McNally Valuations Inc. is a member of the Family Advisor Series of the Alberta Business Family Institute. The ABFI assists professionals in gaining a better understanding of the challenges unique to business families and provides educational programs to assist family members engaged in business. The ABFI is affiliated with the Centre for Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise at the University of Alberta.

Trisha Dazé has been involved with the Alberta Community and Co-Operative Association (ACCA) summer youth program since 2001.  The camp program Trisha supports is aimed at training Alberta’s teenager to be stronger leaders in their community.  The ACCA has been running a co-operative youth camp located at the Goldeye Centre between Banff and Jasper for more than 40 years.

Chris Perret experienced his first humanitarian trip to Ethiopia - October of 2009.

Chris volunteered on an expedition to Ethiopia in the fall of 2009 with Canadian Humanitarian.

Canadian Humanitarian has the mission To break the cycle of poverty by providing orphaned and vulnerable children and their families with access to healthcare, education, vocational training and the basic necessities of life such as nutrition and shelter.  This group supports not only several projects but over five hundred children and their families in Ethiopia.

For three weeks Chris worked with along with the organization's local project partners and the other 12 other volunteers in and near the Capital City of Addis Abada.

The group taught, held medical clinics, held a student debate, and even constructed a shower! Volunteers had the opportunity to see, visit, and in some cases spend several hours or days at all of the following projects: LIGA School, PATH Center, YTH Alemgena, YTH Guellele, BEKA, SSCM.

This experience was incredibly rewarding for Chris and helped him gain a greater appreciation for his own life.

Matthew Tozer and Trisha Dazé are both volunteer coaches for Edmonton Community League soccer teams throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons.  Trisha is an assistant coach for girls’ soccer.  Matt coaches boys’ soccer.

Michele Weldon is the Chair for two Girls Lacrosse organizations.  She is the Girls Box Lacrosse Chair for the Greater Edmonton Lacrosse Council and the Girls Lacrosse Chair for the St. Albert Rams Minor Lacrosse Association.

Agnes is involved with The Edmonton Chinese Baptist Church as a Sunday School Teacher for adults.
In 2008, Agnes, along with her family and some members of her church, spent about 10 days in Rae, NWT on a native reserve providing kids with a summer camp program.

Bob McNally continues to support The Edmonton Opera.  In the past, Bob has served as Chair of the Edmonton Opera for a two- year period and another two years as Treasurer.

Through this valuable program, CA volunteers help low-income Albertans complete their tax returns free of charge. Agnes Leung offers her knowledge, experience and time to this program.  The clinics are in Edmonton and Calgary and run from March to the beginning of April in co-operation with seniors' homes, community centers and other not-for-profit agencies.  In 2008, over 166 CA’s, CA students and other professionals prepared almost 1,200 income tax returns for those in need.

Agnes Leung experienced her second mission trip to Bechoko, Northwest Territories-Summer of 2009.

Last year I went, I went partly to fulfill a promise to God that I will go to at least one mission trip. This time I went it was like visiting old friends.

For those of you who don't know me, I am a pretty private person. Sharing space, living with other people 24/7 and having to make conversations are not easy for me. These are however, a big part of the mission trip, learning to live with others that have different tastes, and different ways to work. God opened my eyes and I saw how fruitful we can be when we leave our idiosyncrasies behind to work together.

One of my responsibilities was to direct Vacation Bible School for kids ( VBS ). I directed VBS and taught preschoolers at Sunday school a few years ago, but directing VBS with a preschoolers focus was new to me. God provided lots of advisors before the trip so we had enough activity centres for the kids, but only had one big hall to work with 40 kids and another 10 or so teachers as there were so many bugs so we couldn't do any programs outdoors.

Since I was so inexperienced in directing Vacation Bible School for preschoolers, it kept me humble and listening. God provided a team of teachers that were willing to provide ideas, work with limited resources, and were creative and patient in their teaching. He also provided group leaders and drivers. Moreover, He provided great presenters, singers and entertainers that kept the children attentive and learning.

The first day, it didn't quite work out, as we were short on workers and circle time was not active enough. So we made adjustments the next few days, more workers gave up working on community projects to serve the children in the afternoon and Nathan and his team gave more dynamic presentations.

We had about 11 - 15 workers depending on the day serving 35-40 kids each day. This is a much smaller ratio than what we do regularly at the Edmonton Chinese Baptist Church, but God provided enough and the kids had fun and learnt more about Noah, how he loved God, believed and trusted God. There were also a variety of art, science, colouring and storytelling activities.

I learnt is how important it is to show love in action. When people do not know Jesus, it is important to find a way to serve them, to make friends before telling them about Jesus. Cooking was a great tool for outreach. Cooking opened doors. We used this tool to serve a couple of families in Rae (Bechoko), some Christians, our host Joyce and also in the Yellowknife's Women's Centre. Praise God for giving everybody different skills to serve. Cooking was something I took for granted but God used it.

I also enjoyed talking to the girls a lot while they were painting or braiding their hair. They are good girls that listen and even for the one that was a little uncontrolled in the beginning, when taught to follow instructions, started to listen too.

In November 2008 McNally Valuations Inc.-MVI donated $1,000 at the NorQuest College annual fundraising breakfast.  Donations assist students in need of financial support.

Joni Treen joined Medicine Hat’s newest Rotary Club Pace Rotary.  Pace is exploring a variety of opportunities to give back to our community!

Chris Perret is involved with Medicine Hat’s Rotary Club.

Look for our advertisement supporting this year’s annual Music Festival. The festival ran from March 1 through 13th.  During this festival, Chris Perret, Aubrey Winquist, Joni Treen and Dany Le all volunteered their time to show their support!

SOS Pet Rescue held a casino event in August 2008 to raise funds to help animals in need of care.  McNally’s staff Aubrey Winquist, Dany Le and Chris Perret offered their time to help make this project a success!

McNally Valuations Inc. has been an annual sponsor for the previous five years supporting the University of Alberta Alumni & Friends of the Faculty of Law. Donations made to AFFL provide support for programs such as panel discussions for students, funding for student bursaries, student projects, and alumni publications.

McNally Valuations once again participated in the Conroy Ross hosted Race to Success 2006.  The race raised over $30,000 for the Youth Emergency Shelter Society.

MVI employees have participated in the Conroy race previously as well as other events held by this worthy organization. 

Through donations and community events The Youth Emergency Shelter assists young people between the ages of 15-18 that are in need of a place to live.