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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 [...]

Here we are, more than halfway through the year 2020. Earlier this year, as the fires waged in Australia and people amassed behind the climate marches, I felt a complex surge of grief and [...]

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Ahmaud Arbery. Nina Pop. These are the names of five human beings who, in the past few months, have lost their lives for no reason other than the colour [...]

As Hollyhock’s Development Director, I have the privilege of learning from many of our amazing presenters. A couple weeks ago, I tuned in to listen to Hollyhock’s Sheltering in Community [...]