Tomorrow, October 8, is #DAFDay, the annual giving day for donor-advised funds. We have one small ask for every charity in our network: this #DAFDay, say thank you. In the last fiscal year, donor-advised funds granted $2 billion to Canadian charities. Each of those grants began with a person deciding your work was worth supporting. Read More →
Donor-Advised Funds moved over $2 billion to Canadian charities in the last fiscal year, and the trend is only accelerating. Don’t miss Place2Give’s DAF Day webinar, Understanding & Stewarding Donor-Advised Funds.
Donor-Advised Funds moved over $2 billion to Canadian charities in the last fiscal year, and the trend is only accelerating. To help charity teams get DAF-ready, Place2Give is hosting webinars for DAF Day Canada this October. Stay tuned for dates, and follow us so you don’t miss your invite to P2G DAF Day Canada Webinars.
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 →