Sue Bookchin

Apr 2, 2024 | thephilanthropist.ca | Jillian Witt |Tim Harper |Sue Bookchin |Aiden Cyr

In November 2023, the Definity Insurance Foundation commissioned a report from The Philanthropist Journal to understand the various spending pathways for foundations. These pathways include continuing in perpetuity, limited life or spending down, and a spectrum of other approaches funders are using – or considering – to make a meaningful contribution in society.

Mar 18, 2024 | thephilanthropist.ca | Hilary Pearson |Tim Harper |Sue Bookchin |Angela Long

The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong and How to Fix It, by Amy Schiller. Melville House, 2023; 217 pages; ISBN 9781685890223This is a passionate book with a possibly misleading title. Humanity, argues author Amy Schiller, has a value beyond price. And philanthropy is important. Indeed, it has a unique role in helping humans live fully human lives. Her criticism of philanthropy is not that it is fundamentally wrong but that it needs to focus less on utility and more on beauty.

Mar 4, 2024 | thephilanthropist.ca | Sue Bookchin |Emily Powers |Sharon Riley |Deina Warren

(Cet article est disponible en français.)​In recent decades, the murder of 14 female engineering (and one nursing) students at Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989 was the defining mass shooting in Canada many of us could remember. Every year since then, this event is marked by 16 days of activism culminating on December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The shooter was a fellow student who blamed his female peers for his struggles.

Feb 20, 2024 | thephilanthropist.ca | Angela Long |Maia Faddoul |Sue Bookchin |Sharon Riley

The first article in this series, “Funding Journalism – For the Sake of Philanthropy and Democracy,” explores issues surrounding the current crisis in journalism, why it’s an essential service, and why it’s time for philanthropy to step into the ring. Delivery day begins on foot. Just before 8 a.m. on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Sal Falk, editor-at-large of The Lunenburg Barnacle, readies her stack of newspapers. “We like to say we deliver by bike, by foot, by car, and by boat,” she says.