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Listen to Djaka Blais on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Djaka Blais, Executive Director of Hogan’s Alley Society, helps us learn more about the history of Hogan’s Alley and people of African descent in Vancouver.

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Listen to Clara Prager on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Clara Prager of Women Transforming Cities joins us to talk about building our civic skills to better impact local governments.

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Listen to Steve Johnston on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Steve Johnston, Executive Director of Community Impact Real Estate Society joins us to talk about the importance of social purpose real estate in building communities.

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Listen to Angela Marie MacDougall on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Angela Marie MacDougall, Executive Director of Battered Women’s Support Services. joins us to talk about the systemic failures that enable gender-based violence to persist in our society.

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Listen to Landon Hoyt on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Landon Hoyt, Executive Director at the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association, joins us to talk about how this BIA is doing things differently to make a difference in their low-income urban neighbourhood.

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Listen to Maura Gowans on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Maura Gowans, a registered social worker and Central City Foundation board member joins Hope Dialogue to talk about trauma-informed care and how to better help those who have experienced violence, pain and injustices.

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Change Can Happen. Our 2024 Profiles in Community Leadership

Central City Foundation is once again celebrating examples of extraordinary community leadership and innovation from the organizations we walk alongside and support. These individuals and their organizations have demonstrated that change can happen in our community.

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Community Report: An update on the ongoing Opioid Crisis in the DTES

In 2017, Central City Foundation published a Community Report entitled “On the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis: How community organizations and their staff are coping.” Six years later, we are experiencing yet another year of tragic, record-breaking numbers of deaths from overdose in BC and set out to reinterview our community partners to hear about how they are coping today.

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