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The Voluntary Sector in Israel

Many Canadian charities are involved with supporting the voluntary sector in Israel.  Here is some information on the voluntary sector in Israel. The Israeli Third sector At a Glance Israel Center for Third Sector Research at Ben Gurion University…

Donation from shady donor can be costly to charity

Interesting article entitled Charities Face Greater Threat From Ponzi Schemes Than Lost Investments  The long and the short is that a charity that received a donation from a person who had obtained those funds either illicitly or the return on…

Warren Buffett on taxes and philanthropy

“Buffett says the rich should give back both in taxes and philanthropy. “They may think they did it all by themselves, but the society has done an awful lot for them,” he says. “So you ought to have a taxation…

Charities Back on Track 2008-09 – UK report details problems with some UK charities

The UK Charity Commission has published an interesting report entitled Charities Back on Track 2008-09 which looks at various investigations involving UK charities and “financial mismanagement, trustee duties and responsibilities, vulnerable beneficiaries, and inappropriate political activities and campaigning.”  The number…

CRA updates Small and Rural Charities Initiative (SARC) status

CRA on October 7, 2009 updated the status of the “Small and Rural Charities Initiative (SARC)”.  Although 2/3 of Canadian charities are “small” (under 100,000 in income) or “rural” (by postal code) the SARC initiative has resulted in some very…

Canadian charity statistics

I am compiling a list of statistics relating to Canadian charites. Perhaps the best information on Canadian charities comes from the T3010 database.  A number of authors have analyzed the information in the T3010 although they have just touched the…