The Market Basket Measure (MBM) is Canada’s official poverty measure. However, focusing solely on income ignores a lot of other indicators of deprivation and has a knock-on impact on how poverty reduction plans are constructed.
Data collection practices often rely on active and informed consent – but how can people in precarious situations genuinely understand what is happening with their biometric information, how it will be stored, and who it will be shared with?
With a larger number of non-profits collecting, stewarding and analyzing information about marginalized communities, it’s critical they do it well, while upholding the privacy and dignity of vulnerable people.
Just eight per cent of Canadians report leaving a gift to charity in their will. A group of charities is trying to increase that figure by promoting online wills.
Few funders focus on technology and artificial intelligence grants. Few technically skilled staff in the non-profit sector can expertly handle data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence projects.