Sector News Digest: May 18, 2021
This week: A decolonization report, suspected CRA anti-Muslim bias, digital development, university donor dumpster fires, and a Digital Publishing Awards nomination! “Restitution from the perspective
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Network-based advocacy and the challenge of navigating pandemic politics
With the survival of thousands of small charitable and non-profit organizations at stake, some provincial network officials have reasoned that the pandemic poses a now-or-never opportunity to press government for a new relationship that goes well beyond the old dance of grants and transfer agreements.
The Philanthropist interview: Niki Sharma
As of last October, BC’s non-profit sector has a “home” in government, in the person of MLA Niki Sharma, Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development and Non-Profits. Her mandate: ensure a smooth pandemic recovery and act as the sector’s advocate and point of contact in government.
Improved Indigenous relations, more data, modernized legal definitions: Sector advisory committee issues second report
The second of three scheduled reports by the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector highlights a spring in which the energy for change in the charitable and non-profit sector appears to be growing. But rebuilding the sector’s relationship with Ottawa will be “a marathon and not a sprint.”
The non-profit sector’s ongoing data deficit
There is hope that the data deficit that has plagued the non-profit sector – the only major sector of Canada’s economy expected to collect its own data – for so long may be ending, but as Imagine Canada’s Cathy Barr writes, this is not the time to back off on our lobbying efforts; it is the time to step them up.
Le manque constant de données dans le secteur sans but lucratif
La pandémie de la COVID-19 a révélé de nombreuses vérités : le Canada dépend beaucoup de fragiles chaînes d’approvisionnement mondiales; le statut social et économique affecte
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.
Book review: Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love
Featuring 14 personal stories that expose the dark side of the charitable sector, Collecting Courage spotlights the painful experiences of Black fundraisers working in the sector in Canada and the US. It's also like sitting in a master class with some of the continent’s most successful fundraisers.
