Are you wanting to be an active participant in the changes that are happening? Are you realizing that society is transforming and that it requires our ideas? Do you want to share your ideas with others and help projects happen? Our Purpose: To join together to support each other and create a helpful, co-operative society. Our Intention: To connect with others in the group who have similar passions to develop programs and projects that give us a sense of participation in our community. Guidelin …

Ripple Effect is the evolution of the old Vancouver Young Professionals (VYP) group which was founded in the Fall of 2006 when a group of busy young professionals recognized the need to create a new venue to meet like minded people and connect. Ripple Effect takes this one step further by allowing our members to connect with each other through our monthly social events and also to connect with the community through our monthly social volunteering events.  We have partnered with several Non Profi …

The Vancouver International Group serves as a forum for Vancouver professionals and academics involved internationally in humanitarianism, development work and industry to network, train, and share their ideas. Many of the events we attend are not hosted by us, but rather by various like-minded groups and organizations throughout Metro Vancouver. If you have an event you think our membership would be interested to attend, please let us know. Please visit our website: www.vancouverinternationalgr …

Weekly meetups in Kitsilano (Vancouver westside) for group meditation and action.  Inspiring, empowering and focusing... we aim to meditate for 30-40 minutes and then check-in as an Action Circle* for one hour.  Meditation, conversation, inspiration and snacks! Each check-in is facilitated.  We share our vision, identify personal goals and identify an action we are willing to commit to each week.  Circle members bring respect, consideration, humour, personal accountability, ideas and encourag …

… CFI Vancouver hosts public educational events exploring science, religion, ethics and philosophy, supports social and community services, political advocacy and campus outreach while promoting reason, science and free inquiry. For more information please email Jamie Williams, Executive Director of CFI Vancouver, at vancouver@cficanada.ca.

We believe that helping others is the key to happiness in life. We are a group dedicated to helping others equip themselves to excel in all facets of their life, thereby getting more out of life. The range of our assistance can be anything from helping a new immigrant integrate into society, to helping a successful CEO expand his network and have more free time to spend with his family. The creators of this group have themselves accepted help from other successful people, and are on a journey of …

Is your dog perhaps not as well behaved as you would like? Confused about how to start training your dog? Wondering if your 8 wk old puppy is ready for Clicker? We all want what's best for our dogs when it comes to their training and CANINE BUILDING BLOCKS (R) Lifestyle Manners taught with the clicker is an opportunity you don't want to miss out on. Clicker training is for all dogs, puppies and humans and best of all it's fun. Come learn what the POWER OF THE CLICKER can do for your tr …

Visit Declarations Toastmasters and see how our community club can help you enhance your self-confidence and build the speaking and leadership skills needed to achieve your goals. At our meeting, you will see how our warm, supportive atmosphere and self-directed programs enable our members to achieve their communications and leadership goals. You will also see how our collaborative approach and progressive programs enable our members to reach a level of excellence in speaking skills that is far …

… The Board recognizes the imperfections of the market system and supports the need for publicly provided services such as social services, health services and public education. The Board supports the philosophy of less government involvement in the business sector and believes that governments should not do what can be done in whole or in part by the private sector. Membership in The Board of Trade offers an extensive number of resources and services and puts you in touch with a network of more …

Vancouver is home to many great individuals and companies working in the enterprise software space. Members of SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Vision Critical, OpenRoad, SwiftLaunch, Indicee and many others all call Vancouver home. This group is for developers, UI/design folks, project managers, sales reps and anyone else involved or interested in building a great community around enterprise software.

Canadian West Coast Chapter PMI is the Vancouver-based chapter of the Project Management Institute. Our focus is to provide services to our members across British Columbia.

We believe that your success is not the result of divine intervention. Real results come from real action. It's not Magic. It's You! Authentic Secular Business Network is a group of like minded business owners and professionals that believe in being ethical, reliable and authentic in all that they do. We feel that doing the right thing for the right reasons is its own reward. This is a business networking group, so members are welcomed and encouraged to showcase their products and services at me …

I believe that as a whole, we, as pet professionals, can do far more for our communities if we come together as a group rather than achieving this on our own. I believe we need a place to come together and share ideas for improving our pets and our clients pet's lives in our communities. If you work with pets within the GVRD, and you would like to give back to your community, this is the group for you! We welcome all pet professionals: dog trainer's, dog walker's, doggy daycares, pet sitting se …

Weclome to the Vancouver Coaches and Consultants! Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or service provider? Then you know that working in the field as an indpendent is tough. Sometimes you lose track of time, its easy to get overwhealmed, and it's hard to get a sense of your own personal progress in your business. That's why the Vancouver Coaches and Consultants group was created, as a social meeting place and mastermind for you to meet other experts to give each other encouragement and supp …

The Local Marketing Strategy Group is a meetup for marketers, developers and entrepreneurs to discuss strategies relating to mobile development, marketing and local business marketing. The purpose of the group is for members to share ideas on mobile and local marketing for small to mid-size businesses. This group meetups discuss trends in marketing such as social media marketing through mobile, SMS text message marketing, application development for iOS & Android, location-based services, near f …

… These speakers are not paid, but they understand the value of giving back to the social community and sharing their lessons learned. Learn about business, internet marketing, sales, social media, SEO, startups and follow our hashtag #IMGroup. Here is why you should join Internet Masterminds Group: 1)  Friends, I believe many of the Internet Mastermind members would say they have made good friends from networking at the meetups. Many of us hang out outside of the group and outside the business/ma …