COLUMNIST
WEALTH MANAGEMENT MALCOLM BURROWS
What’s Happened to Volunteerism?
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FOUNDATION Magazine
June/July 2020
GARY TANNYAN
BY MALCOLM BURROWS
t is a very sad day for me when notable figures cannot donate time and energy to charitable causes they believe deserve support.” This indignant observation came from a letter to The Globe and Mail on July 18, 2020 in response to WE Charity scandal that engulfed the Federal Government. The writer, Adele Robertson, described her late actor/writer husband, George Robertson, and a host of celebrities who volunteered for UNICEF in the 1970s and 1980s. She criticized the speaker fees received by member of the Prime Minister’s family to speak at WE Day events. The WE story has brought the question of volunteering with charities into furious focus. When did volunteers start to be paid? Has volunteering in Canada really changed so much? Or is this just nostalgia? foundationmag.ca
