(June 18, 2020) One of the reasons we don’t use as much Canadian data as we’d like at The Charity Report is the absence of … well… Canada data. But the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) provided some water to the Canadian data desert when it released some new estimates of the “top tail” of high net worth of Canada's wealthiest families. The report was created as a result of … [Read more...] about Canada’s Wealthiest Families: New data begs the question ‘do we need a wealth tax?’
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The Power Gap is the Gender Gap and the Racial Gap
(February 3, 2021) “Men still dramatically outnumber, outrank and out earn women.” These are the ultimate findings of the new Power Gap series, undertaken by Robyn Doolittle and Chen Wang for the Globe and Mail, which premiered on January 21. Legislation requiring that men and women doing the same job receive equal pay has been the law of the land in Canada since 1951. Every … [Read more...] about The Power Gap is the Gender Gap and the Racial Gap
Lucy Bernholz and ‘How we give now’: The most important book on philanthropy this year
by Gail Picco, October 14, 2021 How we give now: A philanthropic guide for the rest of us, Lucy Bernholz, The MIT Press, October 12, 2021, 240 pp., $31.99 Dr. Lucy Bernholz has written the most important book on philanthropy this year. Bernholz, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, conducted research for the … [Read more...] about Lucy Bernholz and ‘How we give now’: The most important book on philanthropy this year
Charity email click rates show significant increase in 2020: UK report
(July 21, 2021) The click rates of charity email increased significantly in 2020, according to the UK Data and Direct Marketing Association’s Email Benchmarking Report 2021 released on July 20. UK DMA monitors direct marketing responses across the Finance, Retail, Publishing, Travel, Not-for-Profit and Utilities sectors. While this year's metrics appear to … [Read more...] about Charity email click rates show significant increase in 2020: UK report
Calling Bullshit: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’
By Wanda Deschamps (November 4, 2020) Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West, Random House, August 4, 2020, 336 pp., $35.65 We associate the three-kinds-of-lies quote with 19th century American humourist Mark Twain. It was almost as if he was peering into the future while saying it because we do … [Read more...] about Calling Bullshit: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’