Canadian businesses provide significant support to charitable and nonprofit community organizations. Surprisingly little is known about the ways in which such support is provided and the experiences businesses have when contributing to their communities. The Business Contributions to Community Research Initiative (BCTC) focuses exclusively on the community contributions of Canadian businesses, providing a broad picture of the scope and nature of these efforts, as well as benchmark data to enable the tracking of contributions over time.

New presentations from the BCTC initiative!
Interested in learning more about how and why businesses contribute to nonprofit organizations? See the results of the Imagine Canada Business Contributions To Communities study to find the answers to these questions, and more. This project was generously support by EnCana Corporation.

• Corporate Community Investment Practices, Motivations and Challenges: Findings from the Canada Survey of Business Contributions to Community : Learn about how corporations view nonprofit organizations and what drives corporations to work with them.

Research on Corporate Citizenship from Imagine Canada puts a spotlight on 93 of Canada’s largest companies (annual revenues exceeding $25 million) and their community investment practices.  The second phase of this research initiative is a national survey of business contributions that aims to collect information from 2,400 businesses across Canada :  Corporate Community Investment Practices, Motivations & Challenges: Findings from the Canada Survey of Business Contributions to Community.  This report is available in print only, although the library has a copy available for our nonprofit sector colleagues to view (by appointment).more...(PDF)
The executive summary of this report is also available for download.

The first phase of the study was a literature review and roundtable consultations with 47 representatives of Canadian businesses. The results of this qualitative phase were released in February 2007.

Read the qualitative report (February 2007):

• Business contributions to Canadian communities : findings from a qualitative study of current practices / Michael H. Hall, M. Easwaramoorthy, Wyanne Sandler. Toronto : Imagine Canada, 2007.

We would like to acknowledge EnCana Corporation for its generous funding and support for this research. Click here for the media release.