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We are committed to reaching out and working with communities in their own spaces. Social movements produce their own unique knowledge. Our project sought to establish a flow of knowledge between scholars and community organizations. Our deliverables included several presentations and/or collaborations with community organizations such as Powered By Data, the Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies, and the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies among others. Moreover, the database and website will, we hope, be valuable community resources. Non-governmental organizations can use the site to learn about funding opportunities; draw inspiration from other NGOs’ projects; enhance institutional memory; and share knowledge. The media can also use the site as a resource for background research.

Our team has published articles (with several more forthcoming) and a special edition of a journal, presented numerous conference papers and keynote lectures, and organized several conference sessions (including a themed session at International Sociological Association). In addition to the website (statefunding.ca), the primary deliverables – the public database and archive – are complete. We have also provided at least six graduate students with multi-year funding and provided training to over a dozen undergraduate and graduate research assistants. To produce the database, we formed partnerships with libraries, Internet Archive (archive.org), and the University of Alberta’s Kule Institute and Arts Resource Centre. Our experiments with new technologies (as well as access to information laws) have produced innovative strategies for collecting data.

  • Canadian Sociological Association, Ryerson University, June 2017, Toronto, Ontario. Session titled The State and Social Movements.
  • International Sociological Association, July 2018, Toronto, Ontario. Special themed session titled How the State Shapes Social Movements
  • Metropolis Conference, March 2019, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Session titled Doing Immigration Differently in Alberta.
  • Dominique Clément, “Public Funding for Canada’s Nonprofit Sector: Identifying Trends Using Big Data,” Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research conference (Toronto, ON), 29 May 2023.
  • Dominique Clément, “The Economy of Social Change: State Funding for Canada’s Voluntary Sector”Canadian Historical Association (Toronto, ON), 29 May 2023.
  • Dominique Clément, “How Government Funding Shapes the Nonprofit Sector: Using Big Data to Identify Trends in Canada,” Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Raleigh, North Carolina, US), 17 November 2022.
  • Dominique Clément, “How the State Shaped the Women’s Movement”Canadian Historical Association (Toronto, ON), 4 June 2019.
  • Jennifer Braun. “Immigration and Refugee Funding in Canada: Trends in Public Funding.” Paper presented at the Metropolis Conference (Halifax, NS), 22 March 2019.
  • Dominique Clément, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta. “State Funding for Social Movements: Channeling Dissent?” Paper presented at the International Sociological Association [themed session] (Toronto, Canada), 18 July 2018.
  • Dominique Clément, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta. “Dragging the Liberal Arts into the 20th Century (21st Pending),” Royal Society of Canada Annual Meeting, 15 November 2018.
  • Dominique Clément, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.“How the State Shaped the Women’s Movement”Canadian Historical Association (Toronto, ON), 4 June 2019.
  • Dominique Clément, “Dragging the Liberal Arts into the 20th Century (21st Pending),” Royal Society of Canada Annual Meeting, 15 November 2018.
  • Dominique Clément. “State Support for the Women’s Movement: Dampening of Dissent?” Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association (Toronto, ON), 2 June 2017.
  • Dominique Clément. “Digitizing Archival Documents and Facilitating Team Collaboration: The State Funding for Social Movements Project.” Paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association (Toronto, ON), 2 June 2017.
  • Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Mabel Ho (University of British Columbia) “Funding the Protest? The Impact of Government Funding on Protest Among Women’s, Environmental, and Indigenous Groups”  Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association (Toronto, ON), 2 June 2017.
  • Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Mabel Ho. Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia. “An Examination of the Relationship Between Prominence in Federal Debates and Federal Funding Indigenous, Environmental, and Women’s Groups in Canada, 1960-2014.” Paper presented at the International Sociological Association [themed session] (Toronto, Canada), 18 July 2018.
  • Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Max Chewinski, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia. “Channeling advocacy? Assessing how funding source affects the strategies of environmental organizations.”  Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association (Vancouver, Canada), June 2019.
  • Miya Draga. “Does data matter? Exploring how nonprofit organizations working with victims of abuse in Edmonton use data to inform their services.” Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association (Toronto, ON), 1 June 2017.
  • Emma Kay and Howard Ramos, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University. “Trends in State Funding of Women’s Organizations: Do Provinces Fill the Gap in Periods of Neoliberalism?” Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association (Toronto, ON), 2 June 2017.
  • Howard Ramos, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University. “Dynamics of Subnational Funding of Advocacy Groups.” Paper presented at the International Sociological Association [themed session] (Toronto, Canada), 18 July 2018.
  • Max Stick and Howard Ramos, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University. “Communities in Need: Declining Municipal Funding of NGOs” Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association (Toronto, ON), 2 June 2017.

Special Issue of American Behavioral Scientist: Who Funds Dissent? Government and Foundation Support for NGOs Across National Contexts. Guest Editors: Catherine Corrigall-Brown, University of British Columbia, and Mabel Ho, University of British Columbia.

  • Dominique Clément. “The Economy of Social Change: A History of State Funding for Canada’s Voluntary Sector.” (in-process).
  • Dominique Clément. “How Government Funding Impacts the Nonprofit Sector,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (under review).
  • Jennifer Braun and Dominique Clément. “Immigrant Settlement and Integration in Canada: Trends in Public Funding.” Journal of Canadian Studies 57, 2 (2023): 255-79.
  • Dominique Clément. “Municipal Funding for the Nonprofit Sector: A Methodology.” Urban History Review 50, 1-2 (2023): 86-97.
  • Dominique Clément. “State-Funded Feminism: A Research Note on the History of Public Funding for Canada’s Voluntary Sector.” Canadian Historical Review 103, 3 (2022): 443-69.
  • Dominique Clément, Matthew Arkinstall, and Takara Ketchell. “Municipalities Matter: Public Funding for the Nonprofit Sector, 1960 to 2017.” BC Studies No. 212 (Spring 2022).
  • Dominique Clément. “How Municipalities Shape the Nonprofit Sector: Trends in Public Funding.” Canadian Public Administration 65, 1 (2022): 166-187.
  • Dominique Clément. “Municipal Funding for the Nonprofit Sector.” Plan Canada ( Fall 2021).
  • Dominique Clément. “The Perils of Digital Humanities for Academics.” ActiveHistory, 9 June 2021.
  • Dominique Clément. “Big Data Reveals Inequities in Federal Funding for Nonprofits Across Canada.” The Conversation, 30 May 2021.
  • Dominique Clément. “Technology for Archival Research.” Intersections 3,2 (2020): 50-51.
  • Dominique Clément. “How the State Shaped the Nonprofit Sector: Public Funding in British Columbia.” Canadian Review of Sociology 56, 3 (2019): 299-238.
  • Dominique Clément. “State Funding for Human Rights Activism: Channeling Protest?” American Behavioral Scientist 61, 13 (2017): 1703-1728.
  • Max Chewinski and Catherine Corrigall–Brown. “Channeling advocacy? Assessing how funding source shapes the strategies of environmental organizations,” Social Movement Studies (2019):1474-2829.
  • Catherine Corrigall-Brown. “Funding for Social Movements.” Sociology Compass 10, no. 4 (2016): 330-39.
  • Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Mabel Ho. “Concentrating or Sprinkling? Federal Funding for Indigenous, Women’s, and Environmental NGOs in Canada, 1972-2014.” American Behavioral Scientist 61, 13 (2017): 1599-1622.
  • Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Mabel Ho. “Does Talk Lead to Action? An Examination of the Relationship between Debate and Funding for NGOs in Canada.” Canadian Review of Sociology (2019).
  • Emma Kay and Howard Ramos. “Do Subnational Governments Fund Organizations in Neoliberal Times? The Role of Critical Events in Provincial Funding of Women’s Organizations.” American Behavioral Scientist 61, 13 (2017): 1658-1677.
  • Howard Ramos. “Critical Events and the Funding of Indigenous Organizations.” Journal of Canadian Studies 52 (1).
  • Max Stick and Howard Ramos. “Does municipal funding of organizations reflect communities of need? Exploring trends in Halifax, 1996-2016.” Urban Research and Practice (2019).
  • Website: State Funding for Social Movements: www.statefunding.ca
  • Database: The State Funding for Social Movements database was a six-year long effort to develop innovative digital infrastructure to facilitate research on Canada’s nonprofit sector. It is a searchable database of grants to nonprofit organizations in Canada since the 1960s.
  • Archive: This site includes an archive of all transfer payments sections from federal and provincial governments in Canada since 1960. This unique resource – PDF files that list grants to non-governmental organizations – can be used to track funding across the spectrum of Canada’s nonprofit (and for-profit) sectors since the 1960s. There is no comparable resource online or in any Canadian library.
  • OpenCanada: The State Funding for Social Movements project on the OpenCanada portal.
  • Report Fact Sheet and Infographic: Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, Comparative study of provincial funding programs for refugees and immigrants in Canada – Fact Sheet & Infographic 

Further Reading

The readings lists available on this site deal with a range of topics from human rights to biographies and specific events.

Citing Website

All information sources from statefunding.ca and the database should be acknowledged by the User and cited as follows:

Website:

  • Clément, Dominique. “Title of Page or Document.” State Funding for Social Movements. Accessed [date accessed, e.g. 28 July 2020] www.statefunding.ca.

Database:

  • Clément, Dominique. State Funding for Social Movements Database. Accessed [date accessed, e.g. 28 July 2020] database.statefunding.ca