50 years of The Philanthropist Journal
This month our publication celebrates a milestone birthday. To kick off the new year, Leslie Wright, the executive director of the Agora Foundation, which publishes The Philanthropist Journal, looks back on five decades of (still timely) writing about the sector.
Sector News Digest – January 18, 2022
This month: the historic Indigenous child welfare settlement; Omicron pressure on non-profits; poverty and disability; and a new crop of environmental youth leaders. Indigenous child
‘Indigenous folks have always been philanthropists’: A conversation with Janine Manning
The president of the Laidlaw Foundation’s board of directors talks philanthropy and reconciliation – both the challenges and the opportunities.
A coalition of the willing: Canada’s health charities fill the gaps in a system in crisis
Health charities play a key role in changing the status quo in our healthcare system. The pandemic has shown us “on the widest scale possible” why these charities need to collaborate and work together. We talked to the CEO of the Health Charities Coalition of Canada, Connie Côté, and the leaders of several of the 24 national health charities that form its membership, about their work and what lies ahead.
Featured
Analysis
Is Giving Tuesday still relevant?
On a day on when it’s hard to cut through the noise, the value of Giving Tuesday still depends largely on what each organization expects to get out of it.
A post-pandemic agenda for the environment
Canada’s leading funder groups together with The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada have launched an ambitious drive to push the climate agenda to the forefront of charitable activity in Canada.
Diversity and Inclusion
Two post-pandemic books propose a new model of grantmaking
Two new books look at grantmaking practice and urge innovation in the post-COVID world of philanthropy. Both provide a window into the thinking and activism of a new generation of grantmakers and investors.
A network of Quebec foundations pledges to reduce their inequality footprint
The Collectif des fondations québécoises contre les inégalités, a group of public and private foundations operating mostly in Quebec, has created a framework and series of commitments to combat inequality.
Arts and Culture
Nunavut’s Pirurvik Preschool: A place to grow
Arctic Inspiration Prize winner Pirurvik Preschool applies the eight principles that embody Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) to provide culturally relevant early-childhood education.
Traditional Techniques: Helping Indigenous northern artists become self-determined business owners
This is the second in a series of profiles about past winners – “laureates” – of the Arctic Inspiration Prize.
First Person
Over-scrutinized, underfunded, and unsupported: How systemic anti-Blackness affects who gets grants and sector workers’ well-being
While many charities and foundations have made commitments to anti-racism, this insider’s look at the sector tells a different story of how systemic anti-Blackness, along with gender, religious, and other forms of discrimination, affects who gets funded and the well-being of the sector’s workers.
The Philanthropist Interview: Janice Stein
Janice Stein was the founding director of the Munk School at the University of Toronto (1998 to 2014). She is currently the university’s Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.
Series on Arctic Inspiration Prize
Northern light: The Arctic Inspiration Prize invites southerners to shift their gaze northward – with a few conditions
Every year, AIP laureates receive original artwork. The piece pictured at right – Once the Darkness Is Realized by Blake Lepine, an artist from Carcross Tagish First Nation in the Yukon – is one of the pieces from 2019.
SmartICE: A sea-ice monitoring service for the North was a dream worth pursuing
This is the first in a series of profiles about past winners – “laureates” – of the Arctic Inspiration Prize. “By the North, for the
For the North, by the North: How the Arctic Inspiration Prize supports northern innovation
For the North and by the North. Six little words that mean so much. Since 2012, when the Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP) was established, these
Sector News Digest
-
Angela Long
This month: the historic Indigenous child welfare settlement; Omicron pressure on non-profits; poverty and disability; and a new crop of environmental youth leaders. Indigenous child
-
Angela Long
Choosing hope: Acts of reconciliation “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” wrote Emily Dickinson. But for the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic
-
Angela Long
1.5 degrees of separation Against the backdrop of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the Fondation du Grand Montréal, the Trottier Family Foundation, and the
-
Angela Long
Upbeat Q3 data from StatsCan Organizations are optimistic about the future, according to Statistics Canada’s “Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, Third Quarter 2021.” Nearly 90%
- More Sector News Digests
Subscribe
Canadian non-profit sector news, in your inbox
Never miss news and analysis by and for the Canadian non-profit sector
Most Popular
Personalities & Interviews
Une coalition de volontaires : Les organismes caritatifs canadiens dans le domaine de la santé comblent les lacunes d’un système en crise
Un père de famille de la Saskatchewan tweete une photo de son fils souriant, qui tient une boîte de pilules comme s’il s’agissait d’une PlayStation
The Philanthropist Journal interview: Susan Phillips and Bob Wyatt
Susan Phillips, a professor in Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration, and Bob Wyatt, executive director of The Muttart Foundation, are the editors of the comprehensive Intersections and Innovations: Change for Canada’s Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector, a free online resource published by Muttart.
The Philanthropist Journal interview: Mona-Lisa Prosper
Mona-Lisa Prosper is the director of the Black Entrepreneur Startup Program, recently launched by Futurpreneur Canada to address systemic barriers faced by Black entrepreneurs.
Next-gen leaders
In this interview with Leslie Woo (CivicAction) and Adwoa K. Buahene (TRIEC), the two CEOs ask what “build back better” means – and for whom?
More articles From the Archives
Charities and the rule against perpetuities
Charitable status is a legally privileged status. The law in numerous ways, ranging from the trivial to the noteworthy, confers legal advantages upon charities. These legal advantages are often misunderstood.
A short history of voluntary sector–government relations in Canada
The purpose of this article is to present an overview of the history of voluntary sector-government relations in Canada. This is a rich history, which is often overlooked and chronically underappreciated.
Charity and public welfare in history: A look at Ontario, 1830–1950
Several historical works have described 19th-century Ontario as lacking a conception of public welfare, where the poor were largely left to the benevolence of religious charities. This assumption, however, ignores the complex web of relationships that characterized the delivery of social services in Ontario and in many English-speaking regions across Canada.
Art, after virus: Seven questions for a sector on the edge
In 1999, the Metcalf Foundation collaborated with The Philanthropist to curate a series on the public value of arts and culture in Canada. Now, in the midst of the pandemic, there is a new urgency to the challenges facing the arts.
Featured Contributors
-
Rachel Chen
Rachel Chen is an audience strategist for Indiegraf; a master of information student at the University of Toronto, and a freelance writer
-
Angela Long
Angela Long is a freelance writer currently working on a book about rural journalism in Canada.
-
Kareem Shaheen
Kareem Shaheen is a journalist based in Montreal. Previously, he was Middle East correspondent for The Guardian, based in Beirut and Istanbul.
-
Christina Palassio
Christina Palassio is a non-profit communications professional and freelance writer. When she tweets, she does so at @mcpalassio.
- All Featured Contributors