Recent Articles

It’s okay to be an egg – getting started on Twitter (in: Home)
Jan 23, 2012

A sceptical Hilborn staff writer has a Twitter conversion experience. Here's what our Lisa MacDonald learned from one of the best in the nonprofit Twittersphere.

Banyan Tree Foundation, financiers, lawyers offer to settle suit (in: Home)
Jan 22, 2012

Rochester Financial Limited, Promittere Capital Group Inc., Promittere Asset Management Inc., Banyan Tree Foundation and Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP have offered an $11 million settlement fund to donors claiming breach of contract and negligence pertaining to the Foundation’s gift program.

Reaching diverse communities: beyond bake sales and walk-a-thons (in: Home)
Jan 21, 2012

Statistics Canada estimates that by 2031 one in three Canadians will be a visible minority.  From direct mail through event sponsorship, we have to learn how to reach out, build relationships and raise funds from and with our new Canadians. Learn the secrets of an expert fundraiser working in Canada's most diverse community.

Finding new leaders from within (in: Home)
Jan 20, 2012

Boomer EDs and CEOs are heading to retirement, and charities seem to have no plans to replace them. Kathryn McKechnie presents a search consultant's view of the looming leadership lack.

The Boomer effect: fundamental change or fizzle? (in: Home)
Jan 19, 2012

What will Boomers do with all that money? Data noted in the latest issue of Perspectives on Canadian Philanthropy from The Offord Group paints the Great Wealth Transfer as an underachiever so far. Assuming that Boomers really are going to retire and inherit at least some of that predicted windfall, what will it take to make them share their time, skills and money?