{"id":1812,"date":"2020-04-10T13:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2020-04-10T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:22:09","slug":"idibc-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/events\/idibc-response-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"IDIBC Response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IDIBC Board of Directors and staff are monitoring the recent COVID-19 developments. The situation is evolving rapidly, and we are taking the following measures in order to keep IDIBC\u2019s daily operations running and to align with the province\u2019s direction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IDIBC staff and board members will be working online from home in order to continue with our normal business.<\/li>\n<li>All meetings will be held via teleconference or videoconference.<\/li>\n<li>AGM: the Board will decide whether to proceed with a web-based meeting, or to hold an in-person meeting in the fall.<\/li>\n<li>The 2020 IDIBC Awards of Excellence and gala have been postponed until 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Economic changes will challenge our members as projects are delayed, postponed or cancelled. If there is anything that IDIBC can do to assist you, please let us know. We are here to support our members, and we are ready to answer any questions or provide whatever assistance that we can. Please do not hesitate to reach out.<\/p>\n<p>To contact IDIBC, <a href=\"info@idibc.org\">email<\/a> the office or call 604.298.5211.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up to date on what <\/strong><strong>our governments are doing to help small businesses facing hardship as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-finance\/economic-response-plan.html\">Government of Canada economic response plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/employment-business\/business\/small-business\">Government of BC small business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IDIBC Board of Directors and staff are monitoring the recent COVID-19 developments. The situation is evolving rapidly, and we are taking the following measures in order to keep IDIBC\u2019s daily operations running and to align with the province\u2019s direction: IDIBC staff and board members will be working online from home in order to continue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idibc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}