One of the hallmarks of Canada’s centennial celebration was the 1967 International and Universal Exposition in Montreal. After the centennial year ended, the Expo site was repurposed and continues to be used in a variety of ways — from the...
The last quarter of the year is when most charities ramp up their appeals for donations and we all start thinking about making our charitable donations, primarily to ensure we get our receipts before the end of the year to...
In one corner we have fundraising experts who say that what’s needed is just two more appeal letters, while in the other corner, we have experts who say we’ve got to reduce the volume of mail donors receive. As fun...
After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its final report in 2015, all sectors of Canadian society began asking themselves what came next, in how to redress past wrongs and how to create a more reconciled future in which Canada’s...
The Millennial generation, or NextGen, gets blamed for a lot of what is wrong in the world today. Common stereotyping includes labels such as entitled, unreliable, cynical and easily distracted. Clearly, many of these perceptions are misconceptions. I know some...
What is GivingTuesday? Most people know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday...but GivingTuesday will be celebrated on November 28, 2017. It is a Canadian movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Cyber Monday. The “Opening day of...
Every generation has its challenges and every era comes with its own brand of social upheaval. For many Canadians, contemplating the current state of economic, political and societal shifts can cause a certain amount of panic, or at the very...
The holiday season is a critical time for charities and not-for-profits. According to Imagine Canada, we receive almost 40% of our funding between now and the end of December. This is the time that our fundraising machines kick into action...
Want to learn more about how to create a sponsorship proposal that works? Join us and the author for a free webinar on November 16! Details and registration here. Telling people “no” is an uncomfortable experience and people try to...
Surely by now Millennials must feel like monkeys in the zoo, analyzed and marketed to by everyone, quickly pronounced to be special snowflakes, condemned as slackers. Meanwhile, this generation — who loathes the generalized term for those born between roughly...
