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December 18, 2017

One Donor's Personal Giving Story: Doctors Without Borders: Lean, Focused and Effective.

December, 2017

Last Minute Donors: Help Fort Mac local charities

November 29, 2017

Don't Fall for the Illusion of Matching Gifts: The idea of "doubling your impact with a matching gift" is just mumbo-jumbo!

September 11, 2017

Hurricane Irma - Caribbean disaster relief: How Canadians can help those affected by Hurricane Irma.  

August 31, 2017

Hurricane Harvey - Texas flood response: How Canadians can help victims of Hurricane Harvey. US charity research picks of charities to support.  

July 15, 2017

Fort McMurray Update: Track that donations are being spent quickly and effectively.

July 11, 2017

BC Wildfire Disaster: Over the weekend, the wind shifted, doubling the number of BC wildfire evacuees to 36,600. Our list of charities to support.  

July 5, 2017

Less is More: Colorectal Cancer Canada is born with the merger to be one voice. Hopefully louder too. This is one of the best potential areas for Canadian donors to reduce cancer deaths, if screening rates increase. 

May 4, 2017 

Not so fast: Fort McMurray 1 Year Update Canadian Red Cross announced 1-year results on its Fort McMurray disaster response. It reports 75% of total funds received are "spent and committed". Looking into the financial numbers and deferred accounting rules, of this, it looks like 61% of total funds donated are actually spent.  

April 10, 2017 

Charity salaries: Tackling a hot donor issue, here is the data, findings and Charity Intelligence's opinion that charity salaries don't help in finding good charities to support.

March 8, 2017

Donor Survey Results: Charity Intelligence conducted a survey of our website visitors in November and December 2016 to better understand how Canadians are using the information we provide.

February 2, 2017 

Help the Families of the Quebec City Shooting: In the horrific aftermath of the Quebec City mosque shooting, Canadians want to know how to help.

January 5, 2017 

New Year's Update on 2016 from Charities Directorate: Quick recap of the Charities Directorate update. 

December 15, 2016

Canadian Giving hits all-time high, topping $8.8 billion: Statistic Canada release on charitable donations show Canadians gave $8.8 billion in tax-receipted donations -  the highest level ever and a 27% increase over the last 10 years. A different perspective on other reports. 

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