[Bcma-l] CMA - Regarding Museum Summer Jobs

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

Regarding Museum Summer Jobs
 
(there has been a lively discussion on the Alberta Museums Association 
listserve which I share with you now)
 
CMA is extremely concerned over all the news on CSJ funding from HRDC 
and we will investigate it.  The refusals sound unacceptable to me at 
this point.  
 
In the meanwhile, YCW funding confirmations have been sent out and have 
been received for the FIRST round of successful applicants totalling 
some $1.5million.  
 
NOW this is very important, we are hoping and expect to receive 
additional funding fpr U
Regarding Summer Jobs
 
CMA is extremely concerned over all this news on CSJ funding from HRDC 
and we will investigate it.  The refusals sound unacceptable to me at 
this point.  
 
In the meanwhile, YCW funding confirmations have been sent out and have 
been received for the FIRST round of successful applicants totalling 
some $1.5million.  
 
NOW this is very important, we are hoping and expect to receive 
additional funding for YCW, namely the $5 Million announced in the 
federal budget but this cannot be confirmed until early June....sorry 
but it is beyond CMA's control.
 
IF this additional funding is approved, we intend to approve additional 
applications already submitted to CMA but not yet annoucned, as well as 
extending the number of weeks for those applicants already approved.   
Our objective will be to get this money out to museums as soon and as 
quickly as we can.
 
We will also hold an additional grant run which we will turn around as 
quickly as humanly possible,  but we want to still utilize a peer jury 
process in this undertaking.  If possible some of these late applicants 
will be permitted to continue their youth employment into the autumn.
 
Bottom line, you can submit additional applications to CMA now (the 
sooner the better) but we have no firm guarantees that we will have 
these additional funds.   Nothing ventured, nothing gained.  Such is 
life in Ottawa these days!!!
 
John McAvity
Executive Director
Canadian Museums Association.
www.museums.ca 
<https://cma.dyn.neolore.com:4430/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.museums.ca>
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