‘Such drifting . . .

Continued

for “threats and opportunities”, to survey,

their own “traditions, values and aspira-
tions”, to assess their own “strengths and
weaknesses" and so forth. I suspect that
what is different about the current
situation (at least in the institutions Keller
has analyzed) is not so much a radically
new method or set of principles as it is a
new tone or temper, a greater willingness
Lo innovate and experiment and to employ
such new tools as are available. Bul this
is more a matter of new “tactics” than a
discovery of some fundamentally new
strategy.

As for “strategy”, what is critical — to
use Keller's own words — is to “put your
own intelligence, foresight and will in
charge” instead of drifting along on the
tides of circumstance. Such drifting may
be temporarily comfortable but in the end
is likely to be suicidal. In this respect,
Keller's message is one which needs to be
heard and acted on by Canadian institu-
tions, and by Canadian governments, as
well as American.

W. M. Sibley is special advisor to the president
of the University of Saskatchewan.

W.M. Sibley. Reprinted with Permission from University Affairs.

6th guide to foundations
most comprehensive |

‘In 1921 Winnipeg banker, Willian’
Alloway, gave. $100,000 to establish the
Winnipeg Foundation, an organization
designed to promote educational advance-
ment and scientific research that would
in particular benefit the inhabitants of the
City of Winnipeg.

Since that time the number of philan-
thropic foundations in Canada has grown
to over 650 and their combined assets have
been (conservatively) estimated at more
than $1 billion. Many of them have broadly
based interests, while others are estab-
lished to benefit a geographic region or a
particular vocation like medicine or law.

Establishing the size and scope of these
organizations, how they operate and what
fields of enquiry they are prepared to
support, has become much easier in recent
years with the annual publication of the
Canudian Directory to Foundations and its
companion volume Foundation 500. The
directory provides information about
family, corporate, community and special
interest foundations that make awards in
Canada.

Colleges of Canada. Vol. 26, No. 10, December 1985,

Its recently published sixth issue is the
most comprehensive to date, thanks to
improvements in Revenue Canada’s Public
Information Return, which all Canadian
foundations applying for charitable status
are obliged to file and which lists grants
and the dollar value given.

This improved information has enabled
the editors and volunteers at the Canadian
Centre for Philanthropy to establish more
extensive data analysis procedures and to
merge the new information with their
existing foundation records. In turn the
format of the Directory has been changed
in order to improve the presentation and
to provide a more detailed subject index.

Finally an article on how to research and
solicit grant support, which was a popular
feature of last year's Directory, has been
revised and lengthened.

The Canadian Directory to Foundations is
available from:' The Canadian Centre for
Philanthropy, 185 Bay Street, suite 504,
Toronto, Ont. M5J 1K6.

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