La philanthropie à la rescousse de la pénurie de logements au Canada
Le Canada est en pleine crise du logement – plus précisément, une crise du logement abordable. Selon Derek Ballantyne, ancien président du conseil d’administration de la Société
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How philanthropy can help Canada build its way out of a housing shortage
Through funding and advocating for policy changes, foundations and philanthropic organizations have a significant role to play in tackling Canada’s housing crisis, contributor Toula Drimonis writes.
Book Reviews, Personalities & Interviews
For Anglican priest and writer Maggie Helwig, her church’s encampment was a ‘site of grace’
In her new book, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community, Helwig tells the story of the encampment that formed on the grounds of her Toronto church during the pandemic, and how the church and the surrounding Kensington Market community fought to protect it and its residents.
Can the non-profit sector adopt voluntary standards to improve its data problem?
Strengthening data literacy, expanding data capacity, and improving data-driven strategies has been a rising priority in the sector. Is the solution in community-led best practices, or does the sector need more?
Gender-affirming care for trans teens in Canada is under attack – here’s how non-profits are responding
In January, Alberta became the third province to announce restrictions on gender-affirming care for teens. But this hasn’t stopped 2SLGBTQIA-serving organizations from advocating on behalf of youth and their families, combating misinformation, and providing protection against hate crimes.
How foundations avoid accidentally funding the ‘anti-gender’ movement
Groups that aim to restrict transgender, sex worker, and reproductive rights, among others, are “professionalizing” and wielding increasing influence over humanitarian and social justice spaces.
Philanthropy for digital safety
With one in five women in Canada experiencing online harassment, and government regulation and corporate motivation lacking, philanthropy has a responsibility to fill the gap, writes the Canadian Women’s Foundation’s Andrea Gunraj.
What about the gendered impacts of the climate crisis?
Governments have been slow to act on the disproportionate weight of climate crises on women and gender-diverse people, writes Paulette Senior, and Canada is no exception. But philanthropists are well positioned to invest in underfunded solutions that leave no one behind, she argues.
