Joan Roberts Consulting

City administration, recommending council approve more than $40 million in capital projects, cautions provincial grant money supporting some of the plans could drop next year.

Still finding it difficult to fulfill mission in a rebounding economy

In the midst of last year's economic downturn, Canada's 170 community foundations contributed more than $140 million to thousands of local charities, says a survey conducted by Community Foundations of Canada, the movement's membership association.

Umbrella group finds 22 per cent of charities at risk because of economic downturn

Les premiers résultats d’un nouveau programme d’enquête conçu pour prendre régulièrement le pouls du secteur canadien de bienfaisance et sans but lucratif sont maintenant disponibles.

First results now available from a new survey program designed to regularly take the pulse of Canada’s charitable and nonprofit sector.

It was with great delight, and on the heels of ONN's Provincial Conference for Ontario's Nonprofits, that the Ministry of Citizenship, in collaboration with the Ontario Trillium Foundation, announced that they will lead province wide discussions on how government and the sector can be working together more effectively.

Late last year, Liberal MP for Mississauga East-Cooksville, Albina Guarnieri, drafted a private member's bill into parliament titled C-470. It passed first reading in October and last month went through its second reading in the House of Commons.

With less than half of the money and food donated that Daily Bread Food Bank needs to continue providing food to Toronto, Daily Bread has extended its Spring Drive to Saturday, April 17th in order to have a chance to reach its goals.

Le gouvernement du Canada a annoncé aujourd’hui que 26 coopératives d’habitation et organismes sans but lucratif situés dans la région de la Gaspésie - Bas - St-Laurent recevront plus de 1,1 million de dollars dans le cadre du Plan d’action économique du Canada, aux termes des investissements dans la rénovation et l’amélioration des logements sociaux.

There may be a lack of volunteers in the city as one of the longest-standing and most influential volunteer training agencies cuts its operations to the bare bone.

Double Agency, a newly-formed advertising agency, has decided to give a helping hand.

Agence Double, une nouvelle agence de publicité, a décidé de venir en aide aux banques alimentaires

Charities that depend on gaming grants are considering legal action against the B.C. government following word this week of extensive funding cutbacks.

If you make government grants complicated enough and the accounting of all the different funds confusing enough, eventually people will simply lose track of whether more money or less is going out the door.

The B.C. government is changing the way it distributes casino and bingo hall revenue, meaning hundreds of B.C. community groups will no longer be eligible for the annual gaming grants.

Not a pretty tax picture for the vain

Today's federal budget provided greater flexibility for charities as they seek to meet the increasing and changing needs of Canadians in the wake of the recession and in the face of longer-term trends like the aging of Canadian society.

Le budget fédéral déposé aujourd'hui offre plus de flexibilité aux organismes de bienfaisance et sans but lucratif (OSBL) qui cherchent à répondre à l'augmentation et l'évolution des demandes des Canadiens liées à la récession et aux tendances à long terme comme le vieillissement de la société canadienne.