Foundation survey: Canadians concerned about the impacts of a major health event, yet few are covered
Research from Medavie Blue Cross shines a light on the priorities of Canadians when it comes to protection from a critical illness or major injury – Health insurer launches benefits plan solution to give members more choice in coverage TORONTO, ON—After more than a year of living through a pandemic, …
Royal Canadian Air Force Foundation Launches #ONEDAYIWILL Campaign for Canadian Youth
Canada’s youth are asked to inspire others by sharing their hopes and dreams TORONTO, ON–The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Foundation today launched it’s first campaign — the #ONEDAYIWILL Challenge. Youth across Canada are asked to share their hopes for their future in a short video clip. “While the past …
Terry Fox Foundation adds four new directors
BURNABY, BC—The Terry Fox Foundation’s Board of Directors announce the appointment of four new members, Stephen Bear, Angela Carmichael, Diane Dou, and John Kearsey, effective April 15, 2021. Terry said to Canadians in September 1980, “It’s got to keep going without me.” As the Foundation embarks on its biggest try …
On Earth Day, world’s poorest still paying highest price of climate change
Climate change, conflict and COVID pushing millions more to the edge of survival, warns World Vision TORONTO, ON—To mark Earth Day, World Vision is calling on global leaders to fully respond to the climate change crisis as a tsunami of climate related disasters threaten to wipe out decades of development …
New Report Details Gendered, Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA–In the lead-up to President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), is releasing a 100-page report highlighting the intersections of gender, race, the fossil fuel industry and complicit financial institutions. The report, Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil …
Resilia Launches Nonprofit Platform to Increase Capacity
NEW ORLEANS, LA–As the nonprofit sector begins to rebuild from tremendous losses and challenges of the last year, social impact-focused SaaS company Resilia has officially launched its Nonprofit Platform to tackle the problem at its source: making historically inaccessible and expensive capacity building support available to nonprofits, on-demand and in …
Seen, Heard & Noted
What Assets Do You Have That You Can Leverage? Finding ways to mitigate the loss of donor revenue during the absence of in-person events due to the pandemic is leading to a wide range of creative solutions. One of the most effective and brilliantly simple may have come from the …
Hindsight is 20/20: Hopeful Reflections from the Field
By Cynthia Armour Over the past three decades I’ve facilitated many strategic planning processes and helped boards and senior staff to explore and plan their organization’s futures. Ironically, many final strategy documents were earnestly entitled “Vision 2020” without any inkling of what horrors would unfold. My brother’s quick-witted quip has …
AFP Canada Chair Ken Mayhew: A Facilitator of the Goals and Vision of Others
Ken Mayhew is one of the best-known fund development professionals in Canada. He spent more than 20 years as the chief development officer at Multiple Sclerosis Canada, where he designed and rolled out some of the most innovative fundraising programs in the country, building a database of almost one million …
COVID-19 Upends the Charity Playbook
For Canadian charities, innovation is one path to success. By Rannella Billy-Ochieng, Claire Fan and Naomi Powell A healthy December bump eased what would otherwise have been a dismal year for Canadian charities. They will remember 2020 as a time of painful disruption, when virus-fighting measures stemmed or halted the …