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Gabe Oatley is Future of Good’s reporter on transforming funding models. He’s a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Masters of Journalism and his work has been published by the CBC, the National Observer, and The Nation. You can reach Gabe at gabe@futureofgood.co.

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Nine Canadian funders make historic $405 million pledge to combat climate change

November 14, 2024

‘The stakes have never been higher’: Toronto United Way launches $100M charity sector real estate campaign

November 5, 2024

Canada’s Top 50 Equitable Funders ranking released; Toronto, Laidlaw and Calgary Foundations take top 3 spots

October 31, 2024

No front door: 47 per cent of Canada’s largest grantmakers have no website

October 31, 2024

BC Cancer Foundation ends cycling fundraiser, citing climate risks

October 30, 2024

Imagine Canada reboots corporate social responsibility network with PRISM

October 18, 2024

More than half of Ontario non-profits scaled back services in 2024, amid inflation, revenue stagnation: Report

October 16, 2024

Three years in, philanthropy’s climate pledge in Canada falling short despite bright spots

October 9, 2024

Analysis: A new foundation is born with a US$100 million stock pledge—why this approach?

October 4, 2024

Looking for maximum impact? Fund climate work in Atlantic Canada: Report

September 25, 2024

Real estate hail mary: Centre for Social Innovation launches $10 million community bond campaign after ‘lowball’ offers

September 19, 2024

B.C.’s Rental Protection Fund helps non-profits save another 147 units from price hikes

September 18, 2024

A Black woman in an orange shirt stands in-front of a concrete wall.

Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience announces new executive director

September 11, 2024

Couple makes $25 million donation to support Halifax children’s hospital

September 10, 2024

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stand at a podium.

Blip or trend? Government funding to charities jumped by $30 billion in early pandemic

September 10, 2024

Former Rogers executive gifts Art Gallery of Ontario extensive art collection via estate

September 6, 2024

Funder launches new, $500,000 participatory grantmaking process for racialized migrants in B.C.

August 30, 2024

A man in a suit stands a podium in a large room with windows.

Big donations largest driver of non-profit income growth

August 28, 2024

Imagine Canada reiterates calls for funding, home and in government, federal strategy

August 22, 2024

Governments issues donation match for Jasper wildfire appeal, but critiques remain

August 1, 2024

Foundation-funded science publication Hakai Magazine to shutter in 2024

July 31, 2024

How $335 million and a Wall Street-inspired funding model have raised hopes for the conservation of the Great Bear Sea

July 10, 2024

Canadian foundation assets up $100 billion and 5 other findings from a new landscape report

June 18, 2024

New toolkit aims to debunk idea that funding non-qualified donees is riskier

June 5, 2024

This environmental charity snagged $3.5 million in new legacy gifts through an online will campaign. Could your charity do it too?

June 4, 2024

New volunteering grant program may offer surprising boost for donations: Experts

April 25, 2024

Boosting friendship, community events may bring back dropping donors: New report

April 23, 2024

Pressure from charities prompts feds to ease proposed tax on wealthy Canadians in Budget 2024

April 17, 2024

Updated charity form to deliver new investment data to Canadian government — but is it enough?

March 27, 2024

After a banner year in 2021, Canadian giving ‘normalizes’ in 2022 — and four other findings from new federal donation data

March 25, 2024

Number of charity donors drop for 12th straight year in Canada

March 21, 2024

100-year-old foundation spends down — moving millions to BIPOC-led non-profits

March 18, 2024

Q&A: Amidst growing ‘woke’ backlash, new Indigenous philanthropic firm aims to offer ‘calm waters’

March 15, 2024

A Palestinian surgeon’s GoFundMe bid to evacuate his daughter from Gaza — and the digital army that’s mobilized to help

March 8, 2024

Aid agencies are struggling to reach Gaza – if you give now, will your donation help?

February 29, 2024

Information ‘vacuum,’ government secrecy drives charitable sector’s fight against Alternative Minimum Tax

February 26, 2024

CanadaHelps rockets past $3 billion raised: What’s driven its success?

February 20, 2024

Andrea Dicks, President of Community Foundations of Canada (far left) and Jean-Marc Mangin, CEO of Philanthropic Foundations of Canada (far right), with two other sector professionals on a panel at the Sustainable Finance Forum in Ottawa in November 2023.

Charities unite against Alternative Minimum Tax changes — but at what long-term cost?

February 20, 2024

Photo of Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland at a recent working session.

Wealthy Canadians ‘threaten’ to reduce donations if feds don’t halt proposed Alternative Minimum Tax changes

February 13, 2024

Jean-Marc Mangin, CEO of Philanthropic Foundations Canada

Foundations struggling to meet higher disbursement quota: Philanthropic Foundations Canada

February 2, 2024

David Clarke (left) stands with the facilitator and participants of Wealth Shared, a philanthropy experiment where 12 strangers collectively decided how to donate £100,000 of Clarke’s wealth.

Philanthropy experiment: 12 strangers; £100,000; four weeks. How did they give it away?

January 30, 2024

Lights illuminate Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont. Before the winter holidays, the Canada Revenue Agency released new guidance, which some say will help accelerate the flow of money to non-profits and grassroots groups. (Naveen Kumar / Unsplash)

‘Major victory’ or disappointment? Mixed reviews on whether new CRA guidance will spur more granting to non-qualified donees

January 18, 2024

A pink body bag hangs in the window of Toronto gallery It’s OK* Studios on Nov. 24, 2023, as part of a controversial campaign by Canadian charity Aura Freedom International to raise awareness about femicide.

Charity faces backlash over ‘body bag for her’ femicide campaign

January 16, 2024

Gladys Ahovi, CEO of the Foundation for Black Communities (centre left, front row), surrounded by members of the Foundation For Black Communities board, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, Ahmed Hussen (centre left, back row), and others.

Putting charities in charge: New $9-million Black-led fund – one of largest-ever in Canada – to centre applicants in grant decision-making

December 21, 2023

Photo showing a hacker attempting a cyberattack

Cybersecurity insurance growing in popularity after high-profile digital attacks. Does your organization need it?

December 20, 2023

Some Canadian charities reeling from insurance premiums doubling over past five years

December 15, 2023

Photo of Duke Chang, CEO of CanadaHelps

75,000 fewer donors have made a gift online through CanadaHelps this year

December 14, 2023

Equality Fund snags US$10 million donation from billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott

December 8, 2023

Apra Canada board president Katherine Scott poses for a photo in High Park in Toronto, Ont.

DAFs can be a maze: Fundraisers, here are nine ways to get donations from Donor Advised Funds

November 17, 2023

Bernadette Johnson_Advocacy director of Imagine Canada

Charities relieved after Canada Revenue Agency says additional reporting for ‘internal trusts’ not needed

November 15, 2023