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Building Opportunities with Business
Building Opportunities with Business Inner-City Society (AKA Building Opportunities with Business or BOB) is a non-profit organization that has been active in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, Strathcona, Mt Pleasant, Gastown and Downtown South areas since October 2005. BOB's goal according to its website is "to support local business development and increase job opportunities for inner-city residents by championing an inclusive revitalization process".
==Creating BOB==
The creation of BOB came as a direct result of the Vancouver Agreement〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TheAgreement )〕 an urban development initiative between the governments of Canada, British Columbia, and the City of Vancouver. BOB's role as defined by the agreement is to promote business development, offer mentoring and employment training as well as administering a loans program to inner-city small businesses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EconomicDevelopment )〕 In the time since its creation the organization has developed from being seen largely as an employment agency into being recognized as a credible and reliable source for a variety of information on the DTES. Separating itself from the legacy or failures of PEACH, the economic development and job creation organization that BOB was created to replace and distinguishing itself as a separate and unique entity has been a challenge to the organization. While some of the people and resources from PEACH were transferred to BOB the organization was created as a comprehensive new service to address the needs of business and employment. Fast Track to Employment (FTE)another organization active in the DTES has remained its own agency working in tandem with BOB. With a mandate to create employment opportunities by working with employers and residents FTE operates within the BOB offices as an affiliated or sister charitable organization sharing the same board of directors as BOB.
BOB as an organization has made efforts in the media to clarify its role in the DTES while addressing a diverse range of policy and planning issues relevant to Vancouver's inner-city such as STIR (Short Term Incentives for Rental Housing)〔Stir is a step in the right direction, Shirley Chan, ''Vancouver Sun'', 2009 http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/STIR+step+right+direction/2373405/story.html〕 homelessnes and economic development〔Stephanie Levitz, Hope and despair in Vancouver's Eastside, ''The Canadian Press, CTV'', Monday December 28, 2009 http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=23996.html〕 and industry clustering〔Clustering in Action, Robert Matas, ''Globe and Mail'', December 18, 2009 http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20091218.escenic_1406276/BNStory/National/〕 Though becoming more widely recognized in 2008 and 2009 the organization has struggled to overcome obscurity concerning its past and present work.
Directly related to its support of clustering in Vancouver's inner-city, BOB has also been noted for its co-working space〔 〕 made available for bloggers, independent media/social media, as well as independent contractors and consultants working in Vancouver's DTES.(Downtown Eastside) The BOB co-working space is also utilized as an art gallery and presentation space and is an official host gallery of the 2010 Winter Olympics' Cultural Olympiad. The organization has also been noted for placing focus on social enterprise in the inner-city and was instrumental in the support and creation of the SOLEFood Inner City Farm Project along with Seann Dory of United We Can, and local property owners Gudy and Pal Sahota.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kelowna News, Weather, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Classifieds, Real Estate & More | Kelowna.com )〕
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