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December 4, 2025

Money, Mission & Change

Money, Mission & Change

In Episode 1 of Season 2 of the PhilanthroThink Podcast, "Money, Mission and Change: Rethinking Nonprofit Finance," Cherry Chan, founder of OTUS Nonprofit CFOs, talks to our hosts, Megan Skyvington... More
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December 2, 2025

Would You Donate a Few Dollars to Save a Life?

Would You Donate a Few Dollars to Save a Life?

Of course you’d ruin your shoes to save a drowning child. But would you donate a few dollars to save the life of a child? Doesn’t it come down to... More
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November 24, 2025

Free Legal Advice for People with Disabilities: ARCH Disability Law Centre

Free Legal Advice for People with Disabilities: ARCH Disability Law Centre

By Jessica Field, Community Education and Outreach Coordinator, ARCH Disability Law Centre, a nonprofit legal clinic funded primarily by Legal Aid Ontario and specializing in disability rights law. Her article... More
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November 24, 2025

Real-Life “Succession”: A New Guide Tackles Founder’s Syndrome

Real-Life “Succession”: A New Guide Tackles Founder’s Syndrome

Cathy Barr (Senior Advisor of Research & Data at Imagine Canada) and Susanna Kislenko (Director of The Founder Leadership Research Lab at the University of Oxford, and Adjunct Professor at... More
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November 4, 2025

Increasing Accessibility in Québec’s Tourism & Culture Sectors

Increasing Accessibility in Québec’s Tourism & Culture Sectors

By Bruno Ronfard, General Manager of Kéroul, an organization that’s been making tourism and culture accessible to everyone in Quebec since 1979. This article is part of a series by... More
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October 21, 2025

Joe Jack & John Works at the Intersection of Theatre and Life

Joe Jack & John Works at the Intersection of Theatre and Life

Catherine Bourgeois is Co-founder and Artistic and General Director of the Montréal-based theatre company Joe Jack & John. The company works at the intersection of theatre and life, creating theatrical... More
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October 2, 2025

Working Toward an Inclusive Canada

Working Toward an Inclusive Canada

Tara Levandier is the Executive Director of Operations & Social Impact for Inclusion Canada (and is an MPNL alumna in the 2014 cohort). This article is part of PANL Perspectives‘... More
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September 27, 2025

Disability Without Poverty

Disability Without Poverty

Rabia Khedr is the National Director of Disability Without Poverty, which works to ensure that the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) is a benefit that actually benefits people with disabilities by... More

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