Resilience Amid Economic Challenges: Navigating the Impact of a Looming Tariff War on Canada’s Nonprofit Sector

Published on February 13, 2025

Published on February 13, 2025

London, ON, January 8, 2025 - Pillar Nonprofit Network is proud to launch the Community Membership Program, designed to provide small, volunteer-led nonprofit organizations with the essential resources they need to enhance their community impact. The Community Membership Program, brought to you by Canada Life, is made possible by Canada Life’s generous $25,000 contribution.


Pillar Nonprofit Network is moving forward with plans to restructure its membership program to create more equitable access, enhance long-term sustainability, and boost valuable service benefits. Our recent Information for Action survey received robust responses, showing nearly unanimous agreement with our principles.

LONDON, ON. June 20, 2024 - For the second year in a row, Pillar Nonprofit Network has partnered with the London Chamber of Commerce to showcase the transformational work happening in the nonprofit sector at the 2024 Business Achievement Awards.

Pillar Nonprofit Network is reimagining our membership program to better support equity, resilience, and sustainable growth in the nonprofit sector and better enable individuals and purpose-driven businesses to connect to that work. We see this as a re-think of Pillar’s role in connecting and convening the network for better impact and better cross-sector collaboration, the heart of our founding mission.
Please take two minutes to review these ideas and then two more minutes to offer your own ideas in a very short Information for Action survey.

Members of the London region’s nonprofit umbrella organization gathered this week to recognize the organization’s impact and advocacy wins; to elect two new board members; and to hear from London’s mayor how nonprofits will figure in the City’s economic development plan.

Pillar Nonprofit Network and the London Middlesex Mental Health and Addiction Strategic Direction Office (SDO) have issued a joint media release highlighting the SDO's new report on retired and retiring nonprofit leaders and a launch event planned for Wednesdy, April 10, 2024.
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London joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as the first Canadian City of Music in 2021 and in the last week of February 2024, London, Ontario hosted the international meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Music.

As part of the broader Vital Signs initiative overseen by the London Community Foundation, the London and Middlesex Vital Signs Data Hub emerged as a crucial element in tracking the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).