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Importance: Accessing mental health care is challenging for youths, especially those facing intersectional disadvantages, but whether enhancing youth services increases reach and timeliness has rarely been investigated. ACCESS Open Minds (ACCESS-OM) transformed services at urban, rural, and Indigenous sites in Canada using 5 principles (early identification, rapid access, appropriate care, no age-based transitions from 11-25 years, and youth and family engagement).

Objective: To evaluate whether the number of youths referred (hypothesis 1), offered evaluation appointments within 72 hours of referral (hypothesis 2), and receiving services within 30 days of the first appointment (hypothesis 3) increased over the course of ACCESS-OM's implementation.

Design, setting, and participants: This cohort study included youths (aged 11-25 years) at 11 sites referred between March 2016 and December 2020. Data were analyzed from April 2022 to April 2024.

Exposure: Existing primary and/or community services implemented ACCESS-OM's core components: broad-spectrum mental health services, outreach, youth-friendly walk-in spaces, open systems accepting referrals from multiple sources, and response-time benchmarks (72 hours to evaluation and 30 days to start treatment).

Main outcomes and measures: Outcomes were the referral rate and the probability of being offered a first evaluation within 72 hours and receiving services within 30 days. Dates of referral and/or help-seeking, first offered appointment, first evaluation, and first services received were recorded. Multilevel negative binomial regression was used for hypothesis 1, and time-to-event analyses followed by multilevel accelerated failure time (AFT) models were used for hypotheses 2 and 3.

Results: A total of 7889 youths were referred; 4519 (mean [SD] age, 19.3 [3.4] years; 2440 [54%] cisgender women; 1049 [23.21%] Indigenous; 991 [21.93%] Visible Minority [Arab, Black, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Latin American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, West Asian, other ethnicity, and multiple ethnicities]; and 1525 [49.10%] White) were evaluated before March 2020. Each 6-month progression after implementation was associated with a 10% increase in referral rates (IRR, 1.10; 95% CI, 1.07-1.13). The probability of being offered an initial appointment (χ22 = 20.30; P < .001) and receiving services (χ22 = 4.48; P = .01) after any given delay differed significantly over the 3 years. In adjusted AFT models, each 6-month progression was associated with a 3% decrease in time to offered evaluation (time ratio [TR], 0.97; 95% CI, 0.95-0.99) and first services (TR, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.94-1.00). Moderate to severe mental health problems were associated with longer delays to offered first appointments (TR, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.06-1.24) and services (TR, 1.11; 95% CI, 1.01-1.22).

Conclusions and relevance: As hypothesized, after ACCESS-OM implementation, more youths sought help, and the timeliness of initial response and services improved over time. These findings suggest that core principles, benchmarks, and implementation supports are valuable in organizing youth mental health care. Future efforts should make benefits equitable for those with severe problems.

The world is facing a global crisis on an unprecedented scale. If the international community does not take transformative action to combat climate change, people and communities will face increasingly dire consequences from rising global temperatures — extreme storms, droughts and wildfires, mass species extinction, new infectious diseases, famines, civil strife, and more. Some of these impacts are already becoming commonplace in the daily news.However, ClimateWorks&#39; latest research reveals that less than 2% of global philanthropic giving is dedicated to climate change mitigation — not nearly enough to meet the scale of the global challenge. Although the field of climate change mitigation philanthropy has been developing rapidly, it clearly has immense room for rapid and sustained growth.This Funding Trends brief leverages one-of-a-kind data on funding flows to produce key insights for climate change mitigation philanthropy and includes a breakdown of foundation funding for cli...

Basic Income Ontology (BIO) is an analysis of a possible typological semantic web for basic income to guide the development of a map of the international institutions with the responsibility to protect the sustenance of the world welfare state. It was developed with the support of the ReCivitas Basic Income Institute first Scholarship Grant. With its understanding on the the rule of law (RoL) principles and regulations presented in a wikipedagogical open educational resource (OER) database of best practices with which I was able to assist several development programs creation and policymaking initiatives, including in the United Nations (UN) System organizations.

This article tells the story of a placed-based initiative to develop well-being and wealth in the historically underserved Diamond Neighborhood in San Diego, and discusses the place-based philosophy of the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and the foundation's motivation for place-based work. • Its theory of change is presented through examples, along with the entry points the foundation chose for engagement and how it developed community capacity to engage effectively in this change work. • The article also discusses plans to transition ownership to the Diamond Neighborhood community when the foundation sunsets in 2030.

Focuses on participation and collaboration as major elements of processes that are effective. Provides examples of, and offers tools for overcoming, challenges to collaboration. Includes strategies and resources for evaluation and collaboration

This report aims to deepen understanding of the philanthropic environment in Africa
and how existing dynamics of power can be shifted. Specifically, it supports philanthropy
to enable funding systems that are:
• respectful of fund recipients and their organisations,
• solutions focused,
• driven by local communities and organisations that are at the heart of accelerating
transformative systems change and are rooted in the Global South, and
• committed to environmental, social justice and human rights work.

From the coastal sand dunes of Michigan&#39;s Lower Peninsula to the warm waters of the Amazon River Basin, the Mott Foundation has long supported the stewardship of the world&#39;s most precious natural resources. The Foundation&#39;s latest annual report highlights five examples of that work and introduces an important and exciting new focus in Mott&#39;s grantmaking, advancing climate change solutions

Power and philanthropy in Africa around power? Perhaps the real question is whether there is a discourse at all? The international aid system and the way in which its resources have been used as tools to determine agendas has been much discussed (one need only look at the many critiques of the IMF and the World Bank), and international foundations have supported voices to advance this discourse. Surprisingly, those international foundations often fail to recognize that they are themselves a part of that same aid system. As a result, the discourse is seen to apply to ‘others’ out there – bilateral/multilateral aid agencies, global financial institutions, international NGOs, etc. The foundations do not look at themselves and consider whether they too are complicit in perpetuating this imbalance.

In the original article Table 1 was split over two pages in such way that the table is incomprehensible. In the original article the data in columns and rows in Table 2 were listed out of order making the table unreadable. The correct tables are published here. The original article has been updated.

AimYouth mental health is of paramount significance to society globally. Given early onset of mental disorders and the inadequate access to appropriate services, a meaningful service transformation, based on globally recognized principles, is necessary. The aim of this paper is to describe a national Canadian project designed to achieve transformation of mental health services and to evaluate the impact of such transformation on individual and system related outcomes.MethodWe describe a model for transformation of services for youth with mental health and substance abuse problems across 14 geographically, linguistically and culturally diverse sites, including large and small urban, rural, First Nations and Inuit communities as well as homeless youth and a post‐secondary educational setting. The principles guiding service transformation and objectives are identical across all sites but the method to achieve them varies depending on prevailing resources, culture, geography and the pop...

As an academic discipline, public administration has long recognized and asserted the distinctions between the public, private, and, more recently, nonprofit sectors (Weisbrod, 1997). Over time, organizations traditionally attributed to a particular sector (i.e., market, state, nonprofit) have fused practices to carry out their work in response to pressure for greater efficiency and effectiveness with fewer resources. Fused practices have essentially blurred the lines of demarcation between the sectors. Organizations are expected to compete, partner, or adapt to survive among a growing pool of organizational types with competing, comparable, or hybrid institutional practices (Smith, 2010). This competition often challenges the perceived and realized sectoral advantages, motivating organizations to incorporate differing institutional logics (Knutsen, 2012) and thus replicate

Mental illness and addiction are major issues in the United States (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2022). Common consequences arising from mental illness include premature death, homelessness, isolation, suicide, and family dysfunction (Walker et al., 2015). Yet, although this is a pressing social issue, there has been relatively little engagement in mental health from philanthropic grantmaking institutions (Youde, 2020). Foundations typically focus on promoting social welfare to which mental illness represents a major challenge. So why are so few foundations making grants in the mental health arena? What is hindering foundations from deploying grantmaking resources to address mental health? Further, how can foundations not already engaged in mental health grantmaking learn from those that are? Lastly, can the lessons learned by experienced mental health grantmakers offer guidance to peers interested in this area of philanthropic practice? This study explores these questions with the goal of offering insight into how grantmaking foundations can help address the nation’s mental health crisis.

The role of external actors has now been widely acknowledged in shaping social policy processes in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, the social policy roles and influence of philanthropic donors have been less recognised and examined. As various countries in the region seek to expand social policy implementation and delivery and revitalise the development of national welfare systems, it is important to better understand the roles and functions of philanthropic donor agencies in the processes of agenda-setting, financing, and delivery of social policy. This article discusses the complex social policy functions held by philanthropic donor agencies in sub-Saharan Africa through the lens of the "welfare mix," drawing attention to the divergencies and convergences between Western philanthropic donors and their African counterparts, while reflecting on the direction of future research agendas.

In this guide, we boil transparency down to a mindset in which funders default to saying "let's publicly share this." Through examples from large and small foundations around the world, we explore how transparency can strengthen credibility, improve grantee relationships, facilitate greater collaboration, increase public trust, reduce duplication of effort, and build communities of shared learning.

Launched in March 2019, the European Philanthropy Manifesto (EPM) argues for the introduction of a single market for philanthropy. Examining the historic precedents of that idea and the recommendations put forward in the EPM to achieve the single market, we critically reflect on the potential and shortcomings of the EPM.

Evaluation is defined throughout this article as activities undertaken to systematically assess and learn about the foundation's work that go above and beyond final grant or finance reporting, monitoring, and standard due diligence practices. For shorthand, the term evaluation is used here to represent a suite of evaluation-related activities that may also include, for example, learning, performance management, and knowledge management.

Are you committed to shared leadership to address community needs but sometimes overwhelmed by how to get started? University of Minnesota faculty Vanessa Laird, Kathy Quick, and J. Myles Shaver offer a step-by-step guide for agenda-setting to help you get beyond the overwhelm. The Minimum Viable Benefit (MVB) process helps all kinds of leaders - even rising leaders without a funded backbone organization, governance experience, or significant preexisting relationships - to mobilize impactful action for social change. The article includes case studies of the MVB approach.

around power? Perhaps the real question is whether there is a discourse at all? The international aid system and the way in which its resources have been used as tools to determine agendas has been much discussed (one need only look at the many critiques of the IMF and the World Bank), and international foundations have supported voices to advance this discourse. Surprisingly, those international foundations often fail to recognize that they are themselves a part of that same aid system. As a result, the discourse is seen to apply to 'others' out there-bilateral/multilateral aid agencies, global financial institutions, international NGOs, etc. The foundations do not look at themselves and consider whether they too are complicit in perpetuating this imbalance.

This research reflects a sector that is small, but growing steadily in numbers and diversity of offering. It also shows, not surprisingly, that the sector is mainly aligned with where institutionalised philanthropy is most visible i.e. South Africa. At the same time, however, the growing number of pan-African institutions reveals the commitment to broadening the base, and perhaps an increase of demand. Poor visibility of the sector and the limitations of existing frameworks in reflecting adequately its value, role and impact have been cited as important issues, as is the necessity of developing strong communications strategies to help profile and build awareness of the work

Power and philanthropy in Africa around power? Perhaps the real question is whether there is a discourse at all? The international aid system and the way in which its resources have been used as tools to determine agendas has been much discussed (one need only look at the many critiques of the IMF and the World Bank), and international foundations have supported voices to advance this discourse. Surprisingly, those international foundations often fail to recognize that they are themselves a part of that same aid system. As a result, the discourse is seen to apply to ‘others’ out there – bilateral/multilateral aid agencies, global financial institutions, international NGOs, etc. The foundations do not look at themselves and consider whether they too are complicit in perpetuating this imbalance.

Cet article s’intéresse au discours de l’industrie de l’investissement d’impact à travers le cas du Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), l’une des plus importantes organisations à faire la promotion de cette approche à travers le monde. À partir d’une analyse documentaire, nous décrivons le concept flou d’« investissement d’impact » qui se trouve au cœur de ce discours. Afin de favoriser la diffusion de ce concept et de son discours, le GIIN fait appel à deux techniques de « concrétisation » qui le rendent plus tangible : l’objectivation de l’impact social ou environnemental d’un investissement qui fait exister ce dernier à travers des mesures quantifiables et son exemplification, qui se focalise avant tout sur les investisseurs et leurs intentions plutôt que sur les entreprises bénéficiaires ou les populations et environnements visés in fine par ces investissements. Nous montrons enfin que ce concept est porté par un discours plus général qui est construit autour d’une logique d...

Cross-sector interactions have long occurred in the public delivery of goods, services, and interests. While scholars have often addressed cross-sector interactions using the dimensions of publicness (state) and privateness (market), an intersectoral framework necessitates the understanding and incorporation of nonprofitness to account for the dimensions of nonprofits along the public-private continuum. This article proposes a framework for identifying the dimensions of nonprofits in an intersectoral world and draws on relevant examples to illustrate the presence and influence of nonprofitness. The article then focuses on the future of education in the field of public administration and, in light of the proposed framework, makes and considers recommendations to help educational programs better equip students to appreciate work across sectors

Cross-sector interactions have long occurred in the public delivery of goods, services, and interests. While scholars have often addressed cross-sector interactions using the dimensions of publicness (state) and privateness (market), an intersectoral framework necessitates the understanding and incorporation of nonprofitness to account for the dimensions of nonprofits along the public-private continuum. This article proposes a framework for identifying the dimensions of nonprofits in an intersectoral world and draws on relevant examples to illustrate the presence and influence of nonprofitness. The article then focuses on the future of education in the field of public administration and, in light of the proposed framework, makes and considers recommendations to help educational programs better equip students to appreciate work across sectors

• This article presents the theory of philanthropy of the Palix Foundation, which seeks to improve health and wellness outcomes for children and families in Alberta, Canada, by mobilizing and applying knowledge about brain and early childhood development and the link to lifelong mental health and addiction outcomes. 1 Norlien changed its name to the Palix Foundation in June 2015; we use the new name throughout. In its public profile, the foundation has consistently preferred to emphasize its collaborative partnership-the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative-rather than the foundation's own name. (See "Identity and Branding," Table 3.) Alberta's policy and on-the-ground service systems affecting child development and mental health. The program featured two separate three-year knowledge and leadership development symposia series, each series designed for a

The recent case of Aid/Watch v Commissioner of Taxation 1 has created sea changes in Australia in relation to charitable trusts, and as a result our Antipodean neighbours appear to be blazing trails in the evolution of charitable trusts, whilst at the same time, New Zealand resolutely remains entrenched in the annals of charitable trust history. Can, and indeed should, New Zealand continue this traditional approach, as pressure mounts to explore more liberal interpretations of charitable trusts and political purposes? This article explores the two jurisdictions and considers critically, in light of very recent controversial judgments, the diverging paths being taken by the jurisdictions. Before any analysis of the proposition, there must first be a contextualisation of the legal position of charitable trusts and political purposes. The Legal Context The philosophy of charity is rooted firmly in the annals of history and the oldest active charity on record in the United Kingdom is documented as AD597. 2 However, it would take many more centuries before an official system of regularisation would take effect; this began officially with the Statute of Elizabeth known otherwise as the Statute of Charitable Uses 1601. This Act was primarily intended as "an accountability tool to ensure that charitable assets were applied to charitable ends" 3 and has long since been repealed, although in the modern context it is its Preamble that is the cornerstone of that which may be construed as the principle of charitable law, and the yardstick against which charitable purposes are measured; if a purpose falls within the spirit and intendment of the Preamble, 4 then prima facie, it is charitable. The Preamble sets out the non-exhaustive list of purposes that are deemed to be charitable and these purposes include: • The relief of the aged, poor and impotent; • The maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners; • The repair of bridges and churches; • The marriage of poor maids.

For many decades case law and, more recently, statute has determined that a trust will be denied charitable status if its purposes are political. This appears, prima facie, to be a straightforward principle, however jurisprudence suggests that this principle is fraught with difficulties, not only for the judiciary, but also in terms of its justiciability. This paper considers the complex relationship between charity and political activity, and in light of recent decisions coming from the New Zealand Charities Commission and Australia's and New Zealand's High Courts, questions whether it is time for the Charities Commission and the courts to adopt a more liberal approach when applying the principles to reflect contemporary socio-political times. The ethos of charity is an ancient one, with the oldest active charity on record in the United Kingdom established in AD597, 1 but it took many more centuries before a system of charity law was established. This system of regulation effectively began with the enactment of the Statute of Charitable Uses Act 1601. The preamble of this Act sets out various purposes that are deemed to be charitable, including: the relief of the poor, the aged and the impotent, and whilst the body of the Act has long since been repealed, the preamble lives on in modern day charitable law, and is applied and interpreted by the judiciary, the New Zealand Charities Commission and the Charity Commission of England and Wales. The Charitable Uses Act 1601 may have provided the foundations for the system of regulating charities but it was the seminal case of Commissioners for the Special Purposes of Income Tax v Pemsel, 2 and specifically Lord MacNaghten, who set out the four heads of charity under which all charitable trusts must fall; these heads are still the very foundation of charitable trust law in contemporary times. The four heads of charity are: * Lecturer in Law, Te Piringa-Faculty of Law, The University of Waikato.

Historically a trust will be denied charitable status if its purposes are political, although this principle is fraught with difficulties because of the complex relationship between politics and charities. New Zealand has traditionally followed the jurisprudence of England and Wales, which determines that political trusts should be interpreted relatively widely so catching a broad section of trusts, thus excluding them from achieving charitable status. Australian jurisprudence however has displayed more reticence in its full acceptance of the political trust doctrine. Instead it has adopted a more narrow interpretation, so trusts that may fall foul of the doctrine in England and Wales and New Zealand, might successfully obtain charitable status in Australia. Then with the decision of the Australian High Court decision of Aid/Watch v Commissioner of Taxation, Australia finally departedfrom the jurisprudence of New Zealand and England and Wales. This article explores the Antipodeanjurisdictions and critically considers Australia's significant jurisprudential shift regarding charitable trusts and political activity and whether New Zealand is on the edge of an equal change to charitable trust law. The purpose of this paper is examine critically the diverging paths of charitable trusts of2 jurisdictions, Australia and New Zealand, that not so long ago, ploughed the same path and examine the law of charitable trusts on the edge of change. I think what I have to do now, prior to reviewing this law on the edge of change, I need to set out what we mean by charity at law. Everyone has heard of charity, and in fact, the vast majority of you will at some point have given to charity, or indeed, some of you may be involved in charity. So there is nothing difficult to understand about the concept of charity per se. What you may not fully be clear on however is what actually amounts to something being charitable at law. Not everything that appears to be philanthropic or generous may be charitable. And some things that may theoretically appear to be charitable at first sight, might actually NOT be charitable at law. And to receive all the benefits of being charitable, then certainly in many jurisdictions, an organisation has to be registered as a charity.

• This article tells the story of a placed-based initiative to develop well-being and wealth in the historically underserved Diamond Neighborhood in San Diego, and discusses the place-based philosophy of the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and the foundation's motivation for place-based work. • Its theory of change is presented through examples, along with the entry points the foundation chose for engagement and how it developed community capacity to engage effectively in this change work. • The article also discusses plans to transition ownership to the Diamond Neighborhood community when the foundation sunsets in 2030.

• Foundations increasingly recognize the importance of strategic and effective communications to advance their social-change goals. This article provides a framework that helps foundations to better understand the communications capacity of their grantee partners. • Based on a detailed analysis of a survey of 529 foundations, universities and nonprofits, the authors created a six-point index that identifies the characteristics and practices of organizations that are ranked as highly effective at using communications to advance their goals.

Arts and Culture Philanthropy Training Interview with Dory Vanderhoof and Julien Valmary, Conducted and written by Melissa Wilson, Student, Master of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Carleton University. Guiding Questions • How has English Canada trained arts philanthropy professionals? • How is Québec modelling and developing this approach?

The traditional anthropocentric paradigm of philanthropy is impeding support for environmental and animal welfare causes Years ago, I stood on Montreal's famous Sainte-Catherine street holding a petition pad in one hand and a donation pad in the other, asking people to help end animal cruelty. A man spat at my feet: 'How could you help animals when there are children suffering?'. Interactions like this still come to mind when I reflect on the sad state of non-human philanthropy, in Canada and globally. Is there space to defend animals and the environment within the very anthropocentric constraints of Western philanthropy? Can philanthropy be 'non-human'?

Art reflects and critiques the human condition. Its symbolic role shapes regional and national social identity but it also inspires, stimulates, and entertains, generating pleasure and challenge. Art dates back to walls in caves and celebrations of important social events, but it also developed further in religious-aristocratic venues and gatherings around the world. Art patronage has provided social status, demonstrating wealth and sophistication (Shiner, 2003). More recently, artistic expression represents freedom of speech (UNESCO, 2019) in contemporary democracies. Artists often innovate beyond the tradition of their craft to convey their ideas. Individual creative genius is a stereotype, considered a calling and a hallmark of art, although collective creation among talented artists is, in fact, more prevalent (Becker, 1982).

Recent policy emphases in the United Kingdom (UK) show growing attention to localism interconnected with philanthropy. This appears to offer significant opportunities for community foundations – geographically embedded multi-purpose charities envisaged as combining various grant-making roles with community leadership. Using a theoretical framework derived from political geography, we explore and conceptualise how community foundations conceive and operationalise their community leadership role across the UK’s localism discourses; we find their strategies and approaches to be differentiated rather than shared. This challenges the understanding of ‘community foundations’ as a single model in its UK expression and questions their envisaged potential as collective pan-UK lead-players within localism policy.

The term of Social Enterprises (SE) is a complex concept at various level (ICSEM Project, 2012). As part of the development of the questionnaire for data collection on social enterprises (ICSEM Project, 2013), the objective of this note is to provide some context explaining the diversity of financial statements and terminology for social enterprises, to present a 'simplified' version of financial statements for not-for-profit organizations (NPO) and profit oriented organizations (FPO) and to propose a 'universal' list of financial information distinguishing both types of organizations (NPO / FPO). A 'universal' financial statements is very difficult with the diversity of organizations and accounting standards. Some French terminology is added to help understanding the concepts.

The growth of foundations over the last few decades reflects several aspects of American history: opportunity to amass great fortunes; the persistence of many religious, social, and national traditions and distinctive secular perspectives; the rise of the West and the South; continuing commitment to communities defined by locality and culture; and the American struggle to balance commerce with lasting values and with expanded rights to individual autonomy and freedom of expression.

asks whether the water is getting clearer or muddier T his article considers the turbulent relationship of charities and politics and debates whether there is a judicial move towards creating a more harmonious relationship between the two objects. The issues are considered in light of the Charities Act 2006 (England and Wales) and the recent publication by the Charity Commission for England and Wales of guidance on campaigning and political activity by charities. The article suggests that there is scant authority for the current approach of the common law and that clear guidance is necessary. The article concludes that although the intentions of the Charity Commission may be honourable, the results are inconclusive, and are unlikely to clarify many of the issues. THE DEFINITION OF CHARITY The starting point for any foray into charity is the Statute of Elizabeth I, 43 Eliz I c4 1601 known as the Charitable Uses Act 1601. The preamble to the Act provides certain purposes that are considered charitable, including inter alia, the relief of the poor; the aged; the impotent; the maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners; and scholarly activities. It is these purposes that provide the basis for the modern law of charities. The purposes set out in the preamble, however, are not definitive, and other purposes may be construed as being charitable, as noted in Morice v Bishop of Durham (1805) 9 Ves 399 at 405. The body of the Act has long since been repealed, but Morgan in The Spirit of Charity (Professional Lecture, Sheffield Hallam University, 3 April 2008) at 3.10 to 3.11 notes that the preamble has remained and has been interpreted by the courts and the Charity Commission as to what may be deemed charitable. Lord MacNaghten, in the seminal case of Commissioners for the Special Purposes of the Income Tax v Pemsel (1891) AC 531, set out the four heads of charity into which all charitable trusts must fall, which are as follows: • relief of poverty; • advancement of education; • advancement of religion; and • other purposes beneficial to the community not falling under any of the preceeding heads.