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Content warning: This post mentions Indigenous residential schools, sexual assault, death, and the ongoing violence committed against Indigenous peoples. Over the last few months, news about [...]

Wow it has actually happened. We are open for the 2021 season and I couldn’t be more thrilled! This week our staff team gathered safety outdoors under our new outdoor stretch tent and it was [...]

I’ve been learning to love walking in rainstorms. Recently, the lake near my house flooded over all the nearby paths as the winter rain poured abundantly down day after day. The ducks have been [...]

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union or Vancity, as it is commonly called, has been a longtime partner of Social Venture Institute and Hollyhock. In the spirit of this partnership, Vancity has [...]

One of the most inspiring parts of my job is connecting regularly with our brilliant presenters at Hollyhock. A conversation that stands out to me from recent months was with Sarah Crowell, who [...]

Genus Capital Management Inc. has been offering innovative investment solutions for more than a quarter century. Now, Genus is championing Canada’s divest-invest movement with Fossil Free and [...]

Getting funding as an entrepreneur is not always easy, but luckily The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) prides itself as being the only bank exclusively devoted to entrepreneurs. The BDC [...]

It was August 15th. That was the day that the full reality of the pandemic hit me full force. It was then that I realized that we are in this for the long game – virtual connections, [...]

Horizon Distributors has been supporting SVI and its community for over a decade. We sat down (virtually) with Vice President Terri Newell who shared what lessons she and Horizon have learned in [...]

Hollyhock’s garden was magnificent as ever when I visited campus in July, despite the changes and many program cancelations this season. My wife and I watched bees and hummingbirds flitting [...]