The CRA has released draft guidance for new rules that will allow grantmakers to provide resources to organizations that are not qualified donees. Philanthropic Foundations Canada encourages others to share their feedback so that PFC may consider it as part of its submission to the CRA in response.
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While much has changed since 1989, when 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal, we’re only at the beginnings of where philanthropy needs to go in Canada when it comes to ending gender-based violence, writes the president and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation.
With no shortage of gendered inequities to tackle in Canada and abundant research that demonstrates how equality benefits everyone, the CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation calls for increased investment in gender equality on Give to Women and Girls Day.
Youth have long fought at the front lines of social innovation and change, argues the ED of The Youth Harbour and the Foundation for Environmental Stewardship, but when they do receive funding for their grassroots movements, their work is often underestimated and undervalued. She offers some recommendations for how funders can better support youth.
The concept of generating positive benefits beyond just financial returns is particularly attractive to grantmaking foundations that steward endowments. But the president of Max Bell Foundation argues that a number of concerns about “responsible investing” make it premature to advocate that government should push charitable endowments in that direction.
Investments should not just be viewed as a means to create income to fund grants: there is extraordinary opportunity to make a difference with the bulk of the money being managed, and the government needs to start paying more attention, suggest Aatif Baskanderi, president and CEO of the Northpine Foundation, and Senator Ratna Omidvar.
The story of philanthropy is not static; it evolves with every new challenge faced. Recently, the calls for reform have been loud and clear – to unlock the billions locked up in endowments, remove “direction and control,” and shift to more reciprocal relationships.
