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Our posts will make you think, question the status quo, keep an eye out for trends, and invite you to improve yourself – it’s all here.
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,...
Business discovers the ‘social movement’ language. I hope we don’t corporatize it.
We are grateful to Dr. Leandro Herrero for allowing us to republish this article. A social movement is not a bunch of people, even hundreds, or thousands, moving socially. A social movement needs a purpose, people joining it, and doing things together, usually until...
20 years already?
Twenty years have flown by in the blink of an eye! Where did the time go? ...It went towards helping hundreds of charities, foundations and socially-missioned businesses do more good in the world – that’s where it went. We could not be more proud. Over the years we’ve...
Philanthropy: The System Is Broken
On Sunday, November 24th, 2019, Kim Fuller CEO of Phil published an opened letter in Montreal's LaPresse newspaper. Here is the English version of the letter. 20 years have passed since I founded Phil, a company that is exclusively dedicated to working with...
Pioneering People and Planet before Profit
As a young girl with two side ponytails, Kim went door-to-door with her mother canvassing for cancer research each spring. One year she was on crutches with a sprained ankle and thought she could stay home from the annual fundraising quest. But her mom said, “You need...