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Top 50 Equitable Funders 2024

Canada's Top 50 Most Equitable Funders for 2024.
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Social innovation inspiration

Canada’s culture of innovation is strong — and we’ll need it to be, as the pandemic becomes a long-term health, social and economic crisis. Entirely new and complex problems have emerged, and community-led social innovation will solve them. In partnership with the Rideau Hall Foundation, we’ve rounded up this list of stories to inspire you and fill you in on some of the most socially innovative work happening across the country.
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Reconciliation and Indigenous Philanthropy

Indigenous people represent 4.9 per cent of the population, but Indigenous charities generally receive less than one per cent of all gifted funds in Canada. What does this say about reconciliation? This collection explores the impact Indigenous-led organizations are having on the social purpose landscape, highlighting the innovation, the ingenuity and the endurance of Indigenous changemakers.
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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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Great first reads

Need an intro to the world of social impact? Find it here.
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COVID-19 and its effects on the social impact world

In our special coverage, we bring you news, unexpected solutions, and examine the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the social impact sector, the systems we live in, and on our society. We dive into social safety nets, philanthropy, gendered effects, mental health, technology, racism, social finance, frontline work, and more. Valuable insights to help your organization understand, navigate, and adapt to new normals.
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Connections Conference 2024

Now in its 10th year, Connections Conference brings together changemakers from Alberta’s non-profit, business, and government sectors to share innovative best practices and thought leadership that inspire action to tackle our country’s most complex challenges. This year, the conference will focus on various themes, from agency and government relations and the future workforce to Indigenous reconciliation and meaningful partnership in funding, bringing a systems perspective to the forefront of the issues. In partnership with The Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (CCVO), Future of Good assembled this collection of stories that explores these concepts – foundational to meaningful change.
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Changemaker Wellbeing Summit

Workplace wellbeing is entering the mainstream of social change. However, managers, leaders and teams are facing chronic stress, microaggressions, anxiety and burnout.
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Canadian Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change

An annual update on the Canadian Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change
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Black Leadership in Social Impact

Black-led charities in Canada get a fraction of the donations raised by their white-led peers — and the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted them, which exposed longstanding economic and social inequities — but remain on the leading edge of social impact innovation. In advance of the Black Leadership in Social Impact Summit, Future of Good has compiled a collection of stories to get you up-to-speed on the people, projects and organizations leading the way.
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Atlantic Social Impact Exchange Summit

Social innovation takes many forms. From farmers building a healthy future using social impact bonds in Nova Scotia, to data sharing in Ontario and collaborations between business and non-profits in Alberta, social innovation shapes the post-pandemic landscape. Get up-to-speed on social innovation in Canada with this collection of Future of Good stories.
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AI for Social Impact

Future of Good’s AI for Social Impact Academy is a year-around online learning platform for social purpose teams and professionals to skillfully use AI to make a bigger difference in their missions. It combines interactive live sessions with expert practitioners, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, case studies and insightful journalistic coverage of AI in the social purpose world.
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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: to reorient toward resource sharing in real partnership, to end undignified “white gaze” fundraising practices, to work with the goal of independent communities. In other words, to decolonize.
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What does reconciliation look like in the social sector?

Sept. 30 is the first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Canada’s history is defined by colonial violence and oppression, and the history — and present-day — of the country’s social impact sector is not exempt. The sector’s work is shaped by this history and, if unchecked, can cause harm to Indigenous communities it works with and serves. What will it take to decolonize the social impact mindset? What practices are settlers implementing — or should they implement — to build reconciliation with Indigenous communities into the ways they work and live? Future of Good is publishing a special report to begin to answer these questions and more.
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Three years since 'Catalyst for Change': Where are we now?

It's been three years since the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector released its first report, with 42 recommendations directed at the federal government for modernizing the charitable sector. What progress has been made? What's the impact of unfulfilled recommendations? And — since the committee wrote the report before COVID-19 — what's changed in those three years?
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How equitable is Budget 2022?

The federal government's 2022 budget is out, and Future of Good is diving in — how well does this budget set communities up for an equitable pandemic recovery? Leaders across the social impact sector share their thoughts.
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How are social purpose organizations weathering record-breaking inflation?

Inflation is squeezing the budgets of social purpose organizations at the same time as more people are in need of their services. How are they coping? Is this a sustainable system? We dive in.
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Canada's Social Finance Fund: What Now?

Two years ago, the Government of Canada announced the Social Finance Fund, $755 million over 10 years, meant to power innovative approaches to our country’s persistent and complex social challenges. Enter: a global pandemic, and a moment of introspection, responsibility, and opportunity for the fund. What now?
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Canada's Recovery Plan: Will the Social Impact World Recover?

Featuring analysis, insights, and commentary, this special report unpacks the significant elements of Canada’s recovery plan and its implications for the social impact world for the next 12 months.
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23 Daring predictions that will shape the social impact world in 2023

Signals tend to reveal emergent phenomena sooner so that changemakers can turn their attention to possible opportunities, disruptions, innovations and developments that affect their missions, programs and work. Signals can become mainstream and evolve into trends — when a signal hits a certain threshold, for example, it might become a trend in the broader society or sector, and begin to diffuse rapidly.
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