Babich-Mill Lake
Babich-Mill Lake in Abbotsford is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you meet them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you.
It might be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as exciting as building a new community garden or advocating for change on an issue that’s important to you – we call these acts of local love. And we’re here to help.
Our team is in neighbourhoods across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley working with community members to promote the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Get involved
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Babich-Mill Lake team

Elise
Community Engagement Specialist
Elise is a lifelong Fraser Valley resident with a passion for all things local! She enjoys making new connections and empowering community champions across the region.
Email Elise

Jasmine
Community Builder
Jasmine is a mother to four amazing children. She is a very active member of her community and she also facilitates grief and resilience workshops in the Fraser Valley.
Email Jasmine
Looking to get connected?
Join the Hi Neighbour Babich & Mill Lake Facebook group!
Cedar Valley
Cedar Valley in Mission is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Cedar Valley team

Elise
Community Engagement Specialist
Elise is a lifelong Fraser Valley resident with a passion for all things local! She enjoys making new connections and empowering community champions in Cedar Valley.
Email Elise

Stefany
Community Builder
Stefany is a Red Seal Electrician who is passionate about being involved in the Cedar Valley community. She is looking forward to making things better for people and bringing them together towards common goals.
Email Stefany
Looking to get connected?
Join the Hi Neighbour Cedar Valley Facebook group!
Clayton Heights
Clayton Heights is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community.
In April 2023, after almost five years, Clayton Heights, United Way BC’s pilot Hi Neighbour community is evolving. Working together, with local residents, we have supported community leadership and ownership, and strengthened vital connections through numerous community projects, volunteerism and special events.
Engagement, mobilization, collaboration, organization and sustainability were key phases of this community’s transformation to legacy.
As we step back, local residents are continuing positive community impact by leading initiatives and projects autonomously or through the Cloverdale Community Association, and initiatives like the Hi Neighbour Seniors Social have been embedded into the Clayton Community Centre.
Today, United Way BC Hi Neighbour Clayton Heights is a legacy neighbourhood. Read more about this community journey.
Looking to get connected?
Check out the Clayton Heights Little Library Stewards Facebook group!
Edmonds
Edmonds in Burnaby is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Edmonds team

George
Community Engagement Specialist
George (he/him) is a Chinese-English community organizer and cultural connector. He is inspired by how community members come together to share ideas, resources and create positive change.
Email George

Mary
Community Builder
Mary’s kind personality and her vision for sharing the learnings and experiences of Edmond’s wealth of different cultures with the neighbourhood’s children, family and seniors and beyond makes her perfect for helping you create community projects and events.
Email Mary
Looking to get connected?
Join the Hi Neighbour Edmonds Facebook group!
Lonsdale
Lonsdale in North Vancouver is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. The little libraries in our community are a great example! Check out the Little Library map we made to see how Little Libraries are connecting our community.
See more exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to get involved?
Meet the Lonsdale team – coming soon
Looking to get connected?
Join the Hi Neighbour Lonsdale Facebook group!
North Delta
North Delta is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the North Delta team

Hala
Community Engagement Specialist
With a background in Early Childhood Education, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and working with refugees and newcomers, Hala’s unique skills help empower others toward unity and making a positive difference. Get in touch to learn how she can support you.
Email Hala

Cathie
Community Builder
Long-time North Delta resident and volunteer, Cathie has created and engaged her community in projects and activities that enrich and improve her neighbourhood for many years. Come join her!
Email Cathie
Sardis
Sardis in Chilliwack is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Sardis team

Elise
Community Engagement Specialist
Elise is a lifelong Fraser Valley resident with a passion for all things local! She enjoys making new connections and empowering community champions in Sardis.
Email Elise

Teri
Community Builder
Teri feels lucky to call Chilliwack – the traditional and unceded territory of the Ts’elxwéyeqw, Pilalt and Sema:th people – home. He is passionate about community and is a founding member of the local Pride Society and the Downtown Community Market.
Email Teri
Looking to get connected?
Join the Hi Neighbour Sardis Facebook group, or follow them on Instagram!
South Coquitlam
South Coquitlam is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Como Lake team

Leila
Community Engagement Specialist
Leila (she/her) is a proud mother, sister, auntie, and the youngest of 6 children. Leila looks for creative and innovative ways to mobilize residents and facilitate connection across unique and shared experiences, and she wholeheartedly believes in the power of storytelling for social change.
Email Leila

Erinn
Community Builder
Erinn has a background in Journalism, Theatre, and teaching English. She is passionate about bringing people of all walks of life together, especially in her Como Lake neighbourhood, where she lives, grew up and is now raising two children of her own.
Email Erinn
Sumas Prairie
Sumas Prairie is filled with talented, passionate people who care about their community. United Way’s Community Re-builder Initiative supports Sumas Prairie residents just like you to help your community rebuild and recover from the floods of 2021. We’re here to help you make a difference in the ways that matter most to you and to your community.
Let’s get started
United Way Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 are available. It might be providing hot meals for clean-up efforts, helping people refurbish flood-damaged furniture or providing essential items so people can return to their homes and farms. We call these acts of local love. And we’re here to help you make it happen.
See more exciting projects Hi Neighbour community members across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Sumas Prairie Team

Alison
Community Engagement Specialist
Alison loves living and working in the Fraser Valley. She’s passionate about social justice and enjoys helping others.
Email Alison

Gurjit
Community Builder
Gurjit finds joy in supporting her community’s recovery and growth after the Fraser Valley floods. Her unwavering commitment brings hope, resilience and positive change to those in need.
Email Gurjit
Sunset
Sunset in Vancouver is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Sunset team

Javier
Community Builder
Javier is a music lover and a passionate Sunset resident. He brings a background in community development and sustainability to helping his neighborhood be an even better place to live.
Email Javier
Willoughby
Willoughby in Langley is filled with talented, passionate people just like you, who care about your community. United Way’s Hi Neighbour Initiative helps you connect with them and works with you to create opportunities to make a difference in your community in ways that matter most to you. We call these acts of local love.
It can be as simple as saying hello to someone on the street, as welcoming as holding an afternoon tea for newcomers or hosting a block party to support neighbours recovering from natural disasters to building a new community garden.
Let’s get started
Our Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 help you make it happen. See some of the exciting projects community members have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.
Meet the Willoughby team

Leila
Community Engagement Specialist
Leila (she/her) is a proud mother, sister, auntie, and the youngest of 6 children. Leila looks for creative and innovative ways to mobilize residents and facilitate connection across unique and shared experiences, and she wholeheartedly believes in the power of storytelling for social change.
Email Leila
Looking to get connected?
Join the Willoughby Facebook group!
Yarrow
Yarrow is filled with talented, passionate people who care about their community. United Way’s Community Re-builder Initiative supports Yarrow residents just like you to help your community rebuild and recover from the floods of 2021. We’re here to help you make a difference in the ways that matter most to you and to your community.
Let’s get started
United Way Local Love microgrants of up to $1,000 are available. It might be providing hot meals for clean-up efforts, helping people refurbish flood-damaged furniture or providing essential items so people can return to their homes and farms. We call these acts of local love. And we’re here to help you make it happen.
See more exciting projects Hi Neighbour community members across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley have created to help make their neighbourhoods more caring, healthy and inclusive.
Want to volunteer, get involved, or have an idea you’d like to share?
Connect with your Community Builder and learn more about what is happening in your neighbourhood.

Alison
Community Engagement Specialist
Alison loves living and working in the Fraser Valley. She’s passionate about social justice and enjoys helping others.
Email Alison

Deanna
Community Builder
Deanna is a Yarrow resident and proud mom of two teenage girls. She loves small-town living, empowering young women to be the best they can be and bringing people together.
Email Deanna