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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers and Sport BC raised $270,000 for KidSport through the first annual Corporate Kids Challenge.
Pharmasave raised $40,000 for Variety - The Children’s Charity at its 20th Annual Charity Golf Classic.
As part of its GranFondo Whistler sponsorship, RBC awarded $25,000 to 10 B.C.-based organizations dedicated to protecting water resources through its Blue Water project, a 10-year global commitment to help protect the world’s freshwater resources.
The Investor’s Group’s donation of $1,600 to the Tiny Bundles program will help SHARE Food Bank support 100 families with pregnant or nursing moms or children under a year with fresh produce, dairy and eggs for their healthy development.
Approximately 100 Terasen employees and their families participated in the company’s annual Community Giving Day at Stanley Park’s Klahowya Village, where they built an elder’s shelter and constructed landscape art.
CEI Architecture Planning Interiors won an international Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies for its design work on a proposed 66-unit, energy-efficient, luxury residential site in Kerrisdale.