Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Hope Dialogue

Created in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Hope Dialogue is a weekly exploration of the topics, issues and complex circumstances challenging low-income neighbourhoods like this one, others around the lower mainland and beyond. Our focus is on listening to the voices who live and work in these communities, with the belief that conversations like this are how we can begin to make better progress toward solving some of our biggest social programs. Hope Dialogue is made possible through the generous support of Central City Foundation. To learn more about Central City Foundation, visit centralcityfoundation.ca

  1. Jul 3

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Chantelle Spicer

    Chantelle Spicer, Campaign Manager with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, joins us to talk about how they are working toward systemic solutions to poverty, housing insecurity, affordability, food access, and inequality in our province.

  2. May 13

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Margaret Pfoh

    Margaret Pfoh, Chief Executive Officer of Aboriginal Housing Management Association, joins us to talk about the importance of improving the availability and quality of culturally-appropriate Indigenous housing.

  3. May 13

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Don Shafer

    This week Jennifer Johnstone, President and CEO of Central City Foundation (Hope Dialogue's title sponsor) joins us to turn the tables on our usual host and interview Canadian broadcasting legend Don Shafer, who was recently awarded a PhD from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice department at UBC.

  4. May 13

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Kathleen Leahy

    Kathleen Leahy, Director of UBC Learning Exchange, joins us to talk about why low-income neighbourhoods are heavily researched, what impact this can have on community members and what ethical research practices look like in practice.

  5. Apr 19

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Irwin Oostindie

    Irwin Oostindie, Director of Voor Urban Labs, joins us to talk about the lessons learned from the 2010 Olympics and the impacts that large events like the FIFA World Cup have on the host cities and the different communities within them.

  6. Mar 30

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Mary Clare Zak

    Mary Clare Zak, Executive Director of SoleFoods Street Farms, joins us to talk about they create low-barrier employment opportunites by turning vacant urban land into street farms, as well as reflect on her decades working to help shape social change in our city.

  7. Mar 24

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Dr. Sarah Schulman

    Dr. Sarah Schulman, founder of InWithForward, joins us to discuss moving beyond traditional top-down policy-making and instead using ethnographic and participatory research methods to hear what people actually need.

  8. Mar 21

    Hope Dialogue welcomes Rowena Veylan

    Rowena Veylan, Founder of The New School of Fundraising, joins us to discuss why fundraising is under such strain and why investing in the people doing the work is so important.

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Created in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Hope Dialogue is a weekly exploration of the topics, issues and complex circumstances challenging low-income neighbourhoods like this one, others around the lower mainland and beyond. Our focus is on listening to the voices who live and work in these communities, with the belief that conversations like this are how we can begin to make better progress toward solving some of our biggest social programs. Hope Dialogue is made possible through the generous support of Central City Foundation. To learn more about Central City Foundation, visit centralcityfoundation.ca

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