Connective Named BCNPHA’s 2025 Housing Provider of the Year
2025's Housing Central Conference sees Connective awarded BCNPHA’s Non-Profit Housing Provider of the Year award!
Nov 19 2025 | Connective
We’re proud to share that last night, at the annual Housing Central Conference, Connective was named the 2025 Housing Provider of the Year!
The award was given by the BC Non-Profit Housing Association (BCNPHA) and accepted by Connective’s CEO, Mark Miller.
We are profoundly grateful to see our work recognized in this way and humbled to be acknowledged alongside the dedicated organizations and individuals receiving BCNPHA’s other 2025 awards at Housing Central. Together, these awards – and the work that they champion – represent important strides toward addressing housing and homelessness challenges across British Columbia.
Recognizing Innovation in Housing and Support
Each year at Housing Central, BCNPHA’s Housing Provider of the Year Award highlights organizations that demonstrate creativity and leadership in creating safe, affordable, and inclusive housing. The theme for this year’s award was innovation.
For Connective, innovation has been a crucial tool in our ability to meet complex and evolving needs across all parts of the housing continuum. Over the past year, innovative approaches and partnerships have allowed us to explore new service models, open programs in new communities, and strengthen connections in existing ones.
It has also allowed us, and Connective teams in Nanaimo and Kamloops, to come together as one unified organization. Our multi-year merger, completed in October 2025, is a step toward long-term sustainability and a strategic opportunity to collaborate with government and partners to drive innovation in the nonprofit sector.
As community needs grow more complex, resources must stretch further and in new ways. Mergers like this help nonprofits build capacity, improve efficiency, and ensure every dollar invested in programs has the greatest possible impact. With shared leadership, systems, programs, and vision, we are more prepared than ever to respond to evolving challenges.
Today, our newly united team of 1,200+ staff delivers more than 100 programs and manages 1,700 housing units across 29 communities.
We’re proud of the work we’ve done, and of the ways it has opened the door to safe, secure, and affordable homes for more people than ever before.
In the last year alone, we have opened or begun the implementation process for programs focused on supportive housing, transitional housing, affordable housing, treatment and recovery, secure care, and acquired brain injury and dementia care.
This growth has been fueled by our commitment to innovation, our willingness to meet underserved and emerging needs head-on, and our refusal to compromise on our values or the core tenets of our approach.
Strength in Collaboration
We also know that none of our work happens in isolation. Our success is rooted in the trust and resilience of those who access our services, the support of the communities in which they reside, and the collaboration with partners who help make our programs possible.
This recognition belongs to all of them, to our staff, and to the idea that everyone deserves a place to call home.
It also speaks to the power of partnership. Across BC and the Yukon, Connective has established a range of effective partnerships at the community, provincial / territorial, and federal level. We’re proud to work alongside organizations such as the Aboriginal Housing Management Association (AHMA), Seniors Services Society of BC, and the Council of Yukon First Nations, whose leadership and shared commitment to culturally informed, inclusive, and accessible housing have shaped and strengthened our collective efforts.
Looking Ahead
We’re proud of how far we’ve come, but we know there is much more to do. Rather than marking an endpoint, this award encourages us to continue working to ensure that every person has access to safe, stable, and inclusive housing.
We look forward to building on this momentum, are eager to continue investing in what works, and remain ready to meet complex and emerging challenges across all stages of the housing continuum.
We’re deeply grateful to BCNPHA and Housing Central for this recognition, and to all who continue to support and strengthen our work every day.