Looking Back on 2020
Neighbourhood Small Grants’ 2020 evaluation report highlights what we learned in the year with Responsive Neighbourhood Small Grants and brings to the surface how we can continue to support building...
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Poetry for the People
The Ucluelet Heartwood students wrote and illustrated a book of poems to share with our local community. NSG allowed us to publish the book and distribute it to businesses in...
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A Grinchmas Zoom with Neighbours
With a Neighbourhood Small Grant, last December Allison and John hosted a virtual party with neighbours in Kelowna. “We were in the midst of a second wave of Covid lock-down...
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Smiles for Miles
After feeling a lack of social and emotional connection due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had the desire to connect with others within my community who might also be feeling...
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Connecting Newcomers from Turkey
In the advent of Covid-19, sustaining our social connections with all of our family and friends and creating new connections have been tremendously hard for all of us. It has...
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Boomerang Bags and Community Sewing Project
Four on-site sessions were held Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7:00 PM in October at the Lillooet Rec Centre to sew fabric shopping bags for the Lillooet Boomerang Bags. All the...
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Canada Day Boat Parade on Sechelt Inlet, Sunshine Coast
We had a wonderful turnout for our boat parade which touched a few communities along the Sechelt Inlet. There were a total of 17 boats who participated. We started out...
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LGBTQ2+ COVID-19 Community Support
Fernie, located in the far southeast corner of BC, is home to a growing and very engaged LGBTQ2+ community and we thankfully have the Fernie Pride Society to help navigate...
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Growing Together: A Port Moody Gardening Story
When the pandemic hit BC in March, many people turned to the garden as a way to focus on being productive and keep busy during a time when people were...
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