Who We Are
Land Acknowledgement
Imagine Canada’s staff, operations, work, and network depend on traditional Indigenous territories to provide us physical space, sustenance, safety, and community to work, live, and play.
Our physical head office is located on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Haudenosaunee, the Chippewa, and the Wendat (Wyandot). We acknowledge that these lands are covered by Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. We acknowledge that these lands are still home to many diverse First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.
Our Mission & Strategy
- Funding is flexible, reliable, and flows more equitably to organizations and communities
- The sector offers prosperous careers and is governed by courageous leaders with lived experience
- Voices traditionally at the margins are sought out and valued in decisions impacting our collective futures
- Influencing the regulatory and policy environment in which social good organizations operate
- Ensuring decision-makers have access to timely and relevant knowledge about our sector
- Ensuring organizations are operating at the highest level of excellence
- Amplifying the unique and diverse perspectives within our sector
Our People
Imagine Canada envisions a charitable and nonprofit sector that supports and cultivates diverse, inclusive, just and equitable communities. We are working towards a sector that is truly representative of the communities we work with, that provides radically inclusive workplaces to employees and volunteers of all backgrounds, and that advances systems change.
SUPPORTERS
Blackbaud
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Canadian Red Cross Society
Deloitte
Government of Canada’s Community Services Recovery Fund
Mastercard Foundation
The KPMG Foundation
BDO Canada
CIBC Foundation
Co-operators
EY
First West Credit Union
J. Armand Bombardier Foundation
Keela
Manulife
Mike and Martha Pedersen
PearTree Canada
Power Corporation of Canada
The Counselling Foundation of Canada
The Muttart Foundation
The Winnipeg Foundation
Vital Toronto Fund at Toronto Foundation
Benefaction Foundation
Calgary Foundation
Carters Professional Corporation
Ecclesiastical Insurance
Ignite NPS
KCI
Metcalf Foundation
Miller Thomson LLP
nfpResearch
Sage Canada
Suncor Energy Inc
Thank you to our supporters and sponsors.
Your support enables us to take an enhanced leadership role in defining, promoting and strengthening the charitable sector in Canada.
2023 was another difficult year for our sector. Inflation hit Canadians hard, climate emergencies plagued various locales, and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lingered. These layered, co-mingling challenges meant an increased demand for services, with many organizations struggling to meet that demand. Everything that we, at Imagine Canada, did in 2023 was designed to support organizations now and in the future. It was a difficult year, but one of opportunity to build on our renewed collective energy from 2022 to, alongside you all from the sector, build momentum.
Our Annual Report highlights work we prioritized in 2023 in collaboration with and in support of the nonprofit sector.