July 29, 2021
“Confidence in charity leaders has fallen sharply over the last two decades – what does that mean for the sector?”
In this excellent article by Steven Ayer, he writes that confidence in the charity sector has fallen considerably over the last two decades. The…
July 29, 2021
Grantmaking in Canada can be improved immensely but eliminating structured arrangements is dangerous and a red herring to the real problems with our sector
With respect to a recent bill passed by the Senate, but not the House of Commons, relating to structured arrangements/direction and control we have…
July 27, 2021
Upcoming Webinars for the Canadian Charity Law Association
The Canadian Charity Law Association is delivering some upcoming webinars. Registration is free but space is limited. Topics are subject to change.…
June 29, 2021
The new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA) is targetted now to come in later this year
I was in a session with the Ontario government today related to user feedback for the new Ontario Business Registry (OBR). In that session, they…
June 19, 2021
Ontario publishes regulations for new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA) – will it be brought into force on July 1?
A number of regulations for the new Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA) have been published today in the Ontario Gazette. This raises the…
June 19, 2021
Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (ECVO) report on Transforming the Non-Profit Community is well worth reading
I recently read a fascinating report from the Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (ECVO) on Transforming the Non-Profit Community in…
June 18, 2021
T3010 Filing Reminder
CRA recently sent out a reminder to file the T3010. More than half of registered charities have a year end date of December 31st, which means that…
June 9, 2021
How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector? Part 2 – more data from the T3010
In our note "How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector Part 2?" we reviewed T3010 data and found amongst the 11,821 registered…
May 31, 2021
Canadian charities giving to Indigenous Charities and Qualified Donees – 2018
In this article Canadian charities giving to Indigenous Charities and Qualified Donees - 2018, Sharon Redsky, Wanda Brascoupe, Mark Blumberg and…
May 30, 2021
Recent webinar on trust based philanthropy from the MLSE Foundation provides lots of food for thought for Canadian foundations
I listened to a webinar recently that I thought was very good entitled: Community Learning Series - Trust-Based Philanthropy Here is a…
May 29, 2021
CRA increasingly emphasizing importance of separation between registered charities and non-qualified donees
In the last couple of weeks I have read two separate CRA notes on the importance of maintaining sufficient separation between a registered charity…
April 29, 2021
Successful finish for Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2021 (Online)
On April 21, 2021 we had our Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp 2021. It is the second Boot Camp that we have conducted online and our tenth…
April 29, 2021
Updates to CharityData.ca
We have recently made a number of updates to CharityData.ca. The most important update is including more 2020 and 2019 charity returns. Also, if…
April 19, 2021
2021 Canadian Federal Budget – How will it affect the Canadian charitable sector?
A lot has changed in 2 years when the last Federal budget was delivered. Today, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced a Federal…
April 10, 2021
Employees in the Canadian Charity Sector -most charities either have no employee or 1 employee
I recently read a very good report from The Charity Report dealing with charity sector employees entitled Charity Sector Employees: Employee…
April 4, 2021
“Cross-Border Philanthropy – A U.S. Perspective” by Eric Zolt – excellent paper
I just finished reading an excellent paper entitled Cross-Border Philanthropy - A U.S. Perspective by Eric Zolt. It both provides a good summary of…
March 29, 2021
Blumberg Segal LLP is looking for an Associate Lawyer to join our Charity and Non-Profit practice
Blumberg Segal LLP is looking for an Associate Lawyer to join our Charity and Non-Profit practice. Here is a link and the text of the job listing:…
March 24, 2021
How has COVID affected funding of the Canadian charity sector? Part 1
Yesterday I tweeted about a US study on the effect on COVID on donations. The study noted that US charitable giving increased by 10.6 percent in…
March 21, 2021
Trying to do grantmaking in Canada better
Well, we are in the midst of a pandemic and this has resulted in some grantmaking foundations and philanthropists increasing giving and thinking…
March 17, 2021
Will changing structured arrangements into a reasonable person test help the charity sector? – Part 4 – Charitable purposes and Conclusion
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate -BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own…
March 17, 2021
Will changing structured arrangements into a reasonable person test help the charity sector? – Part 3 – The Reasonable Person – lots of questions
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate -BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own…
March 17, 2021
Will changing structured arrangements into a reasonable person test help the charity sector? – Part 2 – The Main Provisions and various general concerns
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate -BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own…
March 16, 2021
Will changing structured arrangements into a reasonable person test help the charity sector? – Part 1 – The preamble
Recently a bill was proposed in the Senate -BILL S-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (use of resources), which will eliminate the “own…
March 16, 2021
Report #1 of the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector – more thoughts
After my very disappointing first read of the “Report #1 of the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector” which was just released last Friday here…