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Get to Know Your Charities / Non-Profits

In this special section of Senior Living Online, we pay homage to the many chairities across BC and Canada-wide that have dedicated their efforts to helping amazing causes and supporting those in need. Below you will find our featured charities, articles written by them as well as a large catalog of information surrounding Planned Giving. 

 

Seniors - be proud! According to Statistics Canada, seniors:

  • tend to donate larger amounts in absolute terms when they have a higher household income, but those with lower incomes give a higher percentage of their total income, making seniors the most charitable of any age group
  • are motivated to make donations based on feeling compassion for those in need, wanting to help a cause in which the donor personally believes, and wanting to make a contribution to the community.
  • give because they or someone they know has been personally affected by the cause of the organization or because of religious beliefs

Thinking of Giving? 

Not sure what type of charitable donation to give, what organization to support or just hestitant? Here are some articles that might help you decide how to put forth an educated step in choosing the right charitiy for you

Planned Giving Magazine Editions - View Online

Click here to view the May 2012 Planned Giving Issue

Our next printed Planned Giving edition will be available November 1st everywhere Senior Living Magazine is available. To order Senior Living Magazine right to your front door, CLICK HERE

Our Featured Charities and Non-Profit Organizations

Click on the organization you wish to browse through their articles or scroll down below for our complete catalog of articles surrounding Planned Giving

Gift of Life!

By News Canada on Apr 11, 2012

It is unbelievable the courage and struggle that these people go through on a daily basis as they wait for someone else to save their life. Read more...

Discover the “411” on Diabetes from the experts at Saint Elizabeth!

By Saint Elizabeth on Dec 12, 2011

November was Diabetes Awareness Month and each year Nov 14th is recognized worldwide as “World Diabetes Day”. This event occurs each year to mark the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of Insulin. This year is the 90th anniversary of the life changing “made in Canada” discovery of Insulin, which has changed the lives of many Canadians and people worldwide who are living with diabetes. Read more...

Giving Outside Your Species

By Debra Probert, Vancouver Humane Society on Dec 5, 2011

Did you know that only four per cent of us here in British Columbia have planned bequests in the event of our death? And that a mere two per cent of all charitable donations in Canada are directed to environmental and animal protection organizations? These are sobering statistics for the charitable sector and downright depressing ones for animal charities. Read more...

Search and Rescue

By Judee Fong on Dec 1, 2011

The caller reported seeing a flare, somewhere between the Canadian Gulf Islands and the American San Juan Islands. The Victoria Coast Guard immediately dispatched Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary (CCGA), Saanich Marine Rescue, Station 36 to respond to a possible Code-3, life in peril. Read more...

Miller Family Matriarch

By Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation on Nov 16, 2011

Theo Miller is everything you would expect an almost ninety year old matriarch of nine children, 29 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren to be – practical, wise and full of twinkles. Theo’s wisdom is simple and no nonsense, “always build family and community because that is who will walk beside you,” she offers. Read more...