GFCF board and staff are delighted to announce that Ian Bird has been appointed to the board as of March 2020. Ian will already be well known to many in the GFCF network, as at the end of 2019 he concluded a decade of collaboration with philanthropic networks and community foundations in Canada and around the world, including roles as the President and CEO of Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) and Executive Director of the Rideau Hall Foundation. Ian has been a close ally to the GFCF for many years. He was a driving force behind the significant Canadian delegation that attended...

3rd April 2020 (Will be updated) The GFCF wants to play a positive role in responding to the Coronavirus. For the foreseeable future, we will focus our efforts and resources on supporting our global network of community philanthropy partners to respond to the Coronavirus, both in the short and longer term. We strongly believe that investment in local community-based, community philanthropy organizations, which are rooted in and trusted by the people they serve and that are deliberately inclusive of the most marginalized and vulnerable members of community, must be an essential part of any immediate and long-term response. We also see that the...