Environment:

• CPAWS BC: Their mission is to protect at least 50% of Canada’s wilderness and oceans, keeping B.C.’s great parks, oceans and ecosystems wild for this century and beyond.

Social:

• Family Services of the North Shore: Helps young people overcome desperate lives on the street so they can make a fresh start.

International Humanitarian:

• Canadian Red Cross: Helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience.

Environment:

• CPAWS BC: Their mission is to protect at least 50% of Canada’s wilderness and oceans, keeping B.C.’s great parks, oceans and ecosystems wild for this century and beyond.
• Ecojustice: Canada’s foremost non-profit environmental law organization working to protect the environment by going to court to defend the right of Canadians to a healthy environment.
• Nature Trust of British Columbia: Dedicated to the management of over 480 conservation properties spanning 175,000 acres of land in the province.

Social:

• Covenant House: Helps young people overcome desperate lives on the street so they can make a fresh start.
• Indian Residential School Survivors Society: Provides services to support Indian Residential School survivors, students and intergenerational survivors.

International Humanitarian:

• Rainbow Railroad: In countries around the world, LGBTQI+ people face violence and oppression simply because of who they love or who they are. Rainbow Railroad helps them get to safety.

Environment:

• Nature Trust of British Columbia: Dedicated to the management of over 480 conservation properties spanning 175,000 acres of land in the province.

Social:

• North Shore Community Resources: Serving the North Shore, by extending a hand up to those in need.  Helping to restore our neighbours to health, and stability benefits the whole community.

International Humanitarian:

• Doctors without Borders: The world’s leading independent international medical humanitarian organization.

• BC SPCA: Their mission is to protect and enhance the quality of life for domestic, farm and wild animals in B.C.

Social:

• North Shore Search & Rescue: Their mission is to search for, rescue and assist people in distress; and educate the public about the North Shore’s back-country.

International Humanitarian:

• Doctors without Borders: The world’s leading independent international medical humanitarian organization.

Health:

• BC Cancer Foundation: The largest charitable funder of cancer research in British Columbia.

Environment:

• Nature Conservancy of Canada: They target key areas across the country where habitat conservation is needed. They protect and care for ecologically important habitats, with a focus on rare and at-risk species.

Social:

• Access Pro Bono Society of BC: Their Mission is to promote access to justice in BC by providing and fostering quality pro bono legal services for people and non-profit organizations of limited means.

International Humanitarian

• Doctors without Borders: The world’s leading independent international medical humanitarian organization.

In other years, we have supported a variety of charities:  see 2013, see 2014, see 2016.  In 2017, we are supporting charities again.

Health:

• BC Cancer Foundation:  The largest charitable funder of cancer research in British Columbia.

Environment:

• David Suzuki Foundation: Works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future.

Social:

• Family Services of North Vancouver:  The community-based agency offers education, support and counselling services and has been caring for residents of the North Shore for over 60 years.

International Humanitarian:

• Doctors without Borders: The world’s leading independent international medical humanitarian organization.

 In other years, we have supported a variety of charities:  see 2013, see 2015, see 2016.   In 2017, we are supporting charities again.

Health:

• BC Cancer Foundation:  The largest charitable funder of cancer research in British Columbia.

• Doctors without Borders: The world’s leading independent international medical humanitarian organization.

Environment:

• Ecojustice Canada:  Canada’s foremost non-profit environmental law organization working to protect the environment by going to court to defend the right of Canadians to a healthy environment.

• David Suzuki Foundation: Works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future.

Social Justice:

• Pivot Foundation: Works to end poverty and marginalization through mostly legal means particularly in the downtown eastside of Vancouver.

• Covenant House Vancouver: Helps young people overcome desperate lives on the street so they can make a fresh start.

Animal Welfare:

• BC SPCA: The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) protects and enhances the quality of life for domestic, farm and wild animals in British Columbia.

 In other years, we have supported a variety of charities:  see 2014, see 2015, see 2016.   In 2017, we are supporting charities again.