Community Capacity Building

 

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

-- Japanese Proverb

 

Service Canada – Human Resources Skills Development Canada

• Youth Initiative Contract #43747
• Pre-Self Employment, Employment Assistance Contract N482906
• Pre-Self Employment, Employment Assistance Contract N548482
• Job Creation Partnership N55065-2
• Job Creation Partnership N66099-8
• Youth Skills Link Project #0885236

Thompson Rivers University

• Partnership Agreement September 1, 1996 - Current

CAP Industry Canada

• 1999 – Current

School District #73, MLA Kevin Krueger

• The Interior Mobile Trades Training Unit
• Holding & disbursement of funds

Wells Gray Country Services Committee (TNRD Area “A)

• Wells Gray Country Marketing Coordinator
• Administration January 1, 2005 – December 8, 2006

Wells Gray Country Services Committee (TNRD Area “A)

• Summer Parks 2006 Project
• Administration May 23 – July 31, 2006

Blue River Tourism Project (TNRD Area “B”)

• Marketing Coordinator Administration
• February 1, 2005 – January 31, 2008

Blue River Powder Packers

• Mountain Caribou information officer
• January - April, 2007/08/09

Raft River Salmon Interpretive Program

• Funding brought into the community to support the program; Pacific Salmon Foundation ($20,000) Pacific Salmon Foundation ($1,500), Weyerhaeuser ($1,500), Canfor ($1,000),

Clearwater Community Centre Plan

• BC Hydro Tree Foundation ($8,650)
• BC British Columbia Transmission Corporation ($9,093.35)

The North Thompson Sustainable Watershed Committee

• Pacific Salmon Foundation ($15,000), The Real Estate Foundation ($15,000), The North Thompson Economic Development Society ($15,000)

Building Community Security with Bites & Bytes

• Interior Health ($5,000), Service Canada ($2,500)

Community Board Development – Healthy Communities

• September 2006, Barriere
• October 2007, Clearwater
• Gavin Perryman, Facilitator

Participated in these strategic planning programs

• North Thompson Strategic Plan, Community Futures Development Corp Thompson Country
• Tourism BC Community Foundations Development Program

University of Northern British Columbia

• Memorandum of Understanding
• Community Development Institute, Don Manson, Coordinator
• Hosted community capacity building information meetings

Participated in local Initiatives

• Heart of the Matter, Rural Health Symposium
• “Sustainability Planning: Why is it Vital for the Future of the North Thompson Valley?”
• Health & Wellness Expo
• Seniors Expo