Building Opportunities with Business

To be completed by referral agencies when recommending a candidate to BOB's programs. A complete application includes the BOB referral form and a copy of the jobseeker's resume.

To be completed by organizations/businesses interested in posting job positions with BOB.

To be completed by organizations/businesses interested in joining the Vancouver Social Purchasing Directory as suppliers and/or purchasers.

BOB's official letter to the community in response to the May 2010 consultation on the future role of BOB.

A report on the negotiation process involved in the Olympic Village Community Benefits Agreement. Prepared by Karen Peachey

Building Opportunities with Business Inner-city Society’s (BOB) has commissioned an external study to survey, assess and report on the viability of using real estate development as a tool of inner-city revitalization and the role a Community Development Corporation (CDC) might play in Vancouver’s Inner-city. Prepared by Heather Tremain, 2010.

Background information on Building Opportunities with Business.

The City of Vancouver and Building Opportunities with Business (BOB), together with Millennium have created the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) to ensure that local community residents share in the economic benefits associated with the development of Southeast False Creek and the Olympic Village.

The overview, criteria and application procedure for BOB's Loan Program.

ACCELERATE BC is an applied research program involving graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, their academic supervisors and a Canadian business.

Moving Hard-to-Employ Individuals from Welfare to Opportunity.

The results from the 2008 Building Opportunities with Business stakeholder survey.

Ten steps to securing a new job.  Short, practical advice for jobseekers from BOB staff member Cory Wint.

Two pages of practical and inspirational advice for would-be entrepreneurs by Muskie McKay.  Also contains links to websites and book recommendations.

The study reveals much about the diversity and strength of this emerging sector in British Columbia. Social enterprises operate as businesses but are guided by a social purpose. They sell a variety of products and services, from clothing, food and art, to manufactured products and business services. Although they are concentrated in the Lower Mainland, social enterprises are active in all regions of the Province of BC.

An evaluation of the Community Benefits Agreement for the Vancouver Olympic Village Site. (This is a large file and may take a moment to load depending on your computer)

An independent evaluation by global FRAMEWORKS of the $100,000 dollars Building Opportunities with Businesses had issued as non-repayable grants to businesses and social enterprises connected to the inner-city.

This is our annual report for 2008-9.

A flyer outlining the benefits and facilities that are available to coworkers at coworking@BOB.

Information on the Downtown Eastside Connect centre at Woodward's which was set up by BC Housing and others to provide information to reporters in town for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics about Vancouver's historic inner-city.

A more indepth analysis of the social purchasing directory, the economic theory behind it, and the quantitative yardsticks involved.

An in depth analysis of the impact of economic development on the artistic community's ability to find affordable studio space in Vancouver's inner-city.

Notes from the community consultation on the future role of BOB in the DTES.