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Fundraising Through a Different Lens: Thoughts to Guide Philanthropy in Diverse Communities

November 15th, 2011

Alice L. Ferris, MBA, ACFRE Founding Partner GoalBusters LLC Many well intentioned fundraisers have made a cultural misstep: you schedule a major event on a religious holiday, pick a menu that features food that is culturally taboo, or you make an assumption about someone’s beliefs only to find out the hard way that you are [...]

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Don’t miss Canada’s demographic shift

September 12th, 2011

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In June Statistics Canada released a study called ”Projected trends to 2031 for the Canadian labour force”, as part of the Canadian Economic Observer.  The study says that by 2031, roughly one in every three people in the labour force could be foreign born. Between 1991 and 2006, the percentage of foreign-born people in the labour force rose from 18.5% to 21.2%. If [...]

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