Investments In Charitable Sector

While the Budget contains relatively few tax measures specific to the charitable or non-profit sector, it does announce several initiatives and investments that will be of interest to certain organizations within the sector including:

• an investment of $339 million over three years to create up to 35,000 additional youth jobs in the non-profit sector in each of the next three years.  This program provides funding to not-for-profit organizations with 50 or fewer employees to create summer job opportunities for individuals aged 15 to 30 years who are full-time students and intend to return to their studies in the next school year;
• $39 million in funding over three years to the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement to support its ongoing efforts to identify and introduce innovations in the health care system;