Welcome to the WMF Canada Corporate Page

The overall purpose of WMF Canada (serving as a chapter of the IWMF) has already been explained on the WMF Canada Home Page. The purpose of this Corporate Page is simply to provide a few further details of the WMF Canada organization (including its directors, officers, and "statutory members").

Contents of this page

You may simply read the whole page, scrolling down. Or, alternatively, you can use the contents listed below to jump immediately to the section you want.

1. Registration
2. Fiscal Procedures, Members, and "Statutory Members"
3. Financial Statements for 2003 to 2008
4. Board of Directors
5. Statutory Members
6. Officers
7. Purpose
8. Legal Objects

1. Registration

The Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation of Canada was incorporated under Canadian legislation in late 2001. It qualifies for tax-exempt status as a registered charity (designated as a Charitable Organization) under the Income Tax Act and obtained its registration effective Dec 27, 2002. The charity's Business Number is 86755 2713 RR0001 and it can issue tax receipts for contributions that will be deductible for income tax purposes by Canadian taxpayers.

2. Fiscal Procedures, Members, and "Statutory Members"

The fiscal year-end of WMF Canada is December 31 (the calendar year). The IWMF Board of Trustees has agreed that any member of WMF Canada is automatically a member of the IWMF.

• As a starting position, back in summer 2003 all then current Canadian members of the IWMF were deemed to be automatically members of the WMF Canada. Thereafter, Canadian members annually take out or renew memberships in WMF Canada and all WMF Canada members are automatically members of the IWMF as well (and entitled to the Torch newsletter and the various TalkLists). Each fall a membership letter is mailed out inviting members to renew their memberships and fill out a voluntary contribution form and return it to WMF Canada at its Oakville address (Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation of Canada, 260 Dalewood Dr., Oakville, ON L6J 4P3). Gratifying responses have been received and the funds WMF Canada collects are then used for its two legal objects (see #8 below):
  1. disseminating information (which is primarily done by WMF Canada paying IWMF for its Canadian pro rata share of the costs of the Torch newsletter and the various TalkLists)
  2. promoting and providing funds for WM-related research
• Although every Canadian who has sent in a membership form is a member of WMF Canada and entitled to receive the Torch newsletter and use the TalkLists, a small subset of these members have been appointed "statutory members" for fiscal purposes. It is our intention to always have about 10 to 20 statutory members (i.e., between twice and four times the size of the Board of Directors), who will be available to make 1 or 2 meetings a year in Toronto and who will have the power and duty to elect directors and review the actions of the directors each year on your behalf.
• Provision will be made for an annual meeting of the statutory members of WMF Canada.
• Financial statements will be prepared for the annual meeting of WMF Canada statutory members but will also be available for all to see on this website (see #3 below).
• If you have an interest in serving as a statutory member of WMF Canada email Arlene Hinchcliffe or write to her at 260 Dalewood Ave., Oakville, ON L6J 4P3 and the Board of Directors will consider your application at its next meeting.

3. Financial Statements

Click on a year below to see the financial statements for that calendar year:

• 2008 -- 6th year of operations
• 2007 -- 5th year of operations
• 2006 -- 4th year of operations
• 2005 -- 3rd year of operations
• 2004 -- 2nd year of operations
• 2003 -- 1st year of operations

4. Board of Directors

At the moment the Directors of WMF Canada are:

Of course, new directors can be elected from time to time by the statutory members at their regular annual meetings.

5. Statutory Members

At the moment the Statutory Members of WMF Canada are:

As stated above, the purpose of the statutory members is to represent the general membership and fulfill certain statutory duties such as electing Directors, approving financial statements, etc. At the present time the statutory members are the nine individuals listed above.

6. Officers

At the moment the Officers of WMF Canada are:

Of course, new officers can be appointed from time to time at Board of Directors meetings.

7. Purpose

The purposes of WMF Canada are to:

• Provide a membership vehicle for WMers in Canada that will permit deduction of Canadian contributions for income tax purposes.
• Help in the organization of local support groups across the country to add a personal dimension to the excellent resources already provided by the IWMF on line, by newsletters, and by conferences and educational fora.
• Stimulate additional medical research into WM in Canada and elsewhere through financial contributions to these research efforts. Of course, all research, wherever located, ultimately benefits all WMers worldwide.

These purposes are captured in the more formal language of the Letters Patent of WMF Canada, as set out in #8 below.

8. Legal Objects

The legal objects of WMF Canada, as set out in its Letters Patent, are:

• "To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom, from time to time, for charitable purposes, and in particular for the following charitable purposes:
  1. to undertake public education, family support services, dissemination and publication of information about Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia disease, and to coordinate medical care and social services for persons suffering from Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
  2. To promote and provide funds for research in the cause, control and cure of Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia"

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