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2024 Summer of Action, Get 'er Done
Starting this Wednesday, July 24th until mid September, NUICC will deliver a series of consultation workshops to chart the future of urban Indigenous representation in Canada. We start by building consensus on this year’s NUICC budget using our new online voting platform, and move quickly to hear from all twenty coalitions and their member organisations on what their priorities are for NUICC in the future. We are building a national federation which means making choices about services and priorities and our new online voting system will help build NUICC in the way coalitions need us to work for them.
Thanks to coalition’s participation at last year’s Summer of Action program, NUICC came out with 1) our new Terms of Reference et Policies and Bylaws, 2) a Policy Challenge for a National Urban Indigenous Strategy, and 3) the value of incorporation and being an independent voice for the 3000+ urban Indigenous orgs across Canada. Through the 2024 Summer of Action, we will craft our 2024-25 budget, and then receive coalition’s votes on what role and services they want from NUICC in the future. We will collectively build our pre-budget submission for the federal government, and work with coalitions for a mandate to advocate to the federal Treasury Board and various political parties.
We acknowledge the summer is a time when we might rather have more outdoor time with family and friends so we commit to efficient and focused meetings and regular opportunities to vote on our progress. We invite you to set aside time to help push our collective work forward.
Commitment and Participation
In 2023, about 20 coalitions participated in decision-making during our Summer of Action. For 2024, we welcome the same level of engagement from coalition representatives, their alternates and their member organisation representatives to participate. Each coalition has up to one vote on our online voting platform, but can be divided between your team. Please share this invitation with your staff and board as we look to make decisions and pass motions.
The purpose of this workshop is to review and confirm the proposed motions on NUICC Budget, as shown below. We hope to introduce, review and have discussions on:
We are building this year’s budget scenarios with or without ISC funding
Schedule workshops in July to September to design NUICC’s services and priorities that will comprise the Pre-Budget Submission and shape our future.
Plan a policy and advocacy strategy to shape the future for urban Indigenous coalitions and organisations.
Goal 1: Over the years NUICC has operated with a set of Strategic Priorities as a roadmap for staff and coalitions to do the work. New and updated priorities for 2024-2025 need to be agreed upon. Take a look at the Strategic Priorities for this and past years: 2024-2025 Strategic Priorities (draft).
Goal 2: In the past, NUICC budget has been developed by a working group, previously led by former NUICC co-chairs, Jean-François Coté. Since his departure, NUICC staff and co-chairs Damon Johston and Becky Sasakamoose have been drafting and advising on NUICC’s budget. As we move towards a new decision-making model where all coalitions sit at the decision-making table, coalitions will support this year’s budget design. NUICC staff will support bringing everyone up to speed on this topic at this Wednesday July 24th workshop.
Goal 3: In mid-September 2024, NUICC will have the opportunity to submit a “Pre Budget submission” to the Urban Programming for Indigenous Peoples (UPIP) team, advocating for and ambitious and just funding of NUICC. By sending our Pre-Budget submission we advocate to Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) the need for our voices to be heard, our needs and rights to be met and their commitment to urban Indigenous organisations to be sustained through adequate funding.
Goal 4: for the past year NUICC leadership team (previously composed of 10 regional representatives) have received a mandate from coalitions to open the decision-making process in the organisations. An important piece of a decentralized, consensus-based decision-making process is the technology or platform to be used. After many discussions, NUICC has been able to secure a partnership with Ethelo, a digital democracy platform, to walk with us as we move towards a new decision-making model with coalitions. This summer, we will show you what the platform offers, and put it to use to vote on NUICC’s budget and pre-budget submission. See NUICC’s presentation of Ethelo by clicking here.
