In our first CharityVillage Connects episode we explored how COVID-19 forced organizations to quickly rethink their traditional fundraising initiatives, such as in-person events and galas. In this episode, we carry the conversation further by considering the dramatic shifts currently taking place in Canadian nonprofit funding models and revenue sources, including social enterprise, so-called “patient” loans, and impact investing. In addition to discussing how these initiatives can help support administration costs and capacity building, we look at the chilling effect of the WeCharity scandal on nonprofit organizations’ willingness to embrace these new models. 

Join our host, CharityVillage President Mary Barroll, as she speaks to sector experts about the risks and rewards that Canadian charities and nonprofits must think about as they look to diversify their revenue and engage in alternative funding models.

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Meet Our Guests (in order of appearance)

Kristy Rivait

Co-Founder, Scale Collaborative

Kristi is the co-Founder of Scale Collaborative and in her role as Director of Partnerships and Programs, she builds cross sector partnerships that increase impact and access for all, designs and delivers programming and coaches’ leaders of non-profits and charities on transforming internal culture, building, and growing assets and integrating sustainable financial growth.

 

Elisa Birnbaum

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, SEE Change Magazine

A journalist for over 15 years, Elisa has carved a strong niche as a storyteller of social impact. Most recently the author of In the Business of Change, profiling social entrepreneurs around the world and their lessons learned, Elisa is the publisher & editor-in-chief of SEE Change Magazine, a digital publication of social entrepreneurship that she co-founded over eight years ago – and hosts its podcast.

 

Dan Kershaw

Executive Director, Furniture Bank

Dan Kershaw is the Executive Director at Furniture Bank, one of Canada’s rapidly growing social enterprise-minded charities that create homes from empty housing through the gift of a furnished home.  Dan holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a Masters in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo. 

Mark Blumberg

Partner, Blumberg Segal LLP

Mark Blumberg is a partner at the law firm Blumberg Segal LLP (Blumbergs) in Toronto and works almost exclusively advising non-profits and registered charities on their work in Canada and abroad. Mark has written numerous articles, is a frequent speaker on legal issues involving charity and not-for-profit law and is the editor of www.canadiancharitylaw.ca – Canadian website dedicated to news about the Canadian charitable sector as well as legal and ethical issues for Canadian charities operating in Canada or overseas.

The Honourable Ratna Omidvar

Senator for Ontario, The Senate of Canada

In 2016, Ratna Omidvar was appointed to the Senate of Canada as an independent Senator representing Ontario. From 2018 – 2019, Senator Omidvar served as the Deputy Chair of the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector. She is currently the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology. 

About your Host

Mary Barroll

President of CharityVillage

Mary Barroll, president of CharityVillage, is an online business executive and lawyer with a background in media, technology and IP law. A former CBC journalist and TV producer, in 2013 she was appointed General Counsel & VP Media Affairs at CharityVillage.com, Canada’s largest job portal for charities and not for profits in Canada, and then President in 2021. Mary is also President of sister company, TalentEgg.ca, Canada’s No.1, award-winning job board and online career resource that connects top employers with top students and grads.

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