Covenant House Vancouver

Now that the holiday season has drawn to a close and the New Year is in full swing, I’d like to give thanks our loving donor family for truly going above and beyond this past December.

The 8^th annual 30 Days for 30 Nights campaign, which aimed to fully fund the Crisis Shelter program during the busy month of December, was an absolute success!  Thanks to all of our donors who made a gift to the campaign, TD for the hugely successful Night of New Beginnings Gala and to our incredibly generous private donor who matched every gift, the goal of $333,250 was achieved!

On behalf over every single young person who comes to Covenant House Vancouver in search of a brighter, more independent future, I send many heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you.  It is thanks to caring family members like you, that we are able to provide the gift of hope to so many young people each year.

The success of this campaign is due largely in part to our very dedicated team of volunteer fundraisers.  We seriously could not do it without you! Many sincere thanks to Andrew Rae, Kingsley Noel and the entire Covenant House Vancouver Board of Directors for their involvement with this year’s efforts.

For more information on how you can get involved in the 30 Days for 30 Nights campaign, by making a gift or joining our team of volunteer fundraisers, please contact Marty Staniforth at (604) 639-8916 or Tristan Klassen at (604) 639-8919.

We Do! And we would love for you to follow us on Twitter.

So if you read our blog (your doing it right now) or follow us on Facebook but haven’t joined us on Twitter yet we hope you will. At twitter we provide you with an easy way to get small bites about what is happening at CHV and with Homeless youth. We also link to other great non profits and folks that are doing good work in Vancouver and around the world.

Today is #followfriday a hashtag that encourages Twitter users to find and follow new users on Fridays. We are always happy to have new followers and we would love to follow you as well.

So please join us on Twitter!

Have a happy Friday and a great weekend.

Here is another free and easy way to support CHV in 2012!

We are thrilled that so many of you are reading our blog, following us on twitter and “like” us on Facebook.  We are so close to reaching 1000 followers on Facebook and we really want to reach that milestone!

So if you read our blog or follow us on twitter but haven’t joined us on Facebook yet we encourage you to do so. Also be sure to tell your friends so that even more people can read uplifting stories about our youth, hear about events and ways to support us and generally know the 411 of what is happening at Covenant House Vancouver.

Thank you for your support!

Show your support for Covenant House Vancouver with our website badges! Choose the badge you want to display on your blog or website, then just click on the code to copy it. Paste the HTML code to your website to display the badge to your readers. You can also like us on Facebook and join us on Twitter.

You can get the badges anytime in our How To Help Section.

New Year’s Reflections

Looking back on the months gone by,
As a new year starts and an old one ends,
We contemplate what brought us joy,
And we think of our loved ones and our friends.

Recalling all the happy times,
Remembering how they enriched our lives,
We reflect upon who really counts,
As the fresh and bright new year arrives.

And when we ponder those who do,
we immediately think of you.

Thanks for being one of the reasons
We'll have a Happy New Year!

By Joanna Fuchs



Thank you for all your support in 2011!

Please note that if you are wanting to make a donation for the 2011 tax year you can visit our donation page and if you make a donation before 12:00am on December 31, 2011 you will immediately get a tax receipt for 2011 in your email inbox.

You can also call us at 604-638-GIFT(4438) to make a donation by phone during business hours.

Thank you and Happy New Year!

From all of us at Covenant House Vancouver we wish you and yours a very safe and special Christmas!

Thanks for all your support and friendship over this holiday season.

Each year our staff, volunteers and donors work very hard to put on a magical Christmas party for our young people. The youth receive backpacks full of useful and fun items and have a wonderful turkey dinner and many other yummy treats. Pictured below is our CSS space just before the party is about to start, staff and volunteers are ready to serve our young people and make the day special for them. Please note we do not take pictures of your young people during the party to allow them their privacy and confidentiality.

Thanks to everyone who makes this party possible including our donors, volunteers and staff from many departments!

A Big thank you to all our volunteers and donors we could not do the backpack program without you!

This holiday season, 300 homeless youth ages 16-24 will receive backpacks full of gifts at our Drop In Centre’s annual Christmas Party on December 19th. Please help us give them the Christmas they deserve!

We are located at 575 Drake Street. Donations can be dropped off at our front desk 24/7 but if you need assistance and/or would like to drop items off directly in our parkade it is open Monday - Sunday 9:00am until 4:30pm.

We would greatly appreciate donations being delivered to Covenant House Vancouver (Drake Street Location) by December 13^th.if possible.  This will allow time to sort and fill the 300 backpacks.



Most urgently needed items:

New Backpacks         $5.00 Gift cards for places like Tim Horton's and McDonalds
Men's T-shirts and Hoodies!