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).
How do we ensure the sector has a significant voice in affecting public policy? New research shines a light on the sector’s advocacy efforts, the related challenges, and the structures needed to make that advocacy both broad-based and nimble.
With the Ontario provincial election just a couple of weeks away, a number of issues are top of mind for the non-profit sector, including long-term care, the healthcare workforce, housing, education, and the environment.
Canada’s leading funder groups together with The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada have launched an ambitious drive to push the climate agenda to the forefront of charitable activity in Canada.
Les principaux groupes canadiens de bailleurs de fonds, en collaboration avec le Cercle sur la philanthropie et les peuples autochtones au Canada, ont lancé une
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,
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.
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.
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.
