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2005 Highlights
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- RBC
holds book drive to benefit YWCA. In 2005, RBC
sponsored Vancouver's Unique Lives & Experiences event.
As North America's foremost women's lecture series, this
event provides intellectual entertainment, meaningful dialogue
and stimulating interaction to thousands women across the
continent every year. But in Vancouver, participants had
a chance to make a difference in their community as well.
(July 2005)
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Initiatives
- British Columbia: At the
Super Cities WALK for Multiple Sclerosis (MS), RBC employees
raised over $50,000, helping the MS Society division
achieve a record-setting $1 million for MS research, programs
and services.
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British Columbia: For the
fifth consecutive year, RBC donated $25,000 to the B.C.
Library Association's Summer Reading Club, a province-wide
program that encourages children to read throughout the
summer.
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Burnaby: RBC Foundation
donated $3,000 to Community Living Society's Pottery Works
project, an Art Studio & Cooperative, enabling people
with disabilities to become productive, employable potters.
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Delta: RBC donated
$5,000 to the Burns Bog Conservation Society to support
Wetlands in Suburbia Education Project, to educate children
and teachers about ecological values of peat lands by
focusing on Burns Bog, the world's only estuarine raised
peat bog found on a Mediterranean climate. The program
provides teachers with curriculum-based educational material
related to peat bogs and hands-on experience through onsite
field trips.
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Kelowna: RBC Foundation
donated $20,000 to the Central Okanagan School District
to support Helping Hands, a reforestation program undertaken
in partnership with the Regional District of Central Okanagan,
the City of Kelowna, the District of Lake Country and
the District of Peachland. The program is intended to
reforest areas of the Okanagan damaged by fire, insect
infestations or construction and to teach environmental
stewardship skills to students and the community. More
than 25,000 elementary and high school students participated
in the 2005 Helping Hands event, planting 130,000 seedlings.
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Kelowna: RBC funded
the "Helping Hands" reforestation program to
raise awareness about reforestation and plant in students'
minds the idea that the environment is vital to their
future. In all, 23,000 students, staff and volunteers
planted a total of 134,000 seedlings at 50 sites in Kelowna.
- Nanaimo: RBC donated $50,000 to the Surgical and Maternity
Facilities Expansion at Nanaimo General Hospital.
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Penticton, British Columbia:
Every payday, RBC staff at Penticton Main Branch donate
money to a special branch fund that they use throw a Christmas
party for the less fortunate citizens in their town.
- Prince George: The
RBC Foundation donated $9,500 to Street Spirits —
a youth-driven theatre company that uses drama to help youth
identify solutions to problems they might face. RBC's donation
will be used for educational programming that will address
the impact of alcohol misuse on families.
- Prince George: RBC donated $40,000 to the Prince George
Regional Hospital for renovations to the Maternal Childcare
Centre for Excellence.
- Richmond: RBC donated
$9,000 to the Richmond Art Gallery's Family Sundays Program,
in order to make the visual arts accessible to low-income
families free of charge in Richmond. Each-three hour session
is organized on a drop-in basis and provides an enjoyable,
non-intimidating environment for children and parents. Family
Sundays is facilitated by a group of 10-12 high school students
who are interested in a career in arts and culture.
- Surrey: The RBC Foundation donated $150,000 to the Surrey
Memorial Hospital for its new Emergency Centre. Employees
also set a fundraising goal of an additional $300,000 over
five years through fundraising activities.
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Vancouver: RBC Foundation
donated $10,000 to PLEA Community Services Society of
BC's KidStart program. Over 225 at risk children (under
12) receive support through the positive mentoring services
offer by PLEA's trained volunteers. Youth are assigned
to adult volunteer mentors, who commit to spending 3 hours
a week for one year to involve kids in activities such
as a trip to the movies, an afternoon of skiing or simply
a quiet walk on the beach. Their friendship and encouragement
lets these kids know they are cared for and provides them
with opportunities to experience success and achievement.
- Vancouver: The RBC Foundation donated $50,000 to the Lions
Gate Hospital for its emergency department.
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Vancouver: RBC employees helped raise over $638,000 for
the United Way.
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Vancouver: RBC Foundation
donated $7,500 to Festival Vancouver's Community Access
program, providing admission to more than 2000 disadvantaged
persons to 50 concerts and another dozen throughout British
Columbia in August 2005.
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Vancouver: RBC employees
raised $350,000, through in-branch sales of Jungle Buddies
stuffed animals and participation in Jeans Day, for B.C.'s
Children's Hospital.
- Vernon: RBC donated $4,500 to the Vernon Museum's traveling
memory trunk, which contains artifacts from the region's
gold-rich history. The trunk will travel to schools throughout
the Okanagan.
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Victoria: More than
40 young musicians, aged 12 - 15 from a variety of schools
in Greater Victoria will receive training at a level that
they would not normally attain thanks to the Cathedral
Festival Youth Initiative, a program offered by the Victoria
Conservatory of Music and supported by RBC Foundation
with a $4,000 donation.
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Whitehorse, Yukon: RBC
employees donated baked goods to raise over $1,500 for
South Asian Tsunami Relief.
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