The future of work
Ready or not, the future of work is already here. For those who make the world of work their business, there’s reason for both optimism and concern.
Ready or not, the future of work is already here. For those who make the world of work their business, there’s reason for both optimism and concern.
The unprecedented scale of the pandemic crisis has cast a spotlight on what corporate citizenship really means today. The good news is that, at a time when many charities’ non-governmental revenue dried up and volunteering largely stopped, the corporate response has been widespread and generous.
This spring, we asked contributor Emily Mathieu to canvass some members of The Philanthropist Journal’s Editorial Advisory Committee – established in November 2020 to provide insights and input into our evolving coverage – and get their views on what the late- and post-pandemic period holds for the sector.
With the survival of thousands of small charitable and non-profit organizations at stake, some provincial network officials have reasoned that the pandemic poses a now-or-never opportunity to press government for a new relationship that goes well beyond the old dance of grants and transfer agreements.
The second of three scheduled reports by the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector highlights a spring in which the energy for change in the charitable and non-profit sector appears to be growing. But rebuilding the sector’s relationship with Ottawa will be “a marathon and not a sprint.”
There is hope that the data deficit that has plagued the non-profit sector – the only major sector of Canada’s economy expected to collect its own data – for so long may be ending, but as Imagine Canada’s Cathy Barr writes, this is not the time to back off on our lobbying efforts; it is the time to step them up.
La pandémie de la COVID-19 a révélé de nombreuses vérités : le Canada dépend beaucoup de fragiles chaînes d’approvisionnement mondiales; le statut social et économique affecte
For Canada’s non-profit and charitable leaders, the 2021 federal budget was significant and historic for many reasons.