Leadership Report
Our Mission
The Neighbourhood Group Community Services serves people at every stage of their lives, promotes independence and dignity, and engages the skills and talents of our neighbours to build a vibrant community.
A Year of Resilience
This year, our neighbours, staff, peer leaders, donors, Board members, volunteers and friends have all faced a true test and prevailed. With our vision of an equitable and vibrant community, we have maintained life-saving services for seniors, children and people who are homeless, while creating new emergency and permanent initiatives around hunger, unemployment, mental health, shelter, supportive housing, health care and child care. We also introduced important new virtual services, such as on-line job fairs and peer crisis helplines.
With this service transformation comes reflection.
It has been humbling to see the pandemic spotlight the geographic and racial inequities in our community, inequities that neighbourhood houses were founded to challenge and change. The Neighbourhood Group believes in changing the systems that perpetuate inequity.
We will continue to improve our effort to become a more equitable organization as an employer, service provider and advocate. To that end, our Board of Directors is proud to highlight community safety and alternatives to policing as our top advocacy issue for the year.
Please enjoy the examples of resilience in this annual report – first hand stories of Brendalee, Rob, Marai and so many more. Thank you for joining us in this essential community-building work all over our city.
