[homeles_ot-l] FW: Community Forum on the new United Way Ottawa Investment and Impact Review Report

[Gina Grosenick]

I was able to attend this meeting last night.  Ottawa Community Action (OCA) has done some excellent work over the past year to help draft this report.  In their view, and in the view of the participants last night, it does not quite go far enough to ensure accountability and to answer some of the questions surrounding the CWI initiatives.  There will not be any formal motions brought forward but OCA will be undertaking some directed questioning at the UW Annual meeting next Tuesday. 

If you or your agency wants to make sure that the UW funding process reflects community issues and concerns, please consider attending the UW Annual Meeting next Tuesday to support the OCA efforts

Gina Grosenick.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lynne Browne <lbrowne at ysb.on.ca>
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012 12:38 pm
Subject: [homeles_ot-l] FW: Community Forum on the new United Way Ottawa Investment and Impact Review Report
To: homeles_ot-l at list.web.net

> FYI . . .  Lynne Browne
> 
> Executive Director, Alliance to End Homelessness 
> 
> 613-241-7913 ext. 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
> <mailto:lbrowne at ysb.on.ca> 
> 
>  
> 
> From: Concerned Community 
> [mailto:ottawacommunityaction at gmail.com] 
> Sent: May-31-12 4:57 PM
> To: undisclosed-recipients
> Subject: 
> 
>  
> 
> You are invited to attend Ottawa Community Action's 
> 
> Community Forum on the new United Way Ottawa Investment and Impact
> Review Report
> 
> Thursday, June 14th,  7 pm
> 
> Rideau High School, 815 St. Laurent Boulevard
> 
> The recommendations coming out of this report are an important 
> step in
> our efforts to address the United Way's relationship with Ottawa
> communities. There is still much work to be done, but we should feel
> proud of what we have accomplished to date. The motion that we put
> forward at the 2011 AGM was not passed, but we did have an 
> impact, as
> you can see from some of the report's recommendations.
> 
>  We need to make sure that the recommendations we support are
> implemented. We need to continue the public discussion on those issues
> that are not addressed.
> 
> We have momentum and we have another United Way AGM just around the
> corner! Let's make sure the community voice is heard!
> 
> See Ottawa Community Action's initial response to the report attached,
> as well as a compilation of the 37 recommendations, in English and
> French.
> 
> The Report itself can be accessed through the United Way Ottawa 
> websiteat: (French document also available)
> 
> http://unitedwayottawa.ca/about-us/management-and-
> governance/investment-
> and-impact-review-committee
> 
> Information about United Way Ottawa's information sessions on 
> the Report
> (June 4th and 6th) can be found at this link.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ottawa Community Action
> 
> "Put Community First" at United Way Ottawa
> 
> www.putcommunityfirst.ca
> 
> Connect on Facebook
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Put-Community-
> First/283799898305520> 
> 
>  
> 
> SAVE THE DATE: United Way Ottawa AGM Tuesday, June 19th
> 
>  
> 
> 

Georgina Grosenick, PhD
Instructor, Carleton University
School of Journalism and Communication
Tel:   (613) 599-1920
email: grosenickg at shaw.ca


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