The Annauma Community Foundation will give a $100,000 award to a registered Nunavut charity or non-profit organization this fall. The nomination period for the award ends Aug. 30. (Photo courtesy of the Annauma Community Foundation)
Community foundation wants to give $100,000 to Nunavut non-profit
Nominations for inaugural award remain open until Aug. 30
A registered Nunavut charity or non-profit organization that has had a significant impact on its community could be in line for a $100,000 award this fall.
The Annauma Community Foundation launched its first Community Nominated Award earlier this summer. The nomination period opened June 1 and runs until Aug. 30 and the winner will be announced by the end of September.
“It’s nominated by community members for an organization that they think has made a strong impact in their community over the past year,” said Danielle Gibbie, executive director of the Annauma Community Foundation.
Launched just over a year ago in Iqaluit, Annauma bills itself as the first community foundation in Nunavut. It aims to use philanthropy to help fund local organizations that provide Inuit-led programs to improve their communities.
Its donors include businesses, governments, foundations and individuals. Gibbie called Annauma’s work “Inuktitut philanthropy.”
Annauma is short for Annaumakkaijiit, an Inuktitut word meaning “helping people to stay ahead.”
“Our vision is that Inuit communities are healthy and confident and have what they need to thrive,” said Gibbie.
“And our mission is to deliver funding and support to the charitable sector to encourage learning, sharing, and collaboration within Nunavut communities in a way that reflects and honours Inuit values and skills.”
She said for the Annauma Community Foundation, sharing is the essence of Inuit philosophy and guides its approach to philanthropy.
“A deep culture of sharing has always existed for Inuit, recognizing the core strength of society is this constant action of paying attention and being connected to one another,” Gibbie said.
She said the award will help the recipient continue to do its good work for the community and is anchored in how they’ve met a community need over the past year.
Guidelines for nominating an organization for the award as well as nomination forms are online on Annauma’s website.
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Annauma wants to give money to a non-profit. Annauma is a non-profit. Annauma gets most of its funding from non-profits. Those orgs get their funding from the Government of Canada. The Government of Canada gets its money from working people. That means there are admin costs for at least 4 different organizations before the money makes it to its “charitable use”. After paying administrations costs for all of these organizations, I’d be surprised if we’re getting 30% of value for our tax dollars.
Although I generally agree with some of the the comments expressed above, not all non-profits get federal money (i.e., from the Government of Canada). Many non-profits operate on shoestring budgets. This award from Annauma could make a huge difference to a local non-profit that struggles daily to keep providing whatever good service they are providing.
Good morning,
I feel your post is a bit misguided, but thank you for sharing your thoughts. Annauma is a foundation, designed to raise money for the benefit of the North. They aim to help deliver funding to support and strengthen Inuit community values and skills, and to encourage learning. Much of their fundraising is not coming from the Government, but rather from other foundations, the Mastercard Foundation and others. Many Non-Profits raise money from many other sources rather then the federal government as well. QCFC recently got a number of significant grants from Citi Bank and the Canadian Red Cross among others.
Where the Federal Government or Territorial Government can step in to offer funding, they should. Many of the Non-Profits here in Nunavut are doing the work that should be government responsibility. Food security, homelessness, and taking care of the disabled should all be high priorities of our government, but unfortunately this work is pushed off to non-profits. Some of our non-profits do amazing work. None are funded the way they need to be, and all could use more help. I am happy to see this call for nominations, and I know the non-profit that is awarded these funds will continue to do amazing work.
Nakurmiik Annauma Community Foundation for doing what you are doing. I look forward to hearing more about the good work you are doing.
Matthew
How can everything in Nunavut be so thoroughly dysfunctional with such vast sums of free money swirling around the place?
…and yet 80% of the population is struggling with poverty in every community…our Inuit orgs are lost in all this money…our Inuit orgs, take the Canada rebate for instance that every individual is entitled for along with the grocery rebate cheques that were for tax payers , not the orgs but for the orgs beneficiaries , instead say that they use the money for programs that most people can’t attend the west is the worst in Nunavut…just come and see in any western Nunavut town. we are in a deep depression in the west our mla don’t have a clue and is distant to all of his constituents.
More all family members funding again like in Rankin and Arviat
You can see the filings of the Annaumakkaijiit Community Foundation at the CRA website:
https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplyRprtngPrd?q.srchNmFltr=Annauma&q.stts=0007&selectedCharityBn=722555331RR0001&dsrdPg=1