Each year we publish a Charity List of reviewed organizations to coincide with GivingTuesday. Giving Tuesday is an annual global movement of generosity. This year, for GivingTuesday, we highlight two client stories, one is a site visit to Stars Air Ambulance and the other is a personal journey across Canada’s arctic. Check out these stories and others in the most recent Karma & Cents newsletter.
Over the years P2G donors have been supporting conservation activities across Canada. Nature Conservancy Canada recently published the impact report highlighting the generosity of the P2G community. Download the report here Funds for conservation activities, like the projects offered through NCC came from the CAED Fund, the Lantern Fund, the MaxGreen Fund and donors to the Place2Give Foundation. Read More →
Aly Bandali – Tackling preventable vision loss in Southern Alberta Aly Bandali holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta. After a 25-year career in HR and leadership in Calgary in non-profit, technology, oil, and gas, he had an opportunity to join Give Sight Global (“GSG”). In joining GSG, Aly followed Read More →
In February 2023, forty-five Canadian Foundations penned a letter to the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, P.C., M.P., Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, P.C., M.P., Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion regarding the National Housing Strategy (“NHS”). The message: The National Housing Strategy has fallen short. The National Housing Read More →
“Research shows that 75% of mental illness begins before age 25. There is a need to make sure that young people have the mental health and substance use support they need, when and where they need it.” Canadian Institute of Health Research, Nov 28, 2022 Mental health in Emerging Adults continues to impact youth across Read More →
As the world continues to evolve, humans rely more and more on technology for daily life. Often, that technology is designed and built by people who are not representative of the diversity of the end users. In 2010 Joseph Heinrich and colleagues introduced the term WEIRD, an acronym for “Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic”. Read More →
At Place2Give, we help people set up Donor Advised Funds to help meet they philanthropic goals. But what is a Donor Advised Fund and how can Financial Advisors benefit from this tool? As a Financial Advisor, you likely have clients with significant life events happening, including: When advising clients, an often-overlooked option is to create Read More →
From everyone at Place2Give, thank you for following and supporting us as we celebrated 1o years of Solving Wicked Social Problems. For us, philanthropy is all about the impact, not the dollars or the recognition. We celebrate the impact that makes you feel good about your giving. We hope you have found stories that piqued Read More →
Did you know that women’s homelessness is often hidden? The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness is helping to address systemic issues facing homeless Canadian women. Although women tend to account for roughly 25% of the overall homeless population, women and girls tend to slip through the cracks of homeless statistics (The Homeless Hub). All these Read More →
Five years ago Dr. Michael Kehler almost deleted an email about a visionary chair position. The position, Research Chair in Masculinities Studies at the University of Calgary, Werklund School of Education, felt a little out of his comfort zone. A Calgary based family donor advised fund, the Silver Gummy Foundation, is on the ground working Read More →