Calgary non-profits hopeful for donations as Canada Post strike continues

Local charities and different non-profit  organizations successful Calgary are reasoning of caller ideas erstwhile it comes to ensuring the season of giving is simply a palmy one.

As the onslaught betwixt Canada Post and the Canadian Union for Postal Workers marches done its 2nd week, Emma MacIsaac with Inn From the Cold says they could miss retired connected a large chunk of their operational funding.

“We typically effort and rise a cardinal dollars for structure operations,” said MacIsaac. “And from that cardinal dollars, astir 40 per cent of donations travel by cheque successful the mail.”

With uncertainty hanging successful the air, galore are getting creative, attending events that donors mightiness besides frequent.

“We’ll beryllium astatine the ‘mom market’ adjacent week with a booth, wherever radical tin travel driblet disconnected their cheques there,” MacIsaac said. “We’re besides looking astatine alternate transportation methods.”

Others accidental they’ll spell to donors’ beforehand doorway to guarantee contributions are not mislaid to the postal strike.

“We’re calling it our ‘Cheque drive,'” explained Deanna Holt with the Calgary Distress Centre. “It volition beryllium an accidental for the adjacent period for a Distress Centre squad subordinate to spell to anyone’s location wrong the Calgary metropolis limits to prime up a cheque from an idiosyncratic oregon business.”