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Thursday, 15 April 2010 |
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Time to get ready for our annual cyclathon. It takes place June 26 and is a family friendly event. Get a team together and start training! You can also participate by volunteering or donating. Click here for more info.  |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
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You can give a gift in honor of someone easily online. When you do this, we can send your family member or friend a card for you to let them know! Giving a gift is as easy as clicking on the red package above and letting us know if it's honor of someone in the comments section. If you want us to send out a card, just give us the details. Home Essentials kits cost $30 on average and contain the tools needed to help someone in need create a new home. If you prefer to give by cheque, you can mail your donation to: Gather and Give105-418 Kent Ave South EVancouver, BC V5X 2X7 If you make a donation in honor of a friend or family member simply include their name and address with your donation along with any instructions or greeting. |
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Support us when you buy coffee |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
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Onebean is donating a portion of the proceeds to Gather and Give when you buy coffee. 
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Kudos to Minuteman Press! |
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
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Minuteman Press on South East Marine Drive donated printing costs for our
brochures and business cards this year. We are extremely grateful for this
donation and their willingness to support their community. |
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CBC Radio One - No Fixed Address |
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
CBC Radio One is partnering with Gather and Give! They interviewed Jen as part of a special series called "No Fixed Address" Click here to listen They will also be collecting donations at the Gathering Place on the corner of Helmcken & Saymour on Friday March 6 from 3 to 6 pm. |  |
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Maple Leaf Storage Donates In-Kind Storage Space |
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
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Maple Leaf Storage has donated in-kind, one year's worth of storage space.
With increased demand for our services and increasing amounts of goods donations, lack of space was becoming an issue. We've tried our best to conserve costs by using every square inch of warehouse space at our location on Kent Ave, but there are days when it's hard to work because you can't see the floor! Maple Leaf has stepped in to assist us with our space issue by donating two 10 x 10 side by side storage lockers in the Commercial/Powell area. This space will help us to inventory items, particularly those that are out of season, like winter coats and accessories. This will free up space within our warehouse during the summer to stock extra household items needed in our Home Essentials Kits. Ideally, it will help us to ensure that we always have items available for those that need them. http://www.mapleleafstorage.com/ |
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Partnering with More Than Gold |
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Friday, 27 February 2009 |
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Gather and Give is proud to partner with More Than Gold.
More Than Gold was initiated by the coming 2010 Olympics as a network of the Metro Vancouver faith community, with the intent to engage and mobilize people around service, social justice and witness. There is a desire for something lasting, a legacy - that activities and events centred around the games would increase attention on what can only be accomplished together: the transformation of our city.
Networks are the best way to facilitate this and make change. We want to expand and strengthen the faith network, to connect people and needs and resources.
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Introducing Eleanor Herd: Interim Executive Director |
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 |
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Eleanor Herd's interests are a unique mix of business, creative and non-profit with a vision of combining all three areas to make a difference for the more vulnerable in our community. Eleanor's passion to facilitate change comes in part from experiencing homelessness with her mother and brother, one summer at the age of 16. A family in the community stepped in and provided practical resources to assist them in successfully moving forward. By helping to get them set up in a small furnished apartment that included the house wares and linens that they needed, she and her brother were able to focus on getting back to school, instead of continuing to focus so much on survival.
Eleanor enjoys working at Gather and Give as it represents the heart of what made a difference at a vulnerable time in her life. She has experienced how simple acts of kindness can make a profound difference in the lives of others. Eleanor believes that we need to hear the stories of what does work so that our community can duplicate these supports successfully.
Over the past 24 years, Eleanor has worked in the business world as both a manager and consultant providing her services to large corporate, government and retail clients, as well as small to mid- sized businesses and non-profit organizations. Along-side the day to day work projects, Eleanor has also volunteered in the community working with various organizations including: World Vision's NeighbourLink, The Surrey Housing and Homelessness Task Force and as a soup kitchen team lead at the "Front Room" shelter in Surrey.
Eleanor's creative side has developed skills and experience in theatre and film projects through co-producing, acting, writing and directing. Eleanor's vision is to see the business and creative worlds come along side non-profit projects and partner in making a significant difference in our community. The strength of corporate and retail providing resources for non- profit needs and utilizing film and theatre to communicate the stories that inspire hope and responsive life changing action. Together assisting the vulnerable in our society to move forward successfully in their lives. | |
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Introducing Melaney Gleeson-Lyall: Full-time Operations Director |
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009 |
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Come by and say hi!
Melaney is our new Operations Director
She will be managing the operations
and volunteer program.
604-637-2250 ext 2 or
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I am a proud Coast Salish woman born and raised in the city of Vancouver. I was fostered and adopted by the same family and raised the youngest of 10 children. As a child, I asked my mom once if we were poor, because my neighbor said I was wearing her dress and we must be poor to shop at the second hand store. Mom said "no dear, we are very rich", not realizing that what she meant may not have been by monetary standards, but found in our beliefs, values, lifestyle and family. My mom will always be my hero, God rest her soul. She volunteered at the Sisters of Atonement for 25 years, a soup kitchen in the DTES. She gave me a card that said "live simply so that others might simply live". Those words imparted have stuck with me since my teenage years. Much of my life I too have volunteered with numerous organizations assisting single moms, youth ministries, new immigrants, churches and the same soup kitchen. I was a fulltime volunteer at the Hotdog Church at Main and Hastings (2 yrs) and spent a summer in Camden New Jersey working in their Inner City.
My cultural heritage has brought me to many countries to impart the Creator's heart for his people, his children. I am connected to my birth families and have found my earthly and spiritual heritages are entwined in who I am and who I am becoming. I am experiencing the best of both worlds, even if the road traveled has been an uphill climb at times. I also have two diplomas from Dubrulle French Culinary and am listed with the BC Chef Association. I worked for Liliget Feast House and Culinary Capers Catering, and I have been a director of two First Nations cooking schools and catering companies. I have worked towards my Bachelor of Theology at Pacific Life Bible College and still have a ways to go! I have always had a shepherd’s heart in caring for the people of our communities. Some people are born under poor circumstances, others may choose harmful pathways but all should be given a hand through human kindness and generosity to find a solid foundation. An old hymn, my favourite, says it all:
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
And where there's doubt true faith in You
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness only light
And where there's sadness ever joy
Oh, Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul
Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we're born to eternal life |
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Homeless Emergency Action Team partners with Gather and Give |
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
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Gather and Give is collecting items on behalf of the Homeless Emergency Action Team (HEAT), chaired by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. When the weather dips as low as it has this December, shelters and agencies providing direct service to the homeless often run low of needed supplies. Though Gather and Give seeks to stock items year round to meet the demand that arises during cold spells, most items are donated when the weather actually turns cold. To accomodate a large influx of donations, Gather and Give offers its warehouse and volunteers to sort, store, and redistribute needed supplies.
The list of items, compiled by HEAT members Judy Graves, the Housing Department's Outreach Coordinator for the City of Vancouver, and Janice Abbott, the Executive Director for the Atira Women's Resource Society, includes the following:
- Blankets
- Bus tickets
- Winter coats
- Long-sleeved shirts
- Thermal underwear
- Wool socks
- Sleeping bags
- Tarps (preferably small)
- Hygiene items (combs, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, nail clippers, etc)
- Boots
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