BOB in the Media
Below are a collection of links to articles which reference Building Opportunities with Business in the media:
Citizen journalists preparing to get the unofficial Olympic scoop
January 19th 2010 | VANCOUVER, B.C. - When Nepal's first winter Olympian donned skis to rocket across the Salt Lake City cross-country course in 2002, there were no big-shot broadcasters to memorialize the event.
Right You Are
Vancouver-born Shirley Chan wanted to be a teacher, as her parents were before leaving China. In a roundabout way she did, as chair of the University of B.C.'s board of governors. She also did her share of lecturing as five-year chief of staff to Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt likely benefiting from a favourite recreation of snorkelling with sharks in Belize...
Urban farmers stake claim on parkade rooftop
SOLEfood Farm Build Out for My 8th gets Vancouver Courier and Sun exposure, BOB mentioned and Shirley interviewed. Urban Farmers Stake Claim on Parkade Rooftop, Sandra Thomas, Vancouver Courier
Bond request uproots rooftop farm Architect says organizations hijacked garden plan. By Sandra Thomas,
"I don't know how he can see it that way," Chan told the Courier during an interview last week. "We worked together to take an underused facility and create something worthwhile. This had to be a collaborative project because no one person could pull this off."
Vancouver Courier May 19, 2010
Hope and despair in Vancouver's Eastside
December 28th 2009 | VANCOUVER - When the sun bounces off Vancouver's glass skyscrapers, a kaleidoscope of light ricochets through the city, illuminating even the heart of darkness known as the Downtown Eastside.
BOB opens and Pixar renos WorkSpace
December 22nd 2009 | With co-working office space a growing trend across North America, Gillian Shaw writes about the timely successor to Vancouver's now-defunct WorkSpace today in the Vancouver Sun.
New shared workspace opens in Vancouver's inner city
December 21st 2009 | "Co-working" and "hotdesking" are growing trends with companies that are abandoning high-priced real estate in favour of more practical and less pricey workspace solutions.
Clustering in action
December 18th, 2009 | AHA Media is a struggling new company incubated in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by a government-funded agency that turned to theories of a Harvard University professor more often associated with Silicon Valley and Hollywood than with revitalization of urban slums.
A chance to change fate
December 18th, 2009 | It starts with a makeover and a little bit of hope. But finding jobs for Downtown Eastside residents, many with drug dependencies, has never been easy.
What the neediest need
December 18th, 2009 | An employment program operated by a government funded agency, Building Opportunities with Business, has put 137 inner-city residents in jobs since Oct. 1, 2008. The jobs include labourer, cook, roadwork flagger, construction worker, cleaner, forklift operator, security officer, painter, waiter, sales and front desk staff.
Olympic building program nails down jobs for women, inner city youth, aboriginal people
November 20th 2009 | Esther Weng, 24, graduated from RONA's fabrication shop training program and was hired to make wood products for the 2010 Games on Thursday, November 12, 2009 in Vancouver.
Controversial landlords donate land for 'farm'
November 6th 2009 | Two parking lots in the Downtown Eastside, and one of the city's most controversial landlord families, are getting a facelift.
Volunteers turn hotel parking lots into gardens
November 2nd 2009 | United We Can organizes program to train people and grow food for markets, community kitchens and restaurants
SOLEfood Inner City Farm: A Source of Food and Jobs for Vancouver's Dowtown Eastside
November 1st 2009 | A vacant lot beside the Astoria Hotel became a half-acre inner-city farm that will generate jobs and food for the Downtown Eastside. Around fifty volunteers came out to build the SOLEfood farm.
New community garden takes root in the Downtown Eastside
October 31st 2009 | About 50 volunteers took to wheelbarrows, shovels, and drills Saturday to begin construction of a new community garden in the Downtown Eastside.
The half-acre garden, located on East Hastings Street at Hawk Avenue, will provide food, job training, and education on urban agriculture for local residents, businesses, and community organizations starting next year.
Woodward's sparking DTES revival
October 4th 2009 | The last time Rose Mancini spent time in the Downtown Eastside, she was addicted and homeless. Yesterday, however, she and her teen son returned, hoping to find a job at one of the handful of businesses set to open at the new Woodward's site.
BOB program does good inner city work - Jim Green
August 21st 2009 | I am very proud to be associated with Building Opportunities with Business, which works to prepare inner-city residents for employment, and Millennium Development, who not only provided the jobs, but in addition, made a major financial contribution of $750,000 to assist in training and pre-employment. It's a great contribution to the city of Vancouver and the Olympics.
BOB program does good inner city work - Shirley Chan
August 21st 2009 | Re: "Activist slams Downtown Eastside job-creation agency," Aug. 19.
Vancouver Courier
Activist slams Downtown Eastside job-creation agency
August 19th 2009 | A four-year-old agency formed to create jobs and promote business in the Downtown Eastside is not living up to its initial purpose, according to a community activist.
By land, sea and air we whinge
August 12th 2009 | Since 2006, BOB has helped hundreds of Downtown Eastside residents find jobs in the construction industry, including 87 positions at the False Creek Olympic Village site.
Downtown Eastside advocate sees no 'benefit' in work program
August 7th 2009 | The Olympic Village building site has employed 87 inner-city residents over the past two years through a non-profit agency, but critics say it doesn't do enough to help the Downtown Eastside.
Pedicab to ferry tourists through inner city
July 6th 2009 | Red pedicabs are ferrying passengers from the Canada Place Vancouver cruise ship terminal to Gastown and Chinatown in attempt to leave tourists dazzled by history and unconcerned about their safety in a neighbourhood criticized by travel guides.
The Challenge Series: Millennium Water
The Challenge Series tells the story of Vancouver’s Olympic Village at Southeast False Creek: Millennium Water. Published in eight monthly installments, available on the web and in print, it focuses on the visioning, planning, design and construction processes and celebrates collaboration and sustainable innovation.
Businesses dream of a green and sustainable Strathcona
May 21st 2009 | The Strathcona Business Improvement Association wants to recast Strathcona as Vancouver's first green zone.
Bigger Bang for our Bucks
April 24th 2009 | Don’t underestimate the power of your dollar “votes”. Little bits add up: Vancouver’s Social Purchasing Portal helped channel $2.5 million of purchasing to benefit Canada’s poorest neighbourhood in 2008.
The Money Pit
February 13th 2009 | An attempt to value all of the money spent on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside since 2000. BOB's budget as well as some of our programs and successes are mentioned.
O-Village deal helps employ the homeless; advocate thinks it’s not enough
March 19, 2009 | An agreement between Vancouver and Millennium Development awards contracts to inner-city businesses and employs homeless people to build the Olympic Village. But a Downtown Eastside advocate called the measures a “drop in the bucket.”
Vancouver's construction industry offers training for inner-city residents
September 30 | 100 will upgrade skills and experience will working at Olympic site
CORE values rebuilding career opportunities for hard-luck Downtown Eastside residents
September 30th 2008 | Inner-city program paying off for trainees, construction industry and VANOC
Downtown Eastside economic growth program gets green light
September 2008 | Vancouver City Council sets aside $1 million for a grants program to be administered by BOB upon final approval.
Vancouver signs deal with developers for Olympic job opportunities
November 28, 2007 | BOB is selected to administer the Southeast False Creek Olympic Village Community Benefit Agreement between developers and the city.
In Their Words
February 28, 2008 | Keith Sashaw An interview on Vancouver2010.com with the president of the Vancouver Regional Construction Association and co-chair of BOB's Construction Cluster on how the Olympics can have a positive impact on Vancouver.
The Lost City
April 01, 2007 | BOB Board member Toby Barazzuol discusses with BC Business the challenges of doing business in Vancouver's inner city.
Road to 2010 opens a road to a new life for inner-city workers
September 30 2008 | Building Opportunities with Business, Millennium, VANOC, and VRCA parter to train and place inner-city residents on the Athlete's Village construction site.
Downtown Eastside seeks new lease on life
July 24, 2008 | Local politicians, business owners, and activists discus in the Georgia Straight how a new measure before city council could have a positive effect on revitalizing the DTES with out displacing existing residents and businesses.
Construction employment awaits many CORE graduates
July 10, 2008 | The CORE training program is profiled in Western Canada's Construction Journal. Lani Johnson explains the role BOB plays in training inner city residents with barriers to entering the workforce for a career in construction.
Inner city partnership brings construction jobs downtown
September 20th 2008 | Employment program could serve as a model for future community benefits agreements involving the construction industry.