Boards that continue to recruit yesterday’s leadership profile will unintentionally constrain their organizations’ future capacity. Contributor Stephen Murgatroyd outlines the core capabilities non-profit boards should prioritize when appointing executive directors in 2026.
The upcoming review of Canada’s disbursement quota will reopen familiar questions about how much capital should move out the door each year, but if the sector debates only the percentage that must be granted, it leaves untouched a much larger question: what is the rest of the capital doing while it waits?
In this moment of uncertainty about Canada’s democratic future, we must prioritize the testing and scaling of solutions. The CEO of the Samara Centre offers three practical recommendations.
A healthy democracy used to be taken for granted by many in the sector. Now the “democracy question” has seized some of the country’s largest foundations, charities, and civil society organizations, and momentum is building.
The former executive director of the Laidlaw Foundation didn’t just effect change, those who knew him say – he changed how people think and the way philanthropy works.
From mission-aligned investments to grantmaking that supports generational movements, feminist philanthropy has myriad lessons for the philanthropic sector writ large.
A sector coalition is advocating for flexible funding, while the government emphasizes accountability. Both are trying to reduce administrative burden. Can these needs co-exist?
This is the first piece from Gabrielle McMann, a writing fellow working with The Philanthropist Journal and The Local in Toronto.
