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NGO Restructuring and Community Capacity

Cornerstones of Community: Highlights of the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations
To know what the voluntary sector looks like, go to the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations to get a sense of the role of the voluntary sector in Canadian society. Click here. [October 28, 2004]

TD Economics - Canada's Charities: Under Pressure
What does one of Canada's leading banks think about funding in the not-for-profit sector? This question and more is answered in the report put out by the Toronto Dominion Bank. Light is shed on the quandary faced by the third sector, which is obliged to fulfill more responsibilities with diminished and restricted funding. The report incites the Canadian baby-boomer generation to carefully consider increasing their donations to private granting foundations. Click here. [October 20, 2004]

A Review of Community-Based Planning Activities in the City of Toronto (June, 2004) Click here. [July 13, 2004]

Scott, Katherine, Funding Matters: The Impact of Canada's New Funding Regime on Canada's Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations. Click here.

Saunders, Ron, Passion and Commitment Under Stress: Human Resource Issues in Canada's Non-Profit Sector - A Synthesis Report. Click here.

Richmond, Ted and John Shields, NGO Restructuring - Constraints and Consequences, Biennial Canadian Social Welfare Policy Conference, University of Ottawa, June 15-17, 2003. Click here.  

Richmond, Ted and John Shields, Third Sector Restructuring and the New Contracting Regime: the Case of Immigrant Serving Agencies in Ontario, For Policy Matters series. 

Eakin, Lynn, Community Capacity Draining The Impact of Current Funding Practices on Non-Profit Organizations. Community Social Planning Council of Toronto in collaboration with the City-Community core-funding working group. Click here.

City of Toronto, 2004, Cracks in the Foundation. Community Agency Survey 2003: A study of Toronto's community-based human service sector available to download. Click here (pdf, 5.2 Mb). [June 28, 2004]

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