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
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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.
Is Giving Tuesday still relevant?
On a day 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.
Sector News Digest – December 15, 2021
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
Charity Law and Accumulation explores the question of when assets should be deployed
Author Ian Murray tackles the issues related to accumulation comprehensively and astutely, offering legal and policy reforms that would allow intergenerational justice to play a more central role in decisions on how and when philanthropic assets are used.
Let’s not conflate advocacy and political activities
Martha Rans, a lawyer who specializes in the legal needs of non-profits and charities, objects to the word “lobbying” to describe the sector’s advocacy. “We are not advocating for our own bottom line,” she says. “We are advocating for the public benefit.”
The intersection of fundraising, philanthropy, and generosity
On GivingTuesday, Ruth MacKenzie, CEO of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, calls on the charitable sector to collaborate and celebrate the different elements of social good – fundraising, philanthropy, and generosity – to build back better.
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
