Benevolent Fund

2025 Benevolent Fund Application Form

NSTU Guidebook/Operational Procedures Excerpt

Operational Procedures Section VI – General

29.   Benevolent Fund

Standing Order 14 of the NSTU Constitution confers authority to the Provincial Executive to grant Life Membership Awards, Special Awards and Local Service Awards. Article I (6) of the NSTU By-Laws creates a category of membership called Honourary Member and confers authority to the Annual Council to grant this membership.

A.   Purpose

To provide assistance to Active Members (as defined in NSTU By-Law Article I – Membership, 2 – Active Member, Subsections (a) and (c) where there is little or no financial coverage or protection through salary/wages, sick leave, long term disability, insurance benefits, credit union/banks, etc.

B.   Fund

Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is budgeted annually for the purposes of Benevolent Grants.

C.   Benevolent Grant Assistance

The merits of each case and the amount of assistance in each instance to be determined by the Table Officers. The maximum amount of a single grant shall not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000).

D.   Application

Requests should be accompanied by a completed Benevolent Grant Application Form sent to the attention of the Executive Director, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, 3106 Joseph Howe Drive, Halifax, B3L 4L7 or electronically to executivedirector@nstu.ca.

Reference: OP29 amended by substitution February 2020; amended April 2021