Vancouver Opera Vancouver Opera maintains the highest artistic standards while supporting the arts through expanding their many education and community activities. These include interactive school programs for children to workshops enhancing community insight into the master’s and meaning behind the Opera.
Kids Up Front Kids Up Front provides entertainment, educational and recreational opportunities to underserved kids through the redistribution of unused tickets to create special events that help to heal, bond and unite. Their mission is to offer kids a sense of discovery, dreams and possibilities, one ticket at a time.
BC Children's Hospital Foundation Since 1982, BC Children's Hospital Foundation has raised money to support the work of BC Children's Hospital, the province’s only pediatric acute care hospital and the largest full-service child health centre in Canada. Funds raised help pay for essentials such as equipment, research and education, benefiting close to 70,000 young patients from across British Columbia and the Yukon who depend on the Hospital each year. Every one of these patients is away from home, school and the things that make them feel safe. BC Children’s Hospital strives to improve the health of their patients while providing a place where they can also play, learn, laugh and grow.
The Whole Dyslexic Society The Whole Dyslexic Society is committed to helping people of all ages overcome their learning challenges. They focus on the ‘gift of dyslexia’ which brings both talents and challenges. They provide a unique, new perspective on dyslexia, and provide correction programs, networks, support, and events directed towards understanding and celebrating this gift.
Sarah McLachlan Foundation
The Sarah McLachlan Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of music education for young people in Canada, and in particular, to benefit youth in under-served communities.
This mandate reflects Ms. McLachlan's passion for music and her desire to share her success with her fellow Canadians. "I don't know what I would have done without music in my life when I was growing up."
The Foundation currently underwrites music education programs, which Ms. McLachlan initiates in partnership with operating cultural and/or educational organizations. Other programs may be inaugurated in the future, and they too will be designed and executed in partnerships selected through The Sarah McLachlan Foundation. The Sarah McLachlan Foundation does not accept applications for grants to third parties.
The Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach -- An Arts Umbrella Project, is the pilot project for the Sarah McLachlan Foundation.
The Beach House Restaurant The Beach House Restaurant’s, 13th Annual Festival of Lights is a charity event for the Family Services of the North Shore Christmas Bureau. Lower Mainland Companies sponsor Christmas tree’s and in return, money is raised for this charity. The official tree lighting of all the Christmas tree’s is on December 4th between 4:30 and 6:30. Cookies and hot chocolate will be served and local school choirs will be caroling. Between 4:30-6:30 the Beach House Restaurant will be hosting the Soiree party. We will be serving cocktails and canapés, each ticket is $25, that full amount goes to the charity.
Big Sisters
Big Sisters is committed to enhancing the confidence, self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women.
Everyone needs someone to laugh with, share a dream with, and just hang out with...
Homes of Hope (YWAM) Youth With A Mission (YWAM) San Diego/Baja was founded by Sean & Janet Lambert in October 1991. The organization grew in response to the needs they recognized in the Northern Baja region of Mexico. From a small beginning in which thirty young people participated in a single house building trip, YWAM San Diego/Baja is now hosting thousands of volunteers who participate annually.
The first small teams visited in 1988. Since those early trips, nearly 60,000 volunteers have served and helped over 190,000 people via community service projects within the Northern Baja region, including house building with the Homes of Hope program. A 4,000 square foot office and warehouse in San Diego now serves as the coordinating center for its many programs in Mexico. Operating centers in Tijuana and Ensenada host volunteers numbering in excess of 5,200 per year and development of a new operating location has begun in Tijuana.
Amica is dedicated to creating and sustaining remarkable mature lifestyles for all our residents we call friends. At Amica, we are dedicated professionals with a sincere passion for caring. Our core values are best expressed in the principles of respect, independence, support, happiness and trust. Our Amica Wellness & Vitality™ Residences are therefore a natural reflection of these lifestyle values. You will find that we have truly thought of everything to provide the optimum lifestyle environment of choice.
The Cooke Family Foundation of Hope is a non-profit foundation established in 2006. The Foundation provides opportunities and assistance to registered charity organizations within Canada. The Foundation's efforts focus on those organizations that provide assistance to individuals faced with health, financial and emotional life challenges.
The Foundation raises funds through personal and corporate donations as well as various fundraising initiatives throughout the year.
The Nature Trust of British Columbia For over 35 years, The Nature Trust of British Columbia has been a leading land conservation organization headquartered in BC. We acquire land through purchase, donation and lease. Then we care for this land in order to protect the natural diversity of wildlife and plants and their critical habitat. We are a non-profit, non-advocacy group that seeks a balance between sustaining our environment and sustaining our economy for future generations.
Shooting Stars Foundation This year marks the 21st anniversary of the Shooting Stars Foundation’s “Vancity’s Starry Night”, and the 10th year of the equally successful “GAMBADO!” Dinner and Auction.Over that period of time, our non-profit has raised more than $750,000 that we have granted to direct service HIV/AIDS agencies in the Lower Mainland.The Shooting Stars Foundation is self funded in that we do not receive any form of government grants to support our operations.
The ALS Centre Team is a transdisciplinary outreach provincial resource team providing comprehensive consultative services to people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ( ALS) . The team is composed of full time and part-time clinicians in Social Work, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Speech-language Pathology, Dietetics and Physiotherapy. In addition, the team also has a consulting physician of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurology.
Art for Life Vancouver Friends For Life Society works with individuals living with life-threatening illnesses to take an active role in their holistic wellness journey in order to move through pain, anxiety, vulnerability, fear, and social isolation. At Friends For Life, we recognize that with compassion, support and knowledge, the experience of illness can be a catalyst for positive personal transformation.
Founded in 1984, Collingwood School is a co-educational Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 independent school with 1,200 students situated on two campuses in West Vancouver. We've been told we are one of Canada's most dynamic and progressive educational environments and as a member of The Round Square Conference of Schools, we are allies with Schools worldwide who share a commitment, beyond academic excellence, to developing well rounded, responsible citizens through service, challenge, and international understanding.
The BC Cancer Foundation is an independent charitable organization that raises funds to support breakthrough research and care at the BC Cancer Agency. The BC Cancer Agency is responsible for cancer care and control for everyone in British Columbia.
Over 70 years ago, the BC Cancer Foundation, led by a group of prominent BC citizens, created what is today the BC Cancer Agency .
The Foundation has offices in all four of the BC Cancer's Agency's treatment centres - Fraser Valley, Southern Interior, Vancouver Island and Vancouver.
Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation The Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation is celebrating is 30th anniversary in 2008. The Royal Columbian Hospital is the only hospital in the region to provide open heart surgery and cariac catheterization. As the region's heart centre, we need to be equipped to meet the cardiac needs of the 1.5 million people that depend on us. This fundraising effort will help raise $2 million to fund state-of-the-art cardiac equipment and infrastructure needed to provide the best health care across the region. The patients of Royal Columbian Hospital come from Burnaby to Boston Bar.
Cabriolet - Brian Jessel BMW Fashion Gala
On April 4th, 2008 more than 850 guests will gather to celebrate the 3rd Annual Brain Jessel Fashion Gala - Cabriolet 2008 in support of BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation, Gynecological Program and The Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital.
Fashions will be provided by Hugo Boss of Canada. It is sure to be another show stopping event.
Adoptive Families Association of BC Our association focues on the support of children and familes to move from the provincial foster care programs into adoptive families as well as international adoptions. We attempt to bring awareness to the public of BC's waiting children and support families who are on their adoptive journey where ever it leads from. We also provide a leadership role in education for both members and the public on the issues to support adoption and relevant informationn to ensure successs for the children.
In BC, eating disorders affect men and women of all ages, shapes, sizes and socio-economic backgrounds. It is estimated that Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa affect over 215,000 people in BC. While the most commom age of onset is between 14 and 25 years of age, eating disorders occur in a wide range of ages, and age increasingly seen in children as young as 10.
The severity of this disease is staggering. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses. The annual death rate associated with Anorexia Nervosa is more than 12 times higher than that of all other causes combined for females between 15 and 24 years.
It was with this in mind that The Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders was created. While the development of a residential treatment facility is a primary goal of the Foundation, we are also actively involved on a daily basis addressing the immediate needs of families by offering support to parents, programs for those afflicted, school prevention programs, and a residential summer camp offered free of charge to adolescent females afflicted with an eating disorder.
