Community Arts Council of Vancouver

Community Arts Endowment Fund & Community Arts Program Fund

Dear Friends,

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver recently celebrated its 65th anniversary and there is much to be lauded. The CACV has played a pivotal and significant role in the cultural life of Vancouver. Many of today’s prominent arts institutions had their origins with the Council or were given support in their early years: the Opera, the Symphony, the Vancouver Centennial Museum, the Vancouver Academy of Music, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the Robson Street Courthouse Square to name a few. Yet we continue to face many challenges in the artistic and creative dimension of our civic life, especially at the grassroots level.For this reason, the CACV is now focusing its efforts on supporting community organizations involved in the arts in the Downtown Eastside, knowing that the community arts are a powerful means for personal and community transformation. Lives are changed. People are supported in creating new, healthy futures for themselves. The community becomes stronger.

This important source of positive transformation is in dire need of sustainable funding. To this end, a committee has been struck to raise monies for a Community Arts Fund (CAF). An initial sum of $125,000 was donated by 2010 Legacies Now and a further $32,000 has been raised by the DTES community itself. The goal isto create a $1 million endowment fund, using interest earned to support this highly effective work.

As a friend and supporter of the Community Arts Council, we invite you to be the first to donate. Your gift will be gratefully received, well managed and wisely used to help people, no matter how challenged, to believe in themselves again and to work for a healthier, more secure future. To donate simply send a cheque to the Vancouver Foundation, marked with “CACV” in the memo line and mail to:F Endowment Fund account has been opened with the Vancouver Foundation, an organization with a well-established reputation of integrity, fiscal responsibility and sensitivity to the arts and culture. The Community Arts Fund is a legacy for the future!

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Suite 1200 – 555 West Hastings Street, Box 12132,

Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC Canada

V6B 4N6

To give securities to the Community Arts Fund, please contact Peter Jackman at Vancouver Foundation (peter.jackman@vancouverfoundation.ca) to set this up.

Or, if you prefer, just click this online link to use Visa, Masterard, American Express or Interac.

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Sincerely,

Yulanda Faris & John Montalbano, Co-Chairs of the Community Arts Fund

Michael Clague, Board President

Community Arts Council of Vancouver

https://vancouverfoundation.ca/CommunityArtsCouncil/donateonline.asp