Human Resources committee  Would you like me to comment now?

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Obviously we would want to be very careful in any response we make in thinking about how government can encourage donors to step up to the plate. I will start with that one. It's finding the right balance for government not to be seen as abdicating what citizens might

Human Resources committee  I'd like to comment on that, if I may. I think you're right. I don't know about the six-month window, but it is absolutely clear that foundations, private foundations and public foundations like ours, have experienced a fairly dramatic drop in the resources they have available

Human Resources committee  I'd like to add a couple of comments in absolute agreement with our colleagues at the table here and say that I think there are certain elements that the federal government can be more active in. A couple of them have already been mentioned around taxation. There are some things

Human Resources committee  I am Monica Patten, CEO of Community Foundations of Canada, and this is my colleague, Sara Lyons.

Human Resources committee  I will. I'll start, and then I'll turn it over to Ms. Lyons.

Human Resources committee  Thank you so much. Thank you for inviting us to be present with you today, Madam Chair. I am going to start by making a few comments about community foundations in Canada and talking for a very few moments about the role of private philanthropy in addressing issues related to po

Finance committee  That's a question we have asked ourselves as we've been developing the program. We have support for this program from our members right across the country, and part of that support is based on an agreement that we will develop a formula that will determine the way those funds wil

Finance committee  I hope you won't need to do that, but we'll see. It's a pleasure to be back here and to see some familiar faces, and to engage, I hope, with some people I haven't met yet. I'm here today on behalf of community foundations across the country. They have asked me to present an id