BC Gov News

A local food bank is gaining an events coordinator and a local resident is gaining valuable work experience through Job Creation Partnership funding from the provincial government.

An eco-friendly company is providing work experience for five local people, while setting up a social enterprise that recycles discarded sheep skins, thanks to more than $128,000 in Job Creation Partnership funding.

Hammers will be ringing out this summer at the Vanderhoof Community Museum as four people get work experience, while a local tourist attraction receives a renovation and becomes more accessible, thanks to Job Creation Partnership funding.

As the North gets ready for the jobs boom, the B.C. government is investing in training people in a new way to help meet anticipated demand in the hospitality industry.

The B.C. government is supporting social innovation by investing $194,450 to research the social venture sector and its human resource challenges through a labour market partnership agreement with the ISIS Research Centre at the Sauder School of Business.

As B.C. athletes tally up the medals during the BC Summer Games, more than a dozen people will be racking up some valuable job experience at the Games, thanks to a new partnership with the Nanaimo 2014 BC Summer Games Society.