The 2016 BC Child Poverty Report Card has just been published. Packed with facts and real-life stories of BC families, it’s a valuable and poignant record of the reality that since the first report card was published in 1995 one in 5 children in BC still live in poverty. First…
The Hycroft Lecture is one of our Club’s signature events that is held to showcase women in our community who are actively living our motto of “leading the way”. After a year of significant action that saw women’s rights rise to the forefront of public conversation, we chose to focus…
We’re a proud supporter of West Coast LEAF and often work alongside them in ensuring women’s equality is front and centre in our province. BC’s new government gives us an opportunity to “chart a new path” and advocate for “critical improvements and systemic change, including on those policies and issues that most…
The University Women’s Club of Vancouver is pleased to welcome Wendy Orvig as the new Club President. An accountant and current Director of Finance at Bard on the Beach, Wendy is the Club’s 63rd President and will serve in her new role for a two-year term. Wendy joined the UWCV in 2008…
Earlier this year our Trust Fund for Education (TFE) came together with local academics, students, and other UWCV members to honour our bursary and scholarship recipients from 2015 and 2016. This treasured biennial tradition allows us to not only celebrate the many achievements of the young women and men we support,…
Four Clubs, CFUW Kelowna, North Vancouver, Victoria and UWC Vancouver will be participating in a Study Circles Project on Youth Aging Out of Foster Care in BC. Developed through a grant from the initiative “Fostering Change” from the Vancouver Foundation, the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) BC Council, together…
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