Discussions animées sur le contingent des versements
Plus tôt ce printemps, lorsque The Globe and Mail a publié des détails financiers récents des fonds de dotation de certains des plus grands organismes artistiques du Canada,
John Lorinc
John Lorinc
John Lorinc is a Toronto journalist and editor. He writes about cities, business, technology, local history, and public policy for various media, including Spacing, The Globe and Mail, and Corporate Knights. He began reporting for The Philanthropist in 2017 and has written about sector issues ranging from rural and sports philanthropy to debates around charity policy. John is also a contributing editor to The Philanthropist Journal. Outside his coverage of the sector, he was the Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy in 2019/2020, working on a series about smart cities and democracy. John is also the Toronto non-fiction editor for Coach House Books and has worked on several Toronto-focused anthologies, including The Ward (2015), Any Other Way (2017), and Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place (2021).
Written By John Lorinc
A brewing showdown over disbursement quotas
During the pandemic, as charities have grappled with the double burden of increased demand for services and reduced capacity to fundraise, some have asked why Canada’s foundations – public and private – aren’t drawing more from their investment accounts to support the causes they funded in the before-times.
Welcome to our new website!
The Philanthropist Journal unveils its new website, the culmination of almost two years of planning, outreach, and collaborative design by Sasha Endoh and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo.
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.
Spinning wheels: Why the sector’s lobbying has come up empty
According to early speculation, the federal budget that Liberal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table later this spring is going to be one for the
Sector News Digest – January 12, 2021
This week: pandemic pressure on women’s shelters; Nova Scotia non-profits facing rising demand; new forecasting tools for fundraisers, and an announcement about The Philanthropist’s masthead.
Sector News Digest – November 17, 2020
This week: Senate report in government’s court, stresses at Kids Help Phone, a lifeline for the Legion, and the latest tangles in the WE saga.
COMMENT: WE to Nil: Lessons From a 1990s Controversy Might Have Saved the Scandal-Plagued Kielburgers
To many Canadians who tuned in to the WE saga, which seemed to culminate last week with the organization’s decision to shutter the Canadian operation,