Stó:lo Community Futures (SCF) is a non-profit organization with core funding provided by Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan). There are 34 active Community Futures offices in BC, and SCF is one of four Indigenous specific offices in BC in the Southwest Region.
The Board is comprised of a volunteer group of local business professionals and community leaders who are both Indigenous and non-Indigenous support for the local business and economic development in S’ólh Téméxw, the Stó:l? Traditional Territory.
Eligible applicants within the service area are individuals of Canadian Indigenous ancestry – First Nation, Métis or Inuit. Indigenous Communities and their economic development corporations, and their community owned businesses are also eligible for support. Businesses and organizations must be majority Indigenous-owned and controlled with a minimum of 51% Indigenous ownership.
The Indian Residential School Survivor Society (IRSSS) is a provincial organization with a twenty year history of providing services to Indian Residential School Survivors.The Indian Residential School Survivors Society began in 1994 as a working committee of the First Nations Summit. We were known as the Residential School Project, housed out of and as a part of the BC First Nations Summit. The work was primarily to assist Survivors with the litigation process pertaining to residential school abuses. In the more recent years the work has expanded to include assisting the descendants of Survivors and Community education measures (Aboriginal & Non-Aboriginal).