Quadra ICAN obtains charitable status
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Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Quadra Island Action Network (Quadra ICAN) was given charitable status on January 20th, 2022.
“We became a non-profit in May 25th, 2020. After that happened, the steering committee had always wanted to be a charitable society because a lot of the grants required some type of financial umbrella. As a nonprofit, you would have to rely on another charitable society to manage the money and give tax receipts and things like that,” explained Jude McCormick.
Leona Skovgaard, Chair of Quadra ICAN’s steering committee, added, “Jude was the one who maintained the optimism throughout this process and took the time to really understand the process. The other steering committee members support or differ in a way, but we never got too much further into the details.”
To which McCormick responded, “I kind of knew the ‘government speak,’ so I wasn't quite as put off by their seemingly negative approach to the application.”
While she focused on the documents, Skovgaard mobilized Quadra ICAN’s membership and the teams working on 14 different projects.
“Leona got it out to everybody and said, ‘do this, we need to do this.’ So getting things done was definitely a joint effort,’” said McCormick.