Past Board Chair and current Cultural Advisor for the Victoria Foundation, T’esóts’en (Patrick Kelly), provides a statement on National Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Guest Blog: YMCA/YWCA of Vancouver Island honoring the past, protecting the future
The YMCA YWCA of Vancouver Island has been serving communities in our region since 1875. We operate health, fitness & aquatics facilities, childcare centres, an…
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The Emerging Fund
One of the ways that the Victoria Foundation helps to make philanthropy accessible for all is the emerging fund. Unlike our other funds which require…
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A Joint Statement from T’esóts’en (Patrick Kelly,) Past Board Chair, and Hayalthkin’geme (Carey Newman), Director
June 1, 2021 T’esóts’en (Patrick Kelly), Past Board Chair, and Hayalthkin’geme (Carey Newman), Director of the Victoria Foundation, offer these words on a very troubling…
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Every Child Matters
The discovery of the 215 children buried in a mass unmarked grave at the former Kamloops (Tk’emlups) Residential School is a reminder of Canada’s…
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