What do you mean our charitable tax receipts are incomplete? We’ve been using the same ones for the last 20 years! I won’t pretend to be the authority on tax receipting. I’d prefer to leave that up to Canada Revenue...
As you might have heard, the latest Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP) was released last week. Based on data collected in 2007, the survey - the fourth in a series of surveys that began in 1997 with...
Late last year, Hamilton's McMaster University received a rare and welcome boon: a $10,000 grant from the Massachusetts-based Sunshine Lady Foundation to create and administer a philanthropy class, titled the Strategic Philanthropy and Leadership Course, at the university's DeGroote School...
Setting up and running a charitable organization can be a tricky business, so it's important to ensure that you're always on the right side of the law. In this podcast, Adam and Nicole discuss the question of turning a business...
On May 13th, a group of professional fundraisers descended upon the Lakeshore Campus of Toronto's Humber College for a day of learning, lively discussion and interaction. The inaugural Humber Initiative on Philanthropy, organized by graduate students of Humber's Fundraising and...
We've reached the end of our rope. One of our funders has extended a grant to ensure we survive this year, but how do we prove to them (and others) that we're a viable organization? Ouch...that's a really hard question...
My very first CharityVillage assignment in 2005, on social entrepreneurship, brought me to an old renovated fire hall in downtown Toronto. The headquarters of the story's main subject, Eva Phoenix's Print Shop, it's also the home of a transitional housing...
Research conducted that assesses which organizations will withstand the impact of the recession conclude that it is not necessarily those that are boasting the largest budgets or the most effective fundraising efforts in 2008. Organizations that are most likely to...
It's safe to say that in the 70-plus years since its inception, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, a private Montreal-based funder, has established itself as a veritable mainstay of Canada's charitable sector. With an objective of encouraging active citizenship and...
Many charities, and in particular foundations, that have established endowment funds are currently concerned about the impact caused by the recent downturn of the economy with regards to their reduced ability to meet their disbursement quota requirements under the Income...
