Since our goal with Funder Profiles is to keep you informed of Canada’s greatest change-making funding bodies, it’s prudent that we feature one of Canada’s largest, oldest and most progressive private foundations.
WHY SEARCHING FOR CORE OPERATING GRANTS IS UNWISE
New and burgeoning charities often are continually in search of funding sources that cover core operating expenses. However, what many organizations fail to consider is how the strict rules and parameters imposed by core funders might limit the impact of their programs and threaten their future viability.
Funder Profiles #5: Canadian Women’s Foundation
Funder Profiles #4: The McLean Foundation
Funder Profiles #3: Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund
To observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the focus of today’s Funder Profiles is the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund - an organization that “aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples”. We encourage everyone to support them and visit their website to explore different ReconciliACTIONs each of us can take to create positive change in Canada.
Funder Profiles #2: The Peter Gilgan Foundation
Funder Profiles #1: The Laidlaw Foundation
Introducing our Funder Profiles series – a new feature in our Sustainable Solutions Blog that will acquaint inquisitive grant-seekers with the mandates, interests and crucial information about funding sources from across Canada. For our inaugural piece, we feature one of Ontario’s largest and most comprehensive private foundations – the Laidlaw Foundation.
Community Foundations: Four (4) Great Things That Make Them A Dark Horse Among Grant-Makers
ComCommunity foundations are often overlooked as primary sources of funding by organizations during grant-seeking campaigns. Yet here are four (4) reasons why groups should view them as an invaluable resource in their quest for funds to create meaningful change in their communities.munity foundations are
