Tim Harper is a Toronto journalist and author. He spent more than three decades at the Toronto Star as a reporter, Ottawa bureau chief, Washington correspondent, national editor, and national affairs columnist. Tim covered war and revolution in Latin America, upheaval in Russia, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the rise of Barack Obama in the United States. He covered seven Canadian elections and three American elections. He is co-author, with Alok Mukherjee, of Excessive Force, a study of policing in Toronto, and a contributor to Fish Wrapped: True Confessions from Newsrooms Past, an anthology of life in the golden age of newspapers.
In her latest book, Carol Off takes on those who have contorted words for their own design in this era of political battle in which a precise vocabulary is needed more than ever. “We haven’t lost the war for humanity,” she writes. “We want to get along, and we work better when we work together.”
The founder of a charity that promotes greater giving in Canada has proposed a mandatory “Social Sector Grant” to build capacity and impact. Is it the type of shake-up a moribund sector needs or the scheming of someone who does not understand how the sector operates?
Les collaborations, tout autant que le manque de collaboration, occuperont une place importante lors de la conférence du 25e anniversaire de Fondations philanthropiques Canada, qui se tiendra à Ottawa. Au cours de cette conférence, les dirigeants seront invités à cesser de parler, pour plutôt commencer à agir.
Collaborations, or the lack of them, will feature prominently at the Philanthropic Foundations Canada 25th-anniversary conference in Ottawa, when leaders will be challenged to stop talking and start doing.
The charitable and non-profit sector is bracing for what could be seismic change in Ottawa. But those who have steered foundations and charities through various changes in government warn against apocalyptic assumptions.
Through a yearlong series of articles and conversations taking stock of the Journal at 50 years, we have considered how our publication and the sector we’re part of have evolved – and where we go from here.
The latest conversations on the future of the philanthropic sector – and of this journal – bring to light “widening” generational differences, writes Tim Harper.
In part two of a series looking at the role of The Philanthropist Journal within the broader charitable and non-profit sector, contributor Tim Harper shifts focus from the past to the future, from the sector’s “elders” to its “reformers.”
