• GIV3’s first significant advocacy work focused on an increased Disbursement Quota from all grant-making foundations.
• Currently, GIV3 is advocating for the creation of a new Social Sector Fund to empower a stronger charitable and social “for benefit” sector.

www.socialsectorfund.ca

John also started a social enterprise research firm, Sector3Insights (2017) to leverage his professional career to bring new unique research + insights to better understand generosity and the charity sector. He continues to run Sector3Insights in support of various charities in The USA and Canada. All profits are used for charitable purposes.

About GIV3 and Sector3Insights:

www.GIV3.ca

www.Sector3Insights.com

Outside of his professional research career, and the above, John has also been active in other non-profit organizations as a volunteer (past or present, the list includes):

• GIV3, current President/Chairman
• Sector3Insights, current President/Chairman
• Veritas Foundation (Selwyn House School)
• Selwyn House School (Chairman of the Board) (past)
• Bishops College School, Board of Directors (past)
• The Study School Foundation, Board of Directors (past)
• Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Board of Directors, and Co-Chair of Leadership Circle (past)
• The Brome Lake Land Foundation, Board of Directors (past)
• Montreal Medical International, Board of Directors (past)
• Optimal Health Care Foundation (Chairman) (past)

John also writes articles and OpEds about charitable topics for publications.

John has been a philanthropic leader in many campaign initiatives in his community. Recognized and awarded by: The Montreal chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP); and the Montreal Jewish Community Foundation.

John is also happily married, with three adult children, and is constantly exercising, cooking, sculpting (bird life), painting, and exploring the far corners of the natural world.

He leads Scotia Wealth Management’s 100-year-old private foundation services practice. Before joining Scotia he worked for three major Toronto charities from 1990 to 2004 and started his career in the arts.

He has been active as a volunteer in charitable tax policy. He has contributed to the development of new charitable tax incentives, including the elimination of capital gains on gifts of public securities and the “estate donation” rules. His proposal for gifts of private securities and taxable real estate published by C.D. Howe Institute was included in the 2015 Federal Budget. He was Canadian Association of Gift Planner’s course director from 1999 to 2011, a member of the Government Relations Committee, and Co-Chair of Donor Advised Fund Working Group. From 2009 to 2015, he served on Technical Issues Working Group of the Canada Revenue Agency’s Charities Directorate. In 2000, he led an initiative to get the TSX to establish Charitable Options, a special class of stock options that public companies can issue to Canadian registered charities.

He is an active teacher, writer and governance volunteer. He is a director of the Muttart Foundation (Edmonton), the Waugh Family Foundation (Toronto), Co-Chair of Cambridge Forum’s annual Trusted Advisor of UHNW Clients, and a member of the Indigenous and Canadian Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Previously, he was Co-Editor of The Philanthropist, director of Canada Helps, and a board member of both the Canadian and Spanish sections of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Now at the head of the community foundation movement, Andrew is working closely with the Community Foundations of Canada Leadership team, Board and foundations in Canada and abroad to help the philanthropic sector transform, innovate and meet the new challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. An increasingly active public speaker, Andrew is helping raise awareness for how the philanthropic sector’s convening power, leadership and action around targets such as the Sustainable Development Goals can help Canadian communities reach their full potential.