Our Mission: The rennie foundation is committed to giving our time, mind, and means to advance organizations in finding solutions and impacting meaningful change to marginalized communities in which we work.
The rennie foundation develops collaborative partnerships with proven philanthropic organizations in the communities we serve and impacts change through time, mind, and means.
Based upon feedback from our real estate advisors and head office staff through the fall of 2021, the rennie gives mandate of the foundation will focus on mental health, housing, and children with a continued and underlying mandate to support social justice, reconciliation, and sustainability through everything we do.
The rennie foundation is supported and directed by a committee of volunteer real estate advisors and head office staff. The committee ensures the strategic and responsible direction of funds within established criteria, reflective of the desires of our people.
Nearly 55% of Canadians will seek mental wellness support this year.
We support organizations committed to creating greater access to mental health resources for all members of the community. This is achieved through funding research and operating grants in both a community and medical setting.
Vancouver General Hospital
UBC Hospital Foundation
Pacific Autism Network
Diverse communities are necessary to support the most vulnerable.
We support organizations that impact greater access to housing and services for marginalized members of the community. This is achieved through the combination of programming, social support, and funding resources.
Atira Women’s Housing Society
BCIT and UBC Real Estate
Covenant House
Education is a right of every member of the society.
We support organizations that help reduce barriers to education for underserved populations in our community. This is achieved through programming within our inner-city elementary schools, capital grants, direct funding of masters and doctoral research, and scholarship/bursary programs.
Florence Nightingale Elementary School
AIRS Program
Vancouver Community College
Each individual is encouraged to advance the causes that move them.
We listen to our people and to the needs they see in our community. When they give of their time or mind to causes close to them, the foundation matches their gift with our means.
Red Cross
Maple Hope Foundation
Our Mission: The rennie foundation is committed to giving our time, mind, and means to advance organizations finding solutions and impacting meaningful change to marginalized communities in which we work.
Supporting Our Communities: The rennie foundation seeks to support non-profit organizations within our communities. For over two decades, we have partnered with local organizations focused on three critical areas of support: mental health, housing & poverty reduction, and arts & education.
At the rennie foundation we are keen to learn more about organizations and causes in our community that are making an impact within our areas of focus.
