Home »
Local elected chair of Community Futures B.C.
Community Futures British Columbia (CFBC) has announced its new Board Executive including a Cranbrook resident as Board Chair.
At its meeting on Friday, November 6 in Calgary, the CFBC Board of Directors elected the following members to the Executive:
Carrie Schafer – Chair;
John Hack – Vice Chair;
Am Naqvi – Treasurer;
Gwen Schmidt – Secretary.
“We’re grateful for your leadership and for the time and experience you give, as volunteers, to support Community Futures offices, entrepreneurs and rural communities across B.C.,” CFBC noted in a media release.
Community Futures British Columbia is a provincial association of 34 locally governed, non-profit Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs) that support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and economic development in rural and remote regions of B.C., including Community Futures East Kootenay.
Established in the mid-1980s and funded primarily by the federal agency Pacifican, CFBC acts as an alternative to traditional commercial banks.
Carrie Schafer, second from right in the above photo, is a resident of Cranbrook and publisher of e-KNOW.ca.
e-KNOW
