Canadian Non-Profits in Crisis: The Need for Reform

ID:	HARP-598
Title:	Canadian Non-Profits in Crisis: The Need for Reform
Source:	Social Policy & Administration, Dec98, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p401, 19p
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Year:	1998
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, government, human rights, social security, civil and political rights, social welfare, assembly and association, non-profit organization
Abstract:	This paper examines recent changes in the relationship between the Canadian state, at both federal and provincial levels, and those non-profit organizations concerned with social welfare. The 1995 federal budget marked a turning point for Canadian non-profit organizations as the federal transfer payments to the provinces were simultaneously restructured and reduced. This, in turn, meant that provincial funds flowing to non-profit organizations would also be cut, or terminated, and restructured as service contacts continued to replace grants. This followed a review government funding to non-profit agencies initiated the previous year and came on top of a growing critique of non-profits as unaccountable, unrepresentative, professionalized, “special-interest” groups, who used public funds largely to sustain themselves, and pursued causes that should not be subsidized by government. At the same time non-profit organizations were increasingly expected to provide core social welfare services not only on the basis of “more for less” but also through charging for their services and increased corporate and individual fund-raising.
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