About Community Builders
Programs and Locations
Best Practice Housing - Vancouver
Community Builders coordinates Best Practice Housing management services
for four privately owned rooming housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside:
Dodson Rooms on Hastings, Jubilee Rooms on Main (North and South) and
Powell Rooms on Powell.
In these locations the society provides the following services for 175 tenants
that live in the single room occupancy buildings; tenant support, administration
and bookkeeping, human resources and job training, pest control and building
maintenance, breakfast and community kitchen programs, volunteer cleaning
and painting services.
Compassionate Adoption - Vancouver and Hope, BC
Community Builders supports the compassionate adoption of at-risk infants, in
addition to housing and counselling support for birth mothers. This endeavour is
modelled by two society directors in Vancouver and Hope, BC.
The society has assisted in the placement of seven infants into caring families
with the support of the British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family
Development, and has provided housing services to the same number of at-risk
mothers.
Micro Credit - East and Southern Africa
Community Builders models relationally-based Micro Credit endeavours in
Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The society assists
works directly with eight families and is represented in thirteen African
neighbourhoods. Successful "pay it forward" micro credit loans have enabled
self-sufficiency through the following small business development projects:
small pig and dairy farms, two acre farm fertilizer programs, small pharmacies
and kiosks, home-based tayloring initiatives and an internet café and a diesel
powered village grinding mill.
Legal Status
The Community Builders Benevolence Group has been a Canadian Registered
Charity since 1992 and is able to issue donation receipts for tax purposes. The
organization was incorporated in 2003 under the British Columbia Society Act.
