Philanthropy

Students on the dock at Pearson College UWC. Pearson College UWC received funding for their Climate Action Leadership Diploma through the Victoria Foundation's 2022 Community Grants Program. Photo by Derek Ford

Victoria Foundation invites applications for 2023 Community Grants Program

Deadline is April 14 for 2023 grants working to build resilience across the non-profit sector

  • Mar 20, 2023

 

You could win your dream home! Your Choices Lottery tickets are your chance to become a multi-millionaire. Photo courtesy Choices Lottery

City, sea, or suburbs? The choice could be yours!

Choices Lottery winner will choose 1 of 9 Grand Prizes, including home packages worth $2.7 million+

  • Mar 13, 2023

 

Until March 31, your gift to United Way Southern Vancouver Island’s United for Mental Health Fund can have double the impact, and help youth access vital services, including a crisis help line, one-on-one counselling, outreach, group therapy, and peer support. Photo courtesy UWSVI

Are you ready to Unite for Mental Health?

Give to United Way today to help youth struggling with mental health

  • Mar 9, 2023

 

Dell Marie Wergeland, president of the CRW Society and Dr. Bridget Stirling, president of ICROSS Canada during the Jan. 25 packing of the latest container headed from Greater Victoria to help those living in Ukraine. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

VIDEO: Greater Victoria finds 5 generators to help people in war-torn Ukraine

Compassionate Resource Warehouse ships container to Poland for on-the-ground aid

Dell Marie Wergeland, president of the CRW Society and Dr. Bridget Stirling, president of ICROSS Canada during the Jan. 25 packing of the latest container headed from Greater Victoria to help those living in Ukraine. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
Continuing the community involvement he began as a youth, Bhupinder appreciates the conversations that can be launched through programs like the Victoria Foundation’s Gadsden Initiative. Jon Mark photo / Courtesy the Victoria Foundation

Building philanthropy to build community, one conversation at a time

The Victoria Foundation’s Gadsden Initiative brings people together to do good

  • Jan 23, 2023
Continuing the community involvement he began as a youth, Bhupinder appreciates the conversations that can be launched through programs like the Victoria Foundation’s Gadsden Initiative. Jon Mark photo / Courtesy the Victoria Foundation
Monthly bottle collections at Oak Bay High in 2022 raised $7,499.85 for revitalization of the Jack Wallace Memorial Track. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

Oak Bay Rotary, alumni double down on 50/50 bottle drives

Threshold Housing Society, revamp of Oak Bay High track split funds

Monthly bottle collections at Oak Bay High in 2022 raised $7,499.85 for revitalization of the Jack Wallace Memorial Track. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
John Volken poses for a photo in Surrey on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Photo: Anna Burns)

B.C. author’s book demonstrates how to ‘Walk with a Purpose’

Surrey philanthropist John Volken’s autobiography shows how it’s done

John Volken poses for a photo in Surrey on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Photo: Anna Burns)
Kindergartener Lucille McKenzie and her Grade 7 buddy Eliza Gedischk build tiny bundles of candy with a warm message during the years-old tradition of Christmas Cracker Day at St. Patrick’s School. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

PHOTOS: Kids craft Christmas crackers for those facing homelessness in Greater Victoria

Students start by donating Halloween candy in November

Kindergartener Lucille McKenzie and her Grade 7 buddy Eliza Gedischk build tiny bundles of candy with a warm message during the years-old tradition of Christmas Cracker Day at St. Patrick’s School. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
Funded by the Government of Canada and administered locally by the Victoria Foundation, the Community Services Recovery Fund will support both immediate and future needs of non-profits working in the community services sector.

New grants help community services charities meet immediate needs + build future resilience

Victoria Foundation administers local share of national Community Services Recovery Fund

  • Dec 12, 2022
Funded by the Government of Canada and administered locally by the Victoria Foundation, the Community Services Recovery Fund will support both immediate and future needs of non-profits working in the community services sector.
Charlotte lives with chronic lung disease. Her wish was to go to her favourite theme park – a dream made true by Make-A-Wish Canada and generous donors when she was three-years-old.

‘Magic truly does exist:’ Creating lasting memories for children facing serious illness

Thanks to generous donors, Make-A-Wish Canada granted nearly 1,000 life-changing wishes last year

  • Dec 5, 2022
Charlotte lives with chronic lung disease. Her wish was to go to her favourite theme park – a dream made true by Make-A-Wish Canada and generous donors when she was three-years-old.
Comfort Companions – life-like robotic dolls designed to look and feel like a cat, puppy or infant doll – can enhance the quality of life for seniors in long-term care. The Saanich Peninsula Hospital and Healthcare Foundation is raising funds to buy one for each resident this holiday season. Photo courtesy SPHHF

This Christmas, give the gift of comfort to a Saanich Peninsula senior

Hospital foundation aims to purchase Comfort Companions for Long-term Care residents

  • Dec 5, 2022
Comfort Companions – life-like robotic dolls designed to look and feel like a cat, puppy or infant doll – can enhance the quality of life for seniors in long-term care. The Saanich Peninsula Hospital and Healthcare Foundation is raising funds to buy one for each resident this holiday season. Photo courtesy SPHHF
In addition to the 2012 Chrysler 200, the recipient of the fourth annual car giveaway receives three months of insurance from Maxxam Insurance, one year of maintenance from Affordable Auto Repair, and a two-year warranty from Lubrico Warranties. (Courtesy Cool Aid Society)

Greater Victoria aid society, Langford car dealership rev up annual car giveaway

Nominations open for Victoria Cool Aid Society, King’s Auto Sales giveaway

In addition to the 2012 Chrysler 200, the recipient of the fourth annual car giveaway receives three months of insurance from Maxxam Insurance, one year of maintenance from Affordable Auto Repair, and a two-year warranty from Lubrico Warranties. (Courtesy Cool Aid Society)
Through its Heart and Soul of the Community initiative, Black Press Media showcases the vital work of non-profit organizations here at home and throughout Western Canada.

Black Press Media gives back to the Heart and Soul of the Community

Year-long program supports vital non-profits hard at work in your neighbourhood

Through its Heart and Soul of the Community initiative, Black Press Media showcases the vital work of non-profit organizations here at home and throughout Western Canada.
Peter Nicholson, Founder and President, WCPD Group of Companies

Tax benefits to boost the green economy let investors maximize support for charities

Flow-through shares + charitable tax savings benefit both mining and philanthropic sectors

  • Nov 21, 2022
Peter Nicholson, Founder and President, WCPD Group of Companies
The Vital Victoria Data Hub, operates as a digital companion to the annual Vital Signs report, and explores more than 70 indicators on quality of life in Greater Victoria, linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Photo courtesy the Victoria Foundation

What’s in a grade? Data drives annual Vital Signs report – here’s how to learn more

When the Victoria Foundation released its 2022 Victoria’s Vital Signs report earlier…

  • Nov 21, 2022
The Vital Victoria Data Hub, operates as a digital companion to the annual Vital Signs report, and explores more than 70 indicators on quality of life in Greater Victoria, linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Photo courtesy the Victoria Foundation
Margie Edwards, director of administrative services, left, and Cheryl Chalifour, executive director of Revera Parkwood Place with the magical Santa workshop and village the team is creating for the 14th annual Habitat for Humanity Victoria Gingerbread Showcase. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

VIDEO: Sweet creations build housing for Victoria non-profit

Habitat for Humanity Victoria’s annual Gingerbread Showcase starts Nov. 26

Margie Edwards, director of administrative services, left, and Cheryl Chalifour, executive director of Revera Parkwood Place with the magical Santa workshop and village the team is creating for the 14th annual Habitat for Humanity Victoria Gingerbread Showcase. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
FILE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is seen on the sidelines before the start of an NFL football game on Sept. 15, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. A former housekeeper for Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe working conditions that included being forced to climb out a laundry room window to get to a bathroom. In a lawsuit filed in Seattle this week, a longtime housekeeper claims she was discriminated and retaliated against when she complained about a lack of rest breaks or an area where staff could eat. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Jeff Bezos says he will give away most of his fortune

Amazon founder worth about $124.1 billion, according to Forbes

FILE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is seen on the sidelines before the start of an NFL football game on Sept. 15, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. A former housekeeper for Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe working conditions that included being forced to climb out a laundry room window to get to a bathroom. In a lawsuit filed in Seattle this week, a longtime housekeeper claims she was discriminated and retaliated against when she complained about a lack of rest breaks or an area where staff could eat. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Lily Lee is seen in this handout photo provided by the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation.

Ex-nurse donates $3.8M for health unit in Downtown Eastside where she worked in 1950s

‘It’s important if you have something that you should share with others.’

Lily Lee is seen in this handout photo provided by the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation.
The Victoria Foundation will provide $320,000 to local organizations working to support women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse individuals working towards a future grounded in equity, inclusion and justice. Photo courtesy the Victoria Foundation

Grants available to those working to make Victoria a more equitable community

The Victoria Foundation helps deliver vital funds to those making a difference

  • Oct 24, 2022
The Victoria Foundation will provide $320,000 to local organizations working to support women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse individuals working towards a future grounded in equity, inclusion and justice. Photo courtesy the Victoria Foundation
FILE - A person walks by the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on April 27, 2018, in Seattle. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, that it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Gates Foundation pledges $1.2B to eradicate polio globally

Money will be used to stop outbreaks of new variants of the virus

FILE - A person walks by the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on April 27, 2018, in Seattle. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, that it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)