Thank you for that question. I really appreciate the feedback as well. For a relatively new ED in your local community to deliver in this year was quite extraordinary.
I would say that we're really pleased to see that there's attention being paid to the charitable and non-profit sector in the budget for 2021. We welcome the announcement of the community services recovery fund, which is now focusing on modernizing and adapting and resilience in the community going forward. For that kind of resource to be successful and for us to work in partnership with government and others in the delivery of that, we want to make sure that the supports for longer-term change management for organizations to adapt are reasonable; that we have the supports for system-wide thinking around IT, fundraising and HR capacity; and that there is a role for national organizations to play along with intermediaries [Technical difficulty—Editor] CFC and CRC.
We generally fund to the general operating costs, as the United Way, not project funding. More support for general operating costs from the federal government would certainly help ensure that organizations serving seniors and other vulnerable populations could continue to do their good work locally in the community and be really responsive to what's happening as we build back and come out of this third wave. We're really focused on that system-change thinking of how we as a sector can transform with the learnings we have gathered through the last year and a half.
I hope I answered your question.