Career Development. Community Collaboration. Workforce Engagement. Community Enterprise. We walk alongside you in the process of finding career ‘fit’, and help you develop the skills to find and keep that job. We support you in gaining the personal management skills that will keep you moving forward. We challenge you to reach higher and farther and to take risks. We are great networkers and we’ll connect you with resources and people that will help you on the way to achieving your career goals. We have built solid community partnerships that will benefit you. Our youth programs include exposure to different kinds of jobs and work environments–from retail to hospitality to digital to film–and come with a good chunk of real work experience. We also help employers find the right employee, and then offer on-the-job support. OUR CHARTER OF SERVICE RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP: accountability for the resources we’ve been entrusted with INTEGRITY: committed to speaking truthfully SERVANT LEADERSHIP: leading by serving and investing in others to help them reach their full potential SOCIO-ECONOMIC JUSTICE: dedicated to education and advocacy for social and economic justice We do this with a ‘you-first,’ or client-focused perspective—it’s the core of who we are. HISTORY We first started as the Employment & Community Development department of the Mennonite Central Committee BC (MCC BC) in 1990. Agora is now a division of MCC Community Enterprises Inc.