The philanthropic sector has long kept itself separated from First Nations issues. In 2011, only 6% of Canadian grantmaking foundations offered donations to charities who intervened among indigenous communities (The […]
In the mid-1990s, the public discourse on breast cancer and the activist movements to support the women who were affected by the disease underwent profound transformations in the United States. […]
The research available on social media is mainly concerning the impact of its actions on social capital, the relationships between users, the reasons behind an individual subscription and how the […]
Biography: Juniper Glass, MPNL, is principal of Lumiere Consulting, a research associate with the Montreal Research Laboratory on Canadian Philanthropy, and a member of Sector Pulse, the advisory body for Imagine […]
The Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne (Christian Working Youth[i] (CWY)) is a popular education movement that allows for youth to collectively organize themselves in building a more just world[ii]. Their arrival in […]
In 2017, while Canada is celebrating its 150th anniversary of confederation and Montreal commemorates their 375th anniversary, Federation CJA is celebrating their centennial with an extensive program of activities spread out throughout […]
Like many social practices, volunteering has been changing for a few years now. Several social and demographic phenomena have a significant impact on the practice of volunteering and among them […]
Environmental causes make up a minimal portion of global philanthropic engagement of foundations. If we refer ourselves to Imagine Canada’s data, the support of environmental causes hardly collects 4% of […]
The MasterCard enigma. This is how my colleague Sylvain Lefèvre, scientific coordinator of PhiLab, and I became curious about the intrigue that is the MasterCard Foundation (MCF), in both the […]
November 14th 2017 The consistency between the investments and the social mission of foundations completely puts into question the more traditional philanthropic model, which is focused more on donations. […]
