Grant applications rise as B.C.'s major charities feel pinch of financial crisis

Grant applications rise as B.C.'s major charities feel pinch of financial crisis: "British Columbia's major philanthropic charities are finding dollars harder to come by in a diminished marketplace.

Exhibit A: The Vancouver Foundation, Canada's largest community foundation and the second largest funder of non-profits in B.C. — after the provincial government — with assets of $662 million."