The urgency to make a personal commitment
In 2008, I stood with other Indigenous leaders before the prime minister of Canada in the House of Commons to receive the government’s apology to former students of residential schools.
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The Moral Imperative for Policy Advocacy, Part 2: Options for Reform
This is the second of three articles by Max Bell Foundation and their Senior Fellow, Dr. Roger Gibbins, addressing policy advocacy over the next few
Charities have a moral obligation to help develop public policy
SUMMARY: The election of the Trudeau Liberals follows several years of tension between the federal government and a sizeable group of Canadian charities, and flags
Philanthropy in the Arctic: Good Intentions or Good Works?
This article is the fourth in a series on Indigenous Communities and Philanthropy. There may be no better phrase to describe the past century of southern
A Chilly Time for Charities: Audits, Politics and Preventing Poverty
This article is the eighth in a series on Canadian Charities Working Internationally. SUMMARY: In this opinion piece, Philanthropist editor Gordon Floyd takes a look
Review Essay
How We Lead: Canada in a Century of Change, By Joe Clark, Toronto, ON: Random House Canada, 2013 ISBN 9780307359070 Gambatte: Generations of Perseverance and Politics,
Letter From The Guest Editor: Collective Impact
Since its introduction in the Winter 2011 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the theory of “Collective Impact” presented by FSG consultants John Kania
Point / Counterpoint: Collective Impact
Resolved: That Collective Impact is simply a re-branded and codified model of longstanding collaborative approaches that is too rigid to encourage genuine innovation and social