New Wellesley Institute Research

Canada’s third sector – the vital web of non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations that provide programs and services, and knit together communities – is also a significant economic force. In recent years, governments have increasingly relied on non-profit groups as the delivery agent of choice for government services. “Canada’s non-profit maze ”  is powerful new research by Lynn Eakin and Associates, commissioned by the Wellesley Institute that provides a troubling picture of the financial and regulatory burdens facing the third sector.  Our latest third sector analysis also includes an accompanying Policy Brief , and an appendix of supporting tables .

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Help build a housing and homelessness map of Canada! Share your local housing and homelessness stories
Jul 03rd, 2009 by Michael Shapcott
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Canada urgently needs a national housing plan – millions of Canadians are calling for one, and the United Nations has added its voice. The best national housing plan is built from the community up – a plan that identifies local housing and homelessness needs across the country, and pinpoints effective local housing and homeless initiatives that deserve support. Building from the community up allows us to identify the resources needed to support a comprehensive national housing plan – including funding, legislation, programs and services. You can help build a national housing and homelessness plan from the community up by helping to build a national housing and homelessness map of Canada. The Wellesley Institute has launched this work and you can find the map here. The Canadian housing e-map is one part of the Wellesley Institute's state of the nation's housing 2009 initiative.

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Practical and pragmatic steps to reduce poverty, health inequalities and housing insecurity

Canada can take practical and pragmatic steps to avoid falling farther behind other countries when it comes to poverty, poor health and housing insecurity. That’s the message that the Wellesley Institute’s Director of Affordable Housing and Social Innovation, Michael Shapcott, will deliver to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities during its public hearings in Toronto on June 2, 2009. Key components of a national campaign to reduce poverty are a national housing plan built from the community up, a national initiative to strengthen the social (third) sector, a national community health plan and a national campaign to reduce health inequalities.

Read the Wellesley Institute submission to the HUMA committee here .

See the latest status report on federal housing funding here .