Our Favourite Charities in BC Serving Women and Girls

The intention of this list is to showcase a select group of inclusive, diverse, and equitable charities in BC whose primary purpose is to support women and/or girls, and who accept and welcome all women and girls, inclusive of trans-women and gender non-conforming people. 

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This list is not exhaustive and we hope it continues to evolve. If you know of an incredible cause that you think should be added, we want to know about it! Please contact us for consideration.

 

Vancouver and the Lower Mainland:

 

• Aboriginal Mother Centre Society

• Atira Women’s Resource Society

• Avalon Recovery Society

• Baby Go Round

• Battered Women’s Support Services

• Beauty Night Society

• BC Native Women’s Association

• BC Women’s Health Foundation

• Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland

• Black Women Connect Vancouver

• Cause We Care Foundation

• Charlford House Society for Women

• Chrysalis Society

• Dixon Transition Society

• Doula Services Association of BC

• Dress for Success Vancouver

• Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre

• Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic

• Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver

• Everywoman’s Health Centre

• Forum for Women Entrepreneurs

• Girls Rock Camp Vancouver

• Helping Spirit Lodge Society

• Indigenous Women Outdoors

• Ishtar Women’s Resource Society

• Joint Effort

• Justice for Girls

• La Leche League BC

• Mamas for Mamas – Kelowna and Vancouver

• Matriarch Movement

• Mavis McMullen Housing Society

• Minerva BC

• Mom2Mom

• Nisa Homes

• North Shore Crisis Services Society

• North Shore Women’s Centre

• PACE Society

• Pacific Association of First Nations Women

• Pacific Immigrant Resources Society

• Pacific Post Partum Support Society

• ProMOTION Plus

• Respect Society for Women

• Richmond Women’s Resource Centre

• Rise Women’s Legal Centre

• SARA for Women

• Spectrum Mothers’ Support Society

• Sources Community Resource Centre

• Surrey Women’s Centre

• SWAN Vancouver

• Talitha Koum Society          

• The BeaYOUtiful Foundation

• Tri-City Transitions Society

• Vancouver Women's Health Collective

• Westminster House

• Wilma’s Transition House - Chilliwack

• WISH Drop-In Centre Society

• Women Against Violence Against Women Rape Crisis Centre

• WORTH

• YWCA Vancouver Single Mothers’ Support Services

 

Vancouver Island:

 

• Alberni Community and Women’s Services Society

• Antidote: Multiracial and Indigenous Girls’ and Women’s Network - Victoria

• Bridges for Women Society – Victoria

• Campbell River & North Island Transition Society

• Comox Valley Transition Society

• Cowichan Women Against Violence Society

• Greater Victoria Women’s Shelter Society

• Islanders Working Against Violence – Southern Gulf Islands

• Nanaimo Women’s Centre

• Sooke Transition House Society

• Victoria Sexual Assault Centre

• Victoria Women in Need Community Cooperative

• Victoria Women’s Transition House Society

• Wear 2 Start - Victoria

 

Other Regions of BC:

 

• Amata Transition House Society – Quesnel

• Archway Society for Domestic Peace – Vernon

• Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society

• Elizabeth Fry Society - South Cariboo

• Fernie Women’s Resource Centre

• Golden Women’s Resource Centre

• Howe Sound Women’s Centre

• Kamloops & District Elizabeth Fry Society

• Karis Support Society - Kelowna

• Kelowna Women’s Shelter

• Ksan Society – Terrace

• Nelson and District Women’s Centre

• Phoenix Transition Society – Prince George

• Prince George and District Elizabeth Fry Society

• Prince George New Hope Society

• Revelstoke Women’s Shelter

• South Okanagan Women in Need Society

• Terrace Women’s Resource Centre Society

 

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National and International, and Based out of BC:

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• Ally Global - Vancouver

• Her International - Kelowna

• Martha Farrell Foundation Canada - Nanaimo

• One Girl Can - Coquitlam

• Ovarian Cancer Canada 

• Up With Women - Vancouver

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Other Notable Charities, near and dear to the Workout for Women's Day 2021 Instructors:

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• Changing Tides Foundation

• Living Positive Kenya

• Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada

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Updated: February 25, 2024