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The Charity Report Editor in chief Gail Picco

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The Charity Report Editor in chief Gail Picco

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The Charity Report Editor in chief Gail Picco

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Cid Brunet is a former stripper and emerging writer who spent a decade working in clubs across Canada under the name Michelle.  This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir is a candid, searing memoir of working 10 years in the sex trade, a person
Shakil Choudhury, is an award-winning educator and consultant with more than 20 years of international experience in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion. He’s worked with thousands of organizational leaders across sectors in Canada an
A contemporary multi-media storyteller, Drew Hayden Taylor has written more than 30 books and screen plays, and scores of columns and essays. He’s a theatre performer and director, actively expanding the boundaries of Indigenous literature.  Hi
An anthology of stories written by Black fundraisers working in the United States and Canada  has laid bare the underlying racism in the philanthropic sector.  The editors and contributors of Collecting Courage: Joy Pain Freedom Love have been
The countdown to Christmas has begun and, for many Christians, so has the annual debate about the true meaning of the holiday. The legacy of Indian Residential Schools coupled with  weaponization of the words of Christ by the evangelical right
Cindy Wagman began her nonprofit career as a fundraising manager in a women’s shelter.  Since that time, she’s been Development Director for the Canadian Women’s Foundation, The Kensington Foundation, Rotman School of Management, and Campaign D
Madeleine Shaw is a multiple award-winning social entrepreneur with more than twenty-five years of experience launching ventures with a social change agenda. At age 25, she founded Aisle, a privately held business whose sustainable menstrual ca
Dr. Sara Florence Davidson is an educator, author, and assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her brand-new children’s book, Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii on which she collaborated with her father, is a si
Dr. Lucy Bernholz is Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University.  For the past 12 years, she has been the force behind the annual Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society Blueprint monograph serie
The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to police brutality, in North America is indisputable. What we know less about is how our schools reinforce rather than erode racism, teaching a one-dimensional, toke
Our very special guest today is F. Warren McFarlan, Professor Emeritus and former Senior Associate Dean of External Relations at Harvard Business School, who has 40 years of active nonprofit experience.Among his many and varied accomplishments,
A righteous ask is a funding request grounded in a community need that is well aligned with the funder’s mission and put forth by a well-respected nonprofit in pursuit of impact rather than dollars, writes Barbara Floersch in her new book You H
David Macfarlane, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, has just released his latest book.Likeness: Fathers, sons, a portrait is a told through a portrait of Macfarlane by Canadian artist John Hartman set against the backdrop of Hamilton, On
Today, we get behind the process of covering a major news story. For the past two years, award-winning journalist Marcus Gee has been writing about what some call the “other” pandemic—deaths from opioid overdose.  He’s talked to and written abo
Sylvia Olsen’s most recent book Unravelling Canada: A Knitting Odyssey begins to untangle the messy business of Canadian history through a journey of knitting that takes her to 40 communities across the country. From the history of quintessenti
The news that the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation had located the undocumented remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School run by the Catholic Church broke late on Thursday, May 27.  The news spre
The deplorable state of so many of the country’s long term care facilities was fully revealed by the coronavirus pandemic.  At the end of September 2020, close to 10,000 people had died from the coronavirus. More than 80% of them were elderly p
Many Canadians were pulled from the brink of poverty when the federal government instituted the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, which provided a form of basic income.  It was inconceivable until it happened.  Yet, political thinkers for the
Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty 1 Territory in Manitoba. Her first book North End Love Songs won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her novel The Break won 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. In 2017, she began a s
 David Love raised his first dollar for nature in 1969.  In the past 50 years that he’s been an active fundraiser—much of that time with the World Wildlife Federation Canada—he’s raised many millions more.  In 2013, he was recognized with a Lif
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