Media coverage

ONN works to create a public policy environment that enables nonprofits to serve their missions and communities. We bring the voices and solutions of the sector to policy-makers, decision-makers, and the general public.

For media inquiries, please contact:
Sarah Matsushita, Director of Communications & Engagement: [email protected], 416-642-5786 ext. 509

2021

• ONN Executive Director Cathy Taylor participates in a televised panel discussing the need for paid sick days in Ontario (CP 24, April 8)

2020

• OP ED: Hand over Canada’s white churches to the charities who need them (Municipal World, September)
• PIN launches new COVID-19 community impact survey (Guelph Today, September 15)
• Nonprofits should be better supported for innovative research and development for experimentation and learning: Here’s why (Future of Good, September 14)
• Opinion: It’s time to hand churches back to communities that need them (Montreal Gazette, September 10)
• One in five Ontario nonprofits or charities may not survive COVID (The Bay Observer, September 2)
• One-in-five Ontario nonprofits expected to close in the next six months (Cornwall Seaway News, September 2)
• Community and Nonprofit Organizations May Have Nowhere To Go (EIN Pressswire, September 1)
• Local non-profits struggling amid shifting pandemic landscape (Barrie Today, August 29)
• Women, part-time, younger workers in Hamilton disproportionately affected by pandemic job loss: report (In the Hammer, August 25)
• Non-profits at risk because of pandemic, survey finds (CBC London, August 24)
• Sudbury non-profit organizations hanging on despite dire findings in new COVID-19 survey (CBC Sudbury, August 21)
• Cultivating creativity: Arts advocacy in action (Bellevue Intelligencer, August 21)
• Des filiales des légions au bord de la faillite malgré l’aide du gouvernement Ford (Radio-Canada, August 6)
• Trudeau wants us to believe he hasn’t done nothin’—and it’s an easy sell (The Hill Times, July 29)
• Study sheds light on COVID-19 barriers women face when returning to work (CTV News, July 23)
• The New Normal: Charities must survive triple threat during pandemic (Newmarket Today, July 17)
• Opinion: There is no he-covery that solves a she-cession (Northern Ontario Business, July 11)
• For some non-profits, COVID-19 isn’t just a struggle. It’s a do-or-die moment (CBC, June 26)
• Ontario non-profits say they need a lifeline. Will the government provide one? (TVO.org, June 9)
• Ontario’s 58,000 non-profits call for $680 million provincial stabilization fund to weather COVID-19 pandemic (Toronto Star, May 11)
• Coronavirus exacerbates isolation, poverty for newly arrived refugees (Huffpost, April 11)
• Unpacking the sector’s pandemic-induced HR crisis (The Philanthropist, April 22)
• Interest in DBPlus and OPTrust Select remains amid coronavirus crisis (Canadian Investment Review, May 5)

2019

• In wake of federal election, Canadian nonprofits seek new policy framework (Nonprofit Quarterly, December 16)
• Sector 360° Survey report
  • (CBC News, November 11)
  • (CBC Toronto News (TV), November 11)
  • (Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke, 570 News, November 11)
  • (Ontario Today, November 11)
  • (Radio Canada, November 11)
  • (CBC Radio’s Metro Morning with Matt Galloway, November 12)
  • (TVO.org daily, November 12)
  • (Queen’s Park Today, November 12)
• Canadians Are Anxious- And this Election Campaign isn’t Helping (NPQ North, October 16)
• Expanding how we think about women’s economic empowerment in Canada’s Non-Profit sector (The Philanthropist, July 22, 2019)
• Doug Ford is Quietly Planning Over $100 Million in Cuts to Housing and Rent Support Programs (PressProgress, July 18, 2019)
• Sold on your behalf: 164 B.C. schools and hospitals, agricultural and industrial lots worth $1 billion (Vancouver Sun, June 14, 2019)
• Ontario communities can’t afford government cuts (IRPP, June 12, 2019)
• NPQ North: Ontario Budget to Promote Booze, Gambling, and Combat Sports? (Nonprofit Quarterly, April 25, 2019)
• Ontario Trillium Foundation facing cuts
  • (Orillia Today, April 22, 2019)
  • (1310 News Ottawa, January 23, 2019)
  • (CBC Thunder Bay, January 18, 2019)
  • (CBC Ottawa, January 22, 2019)
  • (The Border 93.1 CFOB Fort Frances, January 3, 2019)
  • (Orangeville Citizen, January 10, 2019)
  • (Queen’s Park Briefing, January 11, 2019)
  • (Shelburne Free Press, January 3, 2019)

2018

• Putting a spotlight on networks as a model for influencing public policy (The Philanthropist, April 2, 2018)
• The connection between us: Learning to leverage the power of a network approach (The Philanthropist, July 9, 2018)
• A sense of place and the potential for connection:How georgraphic networks address local challenges and build stronger communities (The Philanthropist, August 6, 2018)
• Non-profit workers offered chance to join Ontario public sector pension plan (Toronto Star,  September 24, 2018)
• Ties that bind: Four case studies of issue based networks (The Philanthropist, October 1, 2018)
• Never more alone, never more together: Paradoxes of working in networks (The Philanthropist, November 12, 2018)

2017

• Province to cover daycare fee hikes due to wage bump (Toronto Star, November 24, 2017)
• Ontario muzzles taxpayer watchdog in election spending clampdown (Maclean’s, November 22, 2017)
• Minimum wage hike threatens camp for kids with autism, charity warns (CBC Ottawa, October 11, 2017)
• Ontario’s nonprofit sector celebrates provision in Bill 154, Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act (Queen’s Park Today, September 20, 2017)
• Province’s charities and $15 minimum wage (Business News Network, August 15, 2017)
• Providing pensions for retention purposes. Sector-wide, multi-pronged approach makes most sense for non-profit sector (Canadian HR Reporter, July 10, 2017)
• Make Room: Addressing the Pressing Need for Intergenerational Leadership in Canada’s Nonprofit Sector (The Philanthropist, July 10, 2017)
• Part-time work under the microscope (The London Free Press, April 27, 2017)
• Better Way Alliance advocacy on decent work (Queens Park Today, April 5, 2017)
• The nonprofit sector as a champion for decent work (Policy Options, March 21, 2017)
• Pensions Task Force Report, A Roadmap for a Pension Plan for Ontario’s Nonprofit Sector(Queens Park Today, March 8, 2017)
• Signals of Transformation: What Will 2017 Bring for Canada’s Non-profit Sector? (The Philanthropist, January 9, 2017)
• Charities request charity law reform to protect free speech (Charity Village, January 4, 2017)

2016

• Being bold. Driving change. Together. Coverage of ONN’s Nonprofit Driven 2016 Conference (Chatham Daily News, November 1, 2016)
• Letter to the Editor re. Bill 201 on campaign finance reform, in response to Ontario unions behind 94 per cent of third-party ad spending in past three elections (Globe and Mail, August 10, 2016)
• Proposed law would restrict advocacy campaigns during city elections (NOW Magazine, May 18, 2016)
• Criminal record checks: A valuable screening tool or a barrier to volunteering? (Charity Village, May 18, 2016)

2015

• A ‘decent’ proposal: Not-for-profits should raise job standards, report says (Toronto Star, November 25, 2015)
• Nonprofits should provide decent work: Editorial (Toronto Star, November 25, 2015)
• Marketing Agency Helps 10 Charities Secure Over $1 Million in Advertising Grants From Google (Huffington Post Impact Blog, September 3, 2015)
• New post-secondary programs offer unique opportunities to nonprofit professionals (Charity Village, September 2, 2015)
• The Community Hubs Strategy of Ontario’s Government and Nonprofit Sector (Nonprofit Quarterly, August 21, 2015
• New degree breaks ground for nonprofit sector (Globe and Mail, July 10, 2015)
• Ontario moves to limit police sharing non-conviction information (Toronto Star, June 3, 2015)
• New law to keep mental health, non-criminal info from appearing in police background checks (CP24, June 3, 2015)
• Ontario cracking down on release of information in police record checks (Metro, June 3, 2015)
• Ontario cracking down on inappropriate release of non-conviction or non-criminal mental health information (Our Windsor.ca, June 3, 2015)
• Legislation to Clarify Police Records Check Limits (Kingston Herald, June 3, 2015)
• Nonprofits facing similar challenges (Chatham Daily News, April 24, 2015)

2014

• Province to legislate what police can disclose about innocent Ontarians (Toronto Star, December 4, 2014)
• The changing face of volunteering in Canada (Charity Village, July 2, 2014)
• Helping new nonprofits hatch: Incubation in the not-for-profit sector (Charity Village, June 25, 2014)
• Key priorities of the nonprofit sector (Queen’s Park Today, June 5, 2014)
• Anti-spam legislation may burden non-profits, charities (CBC News, March 31, 2014)

2013

• Nonprofits are big business (The Chatham Voice, November 5, 2013)
• Delete this anti-spam law (Financial Post, February 28, 2013)
• Canada’s anti-spam laws make it harder for businesses to send emails to customers (Financial Post, February 27, 2013)

2012

• These are Not ‘Voluntary Taxes,’ Re: Paying up with a Smile, Editorial (Toronto Star, March 1, 2012)

2011

• Nonprofits worried new law will hurt smaller agencies (Globe & Mail, October 31, 2011)