Status of Women committee  I believe it is approximately $300,000 over two years.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I don't know. I learned from a colleague last week at the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami that all of that funding has now been allocated, but I have no idea....

Status of Women committee  That was a proposal-based process, so AANDC announced this funding, and there were six themes that it would accept proposals under. There were some that we simply were not eligible for. They were either on-reserve or first nations-specific. Because we have a very small staff, we

Status of Women committee  One of my colleagues is in Rankin Inlet today, meeting with a men's group to go over the content of the tool kit. It's something that we will have completed by the end of March.

Status of Women committee  Yes, it is.

Status of Women committee  That would represent a number of things. The organization receives $396,000 a year in core funding, but that supports a portion of the board expenses, board meetings, a portion of rent, audits, and those sorts of operating costs.

Status of Women committee  Yes. There's a great deal of reporting on all of our projects, so of that $1 million there would be a certain amount of core funding and the rest is through annual projects or primarily annual proposal-based projects.

Status of Women committee  That's right and that could represent one project that's $75,000 or a two- or a three-year project at a total of $300,000.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  It may be a little premature to share the findings of the Status of Women project because we're in the second year of a two-year project.

Status of Women committee  That's right. It will be completed at the end of this fiscal year. I would say really the best practice, certainly in working with Inuit women or of course first nations, Inuit, and Métis women, is to work in partnership because we have very close working relations. We work in a

Status of Women committee  We've done several economic development projects with Aboriginal Affairs. Again, one project exceeded my hopes and dreams in terms of success. We developed an Inuit women's business network. And again, it's on our website and we're very proud. It was developed directly based

Status of Women committee  What's a business plan? What might one's responsibilities be as an employer? Those sorts of things.... Key to that was building a network and as was mentioned earlier that peer-to-peer support, role models. On our website we have a number of Inuit business women role models. Un

Status of Women committee  That's right, and even to develop new content for our website.

Status of Women committee  Even geography in relation to economic development...how do you access markets? Women told us they wanted more financial literacy information.