Community  Grants

• ANHBC, Alexandra Neighbourhood House

  • About the organization – Alex House has been providing free programs to reduce isolation and build the community’s capacity to support their most vulnerable members of seniors, adults, families, children and youth since 1916. Rooted in social justice values, they facilitate social connectedness and target our programs to the whole community.​

  • About the program – CREATING INCLUSION IN SOUTH SURREY – The Alex House Integrated Youth and Family Services will utilize the Youth Space to enhance community safety among youth and their peers by using theatre arts and performance (such as improv, spoken word, dance, and fitness) as a way to share anti-violence education, support youth/young people’s strengths, foster community-building with positive relationships and patterns of interaction with mentors and pro-social peers. The program will operate three days/week and seeks to engage 60 children and 30 young people; where the programs honour and values lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, LGBTQ2S+, people with disabilities, and racialized youth to empower and encourage them to use their voices by promoting a dynamic atmosphere within which issues of equity, access and service are openly and regularly explored by staff and participants after school in the Youth Space and in the community.

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• Canadian Mental Health Association, V&F Branch - $2,589.18

  • About the organization – CMHA, Vancouver-Fraser contributes to improving the communities' long-term health and well-being by providing community-based mental health education, programs, and support services to people of all ages, including children, youth, adults, and seniors.

  • About the program – Here4Peers Surrey– Here4Peers is a program focused on mental health literacy designed and delivered by youth for youth in schools. The program aims to decrease the stigma surrounding mental illness, increase mental health literacy, and establish a supportive atmosphere where young people can seek help for their mental health concerns. The primary goal is to enhance the capacity of young people to maintain and develop good mental health through education and early intervention.

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• Community First Foundation - $2,589.18

  • About the organization – Community First Foundation’s mission is to ensure food security for every vulnerable child in British Columbia. Many children rely heavily on school meal programs but, over the weekend, may not eat at all until school starts again on Monday. This is ‘the weekend hunger gap.’

  • Backpack Buddies addresses this crisis by filling backpacks every Friday for students in need with enough meals and snacks to last the weekend, plus a little extra.

  • About the program – Backpack Buddies Surrey – This program contributes to Surrey and its residents by supporting the community’s highest-need children whose families have low incomes or live in poverty. Growing children require regularly available, nutritious food but the ever-increasing cost of rent, household expenses, and childcare has created an affordability crisis for families in Surrey. Basic needs like food, shelter, and warmth are in direct competition with one another. Families living in poverty are often forced to make brutal trade-offs like foregoing weekly dinners to pay the rent.

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• Muslim Food Bank and Community Services Society - $5,000.00

  • About the organization – The Muslim Food Bank and Community Services Society (MFBCS) is a registered charitable organization that aims to reduce food insecurity across the Lower Mainland and encourages self-reliance and autonomy amongst our clients. To execute this mission, MFBCS hosts several capacity-building public programs and support services, all following the organization’s guiding principles of respect, collaboration, confidentiality, integrity, and humility. Finally, as most of their clients are refugees fleeing difficult circumstances, cultural sensitivity and trauma-informed practices comprise a large part of the training we provide our volunteers and staff.

  • About the program – Mental Health Services for Youth with Mental Health– The Mental Health Services for Youth with Special Needs Program aims to offer mental health and counselling services to youth with special needs--prioritizing marginalized, vulnerable and/or newcomers (new immigrants and refugees) youth. Specifically, the program will be offering ten free counselling sessions (each one hour in length) to families that have youth with special needs as well as connecting them to cultural and community resources best suited to their needs and providing them with basic supplies, such as adult diapers, as required.

 

• Raincity Housing and Support Society - $4,735.00

  • About the organization – Raincity’s mission is to advance social equity by building on the strengths of their community and of each person. They create, implement, and manage housing and support programs that sustain relationships, strengthen communities, and make change for people experiencing homelessness, mental health, trauma, and substance use issues throughout BC’s lower mainland.

  • About the program – Peer-Led Community Connection Day – This project will help create a community and address the need for support services for folks struggling with homelessness and marginalization in the Newton area. This event will allow folks directly impacted by these issues to take leadership in creating a safe and supportive community by building community connections, presentations, participating in meetings, and preparation/planning for the event.

 

• Shelter Movers Vancouver - $5,000.00

  • About the organization – Shelter Movers is a national, volunteer-powered charity that provides moving and storage services at no cost to survivors and children fleeing abuse. The Vancouver chapter was established by a local group of dedicated volunteers in 2018. In collaboration with local businesses and community agencies, we help families transition to a life free of violence. They strive for communities where survivors are empowered to move on from abuse with dignity and independence. They are the only service of this kind in Surrey.

  • About the program – Shelter Movers Surrey: Capacity Building – The demand for their services has increased significantly during the past three years, especially within the city of Surrey. Last year, they organized 277 moves in the Lower Mainland, including 58 in Surrey. Being the second largest region in which our clients reside, the current number of completed moves does not meet the current demand of our regional referral agencies. With this expansion, they can provide more support, specifically to Surrey residents experiencing abuse.

 

• Stroke Recovery Association of BC dba After Stroke BC - $2,487.00

  • About the organization – After Stroke BC is a nonprofit charity organization that provides services, education, and advocacy to those living with stroke throughout every stage of recovery to ensure that every stroke survivor moves through recovery with hope and support to lead a full and rewarding life.

  • About the program – Surrey After Stroke Program and Services – Expansion and enrichment of programming to purchase materials and offer resources specifically geared to assist stroke survivors to re-learn and practice skills to improve their physical and emotional function. Specialized offerings increase awareness and accessibility of local resources and activities to support and maximize healthy outcomes for stroke survivors, positively influencing the social determinants of the community's health.

 

• Surrey Christmas Bureau - $2,500.00

  • About the organization – The mission of the Surrey Christmas Bureau is to provide low-income families in Surrey the means to enjoy a joyful Christmas by providing food and new toys.

  • About the program – Surrey Christmas Bureau Online Registration Program – By offering a dual registration stream, both in person and online, the Bureau will be able to increase its capacity to serve the most vulnerable families in our community and ensure children living in poverty can enjoy a happy, fulfilling holiday season on equal footing with their peers.

 

• Surrey-North Delta Meals on Wheels - $2,989.18

  • About the organization – North Delta Meals on Wheel’s mission is to prepare and deliver nutritious meals to anyone who, because of age, physical or mental handicap or illness, cannot prepare adequate meals for themselves. At SNDMOW, they believe in the availability of nutritious meals for all people, regardless of their financial security or insecurities. Their clients are some of the most vulnerable members of our community - seniors, disabled, immuno-compromised and the isolated - many of whom have very little to no family/friends.

  • About the program – Meal Subsidy – The Meal Subsidy Program will allow them to offer an affordable option for those living with financial insecurities - on pensions and/or disability and other low incomes. Their goal is to help as many residents as possible who cannot afford meals or cannot prepare adequate meals for themselves. This program will assist their most vulnerable and financially insecure residents to receive the nutritious meals they need and provide a friendly informal check-in.

 

• Tetra Society of North America - $5,000.00

  • About the organization – Tetra builds innovative solutions for people with physical disabilities to overcome environmental barriers, providing greater independence, quality of life, and inclusion.

  • About the program – Removing Barriers to Independent Living Through customized devices – The Tetra Society makes customized devices for people with disabilities that address their individual needs. People contact the organization when they face a barrier in their day-to-day lives that a customized device can remove. Their technically skilled volunteers make these devices based on input from the individual with the disability. The devices are made at no cost to the client. Last year the society made over 30 customized devices for those in Surrey, Delta, and Langley areas, and we look to continue to help more people with disabilities through our customized devices to remove barriers to their daily living.

 

• The Realistic Success Recovery Society - $2,500.00

  • About the organization – The mission of the Realistic Success Recovery Society is to provide the highest quality, ethical, long-term recovery program for residents who wish to recover and heal from their addictions. REAL Recovery for Men

  • About the program – Renovating for Realistic Recovery – Renovating for Realistic Recovery is a project that addresses the need to maintain and improve existing housing stock that supports good quality, bed-based, long-term recovery facilities.

    • ​This project has three goals:

      • 1. Maintaining the Trilogy Houses at an excellent standard of care is essential for operating quality recovery facilities.

      • 2. Improving residents’ self-worth as they help with some of the maintenance tasks.

      • 3. Providing safe, well-maintained livable homes that our residents are proud of improves their recovery outcomes.

 

• UNITI (Legal name, Semiahmoo House Society) - $10,000.00

  • About the organization – Semiahmoo House Society exists so that: People with disabilities live self-directed lives in the community at a justifiable cost and are valued community members. Semiahmoo House Society believes that people who have disabilities should be valued and included fully in their communities, with the same rights and responsibilities as all people living in Canada.

  • About the program – Workforce Integration; Vocational Services for People with Developmental Disabilities Project – The Workforce Integration, Vocational Services for People with Developmental Disabilities Project will assist people with developmental disabilities in Surrey with equitable access to the workforce. This project aims to ensure and secure employment opportunities for people with developmental disabilities in Surrey.

 

• Volunteer Cancer Drivers Society - $1,500.00

  • About the organization – The Volunteer Cancer Driver Society (VCDS) is an all-volunteer, community-funded registered Canadian charity with a Mission to serve cancer patients in need with compassionate and personalized transportation to care with community funding. To do this, society is singularly focused on providing free, safe, reliable, compassionate transportation and peace of mind for Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley cancer patients who have no viable means of getting to their essential treatment.

  • About the program – Surrey Cancer Patient Transportation Program – Their goal is to ensure that All Surrey cancer patients in need of transportation get to and from their treatments safely and on time. Cancer patients call their dedicated phone line or use our website to provide contact and appointment details. Patients are frequently tired and have compromised immune systems. The emotional toll of dealing with many problems and arrangements can be monumental. Public transit is stressful, impractical, frequently unavailable and, for most patients, seldom a viable option. With the help of your Foundation, we will be there for these patients.