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Club Action Newsletter: May 21, 2020
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This publication contains time-sensitive information generally directed to Club Executives and pertains to CFUW activities and events. Please send relevant pieces to all Club Members.
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CFUW Emergency Resolutions
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The following two emergency resolutions have been submitted to CFUW. Both resolutions pertain to the current crisis in long term care homes and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The english pdf files are linked below and the French version is currently being translated and will follow shortly.
1) Long-Term Care under the Canada Health Act – 2020
CFUW Stratford & South Shore University Women’s Club (Montreal)
2) Long-Term Care: Protect the Vulnerable
CFUW Oakville
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If your Club has lost funding due to COVID19
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We know that many Clubs lost the opportunity to hold their planned funding event this spring due to meeting restrictions following on COVID19.
Some federal funding directed at not-for-profit organizations is now available and this may possibly align with Club losses particularly with loss funding that would have been directed at e.g., community outreach to indigenous peoples, crisis centres, and other groups, or to students in the form of scholarships. The vulnerable populations are those to whom your funding would have been directed.
Our reading of the attached communication and the associated linked information, we understand that $350 million has been released as an Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF) to support vulnerable populations as they manage the impacts of COVID-19. To inquire, or to apply, you need to contact one or more of the three partner groups listed by government as their national intermediaries; you do not apply directly to government.
The Government of Canada has partnered with national intermediaries, namely, Community Foundations of Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, and United Way Centraide Canada, to coordinate and deliver the ECSF and ensure funding flows swiftly to organizations. Each of those three organizations will process applications through its own process. Options a and b seem more applicable to CFUW.
a. Community Foundations of Canada - Local community foundations across Canada will accept and assess applications from qualified donees through a centralized national portal. A link in the attached document lists such foundations and their location - contacts.
b. United Way Centraide Canada - Local United Way Centraide members will accept and assess grant applications from charities through local portals. In some cases, local United Way Centraide members may also support non-profit organizations through an appropriate trustee relationship with a qualified donee.
c. Canadian Red Cross - National granting program for eligible non-profit organizations across Canada. As well, the Red Cross Preventing Disease Transmission Training and Equipment Program is open for all eligible charities, qualified donees and non-profit organizations.
Please explore the available information and consider applying if you have lost funding opportunities due to COVID19 or if for some other reason you believe you may qualify for funding to enable your Club to sustain itself to carry on its good work.
You may find it useful to engage the assistance of your local MP in this endeavour and this was reinforced by an MP who has been helpful to CFUW.
A webinar has just this minute been announced for the 21st, 22nd, and 25th to help with applying for funding. Please check here.
Please keep us updated on your efforts by emailing Jeannette Mergens, VP Advocacy at jmergens@gmail.com and myself graceh@nl.rogers.com.
Best wishes,
Grace
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Violence against Women and Girls Award
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Deadline Reminder: May 30th
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If your Club has been working on the CFUW National Initiative on Preventing and Responding to Violence against Women and Girls, please download the National Initiative on VAW Report & Award Application form here to report your Club activities the and send it to both:
The deadline to submit applications is extended to May 30, 2020
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Child Care Advocacy Letter
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CFUW members are concerned with the dangerous consequences of not having affordable, safe and quality child care services available to working parents during the COVID-19 crisis.
CFUW is calling on our members to email and/or write to their local M.P. and M.P.P. to support a COVID-19 Coordinated Child Care Plan. Click here for the template letter which contains a list of recommendations to save child care centres across Canada.
If you have not already please sign onto Child Care Now & other child care organizations online petition to sustain early learning and child care.
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COVID-19 and Gender Equality Resources
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Check out the Future of Good publications on how the COVID-19 crisis is disproportionately impacting women. They have published articles on including indigenous perspectives on the future of work post-pandemic. Check out the publications here.
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