Welcome to the neighbourhood: eaga

Photo: Steven Ballegeer

Two weeks ago we interviewed Boris Mann of Bootup Labs, a technology and software accelerator housing several innovative startups in Vancouver’s beautifully restored Flack Block. This week BOB would like to welcome another innovative company who have also relocated to the Flack Block, eaga Canada (yes it is not capitalized). eaga describes itself as:

a social enterprise and provider of green support services and solutions in the residential sector. The issues we address are; tackling climate change, promoting residential energy efficiency and delivering social inclusion for low income households.

One of the beautiful things about eaga’s business model is that they offer a valuable service to residents who are often unable to afford building upgrades that save them energy and money, and improve the health of interior and exterior environments. The company does this by sourcing and administering grant funds that offset any need for building owners or tenants to foot the bill:

The majority of programs managed on behalf of our clients require the distribution of public grant funding to a particular target group within a specific time period to a specific quality standard. Financial reconciliation is a critical requirement throughout each project, with fully transparent reporting at various stages to fully account for funding we manage, as well as to outline the outputs of the project. We have extensive experience managing the ‘public purse’ and all our systems, processes and financial accounting are fully open and auditable.

Vancouver has become a city not necessarily known for large corporate headquarters with massive management structures, but for innovative clusters of smaller and mid sized offices doing unique things. Though eaga is an international company with its main office in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, we’re happy to welcome eaga Canada to Vancouver’s historic inner-city and believe they’ll fit right in among the other innovative green companies here in the DTES!

See you at Greendrinks and the Green Inner-City Cluster eaga!

And welcome to the neighbourhood.