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Status of Women committee  Thank you, Pam. Habitat is changing its model. It has to change its model to serve more families for our mission. We are implementing new programs that meet a growing, diverse audience. That includes organizations like women's shelters and transitional housing. You mentioned Ha

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  I think the predominant challenge with funding at the front end has always been: What will the organization do? Will they apply it accordingly, or will they use it in some operating fund that is not utilized? I think there are certain regulations within even the IAH funding mode

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  If we look at Habitat for Humanity, the idea would be to encourage, if not direct, that collaborative approach among organizations first, to find the right partner. Through any funding model, you could hopefully encourage collaboration as a primary opportunity and ask those folk

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  We don't know 100%. I can't answer that 100% accurately. There are a number of individuals who come to us through organizations. As my colleague beside me has indicated, in some cases they may not meet all the criteria that we normally require, if they are in a precarious employm

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  Certainly. The model that Habitat follows is in three steps. One, it is 30% of net income. In order to be selected for a Habitat home, you must be working in some form, or a hard-working family of quality. With that, you must be willing to be a good partner. Finally, you must be

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  That's a very good question, Kellie. I appreciate that. The biggest challenge we face is speed in releasing of funds. That is clearly the biggest issue. Projects are developed. They're presented and analyzed. In some cases, we could be waiting until a project is finished before

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  That's correct, absolutely.

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  Traditionally for Habitat, families have been the core and women and children have been the priority of our organization, primarily. I cannot specifically say if it's women and children fleeing a domestic situation, but I can tell you that probably 70% of the families serviced ac

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  Certainly, we are very excited that we have partnered in both Peel and Halton with women in trades programs. We are very excited that during all of our builds young people are encouraged to come out and build on our projects. In turn, we have in our own organization two women con

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  It's mainly a federal program that we work with, and then there are regional supports through the regional governments that we also engage. Then, in turn, we work both with the education providers, post-secondary and high schools as well, to integrate. The federal program support

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. My name is John Gerrard. I'm the chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity Halton-Mississauga, a Canadian charitable organization with a vision to provide everyone with a safe and decent place to live. You might be asking yourself right now why a repr

October 31st, 2018Committee meeting

John Gerrard