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Lynn Eakin

We Can’t Afford To Do Business This Way

We Can’t Afford To Do Business This Way, a report commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, is now available.

This study by Lynn Eakin & Associates, paints a clear portrait of how service flexibility and innovation in the nonprofit sector are affected by onerous grant application and reporting processes. It graphically illustrates how the shift from long-term core funding in the early 1990s to short-term targeted and program funding has placed an enormous administrative burden on the nonprofit sector in Canada. Read about the experiences of the current funding regimes on several organizations in the Toronto area, and find out about what needs to change to ensure the health and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector.

We Can’t Afford To Do Business This Way

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.