The following sections explore the history and trends on state funding for social movements in Canada.
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Brief History of State Funding
The sixties remain synonymous with mobilization, volunteerism and activism especially in North America and Western Europe. As Catherine Corrigall-Brown notes in Patterns of Protest (2011), 65 per cent of the 1965 cohort of American high school students would eventually participate in a protest event or…
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Interesting Facts
The following excerpts appeared in a series of articles published in BC Studies, Canadian Historical Review, Canadian Public Administration, and Urban History Review. Canada has one of the largest nonprofit sectors in the world. It accounts for at least 6.8 per cent of GDP and employs…
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Municipal Funding
Municipalities are indispensable to the public funding ecosystem for the nonprofit sector. In fact, amidst the unpredictability of provincial and federal funding in recent years, municipal funding has continued to increase over time. Using grants data from 21 municipalities in British Columbia, our research shows…
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Trends in Local and National Funding
This posting first appeared in The Conversation. Canada has one of the largest nonprofit sectors in the world. It accounts for at least 6.8 per cent of GDP and employs 12 per cent of the country’s working population (third overall after retail and manufacturing). And more…
