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Flack Block restoration kick-starts Hastings Street revitalization

April 15, 2008

Recent Print Coverage

"Eastern Promise": Business in Vancouver highlights the Tides Renewal Centre
May 2008

Founding Partners

Carol Newell

Carol Newell is the Principal of Renewal. Through this organization, she has established a life’s work as a social entrepreneur and philanthropist, placing over $60 million in organizations and businesses working toward sustainability in BC.

Carol Newell inherited a substantial fortune over several years, culminating in the early 1990s. Believing she had "more than enough", she chose to dedicate the majority of her wealth to making the world a better place.

She found the focus for her intentions in British Columbia's mix of vast pristine wilderness and sophisticated urban meeting places for global influences. She has dedicated her career to nurturing broad-spectrum solutions to the ecological and social problems facing her home province.