Sector Advocacy

Information and updates on sector advocacy efforts. Survey results on the impact of COVID-19 on the sector. 
 

• Helping Others or Helping Yourself? The COVID-19 Pandemic and WE Charity Scandal Have Forced a Long Overdue Discussion About Volunteering in Canada (Kareem Shaheen, The Philanthropist) (September 15, 2020) 
   
• Canadian Non-Profits Need an HR Council (Again) — Here’s Why, According to Sector Leaders (Future of Good) (21 August 2020)
   
• What kind of community do we want to emerge from pandemic? (London Free Press) (August 7, 2020)
   
• Bye-bye 'Y'? Vital non-profit social programs are collapsing awaiting Ottawa's help (National Post) (June 24, 2020)
   
• Pandemic inspires upswell in volunteers that must be tapped into (Toronto.com) (June 2, 2020)
   
• Constrained or Enabled? The Changing Role of Canada’s Social Sector in Promoting Civic Discourse (The Philanthropist) (May 25, 2020) 
   
• COVID-19 threatens to devastate Canada’s charities (Imagine Canada) (March 26, 2020)
   
• Charities Unite to Request Support and Collaboration as COVID-19 Crisis Leads to Increased Need and New Operational Risks (The Philanthropist) (March 24, 2020)
   
• Request for $8 Billion Emergency Fund, Letter to the Prime Minister and Ministers (Imagine Canada) (March 23, 2020)
   
• COVID-19 – CSAE Urges Federal Government to Extend Funding Support to Associations (Canadian Society of Association Executives) (March 12, 2020)
   
• COVID-19 and the Canadian Nonprofit Sector (Imagine Canada)