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COVID-19 highlights need for women’s supports

Gender disparities have been exacerbated by COVID-19, and many at-risk women are feeling the effects of a global pandemic more deeply than some might imagine.
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Providing kids with work experience while fueling creativity

United Way partner, Hot Shoe Productions, offers youth the opportunity to produce videos and stories, empowering them with valuable work experience they otherwise wouldn’t have access to.
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Community Update: Supporting an end to housing precarity

Last week, the Community Response Table assessed how precarious housing and homelessness has only increased due to COVID-19, and the bold steps we can take moving forward.
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Bolstering our region’s ability to endure the effects of the pandemic

With the Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund, we’re building on our COVID-19 work and bolstering our communities’ ability to endure the effects of the pandemic.
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Community Update: Creative solutions for economic recovery

This week, our Community Response Table assessed what creative solutions the community sector can bring forward to help with economic recovery during the post-peak phase of COVID-19.
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Mark Taylor: A note of encouragement

VP of Resource Development Mark Taylor offers a few words of encouragement and a renewed call to action as our communities deal with the lasting effects of COVID-19.
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Community Update: Risk inequities and COVID-19

This week, our Community Response Table examined the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized groups such as Black, Indigenous, and communities of colour, women and more.
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Community Builders: Meet five outstanding locals who are volunteering to help others through COVID-19

COVID-19 has changed the ways we gather, celebrate, and honour one another, however it has not changed the way our community steps up to support and help each other in times of crisis.
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