The Foundation’s partners are doing remarkable things, from advancing conservation initiatives and addressing climate change to championing gender justice and fostering community resilience. We offer multi-year, unrestricted funding that gives organizations the flexibility to achieve their important work.
Current Grantees
Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
All My Relations Indigenous Society / Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week
Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland
Canadian Parks & Wildlife Society (CPAWS BC)
Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC
Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Family Services of the North Shore
Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society
Justice for Girls Outreach Society
Metro Vancouver Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC)
Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders
Neighbours United for Nature Society
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
Squamish Helping Hands Society
Zero Ceiling Society of Canada
Legacy Grantees
Organizations the Foundation has previously partnered with from 2020 onwards. Note that organizations from before 2020 are not listed.
Lions Gate Hospital Foundation
PLUSEC (Pluralism, Human Security & Sustainability Centre)
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
The Climate Justice Organizing HUB
News & Impact Stories
Shaping climate and conservation policy, strengthening feminist movements, and building the care economy.
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Newsletter: February 2025
We have officially made it through the ten darkest weeks of the year. -
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2024 End-of-Year Message
The Houssian Foundation’s 2024 theme was connection. -
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Read Our Grant-Making & Investment Report
We are excited to share with you Reconnecting: The Houssian Foundation’s 2023 Grant-Making and Investment Report. -
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Newsletter: June 2024
Yesterday was a great day to celebrate the milestone achievement of the Great Bear Sea Project for Finance Permanence. -
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Newsletter: April 2024
I hope this Earth Day finds you in some way connected to the beauty and struggle of the land you are living on.