The CFCAS Board of Trustees, in addition to the establishment of a Grants Review Committee, has created the following committees:
1. Finance
Vacant (chair); Marlon Lewis; Maurice Levasseur
- Oversee CFCAS investments and expenditures
- Oversee CFCAS audits
- Advise and assist with fundraising activities
- Advise on the preparation of annual budgets and oversee their implementation
- Advise on communications with the office of the Auditor-General
- Ensure development and content of the CFCAS Corporate Plan and interact with the
- Strategic Planning committee on its development
2. Communications
Tom Pedersen (Chair); Kimberly Strong
- Oversee ongoing CFCAS web site development
- Promote CFCAS through press releases and other means
- Ensure development and content of CFCAS publications, including the Annual Report
- Review and update the communications strategy as required
- Monitor use of the CFCAS logo by grantees and partner organizations
- Advise and assist in responses to media reports related to CFCAS or relevant to its work
3. Program Evaluation
Gordon McBean (Chair); Ed Dean; Lawrence Mysak
- Review the summary of annual narrative reports of grantees
- Oversee the implementation of recommendations arising from the mid-term (2002-03) program evaluation
- Arrange for and oversee the conduct of program evaluations at intervals identified in the
- Agreement, to determine if the program remains relevant, successful and cost effective
- Arrange for and oversee the conduct of a final program evaluation of outputs and outcomes at the termination the Funding Agreement
4. Strategic Planning
Marlon Lewis (Chair); Gordon McBean; Ed Dean; John Mills
- Establish a strategy to ensure visibility of the Foundation
- Assist in establishment and implementation of a CFCAS strategic plan, to address discipline needs and fill gaps
- Promote a CFCAS role in federal climate discussions
- Pursue opportunities for an enhanced CFCAS role in the research/policy community
- Oversee development of the Foundation and its differentiation from other funding or policy bodies
- Advise on a CFCAS ‘message’ and its targetting to decision makers and others
- Alert Secretariat staff to new initiatives of relevance to Foundation interests
- Interact with the Communications Committee on the development of CFCAS Corporate Plans
