Julie Ma

Modernization Progress 2022: We’re tracking every recommendation made by the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector — here’s the progress so far

Only a handful of the Committee’s 42 recommendations to improve Canada’s charitable sector have seen significant progress.

‘Traditional’ foundation makes big bet on unrestricted giving. Will it stick post-COVID?

In 2017, just 4 percent of the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation’s grants were “unrestricted.” Today, their no-strings-attached giving has surged to about 70 percent of all gifts.

Is your trust-based grantmaking process breaking enough rules?

How this participatory grantmaking project is using transparent practices to support immigrant and refugee populations in the Peel Region

Why anniversaries matter in the pursuit of justice

Can a psych-based finance course help women, non-binary, and trans people heal from the trauma of COVID’s economic crises?

Trauma of Money is an online program that launched in 2019 to heal individual and collective financial trauma – then the pandemic hit one year later

Local organizations are doing the vast majority of aid work in Ukraine — but receiving just 0.003 percent of global funding: new report

A new report by two UK-based organizations suggests the international aid sector’s efforts at localizing their work may be lip service

NIMBYs. Funder hurdles. Now, rising inflation. Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society won’t give up

“All throughout this journey I’ve wondered ‘Oh my God, what did I get myself into? But I can’t stop. It’s a vision,” says project’s executive director

As inflation grips Canada, people turn to crowdfunding platforms to meet basic needs

Challenging the whiteness of queer organizations

“I don’t believe in the word ‘recovery’”: What you missed at Future of Good’s women’s economic resilience summit

Exploring nuanced topics on feminist funding, holistic social policies, making language accessible, community building, and more