{"id":28893,"date":"2020-03-30T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=28893"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:02:51","slug":"covid-19-pgt-allows-charities-to-access-restricted-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2020\/03\/30\/covid-19-pgt-allows-charities-to-access-restricted-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Ontario PGT Allows Charities to Access Restricted Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"440\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 11 of 45 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200324-covid-19-FINAL-10.jpg?resize=625%2C241&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200324-covid-19-FINAL-10.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200324-covid-19-FINAL-10.jpg?resize=300%2C116&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200324-covid-19-FINAL-10.jpg?resize=768%2C297&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Public Guardian and Trustee has issued a statement in response to a CCCC inquiry about whether Ontario charities can access restricted purpose funds during COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charities will be permitted to access and use the funds subject to certain conditions. Below is the PGT response in full, listing the necessary conditions to access restricted funds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?fit=625%2C809&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?w=1700&amp;ssl=1 1700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?resize=1583%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_1.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?fit=625%2C809&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?w=1700&amp;ssl=1 1700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?resize=1583%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PGT-Statement-re-Accessing-Restricted-Funds-Amended_Page_2.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Originally posted March 30, 2020 @ 11:15am<\/em>; <em>updated March 31, 2020 @ 7:45am<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"440\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 11 of 45 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The Public Guardian and Trustee has issued a statement in response to a CCCC inquiry about whether Ontario charities can access restricted purpose funds during COVID-19. Charities will be permitted to access and use the funds subject to certain conditions. Below is the PGT response in full, listing the necessary&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2020\/03\/30\/covid-19-pgt-allows-charities-to-access-restricted-funds\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[435,207,445],"series":[440],"class_list":["post-28893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-ontario","tag-pgt","series-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: Ontario PGT Allows Charities to Access Restricted Funds - CCCC Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2020\/03\/30\/covid-19-pgt-allows-charities-to-access-restricted-funds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: Ontario PGT Allows Charities to Access Restricted Funds - CCCC Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Public Guardian and Trustee has issued a statement in response to a CCCC inquiry about whether Ontario charities can access restricted purpose funds during COVID-19. 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