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Board Recruitment, Renewal, and Resilience

Charitable boards of directors play a critical role in providing strategic direction, oversight, and community leadership. Yet many charities are finding it increasingly difficult to …

Planning for Tomorrow: Why Succession Planning Still Lags Behind

Leadership transitions are inevitable. Whether planned or unexpected, most charities will eventually experience changes in executive leadership. Succession planning helps organizations prepare for these transitions …

Allies in Affordability

According to the 2026 Food Banks Poverty Report Card, one in four people in Canada are food insecure and many of them are employed but …

Academic & Sector Coverage

Problems and Gaps in Charitable Social Service Provision: A Thematic Analysis of Lone Mothers’ Experiences

Occhiuto, K. (2025). Problems and Gaps in Charitable Social Service Provision: A Thematic Analysis of Lone Mothers’ Experiences. Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue canadienne de politique sociale, 83.

Biting the hand that feeds you? Exploring whether (and how) government funding constrains charities’ engagement in public policy

Cameron, J., Dicks, H., & Swiss, L. (2025). Biting the hand that feeds you? Exploring whether (and how) government funding constrains charities’ engagement in public policy. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 16(3), 47-75.

Volume II: A changing third sector research landscape—Progress or pitfall?

Kim, M., & Raggo, P. (2023). Volume II: A changing third sector research landscape—Progress or pitfall?. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 34(1), 4-11.

Technologies for Data Aggregation: An Overview of Technologies and Opportunities to Propel Third Sector Research.

Santamarina, Francisco J. “Technologies for Data Aggregation: An Overview of Technologies and Opportunities to Propel Third Sector Research.” The Future of Third Sector Research (2025): 163-178.

Lived Expertise in Homelessness Policy and Governance

Kopec, Anna, and Alison Smith. “Lived Expertise in Homelessness Policy and Governance.” Social Sciences 13.5 (2024): 271.

BILL C-27 AN ACT TO ENACT THE CONSUMER PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT, THE PERSONAL INFORMATION AND DATA PROTECTION TRIBUNAL ACT…

Imagine Canada – Submission to the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology