News release CRA Issues Notice of Suspension to International Charity Association Network Ottawa, Ontario, November 29, 2007…The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has issued a Notice of Suspension to International Charity Association Network (ICAN), a registered charity under the Income…
Don’t Laugh – here is a press release for the launch of GlobalPhilanthropy.ca! NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28 2007 Contact: Mark Blumberg E-mail: mark@blumbergs.ca Telephone: (416) 361-1982 BLUMBERGS launches GlobalPhilanthropy.ca: The first Canadian website dedicated to legal issues…
I will be in Vancouver talking about “Planned Giving in a Global World” in April 2008 at the CAGP annual conference. Here is the blurb: Planned Giving in a Global World (Level: Advanced) In this session we will discuss basic…
Here are some handy resources and links for Canadian Charities conducting activities outside of Canada. www.GlobalPhilanthropy.ca CANADA REVENUE AGENCY PUBLICATIONS The Canada Revenue Agency has hundreds of forms and documents that are relevant to Canadian charities operating outside of Canada…
I have included some interesting quotes on philanthropy from Seymour Shulich, a prominent Toronto businessperson and philanthropist, who recently gave $20 million to the Technion in Israel, including “I learned from a prominent Torontonian that money is like fertilizer: If…
Thank you Jon and Gabriela for setting up this website in two days. On Wednesday, November 20, 2007 I walked into The Wire and asked Gabriela Abrudan and my brother Jonathan Blumberg to create a website on global philanthropy. Within…
The Globe & Mail recently wrote about Canada Revenue Agency audits of Canadian charities involved in disaster relief including the tsunami. The large number of charities that were non-compliant amongst the CRA sample will not improve the public’s confidence in…
My friend Annie Carrière, from École Polytechnique de Montréal, and fellow member of Water for People Canada was recently in Bolivia on a water mapping mission and she took some beautiful pictures. One of the pictures I used on the…
Prepared by: Mark Blumberg, Maddy Sawyer, Lynn Gluckman, Ron Segal, and Adam Greco of Blumberg Segal LLP.