United Way - Lower Mainland

January 2010

A little ray of sunshine

As we quickly glance through the papers or on-line media each morning, there are many things that we see, but in our rather hectic, overwhelming and fast-paced lives, do we really get the space and time to think about how they make us feel?
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Home is where the hope is for seniors

A recent National Post article highlights many of the important issues United Way is tackling with our Community Action for Seniors' Independence (CASI) project.
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United Way to feature local artist John de Mato's mural at this year's Community Spirit Awards

The annual Scotiabank & United Way Community Spirit Awards features an image from a local public mural, as part of the awards handed out to salute organizations and individuals who have supported United Way's campaign for the community. In 2010 we feature Vancouver artist John de Matos.
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A snapshot of refugee influx to our region

United Way-supported Immigrant Services Society of BC has just released an overview of Government Assisted Refugee activity across the region in 2009. The overview also looks to anticipated settlement trends this year.
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Seeds of Success conference with Mary Gordon

Seeds of Success - a one day conference on the importance of Early Childhood Education was held in Langley this week.
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Jan. 19 Techvibes blog features United Way online project

Our new website and social media project, developed in partnership with Metro Vancouver-based 6S Marketing, Veratta and Domain7, received exposure Jan. 19 at Techvibes, one of the premier go-to sites for online technology information. It has a membership of 50,000.
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New Westminster Senior Services Task Force connects the dots

Members of the New Westminster Senior Services Task Force visited United Way staff on Friday, Jan. 15 to show what kinds of things seniors planning tables are doing on behalf of seniors throughout the Metro Vancouver region.
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Disadvantaged neighborhoods set children's reading skills on negative path: UBC study

A landmark study from the University of British Columbia finds that the neighbourhoods in which children reside at kindergarten predict their reading comprehension skills seven years later.
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United Way honours labour community leader

The 2009 Joe Morris Labour Community Service Award was presented by United Way of the Lower Mainland to Bill Gaucher.
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Our New Year's resolutions

What are your New Year’s resolutions? At United Way we have a few resolutions of our own. Join us.
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