Once your organization can imagine what is possible, a practical question follows: How do you move toward integrating earned revenue, while mitigating risks and staying true to mission? This post focuses on how nonprofits can test earned revenue ideas thoughtfully and responsibly, before investing significant time, money, or organizational capacity.

In this episode of Let’s Imagine, host Bruce MacDonald is joined by Nathan Hall, CEO of Culture Check, an organization dedicated to helping workplaces confront racism, strengthen psychological safety, and create environments where Black, racialized, and marginalized employees can thrive.

In December, we were excited to bring together corporate CSR leaders, nonprofit partners, and sector innovators at the Museum of Vancouver for the Community Impact Exchange - a full day focused on strengthening how we can better conduct, communicate, and collaborate on impact measurement.

The institutional funding landscape continues to evolve, presenting new challenges and opportunities for fundraisers. With that in mind, Imagine Canada invited me to reflect on shifts in the grants landscape in 2026.

In this episode of Let’s Imagine, host Bruce MacDonald is joined by Dr. Susanna Kislenko, a governance researcher and practitioner with the University of Oxford and Carleton University, and co-author of Imagine Canada’s new guide, Good Governance and Leadership in Founder-led Organizations.

Most fundraisers know the familiar grant application question: How will you keep this program running after the grant ends? I remember how baffled I felt the first time I read that question, as if there was some secret to sustaining nonprofit programs outside of grants that I hadn’t been let in on.