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14 December 2022
Prosper Canada is a proud signatory of the Joint Community and Labour Statement on Employment Insurance (EI) Reform. The letter was sent out to Prime Minister Trudeau and Ministers Freeland, Qualtrough and Gould to request their immediate action and bring attention to community and labour priorities and restore the role of Canada’s EI system as an economic stabilizer. ...
13 December 2022
We are pleased to be signatories on the letter to Robert J. Morrissey, Chair of the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) to express our collective concern with three amendments proposed at the recent HUMA meeting. As part of a group of organizations of and for people with disab...
12 December 2022
The financial empowerment (FE) sector in Canada is an innovative and ever-changing field but scarcity of resources has long presented capacity challenges, especially for national, coordinated initiatives as frontline service partners need to prioritize the immediate needs of the communities they serve.   Prosper Canada has played a backbone role in key projects that ha...
1 November 2022
Over the past year, Coast Capital Savings generously committed to providing one year funding from December 2021 to December 2022 allowing us to provide capacity building and training to community organizations to start, improve and expand Finanical Empowerment (FE) services. In particular, this funding helped support the enhancement, expansion and formalization of the struct...
1 June 2022
Through generous support from The Lawson Foundation, the Managing your money resource is being offered FREE of charge to non-profit organizations supporting Indigenous communities, in English and Plains Cree. Bright, beautiful, interactive and simple to use, Managing your money offers a set of seven worksheets to help Indigenous individuals and families to set and work towa...
31 May 2022
Because income is the main determinant of food security, tax filing and benefit services are useful – but only to a point. When the income supports we are connecting people to are inadequate to meet basic needs, financial empowerment interventions are not a sufficient response to prevent food insecurity. In 2020, Canada’s poverty rate plummeted to 6.4 per cent o...
20 April 2022
In April 2020, Prosper Canada reset its priorities to focus on helping people with low incomes to safely weather the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing that vulnerable Canadians would bear both the brunt of the disease and its devastating impacts on livelihoods and financial security, we set out to mobilize $20 million to sustain and expand financial help services to help t...
11 April 2022
On April 7, the federal government released its 2022 budget, A Plan to Grow Our Economy and Make Life More Affordable, which marks a return toward pre-pandemic spending. We have highlighted some features of this budget that impact Canadians living with low income. We focused on measures benefitting low- and moderate-income Canadians, notably significant investments in ...
16 March 2022
Social distancing has “pushed” more people to use online banking, order multitudes of items from their computer and even scan, pay and bag their own groceries. Self-service is a widely accepted way of providing more services with fewer resources. Though there are some drawbacks, it has also proven that with the right tools, and just a little help, people can perf...
28 February 2022
Au début de la pandémie, le gouvernement fédéral a agi rapidement pour mettre en place la Prestation canadienne d’urgence (PCU), offrant une stabilité financière à 8,9 millions de personnes touchées par des pertes de revenus ou d’emplois. Ensuite, la Prestation canadienne de la relance économique (PCRE) et la Prestation canadienne pour les travailleurs en cas de ...
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