PART 1 – CONSTITUTION
1. The name of the organization is THE 2014 BRITISH COLUMBIA BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE
2. The purposes of the Alliance are:
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- To promote services to people with an acquired brain injury through non-profit organizations province wide.
- To support non-profit brain injury organizations by seeking provincial funding from a variety of sources.
- To help sustain community led brain injury organizations by establishing a funding base for their activities;
- To support other initiatives that benefit brain injury organizations by providing funding that can be used for operational funds.
- To receive gifts, bequests, and funds, and to administer and distribute funds for the purposes of the Alliance; and
- To do all such other things as are incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the foregoing purposes and the exercise of the powers of the Alliance.
j. “community agency” means an incorporated, locally led non-profit group, which engages in providing comprehensive services to survivors of acquired brain injury
PART 2 – MEMBERSHIP
2.1 Community agency as Members Each community agency with a signed agreement with the Alliance is a member.
Each community agency will be assigned one vote.
A representative from the community agency will attend the meetings and vote on behalf of the community agency.
2.2 Directors as Members
Directors duly elected at an annual general meeting, or, appointed by the Board or by an ordinary resolution of members during the year, to fill a vacancy; automatically become members of the Alliance.
2.4 Cessation of Membership
A community agency ceases to be a member upon the effective date of the termination of the community agency’s agreement with the Alliance.
5.11 Directors Subscribe and Support Purposes
Every director shall unreservedly subscribe to and support the purposes of the Alliance.
6.10 Procedure for Voting
Voting shall be by show of hands or voice vote, recorded by the secretary of the meeting. When the meeting is held by teleconference, the chair shall request that any person not in favour of the motion identify themselves. If the majority of those in attendance are opposed, the motion is defeated.