Weekly Digest September 18th, 2020 No images? Click here Upcoming webinars
Missed our past COVID-19 related webinars? You can find them here COVID + WE Scandal: Federal Action on Charitable Sector Needed Now More Than Ever A new survey with Angus Reid Insitute in partnership with Philanthropic Foundations Canada, Cardus, Charitable Impact, United Way Centraide Canada, Imagine Canada, and CanadaHelps shows the compounding effects of the WE scandal and the COVID-19 pandemic on the charitable sector. Canadians are feeling the financial and economic pain of the COVID-19 pandemic and have rallied around increasing government help. So have Canadian charities. Read More Share other webinar themes you’d like us to cover in light of COVID-19 on Twitter @PhilanthropyCDA 33 Black Canadians Making Change Now These intersectional voices, inspired by decades of Black resistance in Canada, are raising up the volume for their communities to be heard - keep listening to what they have to say. “Black folk deserve to thrive.” Read More Painting a World in which Women, Migrants Have More Power Favianna Rodriguez, a child of first-generation immigrants living in Oakland, California speaks about the power of art and culture to bring social change forward. They categorize the most important thing they do is to organize diverse artists, because “culture and imaginations can shape political and economic systems.” Read More A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration This toolkit seeks to encourage awareness by centering racial equity and community voices within the context of data integration and its use. It emphasizes the necessity of co-creating data infrastructure to promote racial equity and the public good. Building data infrastructure without a racial equity lens will exacerbate existing inequalities along the lines of race, gender, class, and disability. Read More Anti-Black Racism Strategy Systemic racism occurs when institutions maintain racial inequity, often as a result of institutional biases in policies, practices, and procedures that privilege some groups and disadvantage others. This document published by the Government of Ontario recognizes its responsibility to ensure equal access to opportunities and addresses action plans on inequitable outcomes Black Ontarians systemically face. Read More Why Should the Government Change Outmoded Fundraising Rules for Charities Senator Ratna Omidvar argues that charities are governed by outmoded laws and regulations that jeopardize their ability to reach their charitable mission. They propose that the Income Tax Act as a legal framework under which charities operated “has not been reviewed for 50 years.” Senator Omidvar considers the complexities around the WE charity model that sparked a rise of concern about the charitable sector in Canada in basing their reflection. Read More Digital Dependence Has Obliterated the Notion of Nonprofit Independence We leave digital fingerprints when we actively go online, just like when we go outside. This article argues that a commitment to creating public policies ensuring nonprofit independence from the market and the government is key to ensure the safe use of digital platforms by those taking collective action. Read More Coming Together to Make Health Care More Gender Responsive Foreign Policy, in partnership with Women in Global Health and the Wagner Foundation, hosted a digital summit to coincide with the 2020 UN General Assembly to support the need for gender transformative policy within global health security. Gender-responsive policies are fundamental in strengthening global recovery from COVID-19 and recognizing inequalities residing in health care. Read More Share with us how your organization is responding to COVID-19 on Twitter @PhilanthropyCDA For a Sustainable, Resilient, and Inclusive City Montrealers of diverse or economically disadvantaged backgrounds have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article uses The Vital Signs of Greater Montreal’s study, published by the Foundation of Greater Montreal (FGM), to measure the city’s progress towards achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals as evidence that we are not on the same boat, rather we are all fighting the same storm. Read More Why and How Canada Needs a World-Class Climate Law “Canada has missed every emissions target it has ever set.” This article suggests that Canada needs to be accountable for its commitments by placing climate targets in law. It also features a recent report published by ecojustice and environmental organizations that outlined what the law should look like and how it should work. Read More |