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Present:
Tessa Hebb, Pat Kerwin, Kealey Cummings, Marion Dewar,
Fraser Green, Doug Massey
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
by Tessa Hebb at 11:00 a.m.
1. M/S/C
Approval of agenda
2. M/S/C
Minutes from previous meeting approved.
available online at www.dcf.ca
3. President's Report
Tessa Hebb welcomed
new administrative assistant, Doug Massey. It is great
to have him onboard. Doug also works here at NDP Federal
office. Doug has strong bookkeeping skills, web and
organizational skills which have greatly helped for
a smooth transition from Audrey Moey. Doug has also
brought our new office together. We have a full set
up with a new computer and bookkeeping software . We
are also now paying rent since we have a full office
assigned to us.
Tessa was also very pleased to welcome Pat Kerwin as
our new Treasurer.
4. New Projects
Report
Ted Jackson has sent
his regrets and could not make it today.
However Tessa and Ted have reviewed all the requests
received to date and make the following recommendations
to the Board. These requests were also tabled to the
recent Officers with their recommendations given.
Request for Grants:
1. Students Taking Actions in Chiapas
Young students working cross border with local group
in Chiapas - interesting project but not recommending
at this time due to our funding limits.
2. Theatre Direct Canada
request “the Demonstration”
a nice project - certainly within our mandate
Unfortunately not going to be recommending due to our
funding limits.
3. CCPA - looking for
support for their 25th dinner - funding request of $2,000
not recommending - fundraising event - will encourage
all Board Members to attend.
4. Maquila Solidarity
Network - Anti Sweatshop campaign
have funded them $25,000 over the last three to four
years
Although a great cause - we are not recommending due
to our funding limits.
5. Ottawa: Our Diversity
City
This project follows up our discussions a year ago to
seek projects from the multicultural community in addition
to those projects engaging young people in social democratic
activity. It is from the Catholic Immigration Centre,
is a very strong project, hosting a series of roundtable
discussions on multicultural issues in Ottawa. They
have already held a few sessions and they were very
successful.
They are asking us to either sponsor a roundtable in
the fall or help with publication of materials when
the project is completed. They are seeking a grant of
$5,000 for each project.
The New projects Committee and Officers recommend that
we sponsor one of the events, and have the DCF be present
with materials.
To date in 2005 we
have disbursed $ 15,500 in grants as well as additional
money in on-going scholarships, as a result we are close
to our maximum grant distribution for 2005.
M/S/C
the DCF provide a grant of $5,000 for Ottawa: Our Diversity
City to host the Labour Roundtable in the September
2005. That this be the only additional grant we make
before Nov. 2005.
We will inform the
remaining 5 projects that while extremely worthwhile,
unfortunately we have allocated all our funds for 2005.
New Business
Pat Kerwin suggested we look into a fundraising project
capitalizing on the Greatest Canadian - a Tommy Douglas
DVD of speeches. He feels the Foundation is not well
known and we need to take action on media releases.
He would like to see us doing news releases on things
we are doing i.e. sending notices to the CALM network
including our contact details, as well as NDP newspapers
and magazines across the country..
It was suggested that
the Officers get a proposal to the Board within the
next month or so. This may well be a time when we have
to spend a little money to make money. The Officers
will investigate these ideas and bring forward a budget
for Board approval.
Scholarship
Update
University of Regina
has been given out regularly -- $1500 given at the beginning
and $1500 at the end of each scholarship.
UofT - Woodsworth College again has been given out regularly
- with wonderful scholarship recipients who send letters
of thanks.
Carleton University - has been giving out the Kalman
Kaplansky scholarship. Beverlee Bell scholarship needs
to be publicized better - maybe a poster put up.
President's note: on
follow up with Carleton University in th summer of 2005
I learned that both the Kaplansky Scholarship and the
Beverlee Bell Scholarship have been awarded in each
of the last two years. Our confusion in thinking they
had not been awarded was that Carleton University had
failed to invoice us for the scholarships. As of Sept.
2005 they have now done so.
Membership:
Doug Massey made the
membership report on behalf of Anne Scotton. He reported
that the Board members appeal to their own donor lists
has been very successful. There were 35 members at the
end of last year. In May of 2005 we have 52 paid members,
with 12 people to renew. We have added many things to
assist us with membership processing - forms are available
online - also people can donate by Visa or Mastercard
through our secure web page - we've also added the convenience
of letting people pay monthly by Visa or Mastercard
- due to the costs associated with setting up monthly
chequing donations - it's not recommended at this time.
In 1985 there was about 450 members - people have mentioned
that the "old timers" have passed on but there
are "new timers" and new "old timers"
that we can find to bring membership numbers up again.
Nominating
Committee
Pat Kerwin has agreed
to join the Board as Treasurer. Alexa McDonough has
been asked to join the Board of the DCF, we are awaiting
her response.
New Nominations:
Frank Saptel - with the Machinists union and previously
with the Ontario NDP
Ian Capstick - Communications Officer for NDP Caucus
Services
Diane Alexopoulos - Director of Development - Canada's
NDP.
Officers recommendation
is Frank Saptel - to assist with donation and membership
drive. Frank would also bring diversity to the Board.
M/S/C
Frank Saptel be asked to join the Board as a new member.
Ian and Diane be encouraged to continue their interest
in the DCF.
M/S/C
Board Meeting adjourned at 12:05.
Next meeting: November
29th 11 pm NDP Federal Office Boardroom, Ottawa, ON
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