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Present:
Tessa Hebb, Pat Kerwin, Kealey Cummings, Marion Dewar,
Fraser Green, Doug Massey, Vickie Smallman, Diane Alexopoulos
By Phone:
Anne Scotton
Regrets:
Robert Needham, David Mackenzie, David Woodbury, Ted
Jackson, Lynn Williams, Joy Langan, Howard Pawley, Jill
Marzetti, Allan Blakeney
Meeting called to order 12:10 pm
M/S/C
Agenda approved
M/S/C Minutes
of April 2004 Annual General Meeting approved.
1. President's Report
Tessa Hebb reported on a busy year for the Foundation.
In 2004-2005 all our scholarships have been awarded.
In addition we continued to award a number of grants
for worthwhile new projects in 2004 including the Centre
for Social Justice: External Affairs Defense Roundtable
Conference ($5,000) and the Maquila Solidarity Network
anti sweatshop campaign ($7,500). At the end of 2004
we approved grants for 2005: the Allan Blakeney DVD
project ($5,000), CKUT FM Homelessness Marathon in Feb
05 ($2,000), Community Ownership Solutions in Manitoba
($7,500), and a book on Women and Homelessness by Susan
Scott ($1,000). A new project Ottawa: Our Diverse City
($5,000) was approved at this morning's board meeting.
A review of our grant
making from 2000 to 2005 shows we distributed $114,500
in grants and scholarships. While our past record of
grant making is good, we want to give more not less
and to do so we need to raise our membership and endowment
to enable us to fund more of the excellent project proposals
that come to us. We have unfortunately turned down four
great projects due to funding limitations, including
the Maquila Solidarity Network. We now have many more
requests coming in than we can support. As a result
we must raise our membership and the endowment fund
to support more grant giving.
While our web presence
provides a great opportunity for those interested to
follow the work of the Foundation, our web site presence
is not enough. We need to get in newsletters, NDP magazines,
etc. to make the Foundation better known. We have a
great opportunity with Tommy Douglas named the Greatest
Canadian. People need to know that the DCF embodies
Tommy's vision for Canada. Many are unaware that Tommy
Douglas was the founding President of the Foundation
and remained in that position until he passed away.
Our goal is to take
membership to $10,000 in revenue annually which will
cover off the administration office. Our other goal
is to bring the endowment to $1,000,000 which would
enable us to fulfill our grant request. To reach that
goal of $1,000,000 we have to do something, we can't
just ask for money we are going to have to find a “gift”
for large donations . One possibly is a DVD of Tommy's
speeches. Also, we need strong activist work on the
ground. With David Mackenzie and Pat Kerwin now serving
as Officers of the Foundation, they bring a strong labour
connection, along with Board members Kealey Cummings,
Lynn Williams, and Frank Saptel, that are necessary
to assist with this goal. While board members such as
Fraser Green can help us develop a legacy giving campaign.
This promises to be a very active year for the Foundation,
and one I am looking forward to.
M/S/C
adoption of the President's Report
2. Executive's
Secretary Report
Doug Massey reported
for Anne Scotton on membership. At the end of 2004 there
was 35 members. In this year the Board has been out
recruiting members and we are now up to 60 plus members.
That is almost 75% increase in membership numbers and
over 100% increase in revenues versus 2004.
M/S/C
adoption of the Secretary's Report
3. Treasurer's
Report
Welcome to Pat Kerwin, our new Treasurer and Doug Massey
our new Administrative Assistant. In the fall Nanci
Morrison (previous Treasurer) and Audrey Moey (previous
Administrative Assistant) stepped down from their positions
and we would once again like to thank them for their
involvement. It was also previously agreed to change
to a new auditor. The new auditor is OHCD - Ouseley
Hanvey Clipsham Deep.
Pat Kerwin reviewed
the audited statements for 2004.
M/S/C
- Motion to reappoint OHCD as the auditor until further
notice.
The Board requested that the signature from the auditor
was on the final document - Doug is to contact the Auditor
and have this completed.
M/S/C
- Motion to approve the audited statements for 2004
(If you are a member of the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation
and would like a copy of the Audited statements please
inform us in writing and we will send you a copy)
4. Nomination of new board members
By-laws allow us to
have 15 board members and 2 honorary patrons. There
is a great deal of activity with the DCF right now and
the Board Members are and need to be engaged in the
Foundations' activities to continue to move it forward.
We have shifted our meeting times to the 11 a.m. time
slot to allow those in BC to participate.
Board as a whole acts
as a committee for nominations. The board recommends
Alexa McDonough and Frank Saptel to the Board of the
Foundation. This take sus to our full Board allocation.
M/S/C
Alexa McDonough and Frank Saptel be approached to serve
on the Board of the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation.
Other Business
Fraser Green suggested
a 15 minute powerpoint presentation be developed for
Alexa to bring to Caucus to inform the members about
the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation.
Tessa Hebb was enthusiastic
about developing a stronger presence for the DCF through
the DVD project and at conventions.
Marion Dewar raised
an important issue in Canada right now, that of electoral
reform, not necessarily on proportional representation,
but about the time of reforms that are being reviewed
around the world. We need to look at what is happening
out there - there are some good resources out there
- BC is voting on a proposal next week, PEI is also
looking at this. People are very worried about what
minority governments are all about and now is a time
to discuss this. Tessa Hebb suggested we think of a
possible project for 2006 and discuss it at the November
2005 Board meeting.
M/S/C Meeting
adjourned 1:10 pm.
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