Giving Back

The Association Executive of the Professional Employees Association has approved changes to Policy 6.6, Grants & Donations. Currently, the Grants & Donations Committee makes recommendations to the Executive for funds distribution based on requests sent from various not-for-profit groups.

Since this is your union, the Association Executive felt that you should have a say in who should receive grants and donations from the PEA. Click here to view the entire policy.

The amendments, found under Section B.3, say that members will have the opportunity to nominate individuals or organizations, other than labour organizations, to receive PEA grants and donations. The Grants & Donations Committee will review all nominations received from members and compile a short-list of nominated individuals and organizations.

Members nominated individuals or organizations to receive a PEA grant or donation . Once the nomination deadline passed, the Grants & Donations Committee compiled a short-list of nominated candidates.

Rules and Regulations:

• Only active members in good standing can submit nominations and participate in voting. You must have had a signed membership application and assigned member number to nominate and/or vote for grants and donations recipients.
• You may have submitted as many nominations as you like, however, you may have only voted once.
• Submissions are open from 12:00AM on September 15th until 11:59PM on October 30th. Any nominations received outside of this date will be considered invalid.
• A submission is not valid unless all fields are filled out completely.
• You must have consented to having your text published on the e-ballot. This text will be shown anonymously. To express your consent, you must enter your legal name in the appropriate text field on your submission.
• Voting is open from 12:00AM on November 15th until 11:59PM on December 15th. To vote, members must use their login credentials.
• Voting is anonymous.
• All Giving Back 2011 activities adhered to PEA Policy 6.6.
• Recipients of grants and donations will be announced in 2012 and will be posted online.