Investir dans la philanthropie autochtone par la réciprocité
Les valeurs de don, de partage et d’entraide sont profondément ancrées dans les cultures autochtones. Ces traditions séculaires de réciprocité, de responsabilité mutuelle et de
Decolonization and Reconciliation
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Measuring and accounting for ‘success’ in the charitable and non-profit sector
The sector’s accountability relationships and how it defines and accounts for “success” are in need of an overhaul, says contributor Nancy Pole. In the fifth article in our Rethinking Philanthropy series, she argues that philanthropic foundations can play a leading role in this transformation – and in so doing, think differently about their own accountabilities.
What would true reparative giving in the philanthropic sector look like?
In this first episode of the Reimagining Philanthropy podcast, host Senator Ratna Omidvar asks guests Kris Archie and Edgar Villanueva a big question that looms over the philanthropic sector: “If accumulated wealth comes from years of oppression, exploitation, and colonization, then is philanthropy simply an expression of atonement at best or a cover-up at worst?”
Philanthropic sector ‘relieved’ with key victory at Commons committee
Canada’s charitable and philanthropic sector won a major victory Monday, May 30, when the House of Commons finance committee voted unanimously to eliminate wording in the budget implementation bill that had been described as “‘direction and control’ on steroids.”
Putting data in the hands of clients: Data portability in the social sector
Data collected by the sector is rarely accessible to those who provide it, but giving clients a right to data portability – and recognizing them as data owners rather than simply data subjects – would empower them to choose how it is shared and reused.
‘We don’t have a word for philanthropy’
What do Indigenous Peoples mean when they talk about Indigenous philanthropy? Miles Morrisseau put this question and others to Indigenous people who are leaders in the philanthropic sector.
Will eliminating ‘direction and control’ close the funding gap?
Bill S-216 would amend the contentious language in the Income Tax Act that requires registered charities to exercise “full direction and control” over their “own activities” when they work with partners that don’t have formal charitable status. In the second part of an ongoing series – exploring a range of views, experiences, and concerns – we examine the concern that the sector may be hiding behind direction-and-control to “mask a more deeply rooted issue in a white-led philanthropic sector.”
Reviving the tradition of qajaqing in Nunavut
On March 4, the Arctic Inspiration Prize celebrated 10 years of “By the North, for the North” at its annual awards ceremony. In our final AIP laureate profile, we highlight a project in which Nunavut youth learn the traditional skill of qajaqing.
