The Outreach Opportunities Fund Committee selects outside organisations to receive a portion of the Sunday offering.

Current Recipient

Out In Schools

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Outreach Opportunities Fund (OOF)

Chair: Yvonne Marcus

Statement of Purpose:

To distribute 25% of funds collected during the Sunday service to community charities, both those that are independent of the church and those that have some connection to the work of church teams. Priority is given to organisations undertaking social justice, refugee support and settlement and environmental sustainability work with a focus on vulnerable or other marginalised communities. Preference for funding is given to groups working primarily in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. The recipient organization must be a CRA registered charity.

Members:

Cecilia Gruber, Jennifer Malcolm, and Melody Mason

Previous recipients

• RAVEN Trust
• Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre
• UNYA – Urban Native Youth Association
• Highs & Lows Choir
• First Nations’ Emergency Services Society of BC (FNESS)
• Food Stash Foundation
• Aboriginal Mother Centre Society
• HomeStart Foundation
• Overdose Prevention Society 
• Pivot Legal Society 
• Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia 
• The Treehouse
• Mood Disorders Association of BC 
• Indian Residential School Survivors Society
• Quest Outreach Society 
• PHS Community Services Society 
• Burns Bog Conservation Society 
• West Coast Environmental Law 
• Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
• Sole Food Street Farms
• Kiwassa Neighbourhood House (to be allocated to Warriors Against Violence)
• OWL Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society 
• Rainbow Refugee Coalition
• Qmunity
• Community Legal Assistance Society
• Kinbrace
• Vancity Community Foundation for activities related to Raise the Rates & Single Mother’s Alliance 
• Mom2Mom 
• Pedal Foundation
• ARA Mental Health
• West Coast Mental Health Network 
• Covenant House 
• ACORN
• Aunt Leah’s Place 
• Disability Alliance 
• Elizabeth Fry Society 
• VAST

Future Plans

Three organisations will be selected to receive funds from OOF during the next year. In the past, the committee has chosen the recipients but we now ask members of the congregation to nominate local charities for consideration by the committee.

To nominate an organisation, please get in touch with Yvonne Marcus.