Envision Financial's Full Cupboard Holiday Program, which is in its fifth year, collected more than 800 gifts, 3,665 pounds of food and nearly $4,000 to benefit community partner across the Lower Mainland and Kitimat last year.
Branches in Delta collected 140 gifts and 800 pounds of food.
The Full Cupboard is Envision Financial's innovative program designed to raise food, funds and awareness for local food banks. Through this initiative, Envision Financial has committed to raising $1 million for local food banks in the next 10 years. To date, Envision Financial has raised over $176,000 and more than 17,300 pounds of food for Food Banks in B.C. *** Vancity recently donated $5,000 to the Burns Bog Conservation Society to help in its efforts to protect sensitive natural habitat by building boardwalks at the Delta Nature Reserve.
The donation brings the society another step closer to making the reserve a world-class recreation area people can enjoy for years to come.
Since all the manual labour for the project will be supplied for volunteers, every dollar of Vancity's donation will be used to buy tools and material needed to repair the boardwalks and protect the ecologically sensitive area.
