NG Power Foundation

09/04/2026

✨️ In Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, peer-led outreach, research, and climate-response initiatives through the A'yx Community Bus are generating community-driven solutions to extreme weather, housing injustice, and service gaps.

✨️ A youth council has become the driving force behind its organization's governance and policy, and a regional lived expertise roster now anchors systems advocacy and housing justice efforts across its region.

✨️ Lived experience leaders are working directly with federal partners, creating a peer-led and culturally grounded housing model for Indigenous, Two-Spirit, women, and gender-diverse people, and young people designing solutions for other young people.

These are just a few presentations coming up in the Lived Experience program stream at the National Conference on Ending Homelessness this November. Will we see you there?

Full program and registration: https://conference.caeh.ca/
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✨️ Dans le Downtown Eastside de Vancouver, le travail de proximité, la recherche et les initiatives de réponse climatique dirigés par les pairs, à travers l'autobus communautaire A'yx, génèrent des solutions dirigées par la communauté aux conditions météorologiques extrêmes, à l'injustice en logement et aux lacunes de services.

✨️ Un conseil des jeunes est devenu une force motrice de gouvernance et de changement de politiques pour son organisme, tandis qu'un répertoire régional d'expertise vécue soutient désormais la défense des droits systémique et les initiatives de justice en logement dans toute sa région.

✨️ Des leaders de l'expérience vécue collaborent directement avec des partenaires fédéraux; un modèle de logement dirigé par les pairs et ancré dans la culture soutient les personnes autochtones, bispirituelles, les femmes et les personnes de la diversité de genre; et des approches par et pour les jeunes placent les jeunes au cœur de la conception des solutions.

Voilà un avant-goût du volet Expérience vécue au Congrès national pour mettre fin à l'itinérance, en novembre. Serez-vous des nôtres ?

Programmation et inscription : https://conference.caeh.ca/

End Homelessness Winnipeg

09/02/2026

“Gander, Newfoundland, our namesake, has come to symbolize something larger than geography. It represents the idea that goodwill, fairness, and cooperation can bring people together at home, across borders, and around the world, regardless of where they’ve come from or where they land.
That idea sits at the heart of what we are building.”

Ben Waldman, gandersocial.ca

Nicely said Ben, NG Power too!

09/02/2026

https://youtu.be/qyk-EempUBE?si=1Zo40kynr3x1KPpl

COME FROM HERE TEASER #1

08/28/2026

Rays Art FOGO @ YQX TCH finding his place to be for over a year now. Raymond almost finishes his mural, paints it over and starts again continuously. There are a group of us analyzing why.

08/27/2026

🎶 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎶

Hey everyone! We’re excited to announce that Coldwater Junction is hosting a very special Dinner & A Show in Gander!

Join us at The Crossing Church, Gander, for an elegant evening beginning with a delicious spaghetti supper with garlic bread, dessert, coffee & tea, followed by a full-band acoustic Coldwater Junction experience.

We’ll perform some of your favourite tunes, but we’re also excited to begin sharing some of our own original songs — and the stories behind them. 🎸

Most importantly, this evening is in support of YANA Inc. (You Are Not Alone) — a new program in Gander designed to come alongside individuals struggling with addictions and families affected by addictions.

As a band and a family, we believe strongly in what YANA is building. We felt compelled to use our music and what we do best to help raise funds and support this incredible new initiative in our community.

📍 The Crossing Church, Gander
📅 Thursday, October 15th
🍝 Supper — 6:00 PM
🎶 Show — 7:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets — $25
❤️ All proceeds in support of YANA Inc.

Tickets will be on sale soon, and we’ll announce exactly where you can get yours!

In the meantime… SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!

Let’s fill the room, enjoy a beautiful evening together, and get behind something that can make a real difference in our community.

This is one show you won’t want to miss! 🎶❤️

08/27/2026

https://overhalfway.com/2026/08/26/rays-friends/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAT8qr9wZG9mAWZkaWQWUNSqqT6SUGnEyHTjl2tGymNuaS-LzGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4vSR_x7ANUyecOdkDkz6J-9uZ3jA75prAphJw9WMiGdTU9pQla-9lyMzqqqw_aem_Vn9TJhCUVhJHRUBWLsVxkA

A message from Raymond Freake through my voice. I sat down today to do some long overdue administrative work with Dolly Parton playing in the background to honour her recent passing. I learned I wo…

08/26/2026

Congratulations to Yanainc looking forward to the opening of your Drop In Centre!

08/26/2026

Another great example of Housing First working!

Finland drew a line in the sand and chose a radical path to defeat homelessness.
Instead of demanding people prove they were sober, employed, or "ready" for shelter, the nation flipped the battlefield.

They gave them permanent homes first. Support would follow. They called this mission Housing First.

With a secure fortress to call home, people finally had the strength to fight other battles.

They could tackle health, addiction, and employment without the daily fight for survival on the streets.

The victory was decisive. Between 2008 and 2022, long-term homelessness in Finland plummeted by roughly 68%.

This triumph didn't drain the treasury, either. By emptying shelters and reducing emergency healthcare crises, permanently housing people actually saved around €15,000 per person every year.

The war is not entirely won. But Finland shattered the old mindset forever.

Housing is no longer a reward to earn after rebuilding a life. It is the foundation upon which that life is first built.

True stability is not the finish line—it is the starting point

08/19/2026

See picture of the application submitted to the Town of Gander from Gander Victory Church. NG Power Foundation takes full responsibility for the miscommunication. Prior to signing and submitting this to the TOG, Victory Church did share a draft of the text; and unfortunately, for a number of reasons, NG Power Foundation made the mistake to approve submission as it was written. At this point NG Power Foundation has asked the Victory Church to withdraw the application as it does not accurately represent our plans.

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