Public Policy & Advocacy Archives

November 9, 2022

Stronger Policy Leadership for Canada’s Charitable & Nonprofit Sector: Advancing Conversations

By Susan D. Phillips. Disruption. Transformation. Reinvention. These lie ahead for Canada’s charitable and nonprofit sector. This sector must drive change for those it serves. And, it must help governments... More

March 13, 2021

The #1 Policy Issue for Canada’s Philanthropic & Charitable Sector

By Susan Phillips (with help from 68 leaders in the sector). Released in June 2019, the report of the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector presented the federal government... More

March 8, 2021

Make It Easier for Charities To Do Good: The CRA Needs To Remove the ‘Own...

Make It Easier for Charities To Do Good: The CRA Needs To Remove the ‘Own Activities’ Requirement

Lawyers may rarely agree. But 37 of Canada’s charity lawyers strongly agree -- and have signed this open letter – that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) should remove the paternalistic,... More

March 8, 2021

The Business of Charities & Nonprofits: The Need for Change

By Susan Manwaring and Katrina Kairys. (Download a pdf of this article.) Charities and nonprofits have long been entrepreneurial and innovative in developing new means of generating revenue to achieve... More

December 6, 2020

Will Provinces & Territories Increase Trust in Crowdfunding?

By Peter Broder. In the wild west of online crowdfunding, sometimes an organizer tries to change the terms of a campaign – in the middle of the campaign. Maybe the... More