Box 5777 Saint John New Brunswick E2L 4M3 T: 506-633-5588 F: 506-632-5126 maloney.annemarie@jdirving.com
WINNER FOR 2001
BCAPI, a nonprofit organization of the Saint John Business and professional community, works with people living in poverty and is dedicated to the alleviation of poverty in Greater Saint John.
Poverty is now going out of business in Saint John and that's good business for the community's future, for single parent families and for the hundreds of little hearts who only want to grow up healthy and happy.
In 1997, the business community of Saint John founded BCAPI. Like all savvy business people, BCAPI researched its market, learned from the people struggling in poverty, amassed demographic data and catalogued the breadth and depth of existing social and professional services available.
They developed a strategy based on the Anti_poverty Study that recognized the majority of the 19,000 impoverished residents of Saint John are single unemployed parents with no high school education.
As a result, senior business leaders in partnership with community organizations are pooling their time, influence, energy and professional resources. They assist in managing specific initiatives, motivate others, effect change in public policy and invest new ways to root out the root causes of poverty. And it's working!
The BCAPI model exemplifies innovation, "change that creates a new dimension of performance". It serves as a model of how a program with limited resources can tap the energy and abilities of a whole community producing impressive results and transform lives.
