Susan Grenville retired from TELUS after 30 years of service and left with a lifelong passion for giving back to her community. In 2006 Susan, who was living in Calgary at the time, transferred to TELUS on the Sunshine Coast, a move that allowed her to...
The Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue Association lost a long-time volunteer earlier this year, Robert Allen. In his memory, the Association is establishing an endowment at the Sunshine Coast Foundation. Annual grants from the Robert Allen Memorial Endowment will support land search and rescue activities...
The Board of Directors of the Sunshine Coast Foundation announces that, after five years at the helm, Wendy Francis will retire as Executive Director early in 2022. Wendy joined the Foundation in January 2017 and has provided strong leadership that has supported a period of...
On June 11th the four food banks on BC's Sunshine Coast launched a Coast-wide food bank drive to raise $100,000 for their current and future operations by July 15th. With COVID-19 exasperating financial pressures for families on the Coast, the local food banks- the Sunshine Coast Food Bank, the Pender Harbour Food Bank, the Salvation...
While COVID-19 cases on the Coast have largely disappeared, during the height of the pandemic many organizations in our community struggled and had to close their doors or drastically alter the way they served the community. Fundraising activities had to be cancelled, and organizations found themselves...
While the 7pm cheers for essential service providers working on the frontlines of COVID-19 have faded out, the work of caring for our community has not stopped. Today we’re taking a closer look at a community organization that is making a big difference. The Crisis Centre...