Empowering Vancouver's Inner-City Residents: FROGBOX Connects with B.O.B.'s Supported Employment Program | Frogbox

In Vancouver’s Inner-City, B.O.B. (Building Opportunities with Business) is regenerating businesses, restoring historical architecture and rebuilding individual lives. Unlike traditional charities, B.O.B. shares tools and resources that allow people to help themselves.

FROGBOX recently employed an awesome employee from B.O.B.’s Supported Employment Program. Tai is now a member of the FROGBOX team, who is a hard worker with a great sense of humour. He cleans our moving boxes in the warehouse, which is an essential contribution. Rather than relying on services to support him, Tai has been given the opportunity to work and thrive.

We highly recommend this program to other businesses. It is a wonderful way to support the regeneration of Vancouver’s Inner-City. We wish that we had programs like this in Seattle and Toronto, the other cities where we offer eco friendly moving boxes! Building Opportunities with Business (BOB) was created in 2005 as a comprehensive community economic development organization to deliver a variety of employment and business development programs. One of its biggest roles was in overseeing the city’s first major community benefits agreement, which facilitated nearly $50 million dollars in purchases from inner-city businesses and saw 120 residents from the inner-city receive training and work both related to the construction of the Winter Olympic Athletes Village.

“By working with local training and employment organizations, government and the communities at work here…B.O.B. has always strived to be a connector, resource, and facilitator for businesses and individuals in the inner-city” says CEO Dr. Shirley Chan. In the past five years BOB has established itself as just that, but not without some bumps and bruises along the way. Now that the five year pilot program agreed to in 2005 is over, BOB has received a funding extension which gives it another year or so of capacity at its current operational level, but the future of the organization remains in question.

Many community leaders argue that creating cohesion amongst different communities, government and agencies will be crucial to the continued rejuvenation and health of Vancouver’s Inner-City.

Click here to check out B.O.B.’s progress to date.

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