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Upcoming Events

Gateway to Grants

September 22, 2010 - 9:00am - September 24, 2010 - 5:00pm

GRANT WRITING TRAINING & MANAGEMENT
Grant Writing Workshop

Vancouver, BC
September 22-24, 2010

Give us three days and we will empower you to write...

Volunteer BC: Volunteer Futures Conference

September 24, 2010 - 9:00am - September 25, 2010 - 5:00pm

Volunteer BC - Volunteer Futures Conference
Annual Training Event for Volunteer Leaders

Volunteer BC will host two substance-packed days of...

‘Developing Asia Beyond the Global Economic Crisis’

September 24, 2010 - 11:42am

HB Global and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

are pleased to invite you to a...

News from the BC Council for International Cooperation

The rise of "development porn"

LONDON (AlertNet) - Starving black babies pleading silently for help. Twenty years ago, such images thrust Ethiopia's deadly famine into the global spotlight, helping to raise billions of dollars in aid. But the pictures also sparked soul-searching among aid agencies who felt they reinforced debasing stereotypes of Africa and robbed the subjects of their dignity.

Global Work Party!

October 10, 2010 is declaring to anyone who will listen that it is going to be big deal.

Reimaging Canadian Foreign Aid

In 2010, the Canadian government will spend $5 billion on international assistance. Most of that will finance Official Development Assistance (ODA) – what most Canadians would know as foreign aid.

Canadian Council for International Cooperation

Mother Teresa

What I do, you cannot do, but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. - Mother Teresa

Peace Pilgrim

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
~ Peace Pilgrim

William Baker

Most people are like you and me, or the people across the street or around the world from you and me. Just like you and me, their hearts tell them that somewhere, somehow they can make a positive difference in the world. - William Baker

Diane Branson

Nearly every problem our world faces is currently being solved in some community by some group or some individual. Imagine if we could only get all these hearts and minds connected so that we could collectively tackle our problems. - Diane Branson

John F. Kennedy

Never before has the human race had such capacity… to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy… We have the power to make this the best generation in the history of the world – or to make it the last. - John F. Kennedy

Ellen Goodman

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. - Ellen Goodman

Barbara Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuses – what I am is beyond my control – for the philosophy of responsibility. - Barbara Jordan

Elizabeth Dole

The questions I’ll want to ask myself when I’m ninety years old and looking back over my life are not, How much money did I make? and How many titles , awards, or honours did I receive? But rather, What did I stand for? Did I make a positive difference for others? - Elizabeth Dole

Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow humans; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville