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Focus on Foundations: Tostan Canada
“Imagine an African village where a 14-year-old girl stands proudly to advocate for human rights. Where she is safe from violence. Where she can go to school and become a woman before becoming a wife. Where she and her parents join a community-wide movement for...
Focus on Foundations: The Joyce Foundation
During the month of October, we’re writing about Foundations. According to a recent study published by Imagine Canada and Philanthropic Foundations Canada, there has been a significant increase in the number of foundations over the past two decades. From 1994 to 2014,...
Phil’s big move: all settled in!
Over the years, our company has moved several times. Each time brings with it a lot of nerves and emotion: closure for a chapter we’re leaving behind, and excitement for the new challenges ahead. Logistics aside, this move was perfect in every way: the timing, the...
5 reasons to consider Caritas
Caritas is a smart, creative & affordable solution for your third party fundraising initiatives. We want to help your supporter network to raise money on your behalf, both online and off, with simple and effective tools that you can use for years to come. Here’s...
Join Phil for the Great Canadian Shoreline clean up!
Our next team volunteer activity takes us to the Lachine Canal, September 20 at 10am (see details below) Every year, tens of thousands of Canadians take action against shoreline litter by participating in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw...
Join Phil’s team at AFP’s Congress in November
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents 30,000 members in over 200 chapters in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and China working to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education, and certification programs. Phil is proud to be an...
N#ice move
It pains me to read the many articles circulating on the Internet right now about how evil the ice bucket challenge is. These articles claim ALS is stealing money from other organizations because it's attracting too much attention (and funds) to one singular cause. ...
Phil’s Ice Bucket Challenge
Since early August, hundreds if not thousands of people have been dropping ice buckets over themselves in support of people afflicted by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Videos are quickly making their rounds on Twitter and Facebook. The goal: to raise mass awareness...
Phil présente à l’APGP Rencontres Philanthropiques à Québec (French only)
30 SEPTEMBRE 2014 7 h 30 à 13 h 30 Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Parc des Champs-de-Bataille, Québec POUR INSCRIPTION ET INFORMATION www.apgp.com | [email protected] | 1 866 545-2747 Atelier: Comment analyser les résultats de vos plateformes numériques Kim...
Hats off to Les Amis de la montagne: $160,000 raised in support of the mountain
At Phil, we’re very fortunate that we love what we do. On top of that, what we do makes an impact in our community. Another example of this is last week’s event, held by Les Amis de la montagne: their first ever Chapeau mont Royal! event. This inaugural event was a...