A popular service fair for people living homeless and in extreme poverty returns to Our Place drop-in for the third year in a row Oct. 13, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Coalition-sponsored Project Connect features one-stop shopping for a long list of much-needed services for some 700 people who we’ll see that day. They’ll come for services including help with housing, medical care, veterinary care, foot treatments, ID replacement, haircuts and more.

August 24, 2010

NEWS RELEASE - For Immediate Release

VICTORIA, BC—In April of this year, two local philanthropists determined to help homeless people donated $50,000 through the Victoria Foundation with the notion of challenging the community to match their gift. The campaign, aptly named I’ll Match (http://www.victoriafoundation.bc.ca), raised an additional $78,742.75. The total $128,742.75 will go directly to the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness (the Coalition) (www.solvehomelessness.com) for its Streets to Homes pilot program.

August 20, 2010

If each person in Greater Victoria contributed a loonie a week for a year, we could end homelessness in 8 years. Incredibly, that equals $18,000,000 per year, and $143,500,000 by 2018.

VICTORIA, BC – The Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness held its second Annual General Meeting today at the Victoria Native Friendship Centre. Coalition co-chair, Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin reviewed the accomplishments of the past year and outlined work planned for the year ahead.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VICTORIA – (April 22, 2010) In a culture that often spends a lot of time focusing on "me," this week donors from the Victoria Foundation are giving back big and issuing a challenge for citizens to do the same.
Donors of the Sun Star Fund held at the Victoria Foundation have made a generous gift of $50,000 to the Streets to Homes program at the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness. Streets to Homes is a pilot initiative which will house and support 120 people who are chronically homeless over the next two years across this region.
Streets to Homes adapts the successful Toronto Streets to Homes program to the Victoria context and builds on the current resources and knowledge that exist in our community and throughout BC.