/2023/08/charitable-giving-has-reached-a-historic-low-in-canada-now-what/ Advocating. Leading. Collaborating Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /2023/08/charitable-giving-has-reached-a-historic-low-in-canada-now-what/#comment-562 Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:41:49 +0000 /?p=27569#comment-562 […] Charitable giving across Canada has fallen to a historical low. […]

]]> /2023/08/charitable-giving-has-reached-a-historic-low-in-canada-now-what/#comment-312 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:58:25 +0000 /?p=27569#comment-312 […] Instead of trying to keep old media alive with government subsidies and profits redistributed from Big Tech, the U.S. has encouraged the growth of non-profit news outlets under Section 501(c)(3) of its tax code, which allows media outlets there to accept charitable donations. The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) now has more than 425 member publications, up from 189 in 2019, including a half dozen in Canada. Our news media were given the option to become charitable organizations in 2019, but so far only about a dozen have done so because it’s expensive and time consuming to keep detailed financial records, file annual reports and form a board of trustees. It may also have something to do with the fact that there is much less charitable giving here than in the U.S. due to our higher taxes and lesser prosperity, and it fell in 2023 to an historic low. […]

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