Brooke Wood is a mother of two boy and works as the Outreach Coordinator with the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust (CBT), the Tofino-based Community Foundation that serves the 5000 residents of the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Region on the central west coast of Vancouver Island. Brooke also works as the Literacy Coordinator for Coastal Family Resource Coalition and has recently taking on the Coordinator role for Rural and Remote Divisions of Family Practice, Long Beach Chapter.A lifelong Vancouver Islander, Brooke was born and raised in Nanaimo and has called Tofino home for two decades. Brooke has been instrumental in the initiation and growth of CBT's successful Neighbourhood Small Grants (NSG) program over the past four years and is now– in partnership with the Victoria Foundation– co-leading the development of an NSG Island Network that supports community-building initiatives Parksville, Saltspring Island, Nanaimo, and Northern Vancouver Island.