Our Supporters

Safe Harbour: Respect for All expanded from a BC-based program to a national program in 2008, thanks to the generous support of the Operational Management and Coordination Branch of the Government of Canada through Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Support Us!

Demand is growing for the Safe Harbour: Respect for All program.

Demonstrate your corporate citizenship and benefit from valuable marketing opportunities by taking advantage of a variety of innovative partnership opportunities with AMSSA’s Safe Harbour: Respect for All program today.

Corporate Sponsorship

Safe Harbour invites you to sponsor a Safe Harbour event, resources, or diversity training locally, provincially, or nationally. Please contact AMSSA to learn more about how your business or organization can become involved.

Safe Harbour has grown thanks to the support of TELUS, BC Hydro, the Burnaby Board of Trade, Starbucks, Blenz, Kin's Fark Market, Nature's Path, and Happy Planet. Thank you!

Become a Signature Sponsor

Becoming a Safe Harbour Signature Sponsor will help your company build on your existing commitment to diversity and take it to the next level. We require funding for the continuity and expansion of Safe Harbour throughout our four provinces. As our country grows, the need to understand the value of diversity grows with it. As a Signature Sponsor, your business will receive extensive profile within Canada's diverse communities and will be recognized for your leadership and commitment to creating welcoming communities for all.

Explore Marketing Opportunities or Partnerships with Safe Harbour:

Demonstrate your corporate citizenship and benefit from valuable marketing opportunities by taking advantage of a variety of innovative partnership opportunities with AMSSA’s Safe Harbour: Respect for All Program. Promote your brand, products and services to a targeted market or wider public audience by integrating sponsorship of Safe Harbour events and initiatives into your overall marketing plan. If sponsorship does not suit your philanthropic or marketing objectives, AMSSA is able to customize a package tailored to your needs or may develop a new and innovative partnership based on your organization or industry sector. These are some examples of where your organization could receive Safe Harbour branding exposure:

• Co-Branding of Diversity Initiatives in Newfoundland, or potentially in three additional provinces across Canada
• The Respect for All public awareness campaign
• Promotional Activities & Events
• Community Resource Tools & Support
• Diversity Training & Curriculum Development

Develop an Employee Volunteer Program

Arrange to have employees actively participate in making our communities better places to live by connecting with Community Organizers in each of the communities where your organization has an office or store. Invite your employees to volunteer their time to promote the program to build Safe Harbour recognition in your community. Non-profit community agencies often require much-needed assistance. Your help allows them to focus their resources on those they serve. This would certainly demonstrate how employees are making a difference in our local communities.

Celebrity Champions

Author and concerned citizen, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and folk singer and actor, Leon Bibb, have been long-time champions of Safe Harbour: Respect for All.

Mr. Bibb was born in Louisville, Kentucky. During the late-1950s and early-1960s, Bibb was one of a number of American entertainers, such as his good friend Paul Robeson, who were blacklisted for alleged ties to left-wing groups and causes. Mr. Bibb works tirelessly with a youth organization in Vancouver and provided music and storytelling at our Safe Harbour Celebration Event held in Vancouver on March 21st, 2008.

Severn founded the Environmental Children's Organization at age nine and attended the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. She has spoken worldwide on the necessity of redefining our values, acting with the future in mind, and listening to children. She's an editor of and writer for Notes From Canada's Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up for Change. She currently lives on Haida Gwaii off BC's coast and sits on the board of directors of the David Suzuki Foundation.

Respect.

It is a simple, quiet word. It is also a profound concept, a necessary pillar of a healthy community. We need more of it in the world - respect for others, respect for the Earth, respect for ourselves. In our province of BC, one of the most culturally diverse places in the world, the only way of coexisting is with profound respect for each others’ differences.

My family always taught me that each of us has a responsibility to stand up for our beliefs. I think most people believe in respect. But we need to do more than just believe in it, we need to stand up for it. Especially for the children of BC’s diversity, youth growing up a multicultural reality.

Safe Harbour is a simple and profound idea. This quiet concept gives businesses, institutions and individuals the chance to stand up for respect, and be advocates for peace and justice in our communities. It’s a strong, peaceful way of standing up for diversity, a feature of our country that can make us all stronger.