Are you actively involved in your local community or know someone who is? National property management and development company Hollyburn Properties is giving away a one-year stay in one of their Vancouver one-bedroom apartments to a person who demonstrates extraordinary achievement in the area of community building. “The objective of the Free Rent Contest is to … Read more
Last year, the BC Non-Profit Housing Association and Vancity credit union joined together to create the Rental Housing Index for British Columbia, a useful resource providing detailed information on the viability of rental housing in the province. This eventually led to the development of the Canadian Rental Housing Index, which has the same purpose but with an expanded … Read more
If you are a woman who uses public transit in the Metro Vancouver Area, or know women who do, please read this callout for candidates to participate in an important research project. My name is Tahia Ahmed. I’m working with Marion Pollack from the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women and Leah Levac at … Read more
Summer is here, and that means camp season has also arrived. We have just finished compiling a summer camp directory for low-income families — some of the locations are in Richmond, and others are within fairly easy reach of the Lower Mainland. Most of the entries offer some form of a subsidy that require applicants to fill out … Read more
In case the name Ethel Tibbits doesn’t ring a bell, she was a women’s activist and former owner/editor of the Richmond Review community newspaper for over 30 years. There is a scholarship provided each year in her name by the Richmond Community Foundation to a woman, for the purposes of providing education and opportunities to improve the … Read more
The Richmond Food Security Society is looking for volunteers to help out with their Get Rooted! Growing Youth Leaders in the Food Movement. The project is aimed at engaging and mobilizing youth to address the root causes of food insecurity and build a fair and sustainable food future. There are two different roles to be … Read more
Did you miss physician and poverty/health advocate Dr. Gary Bloch‘s presentation back in September, when he was speaking about curing social disease at the Carnegie Community Centre? If so, not to worry: here is the video in its entirety, courtesy of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition.