Greetings,
Yesterday, the Federation held an information session to discuss its financial support plan to associations involved in Congress 2024. Thank you to all who attended!
A recording of this meeting can be found here.
You can also find a copy of the slide deck here.
During this meeting, we elaborated on our plan to distribute a financial contribution equivalent to 10% of each association’s gross Congress 2024 conference fee revenues. This contribution will be reflected under “Revenues” in your Congress 2024 statement of accounts. If your association has not incurred any AV and/or catering expenses with McGill, you will receive your statement shortly. For those with costs, the reconciliation process might take another few weeks – we are working as swiftly as possible.
Additionally, we discussed a proposal to offer support to associations opting in to hold their conference at Congress 2025. For those joining us at George Brown College, we’re interested in your input on how this additional support could take shape. To determine what would best address your needs, and what type of support you would like the Federation to offer, we are establishing a small task force with a handful of associations of different sizes and representing both the humanities and social sciences. This task force will meet once or twice for one hour each time during the month of September and report back to the Federation in time for a presentation to all participating associations at the October 1 Planning Meeting.
If your association is interested in participating, please email membership@federationhss.ca by September 6 at the latest. We are especially looking for representatives from smaller associations (less than 224 members), as several medium to large-sized associations have already volunteered.
To inform us whether your association intends to hold its conference at Congress 2025, please submit the following form by September 6.
We will follow up later this fall with our engagement plan for re-imagining the future of Congress. We look forward to creating an annual gathering that reflects our community and brings us all together.
Thank you again for your thoughtful questions and continued engagement.
Sincerely,
Member Support | Assistance aux membres
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences | Fédération des sciences humaines
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