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Vancouver Status of Women fonds
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Administrative and executive

The series contains records pertaining to Vancouver Status of Women’s (VSW’s) administrative and executive activities. These activities fall into several categories: financial administration, which included grant applications to governments and other organizations, budgeting, tax payments, bill payments, and resource distribution amongst staff; committee administration; volunteer administration; employment offers and employee management; correspondence with other organizations, particularly women centers in Vancouver; and strategic planning for the organization as a whole. Records in the series range in date from the early 1970s to 2016.

The physical order in which records were received has been maintained; original order has been re-constituted intellectually. Record types represented in the series include the following: grant applications, correspondence with funding agencies, budgets, cashflow statements, receipts, invoices, committee meeting minutes, volunteer training materials, employment offer letters, staff correspondence about internal issues, correspondence with other organizations, and annual reports.

Advocacy

Records in this series pertain to Vancouver Status of Women’s (VSW’s) advocacy function. These activities primarily included organizing and participating in committees and task forces set up by all levels of government, lobbying, preparing briefs on legislative documents and materials, creating and circulating petitions, corresponding with other organizations, event planning, planning and participating in social justice related events such as End legislated Poverty, and calling attention to issues facing women domestic and international by publishing op-eds in newspapers.

Record types in this series include: correspondence with the Ministry of Justice and different coalitions such as BC Coalition of Women Centres and the 52% Coalition; meeting agendas and minutes; information sheets and brochures; event invitations; forum materials; conference posters and presentations; protest posters and signs; briefs; petitions; attendance sheets; press releases; federal and provincial election fact sheets; and research materials on social justice related topics such as poverty, sex work, sexism, racism and classism.

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