A collective response to the request for consultation (the “Consultation”) issued by the Minister of Finance has been drafted by a list of initial organizations including:
United Community Services Cooperative
BC Non-Profit Housing Association
Vancity Community Foundation
Vancouver Foundation
United Way of the Lower Mainland
Greater Vancouver Alliance for Arts & Culture
Vantage Point (Volunteer Vancouver)
Social Planning & Research Council of BC
Catholic Health Association of BC
YWCA Vancouver
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network
Coast Mental Health
Developmental Disabilities Association
Family Services of Greater Vancouver
BC Civil Liberties Association
Katherine Sandford Housing Society
Tides Canada Foundation
Endswell Foundation
Pivot Legal LLP
PLEA Community Services Society of BC
Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion
Ecotrust Canada
Fraserside Community Services Society
BC Social Venture Partners
Neil Squire Society
Ecojustice Canada Society
Enterprising Non-Profits
Denominational Health Association
And is also supported by:
Gibsons Family Network
Ed Levy
Arrow Lakes Historical Society
HOME Society
Princeton & District Community Services
Alberni Environmental Coalition
The Entertainment Media Arts Society
West Coast LEAF
Resurrection Recovery Resource Society
New Perspectives on Community Living Society
Fraser Valley Brain Injury Association
Mainstream Association for Proactive Community Living
Kelowna & District Society for Community Living
Craft Council of BC
Provincial Association of Residential and Community Agencies (PARCA)
Dream Rider Theatre
Comox Valley Social Planning Society
LUSHValley Food Action Society
South Fraser Community Services Society
Sooke Elderly Citizens’ Housing Society
Colwood Lake Housing Society
Juan de Fuca Marine Rescue Society
Mainstream Association for Proactive Community Living
Campbell River Transition Society
North Island Transition Society
Smithers Community Services Association
CMHA – BC Division
Lookout Emergency Aid Society
Volunteer BC
Volunteer Victoria
Eagle Valley Community Support Society
Board of Directors of Nelson CARES Society
Dorothy Dergousoff, CGA
Arrow Lakes Fine Arts Guild Society
Cascadia Society for Social Working
Slocan Valley Seniors’ Housing Society
The Community Living Society
Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Canadian CED Network
Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria
BC Yukon Society of Transition Houses
Kootenai Community Centre Society
North Shore Community Resources Society
Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver
Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver
Jewish Women International
Victoria Jewish Community Centre
Jewish Family Services Agency
Louis Brier Home and Hospital Foundation
Congregation Schara Tzedeck
Or Shalom
Jewish Seniors Alliance
Jewish Historical Society
Temple Sholom
Emunah Women of Canada
Vancouver Talmud Torah
Pacific Torah Institute
Hillel Foundation
Kehila Society of Richmond
L’Chaim Adult Day Care Society
Touchstone Family Association
Abbotsford Kinsmen Housing Society
Rosewood Manor
The Interlakes Cattlebelles
Diocese of New Westminster (Anglican Church of Canada)
Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC
Boys and Girls Club of British Columbia
Volunteer Richmond Information Services
Alberni Community and Women’s Services Society
Victoria Women’s Transition House
The James Bay Community School Society
Nanaimo Area Land Trust Association
The BC Farm Women’s Network
Royal City Legion Housing Society
Click here for the full submission and to show your support or sign on to the submission, please leave a comment and/or name your organization below or email info@ucscoop.com
To read more about the collaborative submission mentioned in a recent Charity Village article, click here.
As a small non-profit charitable society we would like to keep the society act uncomplicated and user friendly while at the same time holding societies accountable. We support this collatorative submission
New perspectives on Community Living Society would be interested in signing on.
I support this collaborativesubmission.
Ed Levy
I would also like to see that the society act was kept simple and yet accountable. For small towns like ours I find other small groups really don’t understand the act as it is. To complicate it would make it more difficult for them. I support this collatorative submission – we are not all lawyers, or business people, just doing our best to move ahead with projects for the community.
We are a small non-profit society. Keeping things as uncomplicated as possible “yet accountable” should benefit all non-profits and the Government as well. We support this collaborative submission.
New Perspectives on Community Living Society supports this Collaborative Submission
We endorse the Colloborative Submission.
The Alberni Environmental Coalition supports the Collaborative Submission. The Society Act must be as uncomplicated as possible but still accountable.
Maureen Sager, Office Co-ordinator
You may add our name to the submission. Our Societies registered name is: Resurrection Recovery Resource Society
The Eagle Valley Community Support Society wishes to add it’s name to those supporting the submission of a collective response to changes to the Society Act. We feel the response is well written and expresses our concerns, and we believe the experience in society management by those who created the response will represent us well in discussion.
The Board of Directors of Nelson CARES Society supports the Collaborative Submission to the Minister of Finance.
I support the collaborative submission to the Minister of Finance. I would also like to add that non-profits are a vital economic support sector of today’s market. At a time when governments are taking away financial, emotional, and personal support in many of the sectors that impact on the underprivileged, the seniors, the youth, and the mentally and physically challenged population, I feel that governments should not make societies more difficult to operate, but acknowledge their vital contribution in the areas that the government is creating a void and encourage rather than discourage not-for-profit societies.
The Arrow Lakes Fine Arts Guild Society– president Kathleen Jones
I support the collaborative submission. I agree that we need to keep the act and the language of the act user friendly.
The Community Living Society supports this collaborative submission to the Minister of Finance. Please add our name to the list. Thank you.
Jeane Rogers, Director of Finance
At the board meeting of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver last night, this statement was unanimously endorsed.
Mary Bennett, Administrator, mary@cacv.ca
Please add Kootenai Communityt Centre, Creston BC to the list of those supporting the Collaborative Submission to the Ministry of Finance on the BC Society Act Review.
Heather More,
Board Member
The Interlakes Cattlebelles, Lone Butte BC, suppor the collaborative submission. Please add our name to the list. Thanks.
The Interlakes Cattlebelles, Lone Butte BC, support the collaborative submission. Please add our name to the list. Thank you.
Victoria Women’s Transition House supports the collaborative submission. Please add our agency name to the list. Thank!
The James Bay Community School Society in Victoria BC, supports the collaborative submission to the Minister of Finance.
Please include Nanaimo Area Land Trust Association to the list.
Thank you,
Sherry Halfyard
Board Director
The BC Farm Women’s Network supports the collaborative effort. Why fix it if it isn’t broke.
Please include the Fafamem Foundation on your list of supporters.
Thank you
Robert Danvers
Director and Program Manager