As we kick off 2025, charities risk being unprepared for what’s next if they fail to learn from the challenges of recent years. The head of CanadaHelps pinpoints three areas worth investing in to ensure that your charity remains resilient in an increasingly uncertain world.
A growing body of research demonstrates that women are often more effective leaders, yet there are many programs geared toward women upskilling and networking to get there because they are still underrepresented in leadership. Can these programs offer long-term solutions?
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.”
COI policies have contributed to a working culture that’s antithetical to Indigenous ways of working, Aiden Cyr writes. He talks to four Indigenous social impact leaders whose insights suggest that the path forward may instead lie in “mutuality of interest.”
Groups including the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence call caregiving the next frontier in public policy in Canada. They want to make the issue of care politically and socially unignorable.
Strategic planning is often a struggle for non-profit and grassroots organizations, since so many of them operate in constant survival mode as they attempt to secure and sustain funding for programs and staffing in a continually uncertain sector.
Heading into what promises to be a complex year, we asked contributor Angela Long, who is also a poet, to write a poem to share with our readers as a way of putting a bow on our 2024 publishing. We love how she worked in voices from the interviews she’s done for us over the last few years.
While the barriers to funding traditionally under-resourced organizations and communities can be systemic, these foundations share how their partnerships transform community organizations that are often left out of the conversation.
