May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.A. CYR - DR.EX. (WALSH) MAY 31, 2013
D.L. ROUSSIN - DR.EX. (WALSH)
S.E. TAYLOR - DR.EX. (WALSH)
D.M. KNOL - DR.EX. (WALSH)
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centres in community schools. So there's all these sort of
one-offs that we're always asked to participate in because
I think as an organization we have built our capacity to,
to lead and to collaborate and to administrate and to, you
know, we have a pretty sophisticated financial department,
you know, to do the financial reporting.
But more importantly, I think Ma Mawi is seen as
a real lead around bring that indigenous perspective and
that indigenous voice to the table, so we often get asked
to participate on, you know, committees or consultations,
or whatever, to bring that voice forward so ...
MS. WALSH: Where does your funding come from?
MS. ROUSSIN: We get it from everywhere. We are
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excellent grant seekers.
The majority of our funding, you
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know, and depending on how much of the other funding we
get, I would say it fluctuates anywhere from 65 to 85
percent comes from the province, and again, a variety of
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departments within the province.
We get funding from the
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City of Winnipeg, we get funding from the federal
government, we get from United Way, Winnipeg Foundation,
True North Foundation, various small grants we're always
applying for. You know, we have our corporate donors that,
you know, donate to us and then we have private donors as
well. So it's really from under every rock. We, we spend
a lot of time turning over the rocks.
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