In partnership with local social enterprise Our Social Fabric, the Board of HxBIA and I are excited for our first ever fundraising event, the PolyEra Spring Masquerade and Strut-Off! This is going to be a ridiculously fun vintage fashion show and masquerade ball that we’re holding at the Rickshaw Theatre on March 24th. Local stores […]
This week’s post is courtesy of guest contributor Hope Wang Social enterprise has many definitions and is geographically dependent. With a deepening curiosity about what this concept actually means, we asked Shawn Smith, a social entrepreneurship instructor from Simon Fraser University to give us insight on this business emergence. Social enterprises can be defined as […]
Curious about how HxBIA got up and running? So are we sometimes! Perhaps a good retrospective is in order… The Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association Formation Committee first met in April of 2009 to discuss the feasibility of a new BIA in Vancouver’s DTES and what kind of approach it could take, considering the unique […]
Is it any surprise that the two Canadian Social Enterprises who won at Trico Charitable Foundation‘s recent Social EnterPrize event in Calgary were from Vancouver’s DTES? Not to those of us who live and work in the area! I want to send out the biggest, warmest and proudest congratulations on behalf of Hastings Crossing BIA […]
After nearly three years of community consultation, surveys, public meetings and planning the Hastings Crossing BIA (HxBIA) is in full swing. Though it represents only one quadrant of the DTES, it’s the last piece of the puzzle in this historic part of the city, filling a longstanding geographic gap between Strathcona BIA, Gastown BIA, Chinatown […]
