CHARITIES AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT NEWSLETTER（慈善机构和非盈利通讯）.pdf

January 2010 C H A R I T I E S A N D N O T - F O R - P R O F I T N E W S L E T T E R The Charities and Not- for-Profit Newsletter is published monthly by CANADIAN GOVERNMENT TO MATCH HAITI GIFTS Miller Thomson LLP s Charities and Not-for- Robert B. Hayhoe Profit Group as a service Toronto to our clients and the 416.595.8174 broader voluntary sector. rhayhoe@ We encourage you to In response to the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the Canadian government forward the e-mail had originally set aside $50 million for granting to Canadian relief and development delivering this newsletter charities on a donor match basis (in addition to a further amount of $85 million to anyone (internal or in grants to UN relief agencies and to specific major Canadian charities involved external to your organization) who might in the relief effort). The announcement and some details are available at http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi- be interested. cida/ACDI-CIDA.nsf/eng/ANN-114115719-MVV. The Government has since lifted the cap and will match Complimentary e-mail all eligible donations. subscriptions are In essence, gifts by individual Canadians (up to $100,000) to Canadian registered charities that are available by contacting earmarked for Haitian earthquake relief will be eligible for dollar for dollar matching. CIDA will then review charitieseditor@ applications for matching grants and award them on the basis of an as-yet undetermined evaluation . methodology (but one that will put significant weight on the applicant charitys existing infrastructure