{"id":6295,"date":"2026-07-18T18:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:46:26","slug":"why-build-a-stronger-culture-of-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2026\/why-build-a-stronger-culture-of-philanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Build a Stronger Culture of Philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Calum Carmichael<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How can we gauge a culture of philanthropy in Canada? As noted in the introduction to this series on PANL Perspectives<\/em><\/a>, we use the term \u201cculture of philanthropy\u201d not as it\u2019s been used elsewhere to describe fundraising potential or nonprofit work environments. Instead, we mean something much wider. Such a culture can be seen in a variety of ways, whether in our readiness to help, say by voluntarism or charitable donations, or in our readiness to understand and respect the priorities of others, despite not sharing those priorities. However, on both fronts \u2013 our readiness to help and our readiness to understand and respect \u2013 we see mixed signals in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for the rest of Calum Carmichael’s thought piece on PANL Perspectives<\/em>: “Why We Should Build a Stronger Culture of Philanthropy.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banner photo is courtesy of Samuel Cruz.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Calum Carmichael How can we gauge a culture of philanthropy in Canada? As noted in the introduction to this series on PANL Perspectives, we use the term \u201cculture of philanthropy\u201d not as it\u2019s been used elsewhere to describe fundraising potential or nonprofit work environments. Instead, we mean something much wider. Such a culture can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":6297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1356,39],"tags":[1357,49,1358,191,68,69,70,82,740,17,81,18,19],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-of-philanthropy","category-news","tag-calum-carmichael","tag-carleton","tag-culture-of-philanthropy","tag-dpnl","tag-leadership","tag-masters","tag-mpnl","tag-panl","tag-panl-perspectives","tag-philanthropy","tag-pnl","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration","tag-sppa"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}