Publications

Resources & Reports

Aboriginal Communities

• ABORIGINAL PHILANTHROPY IN CANADA: A Foundation for Understanding
  This report sets out the opportunities and challenges for Aboriginal philanthropy in Canada and makes recommendations for how it might be done well. The community of Moose Deer Point provides a case study and a number of lessons for the future. The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (CPAPC). 2011
• All My Relations
  A gathering to strengthen understanding between foundations and Aboriginal Canadians. Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba, The Winnipeg Foundation, The Walter and Gordon Duncan Foundation, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, 2008

Collaboration

• Community Foundation Strategic Alliances: Partnering for Impact and Sustainability
  This discussion paper outlines recent collaborations and efforts to support them, and identifies strategies, tools and resources. Community Foundations of Canada, 2010

Community Philanthropy

• The New Generation of Community Foundations
  Jenny Hodgson, Barry Knight & Alison Mathie, March 2012
• The Value of Community Philanthropy: Results of a consultation
  Barry Knight, February 2012

Environment

• The Role of Philanthropy in Fighting Climate Change
  Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network, 2008
• Towards Best Practices in Environmental Grantmaking: Strengthening Community Engagement and Capacity at the Local Level
  Hamilton Community Foundation, 2004

Grantmaking

• Demonstrating Community Benefit
  Community Foundations of Canada for the Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project, 2002

Social Justice

• Unsettled: Legal and Policy Barriers for Newcomers to Canada
  Community Foundations of Canada and the Law Commission of Canada, by Sarah V. Wayland, PhD., 2006
• Unsettled: Legal and Policy Barriers for Newcomers to Canada – Literature Review
  This Literature Review is a companion piece to Unsettled: Legal and Policy Barriers for Newcomers to Canada – Final Report (July 2006), also by Sarah V. Wayland.
• Addressing Our Toughest Challenges: A Social Justice Discussion Guide for Community Foundations
  Community Foundations of Canada, 2006
• Strategies for Social Justice: Place, People and Policy
  Judith Maxwell for Community Foundations of Canada, 2006
• Social Justice Grantmaking: Finding Common Language (CFC Report I)
  Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development for Community Foundations of Canada, 2003
• Potential and Limitations of Social Justice Grantmaking (CFC Report II)
  Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development for Community Foundations of Canada, 2003
• Tools of Social Justice Grantmaking (CFC Report III)
  Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development for Community Foundations of Canada, 2004
• Innovation and Problem Solving: a Bolder, More Active Role for Community Foundations (CFC Report IV)
  An overview of Canada's legislative and regulatory environment as it relates to social justice philanthropy, by Richard Bridge, B.A., LL.B, 2004
• The Social Justice Spectrum - Seeing Our Work Through a Social Justice Lens: A Perspective for Community Foundations (CFC Report V)
  Community Foundations of Canada, 2004

Voluntary Sector

• Storytelling in Voluntary Sector Organizations
  Community Foundations of Canada for the Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project, 2002
• Case Studies: How Canadian Grantmakers Can Help Leave a Legacy of Enhanced Volunteerism
  Community Foundations of Canada and United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada, 2001

Archive

• Issues and Trends Facing Canadian Community Foundations
  based on presentations and discussion by a panel of top thinkers in the area of philanthropy, 2001-02
• Lessons from the Front: Our Millennium and the Mobilization of Canadian Communities
  A roadmap for mobilizing communities, by Community Foundations of Canada, 2001
• Social Capital and the ‘Our Millennium’ National Project
  The Caledon Institute of Public Policy for Community Foundations of Canada, 2001