Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.      - Margaret Mead At McNeill Nakamoto, we are committed to ensuring that the legacy we create is not just for ourselves but for our community. Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland is McNeill Nakamoto’s primary philanthropy and active focus. With our inaugural Wine Auction to Benefit Big Sisters in June, Sarah McNeill’s chairing of the 2007 Divas Heroes Benefit dinner, our Career Launcher program, to our every day fundraising and awareness of “jeans for Big Sisters” by our team, our sense of community is ever present. It costs $2,000 to make and maintain one Big & Little Sister match for one year. McNeill Nakamoto has set a target to facilitate the creation of 25 new matches by 2010. With our help we can assist these young women overcome challenges in their lives and help their gain self esteem and confidence to make positive life choices. Other important and vital programs that McNeill Nakamoto supports: Dress for Success Dress for Success helps women with low income make transitions into the workforce by providing each client with one suit when she has an interview and a second suit when she gets the job. As one of our areas of involvement in Dress for Success, we host an annual ‘Suit Drive’ for our client companies. Vancouver Social Purchasing Portal The Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) provides an on-line environment for business-to-business procurement transactions to leverage community economic development activity. This group of businesses, through their procurement policies and buying from the list of SPP suppliers, put social corporate responsibility into practice and create a social value for the community. Logotex and Mills Basics are two long term suppliers for McNeill Nakamoto and in turn these two companies have created success stories for SPP. In its first year of inception over 50 purchasing partners and 35 suppliers were online generating over $300,000 of targeted business activity and creating over a dozen full-time jobs for youth at risk and hard to employ persons through the participating suppliers.   I've told everyone I've met to go to McNeill Nakamoto... because I truly believe that good service begins at the bottom and works its way up! Thanks again. Kayte