Transcript Supporting the Strategic Plan 2015-2016

NATIONAL OFFICE INITIATIVES
Supporting the Strategic Plan 2015-2016
June 23-25 2016
1. Membership
Responded to Members’ Inquiries
3,218
Certificates mailed
Club Supplies
Saleable Items Ordered
Issues of Club News
132
5,885
215
22
Business Cards Mailed
Press Agency
Communicator
862
8
2
Pay Equity Workshop
2. Profile and Communications
Website redesign
CFUW Public Site Goals:
1. Take action on our advocacy issues
2. Fund women’s education
3. Assist women to build leadership skills,
access opportunities for lifelong learning
4. Encourage new members to JOIN!
+ New French site
+ 31 Facebook followers
+ 900% increase in Tweets
+ 89 Twitter followers
+ 30% increase in impressions/views
3. Advocacy
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Private Member’s Bills
Meetings with Government
Meetings – NGOs
Submissions, Briefs,
Letters and Endorsements
• Materials for clubs
• International Advocacy
Private Member’s Bills
Bill C-242: Adding Non-State
Actor Torture to the Criminal
Code
Bill C-243: Developing a national
maternity assistance program
for women in labour-intensive
sectors
Meetings with Government
• Patty Hajdu, Minister of Status of
Women
• Karen Vecchio, Conservative Critic of
Status of Women
• Brenda Shanahan, MP
• Suzanne Cooper, Senior Policy Advisor
at Status of Women
• Policy Advisor to Ed Fast, Conservative
Climate Change Critic
• Policy Advisors to Ruth Ellen Brosseau,
NDP Agriculture Critic
• Consultations with Global Affairs
Canada on Women, Peace and Security
Meeting with the Minister of
Status of Women, Minister Patty Hajdu
Network Meetings
• Up for Debate
• Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters
and Transition Houses: National Action
Plan on Violence against Women
• International Women’s Day 2016
• Climate Change Briefing with Elizabeth
May on COP21
• Gaining Consensus: Getting Issues Heard
in Parliament
Materials for Clubs
Fall Advocacy Package on
Adopted Resolutions
Election Bulletins
Violence against Women
Club Advocacy Toolkit
Toolkit on Aboriginal
Education
Non-State Actor Torture
National Initiative on Child
Care
International Advocacy
• Consultations with Global Affairs Canada
regarding the UN Human Rights Council
• Canadian Presentation of the UNDP “Work
for Human Development” Report
• Edited and submitted the CFUW
Response to the UN Committee against
Torture report
United Nations Commission on the
Status of Women 2016
Left: VP International Cheryl Hayles, President Doris Mae
Oulton and member Judy Gay with Lopa Banerjee, Chief
of Civil Society UN Women.
Below: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in the
ECOSOC chamber.
4. Scholarships/Fellowships
Applications processed
257
Responded to fellowships inquiries
3,332
Aboriginal Women’s Award
Winners
Brittany
Chubbs (Left)
and Emilie
Champagne
LeMoyne
(Right)
5. Sustainability
• As a way of dealing with the fluctuating
Swiss franc, we have opened a foreign
bank account to purchase Swiss francs.
• Introduced webinars to support programs
for the membership – hosting several very
successful webinars on topics from the
CFUW Constitution to Child Care.
• Prepared background materials on GWI
and CFUW for CFUW members.
Cost of Individual Membership
Dues paid to National Office:
Cost per
month :
$5.83
$70 per annum – the cost of
your fee paid to CFUW National
Cost per
day:
20¢
Cost per
week:
$1.46