Guidelines for Donation Requests

Funding requests are accepted from organizations and individuals. Normally these conditions will apply, with the recognition that, in certain circumstances, the Executive Committee may decide to make exceptions to these criteria.

Requests for Donations

CUPE Local 3908 is a labour organization supporting contract faculty and student academic workers at Trent University. In terms of funding requests, CUPE 3908’s mandate is to support, build capacity in, and engage with the community in which its members teach, learn, live, and play.

CUPE 3908 makes financial contributions primarily to organizations or individuals working in community development and social justice and promoting the overall health and well-being of the community. While CUPE 3908’s resources are limited, it is recognized that organizations and individuals working in social justice and community development do not always have access to adequate resources. To that end, CUPE 3908 has created funding guidelines to promote efficient, timely and equitable decisions regarding funding requests.

Donation Criteria:

Campaigns, events and issues with a labour and/or education focus and/or direct relation to ongoing CUPE campaigns, CUPE Local 3908 work, and Trent University Inter Union Coalition work.
Strike support for other CUPE academic locals.
Campaigns, events and issues that relate to social justice, community development, and political action, and which are unlikely to receive funding from other sources.
Support for electoral candidates whose parties represent the interests of (academic) labour.
Strike support for other CUPE Locals or (non-CUPE) Locals in the Peterborough area.
Strike support for non-academic CUPE Locals

The following items will not normally receive donations, but letters of support will be recommended where appropriate:

Events not related to labour, social justice, community development, Trent University, or ongoing CUPE campaigns of interest
Operating or infrastructure costs for organizations

Making Your Request - Please Read

When describing your organization's project or event please note how it aligns with CUPE 3908's mandate (written above).
Include expected amount of funding, names of other funders if applicable and a very brief outline of the total costs of the project or event.
Provide the complete name of the individual or organization as it should appear on the cheque and the address to which it should be mailed.

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