Most Deserving Eco or Change Group?
May 30, 2007
Which Kamloops groups are achieving significant ecological or social change, here or elsewhere?
Citizens’s Bank of Canada is calling for nominations to receive its 2007 Shared Interest grants. In 2006, Citizen’s Bank (not to be confused with CitiBank) used this relatively democratic approach to provide twelve grants ranging from $8,000 to $42,000 to environmental and social change groups across Canada.
Any Citizen’s Bank of Canada members can nominate a federally registered charity addressing any one or more of the following categories: Environment, Economic Self-Reliance, Human Rights and International Cooperation, and Community and Family Health. Funding is divvied up according to votes. For example, if one gets 22% of the vote they will get 22% of the fund.
Whether you are a member of CBOC or not, post your “vote” in the comment section below. Members of Citizen’s Bank of Canada can then consider your input when nominating (June 11 deadline).
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1. Nancy Bepple | June 2, 2007 at 4:39 am
I nominate the Kamloops chapter of BC Sustainable Energy Association (www.bcsea.org) for their May 27 Energy Fair. They proved that there is a huge desire for information on new energy, whether it is geothermal, wind, water or conservation. An A-1 event that will put Kamloops on the map.
2. D. | June 2, 2007 at 6:03 am
This is a difficult question because so many deserving programs are “just” grassroots, or “just” non-profits while not being federally registered charities.
We had a kick ass advocacy group in Kamloops a few years ago –founded and run by marginalized people, extremely effective, very high success rate for resolving cases for poor and disabled people (with indirect results for the local economy), creating training material for other advocates across BC. The group was denied federal charitable status because its legal mandate focused in part on *preventing* poverty –by helping people before they fell too deeply into the chasm that is so hard to get back out of.
It’s too bad there’s such limited support for stuff like that. (We lost that agency and its unparalled work altogether.)
My vote, then, is to donate to your favourite group, not currently supported by federal, provincial or municipal government! There are loads of them desperate for help and getting the short stick designation and/or funding-wise.