Canada’s lone ‘mega-foundation’ gets court approval for early sale of billions in Mastercard stock. Could it boost Indigenous-focused impact investing?
“Mastercard could be a game changer.”
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Housing hot button: Should your foundation divest from residential REITs?
New report says Canada's largest residential REITs are not providing investors with enough information to be sure they're upholding the human right to adequate housing
Investigation: Ontario Trillium Foundation ‘muzzled’ charities with changes to advocacy policy
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request strongly suggest that partisanship influenced the foundation’s shift in 2020 toward a more restrictive approach to grantee advocacy.
Analysis: Canada’s banks are outpacing community foundations in launching new donor advised funds. What does it mean for your charity and for the philanthropic sector?
In 2021, Canada’s five largest commercially-affiliated foundations that offer donor advised funds held $3.8 billion in charitable assets. Two decades ago, none of them existed.
‘Horrific’ hunger crisis in Somalia being overlooked by Canadian donors — here’s why, according to fundraising experts
“If it’s not about Ukraine, people aren’t writing about it,” says Richard Morgan, executive director of the Humanitarian Coalition
Pushed by students, universities lead on fossil fuel divestment. Who will push foundations?
In late October, the University of Toronto announced that it will divest its $4 billion endowment from fossil fuels.
A short history of philanthropic perpetuity: tax havens, Catholic corruption and corporate control
How the hell did we get here — to this place where Canadian institutional philanthropy largely assumes perpetuity?
