Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all of the organizations and individuals who helped create Vancouver Foundation’s Vital Signs 2010, as well as Community Foundations of Canada, which oversees the national version of this project.

Leadership Advisory Group

• Penny Ballem, City Manager,City of Vancouver
• Kevin Bent, President and Publisher,Pacifi c Newspaper Group
• Tung Chan, CEO, SUCCESS
• Murray Dinwoodie, City Manager, City of Surrey
• George Duncan, Chief Administrative, Officer, City of Richmond
• Ida Goodreau, Board Director,Vancouver Foundation
• Virginia Greene, CEO,Business Council of BC
• Paul Lacerte, Executive Director, Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres
• Delia Laglagaron, Deputy Commissioner/CAO, Metro Vancouver
• Doug LePard, Deputy Chief Constable, Vancouver Police Department
• David Ostrow, President and CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health
• Tamara Vrooman, President and CEO, Vancity
• Faye Wightman, CEO, Vancouver Foundation

Expert Resource Group

• John Carsley, Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health
• Ray Corrado, Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
• Al Etmanski, President and Co-Founder, PLAN
• Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Project Manager, Urban Aboriginal Study
• Sylvia Iredale, Executive Director, University Advancement, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
• Barbara Joughin, Project Manager, Vancouver Food Policy Council
• Clark Lim, Principal, Acuere Consulting
• Harriet Permut, Government Relations Manager, Real Estate Board
• of Greater Vancouver Andrew Ramlo, Director, Urban Futures Institute
• Ann Rowan, Senior Policy Analyst, Sustainability Measures and Indicators,
  Metro Vancouver
• Paul Whitney, City Librarian,Vancouver Public Library
• Mary-Clare Zak, Director, Social Policy City of Vancouver

Project Team

• Director: Lidia Kemeny
• Managers: Meriko Kubota, Trina Prior
• Assistant: Onjana Yawnghwe
• Writing: Kimberley Fehr
• Communications: Catherine Clement, Andrea Majorki, Paul Heraty

Research

Environics Research Group

Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory (RVu), Simon Fraser University

• Meg Holden, Assistant Professor
• Carine Lèonard

Social Planning and Research Council (SPARC BC)

• Lorraine Copas, Executive Director
• Scott Graham, Manager of Research and Consulting

Creative design

• Signals Design Group

Vancouver Foundation Board of Directors

• Jake Kerr, Chair
• John McLernon, Vice Chair
• The Honourable Robert J. Bauman, Chief Justice
• Kevin Bent
• Ursula Botz
• John Dustan
• Dr. Vera Frinton
• Yuri Fulmer
• Ida Goodreau
• Brandt C. Louie
• Gord MacDougall
• Floyd Murphy

National Vital Signs Project

Vital Signs is an annual community check-up conducted by community foundations across Canada that measures the vitality of our communities, identifies significant trends, and assigns grades in a range of areas critical to quality of life. Vital Signs is coordinated nationally by Community Foundations of Canada. To read more visit www.vitalsignscanada.ca

The Vital Signs trademark is used with permission from Community Foundations of Canada.

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