Impact / Since 2025
Change you can see in the room.
More than 200 youth volunteers and event participants have taken part in Open Minds programs and events—building skills, relationships, and ideas together.
Story 01
Open Arms Project
The Open Arms Project is a series of youth community-building events created with the BC Youth Volunteer & Charity Society. A mock trial workshop, cultural food exchange, craft fair, and badminton brought more than 200 participants together.
The format made room for different kinds of participation—from a shared meal to a workshop to a game on the court.
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Striders EDU Event
Presented as a Community Leadership Initiative project by S.U.C.C.E.S.S., Striders EDU connected youth with keynote speakers including SFU professor Frederick Willeboordse and Hugo Hu of the SFU Beedie School of Business.
The event brought university and business perspectives directly into a room of young people.
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Lord Byng Case Competition
Presented by Open Minds Foundation, Lord Byng Case Competition brings high school teams together to research a business problem and present their recommendations to judges.
Teams practise making decisions, explaining their reasoning, and responding to questions.
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Byng Project 3B Books
With VSB SWIS Byng Project 3B, Open Minds hosted a book swap and sharing event in the Lord Byng Secondary School library. A guest from the Vancouver Public Library introduced students to more of the library’s programs and possibilities.
A local school space became a place for discovery, exchange, and new connections.
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Inspire Case Competition
At Inspire, student teams moved from research to recommendation—testing a real business problem, building a clear point of view, and presenting their strategy together.
The value of a case competition is not only the answer. It is learning to think, decide, and communicate under pressure as a team.
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No event happens alone.
Schools, non-profits, volunteers, speakers, and young organizers make every outcome possible. We bring the network together, then build around the community’s real needs.
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