Building Next-Generation Donor Payment Platforms with Modern Infrastructure
By Andrew Eppich In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are increasingly recognizing the importance of building next-generation payment platforms that not only facilitate seamless and secure transactions but also serve as catalysts for business growth and enhanced customer satisfaction. To achieve such success, organizations must leverage modern digital infrastructure, …
The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
THE ACCIDENTAL PHILANTHROPIST® – MARK HALPERN Bad News for Canadian Philanthropy Starting in 2024 By Mark Halpern, CFP, TEP, MFA-P Most Canadians still use cash, cheques and credit cards to make charitable donations. There are many better ways. One is to donate in-kind non-registered appreciated securities, such as stocks, …
We are stardust.
THINKING OUT LOUD – MARYANN KERR “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” Paulo Freire By Maryann Kerr I’ve thought a lot about the work of Paulo Freire and Saul Alinsky in the context of …
History’s Lessons: A Purposeful Pendulum
LEADERSHIP – KATHLEEN PROVOST By Kathleen A. Provost, CFRE, MAdEd As a professional fundraiser, , I sometimes wonder how to better engage with key stakeholders to build meaningful relationships. After all we are in the “business of building relationships”! I don’t just mean to engage with someone — I am …
Charitable Purposes and Estate Donations
WEALTH MANAGEMENT – MALCOLM BURROWS By Malcolm Burrows Estate planning is an exercise in time travel. It is impossible to predict the future, especially when the time gap between planning and death is often decades. Fast forward 25 years, a charity may not exist when the estate is distributed. Charity …
Food for Thought
50 Best, the organisation behind The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, announced its Champions of Change 2023 – heroes of hospitality who are driving meaningful change for their communities and creating blueprints for a better food and drink sector. Champions of Change winner Nora Fitzgerald Belahcen runs Amal in Marrakech, Morocco, …
New HeARTwork Framework Addresses Barriers Faced by Diverse Women in Leadership
National focus groups reveal that 94 per cent of diverse women participants felt burnout and work-related mental health issues leading several to leave corporate Canada for entrepreneurship or the non-profit sector TORONTO, ON–Conscious Economics, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering economic dialogue in Canada, announced the launch of HeARTwork. …
Nonprofits continue to struggle with rising costs and battle for talent but express cautious optimism as revenues increase, Sage research finds
Nonprofits see technological advancement as a necessity to operate today, but lack the talent to make it a priority TORONTO, ON–Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, released the second part of its annual Grow Together report, which found that Canadian nonprofits …
Comment: Budget 2023 and changes to the alternative minimum tax
Be careful when donating publicly listed securities by Amanda J. Stacey, Troy McEachren High-net worth clients who plan to donate publicly listed securities (e.g. public company shares, ETFs, mutual fund units, etc.) to charity should be aware—and wary—of proposed tax changes in the 2023 Federal Budget. Introduced in 1986, the …
A Radical Act of Democracy
Thinking Out Loud – Maryann Kerr By Maryann Kerr When I was young and marching in the streets of Toronto at anti-war, pro-choice, ‘save our education” and grape boycott demonstrations, the song we sang was We Shall Not Be Moved.1 Though I did not know it at the time, the …