How can you help?
Show your interest
If you’re a polyamorous person, or if you just support our goals, put your email address on our supporter list, and if possible please let us know your province or country of residence. Send email to .
We’ll use your address only for the following purposes:
- Possibly to ask you to participate in surveys about our community, or to give us other information which will help in our work.
- Possibly to send you a very limited number of “calls to action” on critical issues. We don’t expect to have to do this before the real lists are up, but you never know.
We may publish the total number of people on our supporter list, or information about its growth rate. We will not release any of the actual addresses, or any other information about people on the list, to anybody outside the CPAA’s trusted working groups, unless legally forced to do so, which we do not anticipate. You may remove yourself from the list at any time.
Give us evidence
If you’re in a conjugal relationship with more than one person, we can use your perspective, either as a formal witness or as part of our background information. If you believe you have a special perspective on polyamory and the law, or special, relevant information, we may be able to use it. Please send email to .
Give time
Legal work is time consuming. Right now, we need the following:
- Pro-bono legal help, especially from BC bar members who can give us actual court time.
- Help from professional legal researchers and paralegals.
We’re not yet organized to use too many lay volunteers, but we hope to have our working groups in order soon. When we do, we’ll need help with:
- Clerical research support
- Technical support for our other volunteers
- Community relations: moderating forums, etc.
- Logistics: moving documents around, etc
If you can help with any of these, please send email to .
Everyone is welcome to volunteer, but please understand that, because of confidentiality and other issues, there will be some roles which are only available to people we can verify as trustworthy members or “fellow travellers” of the polyamorous community.
Give resources
Legal research is expensive. Right now, we need the following:
- Access to professional research databases
- Access to libraries
In the future, we may need:
- Travel (and lodging)
- Office, copying, and mailing services
To offer help with any of these, please send email to .
Send us money
Litigation costs money, even with volunteers. So do PR and lobbying. If you want to support us monetarily, send a Paypal payment to , or send email for instruction on how to send a check.