About Us
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Advocate for Businesses |
Support Existing Businesses |
Develop a Job Ready Workforce |
Our Mission
The Cumberland Business Connector is a business led, not for profit organization. Our focus is to foster a strong business environment in order to strengthen Cumberland County by removing barriers to business, and connecting businesses with the resources they need to be successful.
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Recording of the 2021 AGM |
Our History
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Shortly after “Now or Never, An Urgent Call to Action for Nova Scotians” was released, a small group of local business people started meeting to talk about how we could make a significant, lasting difference to the economy of Cumberland County. We looked at the Ivany report and saw the need for businesses to step up and take an active role in revitalizing the economy of Nova Scotia, particularly rural Nova Scotia.
With encouragement from our local municipal governments the discussion was broadened to include a wide cross section of leaders in Cumberland County. Discussions lead to a three-pillar strategy on to connect, support and influence existing businesses, youth and government decisions to drive economic development. In order to have the most impact and achieve the goals outlined in the three-pillar strategy, the volunteers needed to formalize their structure and governance from an entirely volunteer organization to a board -staff model. This is how the Cumberland Business Connector was formed. Deliberately named as that is how we see our role (the Connector), and symbolized by the stylized depiction of the Wallace River bridge in our logo. We incorporated as a not for profit society in 2016 and hired our first employee in the summer of 2017. |
