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Have Your Say – AFP Greater Vancouver Strategic Planning Survey

As a valued supporter of the AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter, we invite you to share your feedback on the Chapter’s activities and opportunities, as we enter strategic planning for 2022-2025. Your thoughts, ideas, and opinions really to matter to us. The data and insights from this survey will be used to inform the Chapter’s strategic …

Recent Advocacy Work Completed by Your Government Relations Committee

Dear AFP Greater Vancouver Members, Your Government Relations committee is pleased to share with you an update about recent advocacy work on behalf of the membership base. Provincial Budget 2022 The Provincial Government recently announced Budget 2022 in late February, with a continuing commitment to helping British Columbians deal with the ongoing effects of the …

Meet a Few of Our Chapter Volunteers

The AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter relies on volunteer committees to develop and manage programs that provide value to its membership, including Professional Development, Accreditation, National Philanthropy Day, Mentorship and Scholarship and more.  Interested in joining an AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter committee? Ellyn Schriber Growth & Development Officer, Delta Sport Development Centre- Delta Gymnastics Society Volunteer …

From the President: Welcome to Our New Website!

Welcome to the AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter’s new website! Some key highlights I want to share: In order to promote gender and racial pay equity, we will continue to require that a salary range be included for all job posting on the AFP Greater Vancouver website, using a new salary range selection. Research shows that …

Better Than the Oscars

AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter Board member and Associate Director of Leadership Giving at RCHF, Jennifer Atkinson, shares what volunteering with AFP means to her.

New AFP Greater Vancouver Website

Thank you so much for your continued membership in the AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter, especially during the ongoing pandemic. As part of our commitment to you, our members, we are constantly working on ways to better deliver services and to ensure that you have access to timely, relevant and interesting content about our profession. The …

Call for Candidates – Board Members & Committee Chairs

AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter is looking for board members and committee chairs. Our goal is to bring on candidates that are committed to serving and participating in the growth of our association. If you have experience in public relations, marketing, government relations, fundraising, not-for-profit management, volunteer management, or risk management, it would be an asset …

AFP Greater Vancouver Chapter Statement on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

In 2008, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up to document the effects of residential schools on Indigenous people. In 2015, the Commission released a report with 94 Calls to Action. One action was the establishment of a statutory holiday by the federal government to honour residential school survivors, their families and their communities …

Government Relations Update – Federal Election

Dear AFP Greater Vancouver Members, We are pleased to share an update on recent advocacy in relation to the upcoming Federal Election on Monday September 20, 2021. In future days, we also hope to provide an overview of major party platforms in relation to our sector and what we can do as members to advocate …

Budget Initiatives that Directly Impact Our Sector

Dear AFP Greater Vancouver Members, Your Government Relations committee would like to share some highlights from both the federal and provincial budgets announced earlier this week. Unsurprisingly, the budgets focus on outlining how Canada and British Columbia will finish the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and begin the road to economic recovery. Direct impacts on our sector: …

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