The release of the 2022 Federal Budget is just around the corner.

This powerful and incisive collection edited by Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira, and Nicole Salmon features the voices of 15 Black fundraisers in Canada and the United States.

If thirty-four years in the social impact space taught me anything, it is this: There is no greater skill than the ability to collaborate.

In Summer 2020 in the wake of worldwide protests to combat anti-Black systemic racism, the BlackNorth Initiative was founded by Bay Street entrepreneur and philanthropist Wes Hall to counter anti-Black racism in corporate Canada by setting measurable targets to track progress.

I’ve always been a fundraiser and I love it, but every time I introduce myself as a fundraiser, I am met with the exact same response:

Last spring, the federal government announced they would be holding a consultation on the disbursement quota (DQ) of registered Canadian charities.