While targeted initiatives, like funding for food security, gender equality, and youth employment, are positive steps, they do not address the sector’s structural challenges, including workforce instability, rising costs, and outdated funding systems.
The absence of a broader strategy to strengthen nonprofit capacity, innovation, and data infrastructure risks undermining Canada’s social safety net. The sector continues to call for meaningful recognition and long-term investment in the organizations that hold communities together.
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The budget also lacks any coordinated plan to strengthen the nonprofit workforce. The sector faces serious labour market pressures, with high burnout, wage gaps and instability that threaten service continuity. Workforce renewal must be part of any strategy to sustain Canada’s social safety net.
Targeted program investments are welcome, but without structural recognition of the nonprofit sector as a key economic and social partner, Canada risks weakening the very foundation on which those programs depend…