Three Mission-Focused Strategies Charities Can Use to Support Communities and Deepen Donor Engagement in a Time of Economic Strain So Why “Elbows Up, Not Out”? In the nonprofit and charitable sector, “Elbows Up, Not Out” is a call to lead with solidarity over scarcity, to prioritize support
Still Standing: What Canadian Fundraisers Told Us — And What We Need to Ask Next By Pommashea Noel-Bentley At AFP COMPASS 2025, we didn’t bring a pitch. We brought a question: What’s really happening in your fundraising work right now? We asked that question to development professionals present: executive
Editor’s Note (May 2025) In earlier drafts of this article, we included comparisons between 2024 and 2025 multicultural giving trends. However, Imagine Canada has since clarified that those two data sets are not directly comparable due to methodological differences. We have removed all year-over-year comparisons and