At a time when the prime minister has convinced Canadians that huge nation-building projects are needed for economic sovereignty, one group is advocating to use the same momentum to build community-level economic resilience.
L’évaluation devient un levier de justice sociale lorsqu’elle délaisse l’extraction au profit de l’apprentissage, et que cet apprentissage transforme les pratiques, y compris celles de la philanthropie.
Evaluation becomes a tool for social justice when it stops extracting and starts learning – and lets that learning transform practice, including that of philanthropy.
Community land trusts tackle the immediate pressures of eviction and displacement alongside a broader, long-term vision for social and economic transformation. Philanthropy should take note, the Metcalf Foundation’s Adriana Beemans writes.
Funding for gender justice rarely fits neatly into a single funding category. It requires both front-line service and system-level advocacy and it’s hard to capture in an elevator pitch. This is where gender justice and trust-based philanthropy must come together.
Les fondations ont constaté une augmentation spectaculaire des demandes de financement pour les mêmes montants accordés. Existe-t-il une possibilité pour les organismes philanthropiques de collaborer davantage face à ces pressions?
Foundations have seen a dramatic increase in funding requests for the same granting dollars. Is there an opportunity for philanthropy to work more collaboratively in the face of these pressures?
Now ED of a Montreal synagogue, Chad Lubelsky worked in the non-profit sector for two decades. He asks what it might look like if religion and philanthropy worked together to develop a more nuanced understanding of religion’s impact, and to explore what partnerships could look like.
