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Founded on building affordable rental housing and owned exclusively by union and management pension funds, Concert has always been committed to building healthy residential, commercial and industrial communities. Through its role as a community builder, Concert has provided human, financial and in-kind donations to not-for-profit, pro bono project management services, development of community amenities and funding of skills and trades training.

Concert has provided human resources to Habitat for Humanity, Scott’s Street Mission Soup Kitchen, BC Children’s Hospital, United We Can, BCIT Foundation and many others. Concert has also provided financial and in-kind assistance to an exhaustive list of not-for-profit organizations including United Way, CKNW Orphans Fund, WIN (Women In Need), Parkinson’s Disease, Adopt-a-Family and Vancouver General Hospital.

Early in its history, Concert provided project management services and donated a portion of its fees to a 10-bed hospice for the terminally ill in East Vancouver, to a new office headquarters training facility for St. John Ambulance, and to the Port Theater in Nanaimo. Similar services are being provided to the Greater Vancouver YMCA for the Robert Lee YMCA and to the BC Professional Firefighters for their BC Burn Fund Building.

Within Collingwood Village, Concert created and donated office space for the first Community Crime Prevention Office in Vancouver, built a 25,000-square-foot community amenities building and created three parks. Other examples of community amenities include the 11th Avenue Greenway at Arbutus Walk, Kids at Heather daycare centre and community rooms in Tapestry on Heather Street, public space surrounding Astoria and Belvedere, and retail conveniences within numerous developments all add to the overall sense of community.

Through Concert Properties initiatives, over $942,000 in total has been contributed in support of British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) students in trades and technology programs related to the construction industry. Established in 1995 and funded with proceeds from Concert’s annual golf tournament, 140 financially needy students have received bursaries as a result of the Concert Properties Ltd. Bursary Endowment. The Concert Properties & Industry Partners Trades Discovery Program helps young people explore careers in approximately 20 different construction trades. Since 2002, more than 650 students have benefited from this unique program.

Concert Properties' Founders Endowment bursaries in honour of former Telecommunications Workers' Union president Bill Clark are awarded each year to two deserving BCIT students enrolled in the school's telecommunications technician, wireless communications or computer networks program. The Concert Properties Leaders Award was established in 2009 to recognize the outstanding contributions made by Concert’s founding leaders and provides financial support to a student enrolled in the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business who has demonstrated leadership within the community.

Concert also supports training programs such as the BladeRunners Partnership and the Tradeworks Training Society, which teach life and work skills to disadvantaged youths and adults, and has contributed to the Youth Employment Program, one of Victoria's most successful job training programs for street youth.