How do you know you are making a difference? Advocates talk about the public policy process
Advocates and advocacy groups in the nonprofit sector in Canada get involved in the public policy process in a number of ways. The Social Sciences
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Can public-policy advocacy be taught? Or learned?
Background In the June edition of The Philanthropist, Elizabeth Mulholland wrote “New Ways to Keep Up Our End of the Policy Conversation” (Mulholland, 2010). Voluntary organizations
Point / Counterpoint: Resolved: The Voluntary Sector Has Not Caught Up With The Way Public Policy Is Now Made
Point: Bob Wyatt As I reflected on the theme of this issue of The Philanthropist – the sector’s involvement in public policy—I tried to think
Public Policy And The Nonprofit Sector
Jennifer leads the association of food banks in a mid-sized Canadian city. At their regular meetings, the directors report changes in the patterns of people
The New Federal Policy Agenda And The Voluntary Sector—on The Cutting Edge
Edited by Rachel Laforest. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montréal, qc & Kingston, on isbn 978-1-55339-132-6 Elizabeth Mulholland The New Federal Policy Agenda and the Voluntary Sector—On
Book Reviews
Contributing Citizens: Modern Charitable Fundraising And The Making Of The Welfare State, 1920–66. By Shirley Tillotson. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC isbn 978-0-7748-1473-7 In Contributing Citizens,
The Sport Matters Group: “Un-organizing” the future of Canada’s not-for-profit sector
If you go looking for the corporate headquarters of the Sport Matters Group (SMG), you will search in vain. There is no office and no
Point/Counterpoint: Charitable gaming: Is it worth the gamble?
Point : Don Bourgeois Charitable gaming is an important fundraising tool for charities. Since 1969, when charitable gaming was legalized in Canada, billions of dollars