| 1990 |
First Mairi St. John Macdonald
Scholarship awarded |
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CCLOW experienced a further
decrease in federal funding and worked through a strategic planning process to
develop new fund-raising approaches |
| 1991 |
Telling our stories our way: A
guide to Canadian materials for women learning to read was published by
CCLOW |
| 1992 |
Feminist Literacy Workers
Network founded with support and co-ordination from CCLOW |
| 1993 |
New fundraising efforts launched by
CCLOW including a 10,000 piece direct-mail campaign that helped gain new
members and donors, and raised CCLOW's profile. |
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B.C. Network published The
Back-to-School Survival Guide for Women. The 2nd edition of this book was
published in 1995. |
| 1994 |
Summer project on the educational
needs of young women |
| 1995 |
CCLOW continued work on the
implications of Labour Market Adjustment |
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CCLOW networks active in mobilizing
women's groups to feed into Local Boards |
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CCLOW was an active member of
Sharing Resources: Development models of collective fundraising for
national women's groups. |
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Aisla Thomson resigned after nine
years as CCLOW Executive Director. Bernnitta Hawkins was hired as Executive
Director. |
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1997 |
Due to CCLOW's financial situation,
the Board decided to cease publication of the magazine, Women's Education
des femmes |
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Joanne Lindsay was hired on contract
to work part-time as Executive Director |
| 1999 |
1999 was the 20th
anniversary of CCLOW's founding Congress and CCLOW decided to undertake a
number of projects to honour the organization's past: |
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- thirteen Mairi St. John Macdonald scholarships were
awarded
- a
commemorative issue of Women's Education des femmes, with co-operation
of Canadian Women's Studies at York University.
- the
balance of CCLOW's resource centre collection was transferred to The
Nellie, The Nellie Langford Rowell Library at York University and to ACTEW
(Advocates for Community Based Training and Education for Women)
- the
Centre for Literacy in Montreal agreed to act as a distributor to promote and
sell CCLOW publications
- CCLOW
arranged with the National Archives that CCLOW's past files will be housed with
the Women's Collection at the National Archives
- writing a "herstory" of CCLOW
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CCLOW closed the national office at
47 Main Street, Toronto. |
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CCLOW participated as partner in
the launch of Women's Future Fund |
in collaboration with CCLOW