<div dir="ltr">Thanks Marita!<div><br></div><div>VCN received funds from CIRA to create it in the first place!</div><div>Then we had some funds from Telus to get focus groups and ideas on how to change it for a wider purpose.</div><div>Now we have funding to take it across Canada from:<br>CIRA </div><div>Employmnet and Social Development Canada - Innovation in Homelessness</div><div>Vancouver's Peter Wall and Bob Rennie.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We are very ready to make change!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>all the best, Tracey!</div>-----------------<div>Tracey Axelsson</div><div>Executive Director - <b>Vancouver Community Network (VCN)</b></div><div>280 - 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4</div><div>t: 778.724.0241 </div><div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <b>Consider the environment before printing.</b></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">VCN offers great services to all for IT support and web development at very affordable rates. <br>We deeply appreciate your referral of </span><a href="http://techteam.vcn.bc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Tech|team</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> & </span><a href="http://webteam.vcn.bc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Web|team</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> services. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><br>Our social enterprise work supports VCN's
charitable efforts; providing free access to the Internet, email, and
computer access to youth, seniors and vulnerable people in our community.<span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">--------------------</span></div><div><br></div><div><i>Personally however, I have always considered autonomy to be a bigger builder of trust than anonymity.</i></div><div> Garth Graham</div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Marita Moll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net" target="_blank">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hello advisors. Just wanted to share this article about VCN's
streetmessenger service -- partially funded through the CIRA CIP
grants. Congratulations to Tracey Axelson for this wonderful
initiative<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">StreetMessenger
sends homeless youth real-time updates via SMS on shelter beds</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Betakit
| August 22, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://betakit.com/streetmessenger-sends-homeless-youth-real-time-updates-via-sms-on-shelter-beds/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://betakit.com/<wbr>streetmessenger-sends-<wbr>homeless-youth-real-time-<wbr>updates-via-sms-on-shelter-<wbr>beds/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">StreetMessenger
uses SMS to send messages to the cell phones of homeless and
street-involved youth with program information and real-time
updates on shelter beds.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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Marita<br>
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