fund 2020 Fund The Phyllis Evelyn Salter Foundation The 411 Vancouver Foundation Fund The Salvation Army Fund A.E.S. Autism Education Society Endowment Fund Sandel Fund A.S.T.C. Science World Society Endowment Fund The Dr. and Mrs. Samu Schaffer Memorial Fund Aaron Sluggett Memorial Scholarship Fund Mr. and Mrs. Pon Paul Schuloung (C.C.C.) Endowment Fund Abbeyfield British Columbia Trust Fund Scholarship Fund of the Alumni of the Royal Conservatory of Abbotsford Community Services Society Endowment Fund Toronto, Vancouver Chapter Bernie Agg Scholarship Fund Security Fund AIDS Vancouver Endowment Fund The Percy Shallcross Fund for Youth Training Alano Club of Vancouver Endowment Fund Shalom Branch #178 The Royal Canadian Legion Endowment Fund Alberni Valley Community Foundation Endowment Fund Henry K. Shindler Memorial Fund Alcuin Fund Dr. Frank A. and Iris J. Smith Fund Alexandra Foundation Fund The Hannah Woodnutt Smith Memorial Fund ALS Society of British Columbia Endowment Fund Michael Smith Fund Alzheimer Society of B.C. Endowment Fund Clarence L. Sorensen Trust The Anglican Provincial Synod of British Columbia Centennial Church Extension Fund St. Andrew’s - Wesley Church Endowment Fund The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia Fund St. Christopher’s School Society Endowment Fund Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Foundation Endowment Fund St. Saviour’s Anglican Church Garden Fund Artaban Jubilee Endowment Fund The Albert B. and Mary Steiner Fund Arthritis Society Endowment Fund Joan Milne Stewart Fund The Arts Club of Vancouver Endowment Fund Supporting Burnaby Youth Fund Artspring Fund The George Tanco Fund The ArtStarts in Schools Endowment Fund TELUS Employees’ Community Fund Endowment Fund Assembly of British Columbia Arts Councils Legacy Fund The Tri-University’s Paul and Helen Trussell Science Student Endowment Fund Association of Neighbourhood Houses Fund

61 Axis Mime Theatre Society Endowment Fund British Columbia Aviation Council Scholarship and Bursary B.C. Centennial Trail Foundation Endowment Fund B.C. Farm Machinery and British Columbia Canada World Youth Endowment Fund Agricultural Museum Association Fund The British Columbia Cancer Foundation Endowment Fund B.C. Golf House Society Endowment Fund British Columbia Civil Liberties Association Endowment Fund B.C. Housing Foundation Senior Citizens Housing Fund British Columbia Epilepsy Society Endowment Fund B.C. Institute of Technology Student Aid Endowment Fund British Columbia Forest Heritage Memorial Endowment Fund B.C. Libraries Endowment Trust British Columbia Girl Guide Fund B.C. Schizophrenia Society Endowment Fund British Columbia Lacrosse Association B.C. Special Olympics Fund Jack Crosby Endowment Fund B.C. Women’s Hospital and Health Centre Foundation British Columbia Lung Association – Endowment Fund Jack Patrick & Lois Shirley O’Regan Fund B.C.S.P.C.A. Endowment Fund for Small Communities British Columbia Museums Association Endowment Fund Ballet British Columbia Endowment Fund British Columbia Pipers’ Association Endowment Fund Bamfield Marine Station Scholarship Endowment Fund The British Columbia Regiment (D.C.O.) Endowment Fund Ian A. Barclay Chronic Pain Relief Fund The British Columbia Ridley Scholarship Endowment Fund Bard on the Beach Endowment Fund British Columbia Rugby Union Legacy Fund Bill Batchelor Continuation Flying Award Fund British Columbia Search and Rescue Association Fund Battered Women’s Support Services Endowment Fund The British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame & Museum Foundation Fund BC Book Prize Fund The Brock House Society Trust Fund BC Council for Families Endowment Fund Irene Brown Fund BC Family Resource Programs Endowment Fund The Stephen Brown Memorial Fund BC Hospice Palliative Care Association Fund Bulkley Valley Fund BC Lacrosse Bill McBain Endowment (Start-up Fund) Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion BC Land Trust Alliance Fund (Start-up Fund) Endowment Fund BC Leadership Chair in Spinal Cord Research Fund Burnaby Firefighters Charitable Society Endowment Fund BC Museum of Mining Endowment Fund Brian and Isabel Byrnes Fund BC Naturalists’ Foundation Endowment Fund Camosun College Foundation Endowment Fund BC Rehabilitation Foundation Fund Camp Fircom Society Endowment Fund BC Special Olympics Foundation Campbell River Community Foundation Endowment Fund Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver Endowment Fund Canada World Youth National Endowment Fund Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland Endowment Fund, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – B.C.-Yukon Chapter Founded by Peter and Joanne Brown Endowment Fund Guy Bordeleau Commemorative Fund Canadian Forestry Association of British Columbia Bowen Island Community Foundation – Bowen Island Conservation Fund Community Hall and Arts Centre Endowment Fund Canadian Mental Health Association, B.C. Division Fund Bowen Island Community Foundation Fund Canadian Music Centre British Columbia Region Fund Bowen Island Community Foundation/Bowen Island The Canadian Red Cross Society, British Columbia-Yukon Golf Association Junior Scholarship Fund Division Fund The Boy Scouts Development Fund Canadian Society of Intestinal Research Endowment Fund The Boy Scouts Fund Canuck Place Children’s Hospice Foundation Endowment Fund The Boy Scouts of Canada (Burnaby Region) Endowment Fund Capilano University Educational Enhancement Fund The Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Greater Vancouver Foundation Carey Hall Endowment Fund Endowment Fund The Cariboo Endowment Fund Britannia Community Services Centre Endowment Fund Cariboo Foundation Endowment Fund Britannia Secondary School Scholarship Fund Carousel Theatre Society Endowment Fund The British Columbia Amateur Sports Council Fund The Emily Carr College of Art and Design Foundation British Columbia and Yukon Scout Fund Endowment Fund

62 CCB Reserve Cowichan Community Land Trust Environment Protection Fund CCBC Awards Fund The Cowichan Symphony Society Endowment Fund Centre for North American Business Studies Endowment Fund Craft Council of British Columbia Fund The Chartered Accountants’ Education Foundation of B.C. Cranbrook & District Community Foundation Endowment Fund Environmental Endowment Fund Chemainus Theatre Foundation Endowment Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation Endowment The Cherniavsky Junior Club Fund Fund for Kimberly Cranbrook 2008 Winter Games Fund for Arts and Culture Children’s Arts Umbrella Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation Endowment The Children’s Festival Fund Fund for Kimberly Cranbrook 2008 Winter Games The Children’s Hospital Foundation Capital Fund Fund for Sports The Children’s Hospital Foundation Income Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation Operational Endowment Fund Children’s Neurosurgery Endowment Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation/ Chilliwack Family YMCA Endowment Fund Casey and Corrine Hanemayer Fund Chinese Cultural Centre of Vancouver Endowment Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation/ Tom Chong Memorial Fund for Children’s Hospital Research Casey and Corrine Hanemayer Health Fund Chor Leoni Diane Loomer Commissioning Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation/ Casey and Corrine Hanemayer – Chor Leoni Men’s Choir Endowment Fund Symphony of the Kootenays Fund Christ Church Cathedral Endowment Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation/ Christian International Leaders Foundation Endowment Fund Children First Fund CirKids School of Circus Arts Society Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation/ CISV Canada Fund Friends of Fort Steele Society Endowment Fund CMHA – BC Division Reserve Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation/General Endowment Fund CNIB, B.C. – Yukon Division, Endowment Fund Cranbrook and District Community Foundation/ Coaches Association of British Columbia Fund Joyce Metcalfe Memorial Fund Dr. C.J. Coady Memorial Fund Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area Endowment Fund Coast Foundation Endowment Fund Creston-Kootenay Foundation Consolidated Fund College of the Rockies Endowment Fund Creston-Kootenay Foundation Fund Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society Endowment Fund CSAA Endowment Fund Collingwood School Scholarship Fund Maggie Cumming Community Legacy Fund Columbia Valley Community Foundation Fund Curling for Life Endowment Fund Columbia Valley Community Foundation Retractable Fund Dance Foundation Endowment Fund Community Arts Council of Richmond Endowment Fund Dean of Commerce Fund Community Arts Council of the Alberni Valley Endowment Fund Deltassist Community Services Endowment Fund Community Arts Council of Vancouver Endowment Fund Denman Conservancy Association Endowment Fund Community Arts Endowment Fund Department of Radiology “Florence Gahr” Academic Fund Community Arts Program Fund Yvette Dieringer Fund for the South Granville Seniors Centre Community Foundation of the North Okanagan The Diocese of Caledonia Ministry Fund Endowment Fund The Diocese of Caledonia Missions to Seamen Fund Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Fund Disabled Skiers Association of British Columbia Community Foundation of Whistler Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Comox Valley Community Foundation Endowment Fund Douglas College Foundation Fund Comox Valley Music Society/CYMC Endowment Fund Douglas College Student Trust Contemporary Art Gallery Endowment Fund Drance Family Early Music Vancouver Fund Covenant House Vancouver Choice Fund Stephen Drance Festival Endowment Fund Covenant House Vancouver Immediacy Fund (MusicFest; Music Fest) Covenant House Vancouver Sanctuary Fund Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, B.C. and Yukon Division, Endowment Fund Covenant House Vancouver Structure Fund

63 Early Music Vancouver Endowment Fund Health & Home Care Society of BC Fund East Kootenay Foundation for Health / Hanemayer Endowment Health Arts Endowment Fund Matthew Elder Memorial Scholarship Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Endowment Fund (Formerly British Columbia Heart Foundation Dr. G.R.F. Elliot Fellowship in Community Health Endowment Fund) Endowment Fund Kitty Heller Youth Art Fund Edward Mackenzie Elliott Scholarship Fund Maria Hettinger Memorial Awards Fund Endowment Fund for the Education of Dyslexic Children Don Hill Education Endowment Fund En’owkin TLC Land Securement Fund Hornby Island Arts Council Endowment Fund Eric Hamber Secondary School Scholarship Fund Diana Hsu Memorial Endowment Fund Evans Lake Forest Education Society Heritage Fund The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Faculty of Medicine Endowment Fund Criminal Justice Policy Fund Fairbridge Alumni Bursary Fund Italian Cultural Centre Society Endowment Fund The Family and Children’s Foundation of British Columbia Jewish Family Services Endowment Fund Family Services of the North Shore Endowment Fund Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia Endowment Fund Family Services of the North Shore Foundation Investment Fund Junior Achievement of British Columbia Foundation Christine Faminoff Fund Endowment Fund Field Hockey BC Judy Broom Foundation Kaleidoscope Theatre Endowment Fund Firehall Theatre Society Endowment Fund Kamloops Foundation Endowment Fund Flagel-Duzita Legacy Endowment Fund for Canuck Place G. Peter Kaye Lectures Endowment Fund Children’s Hospice Keats Camps Endowment Fund Franklin Community School Endowment Fund Kent-Harrison Foundation Endowment Fund Fraser Academy Endowment Fund John C. Kerr Chancellor’s Awards Fund / Fraser Institute Foundation Fund Emily Carr University of Art & Design Fund Lorne Fraser Educational Fund The Kettle Friendship Society Endowment Fund Friends of Chamber Music Endowment Fund Kimberley & District Community Foundation Fund The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver Kimberley Winter Games Legacy Fund Endowment Fund Kitsilano Commemorative Cavalcade Fund Galiano Conservancy Association Endowment Kitsilano Secondary School Alumni Scholarship Fund Georgia Strait Alliance Endowment Fund Kitsilano Secondary School Bob Umemura Memorial Geriatric Medicine Endowment Fund Scholarship Fund Gibson Family Memorial Scholarship Kitsilano Secondary School Fiat Lux Scholarship Fund Gizeh Temple Shrine Chair of Orthopedics Fund Kitsilano Secondary School General Scholarship Fund Glenfir School Scholarship Fund Kitsilano Secondary School Specified Scholarships Fund Glenlyon-Norfolk School Endowment Fund Kiwassa Community Fund Golden & District Community Foundation Fund Knights of Pythias Crescent Lodge #33 Endowment Fund Grace Family Network Foundation Rebecca Chan (aka The KP Endowment Fund) Endowment Fund Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital and Health Foundation The Grant Strate Endowment Fund Legacy Fund Green Thumb Theatre for Young People Endowment Fund Kootenay Columbia Community Living Retractable Endowment Fund Hilda Gregory Bursary Fund Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society Fund Frank and Emily Griffiths Endowment Fund for Planned Giving at the United Way of the Lower Mainland Kootenay Society for Community Living Endowment Fund grunt gallery Legacy Fund Kwantlen University Foundation Endowment Fund Gymnastics BC Endowment Fund Joyce Lam/Novartis Arthritis Patient Care Endowment Fund H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Endowment Fund Langara College Foundation Scholarship and Bursary Fund Hard of Hearing/Late-Deafened Endowment Fund Langley Arts Council Endowment Fund Harry deSwager Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Langley Children’s Society Endowment Fund Bursary Fund Langley Community Music School Fund Hastings Institute Endowment Fund

64 Langley Community Music School Permanent Scholarship and The Missions to Seafarers in the Diocese of New Westminster Bursary Fund Endowment Fund Langley Community Services Society Fund The Missions to Seafarers in the Diocese of New Westminster Langley Lodge Endowment Fund Heritage Endowment Fund Langley School District Foundation Fund Morice Legacy Fund Langley School District Foundation Scholarship Fund MOSAIC Foundation Fund Latta Estate Camperships and General Assistance Fund Bill Motek Memorial Fund The Laurier Fund Mother and Child Health Foundation Endowment Fund LCMS Operating Endowment Fund MS Society of Canada – Donald A. and Barbara J. Copan and Helen (Nellie) Thomson Endowment Fund Robert J. Lecky Memorial Fund Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, B.C. Division Endowment Alma Lee Legacy Fund Fund S.K. Lee (B.C. Chinese Music Association) Endowment Fund P. Dermot Murphy Annual Real Estate Event Endowment Fund No. 2 Music in the Morning Fund S.K. Lee Academy (C.C.C.) Endowment Fund #2 Nakusp and Area Community Foundation Fund Legal Services Society Endowment Fund The Naramata Fund for Christian Lay Leadership Ray Lepp Scholarship Fund National Nikkei Heritage Centre Society – Nikkei Place Carol E. Levy Memorial Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Maria Lewis Choreographic Fund National Theatre School of Canada Fund LGMA Distinguished Members Legacy Fund The Nature Trust of British Columbia Fund LGMA Grant Anderson Commemorative Scholarship Fund Nautical Professional Education Society of Canada Fund Lions Gate Hospice/Palliative Care Fund NEC Native Education College Scholarships and Bursaries Fund Living Systems: Family Systems Counselling, Education, Alvin S. Nemetz Festival Vancouver Endowment Fund Training and Research Society Endowment Fund (MusicFest; Music Fest) Lord Byng Secondary School Fund The New Caledonia Student Aid Endowment Lower Fraser Valley Cerebral Palsy Association Endowment New Westminster Foundation Endowment Fund Fund New Westminster Public Library Endowment Fund Irene MacDonald Memorial Fund New Westminster Public Library Esther Paulson Staff Magee All-Grads Matching Endowment Fund (Start-up Fund) Development Fund Magee Secondary School Alumni Scholarship Fund North Island College Endowment Fund Magee Secondary School Bursary Fund North Shore Community Foundation Fund Magee Secondary School Gwen Chiu Memorial Music North Shore Health Research Fund Scholarship Fund North Shore Schizophrenia Society Endowment Fund Magee Secondary School Huckell Family Scholarship Fund North Thompson Communities Foundation Fund Magee Secondary School Music Scholarship Fund Northern Lights College Foundation Endowment Fund Magee Secondary School Orion Lee Memorial Scholarship Fund Northwest Community College Endowment Fund Magee Secondary School PAC Scholarship Fund Northwest Community College School of Exploration and Magee Secondary School Scholarships Endowment Fund Mining Endowment Fund Joyce O. Maguire Fund in Support of Youth Initiatives in Choral NTS Theatre and Community Engagement Fund Music Oakridge Seniors’ Society Endowment Fund Malaspina University-College Student Endowment Fund Okanagan University College Scholarship and Bursary The Maple Ridge Community Foundation Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Community Services Council ONE TO ONE Literacy Society Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Ophthalmology Fund Allan T. Markin Benevolent Fund Order of St. John Palliative Care Endowment Fund The Marpole Women’s Auxiliary Endowment Fund Osoyoos Museum Endowment Fund Masters Swimming Association of BC Endowment Fund Osprey Community Foundation Endowment Fund Michael Wayne McDonell Endowment Fund Osprey Community Foundation Endowment Fund #2 Kay Meek Centre Endowment Fund Outward Bound Perpetual Endowment Fund

65 Pacific Assistance Dogs Society Fund Prince Rupert Regional Community Foundation Fund Pacific Autism Centre Fund Queen Margaret’s School Scholarship and Pacific Baroque Orchestra Fund Bursary Endowment Fund Pacific Children’s Shelter Society Fund Quesnel Community Foundation Fund Pacific Coast Public Television Association Fund Reach Child and Youth Development Endowment Fund Pacific Immigrant Resources Society Endowment Fund The Rediscovery Trust Pacific Otolaryngology Foundation Endowment Fund Laura and Richard Rees Camperships Fund Pacific Parkinsons Research Fund Regent College Chinese Studies Program Endowment Fund Pacific Parkinsons Research Institute Endowment (B) Regent College Fund The Pacific Riding for the Disabled Endowment Fund Revelstoke Community Foundation Fund PacificSport RisingStar Fund Richmond Art Gallery Endowment Fund Mary Pack Centennial Arthritis Education & Services The Richmond Foundation Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Richmond Public Library Endowment Fund Mary Pack Centennial Arthritis Research Endowment Fund Right to Learn Endowment Fund Paediatric Development Fund The Caroline E. Riley Scholarship Fund Paediatric Program Development Fund The Rix Family Endowment Fund for Pacific Coast Parksville Qualicum Community Foundation – Television Association R. and J. McBride Family Charitable Fund Dr. Donald Rix Endowment Fund For BCTSVP Parksville-Qualicum Community Foundation – Roedde House Preservation Fund Milner Gardens and Woodland Enhancement Open Fund Ronald McDonald House British Columbia Fund Parksville-Qualicum Community Foundation – Ronald McDonald House British Columbia Permanent Fund Milner Gardens and Woodland Preservation Closed Fund P.M. Ross Laboratory Educational Fund Parksville-Qualicum Community Foundation – Chamber of Commerce – Jim Storey Memorial Fund Royal British Columbia Museum Fund Parksville-Qualicum Community Foundation Fund The Royal Commonwealth Society Educational Endowment Fund Partners In Stewardship Fund The Royal Westminster Regiment Association Endowment Fund Audrey Paterson Memorial Fund (Start-up Fund) SAEE Education Research Endowment Fund The Pathology Fund: Friends for Study and Prevention of Human Disease The Salvation Army Endowment Fund Peace Arch Hospital Foundation Memorial Fund Michael Sandover-Sly Memorial Fund Endowment Lester B. Pearson Scholarship Endowment Fund Saturna Recreation Centre Society Fund Peninsula Arts Foundation Endowment Fund The School of Audiology and Speech Sciences Endowment Fund Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities Fund Sculptors’ Society of British Columbia Endowment and Preservation Trust Audrey Piggott Memorial Scholarship Fund The Seaforth Highlander Cadets of Canada Fund Place des Arts Endowment Fund Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Band and Endowment Fund Playhouse Foundation Fund The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Fund PLEA Volunteer Program for Children Fund Selkirk College Endowment Fund Point Grey School Scholarships and Awards Endowment Fund The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation Endowment Fund 1988 Nan Poliakoff Memorial Fund The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation Endowment Fund 1998 Port Moody Foundation – Kwi Am Choi Scholarship Fund The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation Endowment Fund 2007 Port Moody Foundation – Arts Centre Society Endowment Fund Shawnigan Lake School Foundation Port Moody Foundation – Rhoda Judd Memorial Fund Shawnigan Lake School Playfair Bursary Port Moody Foundation Fund Gordon M. Shrum Chair in Science Fund Port Moody Foundation Library Endowment Fund Shuswap Community Foundation Endowment Fund Powell River Community Foundation Fund Simon Fraser University Bridge Endowment Fund Prince George Community Foundation – The Burns Lake and District Community Foundation Partnership Fund Simon Fraser University Scholarship and Bursary Endowment Fund Prince George Community Foundation Endowment Fund Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists Fund Prince of Wales Secondary School Scholarship Fund

66 Gordon Smith Youth Environmental Stewardship Fund Margarete Anna Tumbach Agricultural Stewardship Rocksborough Smith/Joe Whitehead British Columbia Borstal Endowment Fund Memorial Fund Tutoring-Aid Society Endowment Fund Smokey Smith VC Memorial Fund U.B.C. Alumni Scholarship And Bursary Endowment Fund Society for Children and Youth of B.C. Endowment Fund U.B.C. President’s Endowment Fund Society for the Reform of Criminal Law Fund U.B.C. Program for Retired People Endowment Fund The Southern Okanagan Secondary School Enrichment Fund U.B.C. Rick Hansen Man in Motion Fund South Granville Seniors Friendship Centre Society UBC-Disability Resource Centre Endowment Endowment Fund The Ultrasound Educational Endowment Fund Spinal Cord Research Endowment Fund United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation Fund Endowment Fund The Sport Fund United Nations Association in Canada John Gibbard Endowment Squamish Community Foundation Fund Fund St. Francis In the Wood Anglican Church Endowment Fund United Way of Cranbrook Endowment Fund St. George’s School Foundation Endowment Fund United Way of the Lower Mainland Endowment Fund St. George’s School John Harker Memorial Fund United Way of the Lower Mainland Retractable Endowment Fund St. James Community Service Society Fund The University of the Fraser Valley Student Assistance Fund St. Jude’s Anglican Home Society Endowment Fund University of Northern British Columbia Endowment Fund St. Michaels University School Endowment Fund University of Victoria Endowment Fund St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation of Vancouver Endowment Fund University of Victoria, Applied Economics Fund St. Paul’s Indian Church Preservation Fund USCC Castlegar Community #6 Fund St. Peter’s Memorial Garden Fund V.C.C. Educational Foundation Endowment Fund The Brigadier James Crossley Stewart and The Dr. Edwin James Lyon Memorial Fund VAGF – Audain Curator of British Columbia Art Fund Streetohome Foundation Fund VAGF – Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund Stanley Noble Stronge Wheelchair Basketball Fund VAGF – Jack and Doris Shadbolt Publication Endowment Fund Neil O. Stubberfield Piobaireachd Endowment Fund VAGF – Jean MacMillan Southam Art Acquisition Endowment Fund Sam Sullivan Disability Foundation Fund VAGF – Pat and Rick Charles Endowment Fund Sunny Hill Foundation for Children Endowment Fund VAGF – Rix Family Internship Endowment Sunshine Coast Community Foundation Fund VAGF – The Killy Foundation Endowment Fund Surrey Choral Arts Project Society Fund Vancouver Academy of Music Endowment Fund Surrey Foundation Endowment Fund Vancouver Academy of Music Library Endowment Fund Tapestry Foundation for Health Care Fund Vancouver Academy of Music Opera Programme Fund TEAL Charitable Foundation Vancouver Academy of Music Scholarship Fund TEAL/TESOL AIDS and Health Education Fund Vancouver Adapted Music Society Endowment Fund John Tegenfeldt CICH Endowment Vancouver Aquarium Endowment Fund Templeton Secondary School Educational Foundation Endowment Fund The Vancouver Art Gallery Endowment Fund Theatre la Seizieme Fund The Vancouver Art Gallery Endowment Fund for Acquisitions of Art The Theological Education Fund Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation Endowment Fund Thompson Rivers University Student Financial Aid Trust The Vancouver Bach Choir Endowment Fund TLC The Land Conservancy of BC Historic Properties Fund (Start-up Fund) Vancouver Ballet Society Endowment Fund TLC The Land Conservancy of British Columbia Fund Vancouver Chamber Choir Endowment Fund Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada Fund Vancouver Crisis Centre Endowment Fund Trinity United Church, Vernon – Camp Hurlburt The Vancouver East Cultural Centre Endowment Fund Endowment Fund The Vancouver General Hospital Foundation Fund Trinity Western Advancement Fund Vancouver Heritage Conservation Endowment Fund

67 Vancouver Historical Fund VDC Dance Centre – Lola MacLaughlin Memorial Fund Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society Endowment for Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation Endowment Fund Education and Remembrance Victoria Conservatory of Music Scholarship and Bursary and Vancouver Humane Society/Norma Berridge Endowment Fund Endowment Fund The Vancouver Institute Endowment Fund Victoria Epilepsy and Parkinson’s Centre Fund Vancouver International Dance Festival Society Fund Victoria High School Alumni Fund The Vancouver Maritime Museum Endowment Fund The Victoria R.E.A.D. Society Bursary Endowment Fund Vancouver Men’s Chorus Endowment Fund Victoria Symphony Foundation Fund Vancouver Museum Society Fund Sophie and Isaac Waldman/Jewish Community Centre Vancouver Oral Centre for Deaf Children Fund Endowment Fund for the Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library Vancouver Out On Screen Film and Video Society Legacy Fund Waldorf School Fund of Vancouver Vancouver Parks Foundation West Coast Railway Endowment Fund Vancouver Poet Laureate Fund West Vancouver Community Foundation Society Endowment Fund Vancouver Police Foundation Western Front Endowment Fund Vancouver Police Historical Society & Centennial Museum Raymond J. Canuel Scholarship/Bursary Endowment Fund Western Institute for the Deaf Endowment Fund Vancouver Public Library Trust Whistler Health Care Foundation Endowment Fund Vancouver Recital Society Fund Whittaker Scholarship Fund Vancouver Resource Society Endowment Fund Women’s Studies Endowment Trust Fund Vancouver Rugby Union Ladner Grounds Legacy Fund Dr. M. Wosk Youth Leadership Fund Vancouver School of Theology Fund WRA Wildlife Rescue Association Foundation The Vancouver Symphony Society Endowment Fund Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden Endowment Fund Vancouver Technical Secondary School Scholarship Fund Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation Fund – The Alan Masters Scholarship Vancouver Volunteer Centre Endowment Fund York House School – June Brown Cliff Scholarship Fund The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra Society Endowment Fund York House School Endowment Fund VanDusen Botanical Garden Association Endowment Fund The Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater Vancouver Endowment Fund The Alma VanDusen Garden Fund The Young Women’s Christian Association Fund The W.J. VanDusen Research Fellowship Management Endowment Fund Youth Parliament of B.C. Alumni Fund The Variety Club of British Columbia Endowment Fund YVR Wildlife Stewardship Fund Estate Gifts

In 2011, the following people entrusted us with their legacy by leaving Vancouver Foundation a gift in their estate. We are honoured by their generosity and extend our condolences to their families.

Jean Brakenridge Frances V. Cooper Janet Cramsie “One generation plants the trees... Donald Alasdair Gordon another gets the shade.” Helene Edna Gradley Donald & Alice Kerr DJ & JM Macaulay Eleanor A. Malkin Yvonne McGrane Raymond Rochat Candace J. Sherriff Roxie Joan Wallace … and three anonymous donors.

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