Series - Editorial Fellowship: Transforming Funding Models

Inside the rapidly organized ‘Hill Day’ for a legislative amendment on non-qualified donees

Author Julie Ma
The Ministry of Finance is “quite seized” with the issue, said Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guibeault

Why It Matters

As soon as this week, the government could pass legislation that, sector advocates say, would make it harder for charities and foundations to fund non-profits, grassroots groups and international charities — directly contravening a promise made in the federal budget.

This journalism is made possible by the Future of Good editorial fellowship covering the social impact world’s rapidly changing funding models, supported by Future of Good, Community Foundations of Canada, and United Way Centraide Canada. See our editorial ethics and standards here.

Tanya Hayles’s frustration over non-profit funding woes took her from Toronto to Ottawa last week. 

Hayles is the founder of Black Moms Connection, a non-profit she started in 2015 dissatisfied with the lack of diversity in parenting groups. The initiative began as a Facebook page, but membership took off the following spring, growing from 400 to 4,000, fuelled by the swelling Black Lives Matter movement and the increasing outrage over the s

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