We have so much to be grateful for as 2022 comes to a close. Our year was filled with so many blessings like planting our first food forest and healing garden, Chén̓chenstway and receiving the funding and support we need to keep everything in bloom.

We want to extend our deepest gratitude to Kiwassa Neighbourhood House for their partnership since the first days of VUFFF, supporting us in ways that have allowed us to flourish and be the best that we can be. We wouldn’t be here without them and we are eternally grateful to the Kiwassa staff we work with for generating such positivity and creativity toward our work and helping us in ways that go beyond the call of duty.

The second annual Neighbourhood Food Week was an incredible event filled with so many supportive partnerships and community spirit. We would like to thank Hastings Sunrise Community Food Network(HSCFN) for fully supporting Neighbourhood Food Week with funding obtained from the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and United Way BC – Lower Mainland Region. HSCFN is an awesome network and if you don’t know it or the organizations that comprise it, please check them out!

We are so grateful to the Real Estate Foundation of BC for believing in our work and providing us with the funding we need to continue thriving!

We are grateful to Vancouver Foundation who have supported us ongoingly since the get go and have recently granted us funding for our newest team member for the Chén̓chenstway Garden Steward position (we’ll tell you more soon!). We are so grateful for our partnership with Aboriginal Mother Centre Society for this program and for contributing so much to the success of Chén̓chenstway.

We are grateful to Vancity Credit Union who has also supported us throughout our journey.

And thank you to our newest funder, Grow Grants for their support and enthusiasm for our work!

We are grateful to the Vancouver Park Board for their ongoing support of our work from Burrard View Park to Oxford Park to the Fieldhouse Activation Program. Thank you to the Neighbourhood Matching Fund for funding our awesome upcoming mosaic project in the cement circle in Oxford Park and log seating carving.

Thank you so much to the Capilano University class INTS 335 and Prof. Josema Zamorano for helping us with all kinds of community work, outreach, plant ID signs and more this semester!

There is so much more gratitude to go out! Thank you, thank you, thank you, to all our amazing cocreators, Board of Directors, volunteers, donors, members, organizational partners, neighbours. You all make neighbourhood community building so inspiring and fulfilling! We would not be here without this community. It definitely takes a village to raise a non-profit organization!