Membership requirements

Are you ready to join a community dedicated to making a difference? Join us and be a part of a network that empowers, inspires, and connects professionals in our field. Together, we can achieve great things. Join us today!

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Who We Are:

Leaving the two COVID years behind, our goal during the last years was to continue and enhance our interaction and cooperation with Universities, Schools, and the German Consulate. As we increasingly experience a significant shift in membership structures and the loss of the original ‘old league’, there was and there will be more action needed to keep the German Canadian Business Association alive, well, and growing.

To achieve that, we need to be able to identify and recruit more Vancouver and BC-based German businesses as well as individuals who are potentially willing to commit to a Membership. We also need to convince new potential members and some of those, who have left us for various reasons that, the value of membership with our President’s & Vice-President’s GCBA Report Association goes way beyond pure business interests and just value for money in return for our membership fees, which are very modest in the first place.

A reasonably strong membership of our Association helps to sustain the relevance of the German community at large within the ever more diverse ethnic, business, and cultural fabric of Vancouver’s and BC’s society. Also, as the German Canadian Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Goethe Institute are not represented for years anymore, and either don’t see the necessity or do not have the resources to reopen a location in Western Canada, our Association remains the only non – government group, promoting German Canadian business, culture, science, and membership interests.

We encourage not only our Board, but all fellow members to focus intensely on strengthening our community and growing our membership not least for the reasons mentioned.

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Who is welcome to join?

Our association welcomes individuals from Germany, Austria, and Canada, as well as local residents, who are engaged in the sale of German brands. We invite all who are interested in supporting German businesses, culture, and science to become members. Fluency in German is not a requirement for joining our diverse community dedicated to fostering German-Canadian business relations.

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Membership Fees

  1. Student Members 16+ – Free!
  2. Associate Members – $149.00
  3. Members – $299.00
  4. Corporate Members – $399.00
    (bring up to 2 people from the same company)

All fees are pro-rated monthly from January 1st to December 31st of each calendar year. Pay with e-transfer payments to secretary@germancanadianbusiness.com (copy and paste into your e-mail) for other payment options please get in touch with us.

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Steps to join:

  1. Complete the 2024 Membership Form (fillable)
  2. Send this to secretary@germancanadianbusiness.com
  3. Wait to receive a (pro-rated) invoice
  4. Provide your logo, website link, and photo to place on our Membership Page
  5. Start attending events