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?

Why It Matters

Donation patterns are changing. Affluent Canadians, whose gifts form a growing share of the overall charitable pie, are increasingly giving through donor advised funds affiliated with banks and wealth management firms.

Cheatsheet: 23 important and under-the-radar highlights from Budget 2023

Why It Matters

Budget 2023 sets the Canadian government’s funding priorities for years to come. Organizational leaders must understand the budget’s impact on their work to devise effective programming, outreach, and fundraising campaigns.

Enchanté Network pitches federal government to scope endowment fund for 2SLGBTQI+ organizations — who are “at risk of closing their doors”

Why It Matters

Data from charity donation platform CanadaHelps shows LGBTQ charities received just 0.3 per cent of all donations on the platform in 2021.

How Greta Thunberg helped one Quebec foundation get hooked on funding social movements

Why It Matters

Foundations have finite resources and big social policy objectives. A new report from the Broadbent Institute argues funders can make bigger strides on their social policy goals by funding social movements than they can through lobbying or research alone.

Foundations provide funding to address a hospital’s biggest long-term needs. Why aren’t they preparing for climate change?

Why It Matters

Climate change is the single greatest long-term threat to the health of Canadians, according to Canada’s chief public health officer – and hospital foundations are a significant source of equipment and capital spending for major hospitals.

New $1.5M fund aims to give trans organizations a boost and spur additional capital to an under-resourced sector

Why It Matters

Trans communities are facing increasing hate and have few options for institutional funding. A new $1.5 million fund aims to give trans-serving organizations a much-needed injection of capital and catalyze additional philanthropic investment in this sector.