Exploring Theme: "Failure in fund-raising efforts"

$10M of promised $30M has been raised following questions about past compensation efforts CBC News: A national Catholic Church reconciliation fund is one-third of the way to its $30-million target. One church-appointed survivor overseeing the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund said it’s a good start, but other survivors said the church doesn’t appear to be making a serious effort. ” ‘We’ll get there...

CCCB pledges continued reconciliation efforts, but territorial questions remain. APTN News: The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) concluded its four-day plenary assembly with a press conference where they announced further efforts towards reconciliation – but not the cash promised to go with it.   Last year, the CCCB announced it would raise $30 million for...

Canadian Press: OTTAWA – Canada agreed to “forever discharge” Catholic entities from their promise to raise $25 million for residential school survivors and also picked up their legal bill, a final release document shows.  The Canadian Press obtained a signed copy of the 2015 agreement through federal Access-to-Information laws, marking what appears to be the...

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops – The Bishops of Canada are making a nation-wide collective financial commitment to support healing and reconciliation initiatives for residential school survivors, their families, and their communities. With a target of $30 million over up to five years, this will include initiatives in every region of the country. The commitment...

CBC – Catholic officials said in 2015 that they could only fundraise a total of $3.9 of the $25M they were asked to fundraise for residential school survivors. However, since signing the landmark Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in 2005, Canadian Catholic dioceses have either spent or are fundraising $292 million for cathedrals and other...

Catholic Register – As a result of the Catholic fundraising campaign falling more than 80 per cent short of its goal, a reimbursement has been made to the other church parties to the Settlement Agreement: Anglican Church of Canada: $2.8M to apply to its ongoing Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation, which runs reconciliation projects in...