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The Voice of Canadian Taxpayers in Support of a New Social Sector Fund
Canadian Taxpayers voice their support in favour of a new Social Sector Fund.

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What is Sector3Insights?

Sector3Insights specializes in measuring insights and best-practices relevant to the “Third Sector” and the many organizations which comprise it, including:

  • Tracking generosity (in all its forms)
  • Understanding the drivers of generosity
  • Profiling key target segments
  • Donors’ perspective (pros + cons) for any charity organization
  • Pre-testing communications/ads;
  • And much more

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The Voice of Canadian Taxpayers in Support of a New Social Sector Fund

This is a summary of a short poll on the Ipsos Omnibus representing over 1,000 everyday Canadians. This is important because the public’s silence on such topics is not due to apathy, but a lack of awareness of the growing charity gap. Once informed, Canadians support the development of a new Social Sector Fund.

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Charities Share their Views on Strategic Issues Facing the Sector

This study represents the voice of Canadian charities with respect to key strategic issues facing the charity sector, and their support for new innovative solutions outside of the political ecosystem, and specifically for the development of a New Social Sector Fund.

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Exploring Strategic Sector Challenges and Solutions

This June 2024 qualitative research report shares insights among 26 sector and thought leaders across the Canadian charity sector. The purpose was to explore and gather direction about the sector's current strategic challenges and appetite for a strategic planning initiative.

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Generosity in Canada – Summary Report

A landmark study exploring giving, volunteering and other acts of generosity to help us more fully understand the direction of generosity in Canada. The study looks at the drivers, the challenges, the importance of social norms, the role of the charity tax credit, key differences by age (Millennials), why Quebec stands out, and so much more. This study speaks to the need for remedial actions required to support the future of the Third Sector. This report is a short-version summary of the main insights.

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Generosity In Canada – Full Report

A landmark study exploring giving, volunteering and other acts of generosity to help us more fully understand the direction of generosity in Canada. The study looks at the drivers, the challenges, the importance of social norms, the role of the charity tax credit, key differences by age (Millennials), why Quebec stands out, and so much more. This study speaks to the need for remedial actions required to support the future of the Third Sector. This report is the full, comprehensive summary of the data.

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Canadians’ Opinions about How Quickly Donation Dollars Should be Used

This research report shares the insights from a July 2022 study on how quickly Canadians would like to see donation dollars used (instead of being accumulated in perpetuity in grant-making foundation accounts).

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Canadians’ Opinions about Government and the Charitable Sector

This study explored how Canadians feel about the roles of government and grant-making foundations in support of charities.

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Canadian Charities’ Pain-Points in Fundraising

This is a study performed among Canadian charities and how they feel about the fund-raising process. It offers insights for how governments, grant-making foundations, companies, and citizens can help reduce the pain-points which charities experience. This will help to improve the fundraising process for all.

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Charitable Insights from Social Media Content

There is so much social media content related to the charitable sector (about social problems, people in need, charity activities, and governments’ role, and so on). This content can be harvested in what is called “social intelligence”. - Our study reports on social intelligence for the charity sector. - Learn more about this technique, what we found, and how charities can learn about their organizations from “Social Intelligence”.

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Canadians’ Understanding and Opinions of Charitable Foundations

In this short focused survey, learn about the level of awareness (and attitudes) of the general public regarding various facets of charitable foundations.

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