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How to Join
General Requirements
HIP will be pleased to accept members / sponsors from organizations that:
- Demonstrate ethical business and advertising practices within their firms
- Are consistent with HIP’s requirements for use of its name and /or logo
- Are consistent with the mission of HIP
HIP will not accept applications from individuals or organizations that:
- Promote religious or political messages
- Promote a political party or election candidate
- Promote alcohol or tobacco use
Process
1. Prospective applicants must be proposed and seconded by two current HIP
members.
2. The applicant must submit HIP’s application form which requires three business
references, payment and a description of their organization’s bone fide interest
in improving indoor environment quality (i.e. products, services or other
contributing factors).
3. The applicant’s documents are to be reviewed and approved by the HIP’s
Board of Directors at a subsequent meeting for approval.
4. If approved by the Board as a bone fide member the newly accepted member
/ sponsor may acknowledge in its promotional materials and activities that it is a
member of HIP and may participate in promotional opportunities organized by
HIP. The newly accepted member / sponsor may NOT directly associate HIP with
any particular products or services offered and sponsorship of HIP does not
constitute endorsement of a sponsor’s products or services.
5. HIP membership / sponsorship will be reviewed on an annual basis. The HIP
Board of Directors reserves the right to terminate membership at any time.
Healthy Indoors Partnership Logo
Healthy Indoors Partnership is a multi-sectored organization which includes industry,
government and NGO’s within its membership. One of the goals of HIP is to promote HIP
values, and to increase awareness of HIP to all Canadians. We look to all of our
members to assist HIP in reaching this goal by proudly including the HIP logo in most or
all of its marketing to better build our brand and to increase consumer awareness.
1. Membership or sponsorship within Healthy Indoors Partnership will allow for the
use of the HIP logo by the member companies within their advertising, which will
be reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure conformation to HIP policy. The use
of the logo signifies a membership within HIP, and adherence to all HIP policies
and standards, and does in no way infer an endorsement by HIP or any other
member organizations, of the advertising company’s services or products.
2. Members of HIP, when using the logo may include the words: “Proudly
associated with”, or “Associated with HIP”.
3. HIP will include on its own marketing pieces wording which will state: “Members
of Healthy Indoors Partnership adhere to all policies of the organization, and HIP
membership does not endorse or promote any members products or services”.
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