Granting is broken; distributing power is how we fix it
Many foundations report receiving hundreds more applications at a time when demand for services is rising. Communities can help build a better granting system, Kyle Empringham says.
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Decolonial philanthropy: Institutional governance as the foundation for Indigenous self-determination
The Circle’s I4DM Definitional Matrix was meant to serve as a guide to more equitable philanthropic practice, but the framework has also been co-opted as a tool for performative engagement. Researcher Luc Mvono looks at how three funders use the I4DM as a tool for shared reflection and accountability.
Quels savoirs comptent en évaluation? La philanthropie à l’école du terrain
L’évaluation devient un levier de justice sociale lorsqu’elle délaisse l’extraction au profit de l’apprentissage, et que cet apprentissage transforme les pratiques, y compris celles de la philanthropie.
Whose knowledge counts in evaluation? Rethinking how funders learn
Evaluation becomes a tool for social justice when it stops extracting and starts learning – and lets that learning transform practice, including that of philanthropy.
Does philanthropy look different in Western Canada?
There are regional differences to philanthropy in Canada – including within Western Canada. Here are some, from the perspectives of people who work in the sector in the West.
How strategic philanthropy is closing the gender health gap
Purpose-driven wealth leaders – many of them women – are realizing there is a long-standing women’s health discrepancy and trying to narrow the gap.
How Canada learned to live with hunger
With nearly 10 million people in Canada living in food-insecure households, the political silence surrounding it all is perplexing and unacceptable, Right To Food’s Jasmine Ramze Rezaee argues.
How zero-sum thinking broke capitalism – and how we can fix it
Author Roy Swan believes it is possible to shape a “positive sum” economic system “rooted in democracy, morality and reason” that values people as well as profit, reviewer Hilary Pearson writes.
