August 1, 2009
North Korea, Canadian sanctions and Canadian charities – toughened sanctions
Canadian charities operating in North Korea must pay close attention to Canadian sanctions. These sanctions were recently tightened. Canadian…
July 29, 2009
CIDA Issues Paper on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and extractive sector (mining, oil)
Here is a CIDA Issues Paper on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and extractive sector (mining, oil). Well worth reviewing for those…
July 26, 2009
Gifts by Canadians to US Charitable Organizations – Some general CRA comments
Here is a copy of a recent letter from CRA with respect to gifts by Canadians to U.S. charitable organizations. It summarizes CRA’s views…
June 30, 2009
Consultation on the Proposed Guidance on Activities Outside of Canada for Canadian Reg. Charities
CRA has just released “Consultation on the Proposed Guidance on Activities Outside of Canada for Canadian Registered Charities”. CRA is…
June 1, 2009
CRA Charity Checklist on Terrorism
Here is a “Checklist for Charities on Avoiding Terrorist Abuse” put out by the Charity Directorate of Canada Revenue Agency. It is…
May 28, 2009
CIDA to initiate consultations in near future, according to Minister Bev Oda
In an article in Embassy Magazine CIDA Minister Bev Oda say that “she plans to hold extensive consultations over the coming months on how to…
May 20, 2009
Canada Announces “New Effective Approach to its International Assistance”
CIDA Minister Bev Oda announced today “A New Effective Approach to Canadian Aid”. Here is the press release and below it is the…
May 19, 2009
CIDA announces partnership with Save the Children to fight Malaria and Pneumonia
CIDA announced today $20 million in funding for malaria and pneumonia treatment to Save the Children. The press release notes that this will…
May 18, 2009
Foreign Barriers to Foreign activities by Canadian charities
There is an interesting article in a newsletter entitled Global Trends in NGO Law published by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. …
May 4, 2009
OECD acknowledges “Tax haven crackdown will benefit developing countries”
The OECD acknowledges that “a crackdown on tax havens and cross-border tax evasion will help developing countries to raise more revenues to pay…
May 4, 2009
Nicholas Offord presentation on Fund Raising – Key Challenges & Issues for the Future
Here is a very interesting presentation by Nicholos Offord of the The Offord Group entitled Fund Raising - Key Challenges & Issues for the…
May 2, 2009
Global Philanthropy and Remittances 2009 Report from Canada – Remittances skyrocket
The Hudson Institute Center for Global Prosperity discusses the role of the private sector, both for profit and non-profit “in the creation of…
April 16, 2009
Checklist for Canadian Charities on Avoiding Terrorist Abuse from CRA
The CRA has just published a very helpful page entitled “Checklist for Charities on Avoiding Terrorist Abuse”. For those…
April 5, 2009
Fundraising for International Development in Canada
I recently read “An Analysis of Canadian Philanthropic Support for International Development and Relief” which was prepared in 2002 by…
April 2, 2009
CIDA – Canadian International Development Agency
If one is interested in international development in Canada CIDA is hard to ignore, and one would not want to ignore CIDA, the Canadian International…
March 31, 2009
US targets tax havens with Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act: Will Canada Follow?
Tax havens and tax evasion costs governments, including Canada, the US and those in the developing world a substantial amount of revenue. …
March 29, 2009
CIDA and Canadian Government Makes Major Investment in Preventing tuberculosis (TB)
Tuberculosis (TB) kills about 1.7 million people every year. The Canadian government has just announced spending about 127 million to fight……
March 29, 2009
Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (ACGC) – Canadian National poll on Global poverty
In March 2009 the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (ACGC), in partnership with the Wild Rose Foundation, had Angus Reid conduct a poll of…
March 17, 2009
Tax Havens Cause Poverty
If you are interested in assisting reduce or eliminate extreme poverty and you want more than writing a cheque to fix a symptom of a problem then you…
February 26, 2009
Obama Budget to drastically reduce tax incentives for the wealthy who donate to charity
Obama has proposed the largest budget in US history. He is planning on various tax cuts for people earning under US$250,000 and various tax…
February 25, 2009
OECD Report on Abuse of Charities for Money Laundering and Tax Evasion – Canada does very poorly
The OECD Report on Abuse of Charities for Money Laundering and Tax Evasion is well worth reading for anyone who cares about the Canadian charitable…
February 24, 2009
Canada Narrows Focus of Countries for CIDA Aid as part of Aid Effectiveness Agenda
Here is a press release from the Canadian government with respect to the 20 countries that will be the focus of Canadian bilateral (government to…
February 21, 2009
Millennium Charitable Foundation Case – Federal Court (FCA) not impressed with charity tax shelters
The Millennium Charitable Foundation Case deals with abusive charitable gifting schemes. The Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) sided with CRA in…
February 16, 2009
Global giving is not a one way street- US Foundations Supporting Canadian Charities
The Foundation Center’s Interactive Map of Direct Grants by U.S. Grantmakers to Non-US Recipients is helpful to see how almost $7 billion dollars…