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Mandate

  • Administer the Fonds d’aide à l’action communautaire autonome (fund to assist independent community action), whose financing represents 5% of the net profits of State casinos and associated businesses, and manage the supplementary appropriations granted when the government’s community action policy was implemented.
  • Issue opinions on government assistance to be awarded to community organizations.
  • Act as trustee and paymaster for the Ministère des Relations Internationales Secrétariat à l’aide humanitaire internationale (secretariat for international humanitarian assistance). Funding is provided by the Société des loteries du Québec at 1% of the net profits of State casinos.
  • Help fund community action and contribute to collective rights advocacy.
  • Facilitate community organizations’ access to government resources, notably by providing information and support.
  • Promote greater awareness of community action and volunteer activities Québec, both within the government and among Quebeckers.
  • Administer attribution of the Hommage bénévolat-Québec (volunteer recognition) award.
  • Coordinate implementation of the government policy Community action: a crucial contribution to the exercise of citizenship and the social development of Québec, notably the work of the Comité interministériel sur l’action communautaire (interdepartmental community action committee), the Table de concertation (roundtable) and the Comité aviseur de l’action communautaire autonome (independent community action advisory committee).
  • Evaluate the establishment of the government policy Community action: a crucial contribution to the exercise of citizenship and the social development of Québec.
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