Toronto Foundation’s Nicola Hives reflects on her organization’s three-year learning journey via the Trust Collective, a group of women philanthropists and community organizations serving women and girls. “We made a lot of mistakes,” she says, but they also learned some important lessons. First and foremost: “We can’t let our ambition to make a difference get the better of us. Thoughtfulness and partnering with community are everything.”
The term “misogynoir” refers to a particular form of discrimination against Black women, girls, and gender-diverse people. As we mark Black History Month, the Canadian Women’s Foundation’s Paulette Senior calls for those with philanthropic clout to vie for better work, invest in better futures, and join the uproar for policy-making that actively includes Black women and gender-diverse people.
What can funders do to be part of a much-needed transformation in the philanthropic sector? Professional fundraisers Tanya Rumble and Nicole McVan offer three practical steps.
Polarization, giving trends, equity, HR issues, reconciliation, the data gap, the climate crisis: we asked leaders in Canada’s non-profit and charitable sector about the challenges and societal shifts they’ll be watching in 2023. Here’s what they had to say.
Philanthropic foundations can manage their investments to provide much-needed support on the most urgent issues facing the planet in a variety of ways: divestment, transition financing combined with shareholder engagement, impact/ESG investment – or even winding down and freeing up their endowments to accelerate work toward a net-zero Canada by 2050.
Je me souviens où j’étais le 6 décembre 1989, lorsque j’ai appris que 14 femmes avaient été assassinées à l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. Je me souviens de la
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.
Cette année marque le 40e anniversaire de la Fondation Trillium de l’Ontario. Pour souligner l’occasion, The Philanthropist Journal examine l’impact que la Fondation a eu sur les bénéficiaires de subventions, le secteur sans but lucratif et les communautés de l’Ontario.
