Building Futures

Building Futures Employment Society is a charitable social enterprise in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, that supports people with intellectual disabilities to learn, work and take part in community life. It runs several small businesses that give participants on-the-job experience while serving local customers.

What Building Futures does

• Futures Skills Centre: a supportive setting for learning, skill building and self-determination.
• Community navigation: one-to-one help finding resources, jobs and volunteer roles in the area.
• Futures Club: individual programming and activities chosen around each participant.
• Employment services: on-site job training and coaching.
• Social enterprises: Assembly Plus for packaging and mailing, Futures Impressions for printing and copying, Futures Café for catering and meals, and Futures Birds for handmade goods.

Clients

It serves participants and business and individual customers across Halifax, Bedford, Sackville and Fall River.

Key facts

• Based in: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada
• History: more than 40 years serving the community
• Status: registered charity