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(June 20, 2022) In April, prior to the 2022 budget, Imagine Canada, the country’s largest lobby group for charities took issue with the Liberal government’s campaign promise to stop providing charity status to Crisis Pregnancy Centres, despite the harm these groups can cause vulnerable women. The Liberal party platform states that a Liberal government will “[n]o longer … [Read more...] about Crisis pregnancy centres: How anti-choice groups use charity status to support the spread of disinformation

(April 22, 2022) Community-centric fundraising (CCF) is a growing movement that challenges existing philanthropic practices as being colonial in their nature, and exclusionary in their practice. What started in Seattle, Washington has now gone global. A global council to guide the future of Community Centric Fundraising is being created. In part two of this two-part … [Read more...] about Equity and justice in Canadian fundraising: Moving towards a more equitable sector

(February 19, 2022) Charity funded journalism has become a tool to mitigate the crisis faced by Canada's news media for most of the 21st century. Big platforms like Google and Facebook are swallowing up an ever-greater share of advertising revenue. The collapse of classified sections in newspapers both big and small has cut off vital revenue streams. The subscription base is … [Read more...] about Charity boosting journalism start-ups while incumbents pocket millions and still flail