Vancity and ChangeEverything.ca

So maybe you’re wondering... why did Vancity create an online community? Why would a bank care about anything other than its products and sales?

First of all, and this is important, this site is NOT a place where Vancity will sell you mortgages, term deposits and accounts. (To everyone who was just aching to find a place where we’d bombard you with RRSP come-ons: sorry if we yanked your chain.)

Second, and more fundamentally, Vancity isn't a bank. We’re a community-based financial institution that is as interested in making our community work as it is in making money. And these days, community is more and more about what happens online, which is why we’re so interested in the Web’s potential for supporting community development in the Lower Mainland and Victoria.

We have a triple bottom line, which means that we don’t gauge our success merely on our profitability, but also on how we are helping the communities and improving the environment where we do business.

Will this experiment work? We don’t know... and we’re as interested in finding out as you are. The idea is to offer people some of the resources they need to move beyond fear and anxiety about change and towards embracing their capacity for positive change. And community -- that is, connection to fellow changemakers and would-be changemakers -- is perhaps the most important of these resources.

At the end of the day, however, what matters is not our vision for the site -- it's what people make of it. So if the site isn't working for you as is, let us know what would make it useful to you. Because among the things we're changing are the features offered here, and we're hoping the site will continue to evolve to meet the community's interests and expectations.

And if you’re interested in Vancity, please visit our site.