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Youth don’t know how to find services — especially mentorship — online. We have a solution.

By Stacey Dakin

Latest Stories

“Charities…do not speak for us”: Why some autistic advocates are against a coalition pushing for a National Autism Strategy

By Brennan Doherty

Charitable status is colonial: This organization is encouraging Canadians to give to Indigenous-led organizations without expecting a tax receipt

By Avanthika Anand

Stat of the Week

1 in 3 charities believe they’ll soon find it harder to continue their work if they don’t improve their digital capabilities.

Special Reports

Our member-exclusive special reports dive into a timely topic directly affecting the social impact world — every month.

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Special Coverage: Election '21

Canada’s political leaders will spend the next few weeks telling Canadians how they plan to rebuild for a post-pandemic era — and we'll dive into how it all affects the social impact work you do.

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What will it take to decolonize global development?

However well meaning, global aid has long been fraught with paternalism and colonialism. But there’s a movement to completely rethink the way this work is done.

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Recovery Fund 2021: Will Charities Modernize?

Will 2021 finally be the year the charitable and non-profit sector has the resources it needs to modernize? With the federal government's upcoming $400 million Community Services Recovery Fund, it just might.

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Talks

Featuring the top doers, thinkers, and creatives in social impact from around the world.

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An in-depth Q & A with daana Founder Bhaskar Goswami. Learn more about his founding story, and why wellness is still a taboo topic among social purpose organizations.

Canadian Red Cross CEO Conrad Sauvé on how to prepare for the next global emergency

Stop glorifying resilience: Here’s how the word resilience shows up in the social sector, and why some leaders say it’s problematic

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What Future of Good members are reading this week

Tech

The pandemic has shifted how (and why) organizations collect data. These non-profit leaders will tell you exactly how.

By Jacky Habib

Going digital? This expert says you should transform your organizational culture first

By Kylie Adair

Inclusion

“Charities…do not speak for us”: Why some autistic advocates are against a coalition pushing for a National Autism Strategy

By Brennan Doherty

Charitable status is colonial: This organization is encouraging Canadians to give to Indigenous-led organizations without expecting a tax receipt

By Avanthika Anand

Wellness is still a taboo topic in the social impact world. This founder wants to change that for good.

By Vinod Rajasekaran & Kylie Adair

Money

Canada’s largest funder networks launch climate action pledge for grantmakers ahead of COP26

By Brennan Doherty

Opinion: The disbursement quota should increase to 5 percent — but an increase alone isn’t good enough.

By Sara Krynitzki & MJ Sinha

Opinion: The Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector let down charities and communities by not recommending a disbursement quota hike

By Yonis Hassan

Work

How does your organizational culture need to change to better support young leaders? Ten young changemakers weigh in.

By Kylie Adair

Canada’s political parties are ignoring the recommendations of the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector

By Brennan Doherty

Collections

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Ending the digital disparity

When the pandemic hit, social impact organizations were far less prepared than anyone could have anticipated — for many reasons, but arguably the biggest: they didn’t have the digital tools nor skills to continue their important (even lifesaving) work online. The good news? There are organizations that innovated along the way, and you can learn from them through the stories in this collection.

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Indigenous innovation

Stories of innovative solutions and impactful work taking place in Indigenous communities.

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Navigating the world of social finance

New to social finance? Here’s what you need to know about this powerful new approach to investment that puts impact at the forefront.

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Meet a Changemaker

2021 Young Impact Leaders: 21 social change intrapreneurs to watch

By Kylie Adair

Thought Leadership

"The Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector let down charities and communities by not recommending a disbursement quota hike."

Read this opinion piece by Yonis Hassan, CEO of Justice Fund Toronto.

Open letter to the sector: A call for radical accountability in social impact

By Mojdeh Cox

Trust-based philanthropy won’t work if it’s “built on a rotten foundation”

By Kylie Adair

Why it matters?

The number of cases of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities is rising, and the impacts — exacerbating already crisis-level rates of mental illness among Indigenous youth, for instance — have been devastating since the beginning. If the philanthropic sector wants to help, it needs to use this moment to completely transform how it operates.

Canadian non-profit boards have a diversity problem. Here’s the first step to fixing it.

By The Honourable Ratna Omidvar, Independent Senator for Ontario

Why it matters?

Only 38.1 percent of Toronto non-profit boards analyzed have at least 20 percent racialized minority leaders, 19 percent have none, and non-profit boards across the country have similar representation, says Senator Ratna Omidvar.