Posts Tagged ‘philanthropy’
$5-million gift will double child education centre
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Dec 06 2010
Eric Jackman thinks his mother would approve of his $5 million gift to the University of Toronto’s Institute of Child Study… “A lot of money goes into higher education, but as far as I’m concerned, primary education and early child development are the most important things in society,” he said. “If we can get our children off on the right start, healthy kids will grow up to be healthy, productive adults. “I think it’s imperative in the long run that we have a greater focus on the healthy start in life rather than curing sickness later in life. The early years are so crucial.”
Tags: child care, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Charities see alarming trends as donors become older, fewer
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Dec. 03, 2010
Figures released by Statistics Canada last week highlight a disconcerting trend for charities. The report showed that 5.6 million people donated money last year. That was down from 5.8 million in 2008 and was the lowest number of donors since 2002, when 5.5 million people gave money. In dollar terms, total donations dropped to $7.75-billion in 2009 from $8.19-billion in 2008 and $8.65-billion in 2007… Not that long ago, nearly one-third of taxpayers reported a donation; now the percentage is less than one-quarter.
Tags: ideology, participation, philanthropy
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Ottawa gives Bill Clinton foundation special designation
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Nov. 23, 2010
The federal government has quietly given Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation a special designation that will allow it to receive indirect support from Canadian taxpayers… Canadians generally can’t donate to foreign charities and receive a tax break, and Canadian charities can’t make grants to international charitable organizations (the only exceptions are gifts to the United Nations and some foreign universities attended by Canadians)… the process for getting this kind of special exemption is shrouded in mystery… Only a handful of foreign charities have received this designation
Tags: globalization, ideology, philanthropy, tax
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Doing good for goodness’ sake
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
… the way forward is not through competition. Or at least not just competition. It’s through collaboration. Lots of people know how to “do competition.” But knowing how to do “co-operation” is much harder because it’s new and we don’t have the tools and skills to do it well. This just means we need to find a way to reward co-operation.
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, standard of living
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Women are changing the face of philanthropy
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Oct 03 2010
Women… are changing the face of philanthropy, as part of a global movement propelled by the increasing wealth, influence and independence women wield, says Beverley Wybrow, president and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation. One example: From 1967 to 2002, Canadian women’s incomes rose by 81 percent, compared with 32 per cent for men, according to Statistics Canada… Many women today use their influence to give more strategically, and in different ways, than men or women did in the past…
Tags: philanthropy, standard of living, women
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The equality obsession
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
September 17, 2010
The key to understanding the modern liberal position is that it seeks — consciously or unconsciously — to promote and exploit primitive, moralistic, economically challenged assumptions for political ends (which is pretty much a definition of left-wing politics). The alleged answer to “inequality” is “redistribution,” of which modern liberalism is the champion. The problem is that such redistribution is both morally dubious and economically damaging, not least to “the poor.”
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, tax
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Billionaires — To envy or raid for our benefit?
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Sep 10 2010
The Trouble With Billionaires… is about the ethically challenged and politically coddled elite… an illustration of the growing heights of income disparity… the well-to-do, of various degrees, would never have had as much without the rest of us… McQuaig and Brooks contend the nation’s high flyers would still strive as hard for fun and country if governments claimed a majority interest in the portion of their income and estates they regard as excessive. Then, with the rich paying more toward public programs, Canada could become a happier place, with taller, healthier and better-educated citizens, they argue.
Tags: featured, ideology, philanthropy, tax
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Teachers pledge fresh support for northern reading camps
Friday, August 20th, 2010
August 18, 2010
They are the most at-risk children in Canada, in more danger of dying young and living poor than any of their peers. Aboriginal children born into the 49 fly-in reserves that dot the vast woodlands of northern Ontario have long been more likely to drop out of school, remain illiterate and attempt suicide than young people anywhere else in the province. They are among the young Canadians with the least hope. Yet a five-year push on literacy in these remote reserves is starting to make a difference…
Tags: philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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Mega-donations pose deep questions
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Aug 11 2010
American multi-billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett announced that 40 of the richest people in the U.S. had joined them in pledging to give away at least half of their wealth… Their campaign to enlist the wealthiest people in the United States began in June… Within two months, the founders had approached 80 billionaires and signed up half. They still have 320 American billionaires to contact… the kind of altruism they’re promoting bears a strong resemblance to the rank-based benevolence of a bygone era… their munificence will exacerbate three troubling trends
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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With My Hand On The Doorknob: In Search of Strategic Philanthropy
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
July 31, 2010
The goal was to move from reacting to proposals for “good works” to becoming a proactive organization, working with partners to advance evidence and ideas about how the future could be more just… Faced with many choices to make and limited resources to invest, our own choice at the [Atkinson] Foundation was between doing fewer things better and doing all things less well. We chose the former and decided to make clarity of purpose our mantra… that inspired us to seek out the creation of the Canadian Index of Well-being; and more recently, to contribute to opening up space for new gains on poverty reduction policies.
Tags: participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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