Vancouver Foundation's Vital Signs Team members Lidia Kemeny, Director and Meriko Kubota, Manager present an organizational communications challenge to Royal Road University's Masters in Professional Communications students on social media integration. This slideshow provides background on Vancouver Foundation.

2. Connecting you to community

3. A community foundation

4. Our story….

5. 1943
A single gift of $1,000

6. 2009
1,200 endowment funds

7. Since then…
With our donors we have given away
more than $725 million
to BC communities

8. How we work…

9. Set aside money for philanthropy

10. Give to causes that matter to you

11. All about community

12. • We fund across
British Columbia
Regional

13. Our value

15. Community Advisors
• Proposals reviewed
by experts in each
field of interest
• Reduces the
guessing
• Maximizes the
success and impact

16. Community Leadership
• John C. Kerr, Board Chair
• Honourable Chief Justice Donald Brenner, Vice-Chair
• Ursula Botz (Vancouver Bar Association)
• John Dustan
• Dr. Vera Frinton
• Yuri Fulmer (United Way)
• Ida Goodreau (Board of Trade)
• Brandt C. Louie
• Gord MacDougall
• John R. McLernon
• Jeff Dowle (Bankers – Pacific Region)
• Floyd Murphy (Advocis)

17. Community means so many things to
so many people, and the world to us.
In all we do and in all we say, we are all
for community.

18. Our impact …

19. Animal Welfare
Injured or orphaned seal
pups are nursed back to
health and released back
to the sea.

20. Youth Homelessness
Homeless kids find their first
apartment, and return to
school and work.

21. Education
Dads learn how to
connect to their kids.

22. Neighbourhood Small Grants
A small amount of money
can have a big impact
on people’s lives …

23. Arts and Culture
Producing original works
that reflect BC

24. Neig hood Small Grants
Bringing isolated seniors
together to learn to paint

25. Youth philanthropy
resolving world conflict … one teenager at a time