Crafting Great Blog Posts

We don’t often discuss here on our blog about how we actually manage our blog, so we thought we’d – of course! – write a blog post about it to help other organizations that would like to start or enhancing their blogging practices.

At Volunteer Victoria we have five staff members that regularly write posts for this blog. On top of the posts that Lisa, Lori, Leanna, Lornna and I create (I’m lucky they let me help since my name doesn’t begin with ‘L’!), we also bring in volunteers from our programs as much as we can to help out and present a …

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Volunteer Victoria’s Leanna Hill Wins Youth Leadership Award

We are very pleased to announce that our valued colleague, and friend, Leanna Hill recently won The Vancity Youth Award at The Victoria Leadership Awards.

This award recognizes a young leader between the ages of 20 and 30 who demonstrates community leadership in one or more of the following areas:

People: Building wealth with those who need it most; Planet: Sustaining our environment; Places: Promoting community growth and change.

 

There were so many deserving and inspirational nominees in this category, so we are especially proud of Leanna’s accomplishment!

Volunteer Victoria also wishes to acknowledge and thank all of the other incredible nominees for their outstanding contributions …

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Eyes on Craigdarroch Castle

The following is a guest blog post written and researched by one of Volunteer Victoria’s volunteer writers, Gwen Hill. Gwen is one of two Volunteer Victoria Media Copy Writers and she has been with us for just over a year. She says she “has been writing for pleasure and craft since she figured out how to hold a pen”.  Gwen maintains a blog on managing depression, which you can visit by clicking on this link.”  Enjoy!

It was first a lavish Victorian home. Then a military hospital. A college, a school board – And now, it’s Craigdarroch …

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BC Societies Act Update

The Ministry of Finance released a discussion paper in December 2011 regarding proposed amendments to the BC Society Act. The proposed amendments are drafted to “recognize the unique nature of societies and aim to balance societies” need for flexibility with broader concerns of accountability and integrity.

The Government Non Profit Initiative website notes that the paper “does not reflect government policy at this stage, but rather is intended to stimulate discussion on a possible direction for reform.”

 
The proposed amendments could have significant impacts on all of the 26,000 non profit organizations operating in BC. The adoption of a new corporate law framework would …

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Eyes on The Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society (VIRCS)

The post below was written by Isabela H. Chamon Sasaki, our newest Volunteer Blogger. Isabela is Brazilian, a future journalist, a cinefile and a dreamer- and you can check out her blog here.

Since 2008, Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society has been helping me navigate all the difficulties that I have faced as an immigrant youth going through tremendous changes in life. Known throughout the Victoria community and Vancouver Island as simply “VIRCS”, the organization provides support to every immigrant within the community who seeks it, from children to seniors. VIRCS’ diverse team …

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