When the WE Charity controversy exploded during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many wondered whether the scandal would taint the entire charitable sector and put a damper on potential donors’ and volunteers’ enthusiasm.
Plus tôt ce printemps, lorsque The Globe and Mail a publié des détails financiers récents des fonds de dotation de certains des plus grands organismes artistiques du Canada,
During the pandemic, as charities have grappled with the double burden of increased demand for services and reduced capacity to fundraise, some have asked why Canada’s foundations – public and private – aren’t drawing more from their investment accounts to support the causes they funded in the before-times.
Ce texte fait partie d’une série d’entretiens menés auprès de six chercheurs de la communauté PhiLab sur leurs différents objets d’étude.
This Q&A is part of a series of interviews with six PhiLab researchers about their areas of study.
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.”
