CFUW National and Ontario Council
CFUW NATIONAL
CFUW National, located in Ottawa, is a non-partisan, voluntary, self-funded organization incorporated under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act S.C. 2009, c23. Currently there are ninety-five CFUW clubs, comprised of about 7,500 members, located in every province across Canada. Since its founding in 1919, CFUW has been working to improve the status of women and to promote human rights, public education, social justice, and peace. We provide about $1M in scholarships through National and club scholarships. CFUW National retains special consultative status with the United Nations Social and Economic Council, and participates in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women every year by sending a delegation of members to engage with the international community on issues of gender equality. CFUW National is also represented on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Education Sectoral Committee.
Each year, CFUW National coordinates a Resolutions process inviting clubs to make a comprehensive proposal on issues they would like National and individual clubs to support. These resolutions are sent to each club. Our Advocacy Committee invites interested members to participate, review the resolutions and make recommendations at a General Meeting (usually March or April) to support, modify, or decline each of the resolutions. Our club votes on the Motion(s) made, and the Chair of Advocacy or her designate communicates our decisions to CFUW National for distribution to the clubs who initiated the resolutions.
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ONTARIO COUNCIL (OC)
CFUW has eighteen councils across Canada. We belong to Ontario Council (OC) which has over 5,000 members in forty-nine clubs across the Province that range in size from 9 to over 450 members. OC is organized into 6 regions, each of which is represented on the board of CFUW Ontario Council by a Regional Director (RD): Ontario North, Ontario Huron, Ontario East, Ontario West, Ontario South, and Ontario Central. OC and its member clubs seek to provide life-long learning, improve public policy, and advocate for gender equality and the rights of women and girls. OC offers webinars and lecture series on a wide variety of topics such as Long Term Care, Pay Equity, Affordable Housing, Living Wage.
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NOTE: The CFUW Brantford President provides summary updates regarding CFUW National and OC at our General Meetings and in our monthly newsletter. Should you wish, you are welcome to sign up to receive newsletters and e-mails directly from National and Ontario Council through National or OC websites or by contacting member services at National or the newsletter editor at OC.
