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Is Copywriting The Secret To Increasing Your Donations?
– by Anders Bjella, Digital Marketing, Phil Last month, Peter Singer’s book “The Life You Can Save” challenged my ideas around charitable giving. There is no guidebook for how much we, as members of an affluent society, should give. The societal taboos surrounding...
New research insights for grant-makers
COVID-19 is putting increased pressure on Canadian charities, grant-makers are needed to step up with more money, and to distribute the funds in faster and simpler ways. Furthermore, charities will need grant-makers to fund overheads, staff salaries and the costs of...
Say goodbye to the zombie apocalypse – reviving a paralyzed board
There is nothing more frustrating than having the deep desire to achieve a goal and realizing that there is no way you will attain it in the near future. Many people chose to work or volunteer for non-profits because they recognize that a glaring social issue needs to...
Canada continues to lose its individual donors
Guest post by John Hallward, Chairman of GIV3, President of Sector3Insights There is a measured decline in our charitable behaviour and that has dangerous implications for the future. If we look at the trended data reported by Statistics Canada, based on more...
Board productivity over the summer
With the serious reorganization of pretty much all aspects of our society due to the COVID 19 pandemic, it is clear that boards of not-for-profit organizations will also be forced to restructure and seriously reflect on the scope and amount of work that needs to be...
Receive up to $100,000 through the PACME-COVID-19 Program
The Programme actions concertées pour le maintien en emploi (PACME) aims to provide direct support to organizations that are experiencing a reduction in their activities due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including self-employed workers, particularly through...
How can we measure what matters?
It seems like common sense. Donors want to know how their donations have helped an organization attain the social change that is important to them. Each organization has their own unique way of going about moving the dial on the big picture, whether it be to end...
Something’s got to change.
Our world is out of balance. Climate, politics, inequalities…We have heard it over and over again - but where do we start making all this change? For us, it was about figuring out that we were different, but not alone. About 4 years ago we found ourselves going...
Show some love
It’s amazing to think that more than half of Canada’s 161,000 non-profit and charitable organizations have no paid staff and rely solely on volunteers.If you take a quick look at your origin story, it is more than likely to include the blood, sweat, and tears of some...
Top (top) five trends in philanthropy for 2020
Oh yes - we love lists too - an easy bit to chew on, a quick snapshot of eye candy, a shot of info-tequila to put a sparkle in your eye. But aside from being an easy way to see if you are in the know - lists provide us with checks and balances to help us keep on task,...
