VanCity Community Foundation

"VanCity Newsletter Spring 2003

Named Fund Grants cover a wide spectrum of non-profit activity

Numerous grants have been made from existing named funds over the past few months and include donations to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Borstal Association, Myasthenia Gravis Association of BC, DanceArts Vancouver,Covenant House, PLAN, Elizabeth Fry Society, West Coast LEAF, West End Seniors’ Network and the Spectrum Society for Community Living.

A second grant was also made from the Leo & Francis Longo Fund for Charity to Animals that will support an innovative new program of the BC SPCA to address issues related to child and family violence and animal welfare. Working with transition houses, the Institute Against Family Violence and Victims Services, the SPCA has identified that many women and children may not leave an abusive relationship due to threats to pets and animals in the home. This project will develop options for families and pets while they are in transition that will address this barrier. As well, the project will increase awareness about the links between violence in the home and violence to animals, and the potential to use detection of animal cruelty as an indicator of family violence."

VanCity Community Foundation
PO Box 2120, Station Terminal
Vancouver, BC, V6B 5R8
Phone: 604-877-7647
Facsimile: 604-709-6909
email: vcf@vancity.com
website: www.vancity.com/vcf