Lauren Powell built Girls Got Game for inner city girls and was named a Difference Maker for it. Plus Urban Systems Foundation becomes CLICK's first major corporate sponsor, and eight Vancouver restaurants sign on.
Ten minutes on what the Streetfront Alternative program is, and how its students are changing their own lives — from the teacher who runs it.
More than 80 items went under the hammer at Definitely Not a Gala 2016 — theatre tickets, Haida jewellery, a sushi workshop, a sail in English Bay — and for the first time you could pay by credit card.
Proceeds from the Crofton House Winter Bazaar became a $35,000 cheque — the largest single donation in CLICK's history at the time.
Strathcona Elementary's four-day Aboriginal Open House drew more than 500 people to a feast of salmon and bannock. Plus Haida artist Alvin Adkins on why he gives, and a first Dinner to Make a Difference that raised $20,000.
The Vancouver Police Department helps CLICK open Inner City Kids Week 2016 on May 9 with the Pulling for Inner City Kids tug of war, in support of an $80,000 fundraising goal.
Jesse was moving between foster homes and failing Grade 9 when she joined Streetfront, an alternative school CLICK supports. She started running. Then she climbed Kilimanjaro, carrying her mother's ashes.
The news release for Inner City Kids Week 2015: a $75,000 goal, newly named Chief Constable Adam Palmer on the tug of war rope, and the first CLICK Conversations with inner city partners.
Night Hoops brings 28 teams of at-risk youth into the gym on Friday and Saturday nights. Meanwhile, 15 Streetfront students climbed Kilimanjaro and 12 reached the summit.
The week opens with the tug of war on the Vancouver Art Gallery lawn on May 11, and closes with Definitely Not a Gala — CLICK's reception and silent auction at Creekside Community Centre.