Volunteers and donors
Volume 12 No 1 / May 29, 201329 May 2013
In this issue: A focus on volunteers and donors in Canada, including two Statistics Canada articles on volunteers and donors in all types of not-for-profit organizations, a Hill Strategies Research report on volunteers and donors in the arts and culture, and an Imagine Canada report on long-term trends in individual donations.
Resources
Trends in Individual Donations: 1984 to 2010
Arts Research MonitorBased on data from Canadians’ tax returns, this report from Imagine Canada (a charitable organization that works to support and strengthen other charities and not-for-profit organizations) examines recent and longer-term trends in charitable gi… View this resource
Volunteers and Donors in Arts and Culture Organizations in Canada in 2010
Arts Research MonitorThis report is based on the Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, the same dataset as Statistics Canada’s articles on all volunteers and donors in Canada. The report indicates that about 1.4 million Canadians (5.1% of all Can… View this resource
Charitable giving by Canadians
Arts Research MonitorBased on the Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, a survey of 15,482 Canadians 15 and over, this article highlights the donations made by individuals in 2010 to not-for-profit organizations.The report notes that 94% of Canadians m… View this resource
Volunteering in Canada
Arts Research MonitorThis article examines the volunteer time given to not-for-profit organizations in 2010, based on a Statistics Canada survey of 15,482 Canadians 15 and over (the Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating).The volunteer rate (i.e., the pe… View this resource
Other Resources
http://hillstrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ARM_vol12_no1.pdf
