About Us
Firelight was founded in 2009 by its board of directors, with the aim of providing services specifically tailored to supporting the rights and interests of Indigenous and local communities in Canada and beyond. Firelight is 65% First Nation owned, and we now have more than 50 employees, and offices in West Vancouver, Vancouver, Victoria, and Edmonton. Click here to view our most recent brochure.
Our Mission
To work with our clients in Canada and beyond to provide high quality research, analysis and technical tools and to create solutions for our shared futures.
Founding Principles
Firelight was founded on a series of principles that underpin all of our work:
Quality
We are committed to high quality, objective, evidence-based, peer-reviewed research, and to providing deliverables that are timely, relevant, and effective.
Fairness
We are committed to a collaborative and supportive approach to work and research, and to a democratically-based model of doing business and making decisions.
Respect
We are committed to working in a manner that is supported by the communities and clients we work with, to being respectful, and to producing work that is respected by all parties.
Social Return
We give back to the communities we work with by supporting initiatives that have been identified as culturally, politically or ecologically important. Learn more about Social Return.