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October 24, 2024

Plus ça Change… Advocacy by Canadian Charities Five Years Later

By Susan D. Phillips and Kim Nguyen. Nguyen is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Charity Insights Canada Project (CICP) or Projet Canada Perspectives des Organismes de Bienfaisance (PCPOB). Phillips is... More

October 23, 2024

The Asset Manager Tango

By Keith Sjögren. At the end of 2022, Canadian foundations held a total of $107 billion in long-term investment assets -- almost two thirds of charitable sector investment assets. These... More

September 27, 2024

Romero House: “We welcome refugees differently; we welcome them as neighbours.”

Francesca Allodi-Ross is the Executive Director of the Toronto-based Romero House, which provides transitional housing to refugee claimants, acting as a bridge between emergency shelter and permanent housing. The nonprofit... More

September 26, 2024

African Giving Traditions: A Project from GivingTuesday & TrustAfrica

In 1976, after a traumatic event, Botswana's government decided to build the country's first university, but it had no money for the massive project. It turned to the practice of... More

September 5, 2024

Empowerment Squared

Leo Nupolu Johnson is the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer (CEO) of Empowerment Squared, a nonprofit organization that works with newcomer youth and families primarily in Southwestern Ontario and West... More

September 3, 2024

Job Post for Tenure-Track Appointment as an Assistant or Associate Prof.

Carleton University is accepting applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership. Through research, teaching, supervision and service to the... More

August 8, 2024

Good News, Bad News: Two Decades of Gender Pay Gaps

The nonprofit sector embraces equity as a core value, while the majority of the nonprofit workforce is women. However, traditionally, women have been underrepresented in leadership roles in the sector,... More

August 6, 2024

Neamat Sidani on “Family Business Philanthropy”

Neamat Sidani is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium. She researches family business philanthropy and worked in corporate and retail banking for 15 years.... More