About CBG 
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Emergence at Work
Community Builders Group (CBG) is a network of emergent neighbourhoods in Canada, Haiti and sub-Saharan Africa. The network is decentralized and strives to empower community-based initiatives.
CBG has a mission to facilitate development in communities of extreme poverty, both in Canada and internationally. The Society three main areas of focus are: supportive housing, compassionate adoption and international relief and development work. Read more about these initiatives on the right side of this page.
CBG is also a flow-through organization which provide resources to local partners in communities of extreme poverty. The raison detre of the social networks is to establish emergent environments where participants can self-organize into communities of wellness and mutual respect.
CBG values self-sufficiency, environmental sustainability, indigenous controls, sound governance, respect for all persons and incarnational living opportunities.
CBG has been a Canadian Registered Charity since 1992 and has been incorporated under the Society Act of British Columbia since 1999. The Society has a board of five directors, appointed annually. The directors have experience in domestic and international community development initiatives, including project research and design, resource acquisition, management, implementation and evaluation.
CBG is supported by Canadians through active participation by community volunteers, benevolent investors, innovative social service providers and paid staff and as well dedicated volunteers.
CBG Affiliates
CBG’s core efforts in Vancouver have also launched three associated societies:
• Society for Compassionate Adoption
• Simpson Community Services Society
• Pay it Forward Micro Credit Society (PiF)
as well as four enterprising non profits:
• Afya Community Services
• Take the Green Challenge
• O’Connor Developments
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Whole Life Housing |
In Vancouver’s core, CBG operates four safe and supportive housing facilities and provides executive management, tenant support, maintenance services and full-cycle accounting
Since 2002, two Vancouver-based social entrepreneurs, Hart Molthagen and David Ash, have partnered with CBG to develop CBG’s supportive housing facilities and have invested to purchase and renovate Jubilee Rooms on Main and Dodson Rooms on Hastings. In addition, CBG had a significant role in the donation, by David and Lise Ash, of the Dodson Rooms on Hastings to the Dodson Neighbourhood House Foundation.
In 2005, CBG received Human Resources and Skills Development Canada funding to research sociological models of emergence in marginalized Canadian communities. From 2009 to present, CBG has received a grant from the Housing Partners Initiative for the Society’s Tenant Support Program in Vancouver.
Currently, CBG is working in the Dodson Neighbourhood House, the Jubilee Rooms on Main and the Powell Rooms. |
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Relief & Development |
 CBG sees a strong connection between its domestic and international development efforts. Relationally-based community values which have been applied in the Society’s Vancouver supportive housing efforts were learned from close involvement with communities in sub-Saharan Africa and Central America, beginning in 1998. CBG has successfully completed international community development projects in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, DRC and El Salvador.
CBG employs staff members who focus on international development. In addition, the Society coordinates the efforts of volunteer professionals and retired volunteer entrepreneurs who work with the Society developing community-based projects in Haiti, Tanzania and DRC. CBG is also closely associated with eight indigenous community development consultants in four developing countries who have helped the Society to develop and operate privately-funded community initiatives since 1998.
Current activities of CBG international development staff, volunteers and indigenous consultants include field visits to communities of extreme poverty, partnership building with community-based organizations and project design, implementation and monitoring tasks. |
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| Society for Compassionate Adoption |
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The Compassionate Adoption initiative exists to coordinate the private placement of at-risk infants into loving and resourceful families and to provide ongoing support for at-risk biological parents.
The vision of the initiative is to strengthen and expand existing operations until the private adoption of at risk children is a known and viable adoption alternative in Canada. Click here to read more.
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