Corporate Commitment to Sustainability

If you ask many of our employees, the most important commitment to sustainability is our goal to Improve Our Communities. In 2006, EBA’s Board of Directors decided that we would celebrate our company’s 40th anniversary by sharing the good fortune we’ve had over our many years of business. We decided to give back to help others in need by working with Partners in the Horn of Africa (Partners), a registered Canadian charity supported by private citizens in Alberta and British Columbia. In the spring of 2007, staff in every EBA office worked diligently organizing and carrying out fundraising activities to meet lofty goals to upgrade the buildings and furnishings in Kasso Manso, Ethiopia. There were more than 20 different fundraising ideas enacted that truly exemplified one of EBA's core values, “We Improve Our Communities".
Our team returned to Ethiopia in January 2009 to develop the plans for the overall multi-year program in the West Gojjam region of Ethiopia as well as more specific plans for projects to be undertaken in 2009.
Other community projects we are involved in include:

• GROW Ethiopia Reforestation Project
• Commuter Challenge, Calgary
• Edmonton and Calgary Annual River Valley Clean Up
• Summer Blood Challenge (Edmonton) and Calgary
• Corporate Challenge Blood Drive (Calgary)
• Annual Owl Survey – past five years
• Adoption of two Yellowknife Streets to Keep Litter Free
• The United Way Campaign
• "EBA Day of Caring" - EBA staff team up for a half day to provide service and support to a community group or other non-profitable organization. In 2009/2010 teams of EBA staff volunteered their time to:
  • Mt. Sima non-profit ski hill in Whitehorse
  • Edmonton United Way Inkind Centre
  • Dress for Success in Vancouver
  • Wildlife Rescue Association of BC
  • Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society
  • Vancouver Aquarium's Marine and Mammal Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre
  • Clifford E. Lee Nature Sanctuary in Edmonton
  • The Mustard Seed Edmonton
  • Alexandra Gardner House in Kelowna