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BC Community Alliance (BCCA)
Founded in 2019 and incorporated as a nonprofit in 2020, BC Community Alliance is a Black-led organization advancing equity, safety, wellbeing, and economic mobility for Black, African, and Caribbean communities across British Columbia.
We combine community-rooted supports, youth leadership and entrepreneurship programs, creative storytelling, and evidence-based policy and research to translate community needs into healing, empowerment, accountability, and systemic change.
Our Story
Why we got started – OUR STORY
BCCA began in 2019 as a community response to a crisis: a racist bomb threat at Lord Byng Secondary School in Vancouver that exposed deep harms experienced by Black students and reverberated through the wider Black community. While that moment served as a catalyst, it was not the complete story. We grew from the many experiences of racism faced by racialized students and families across British Columbia into a Black-led organization committed to long-term systems change.
Today, the BC Community Alliance turns frontline evidence and healing into lasting policy, services, and leadership opportunities. Our Safe School Hub and Family Services work provide a unique data-to-support pipeline that helps us hold institutions to account and design meaningful reforms. Our youth structures, including the District Student Council (renamed Youth Advisory District Council) and Support for Student Learning Program and SSLP Community Venture Hub, create pathways for young people and entrepreneurs to lead, create, and thrive. We pair direct supports (healing, legal and clinical referrals, microgrants, and incubators) with policy and creative storytelling to shift public systems and the broader narrative about Black life in BC.
Locally, provincially, federally, and across the commonwealth have recognized our work, citing it in articles, research, policy, programs, advisories, and other focuses. See our milestones or visit our programs page
