Canada Post strike threatens holiday fundraising for charities
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Charities across Canada are bracing for a tough holiday season as the Canada Post workers’ strike disrupts donation drives and fundraising efforts.
Charities across Canada are bracing for a tough holiday season as the Canada Post workers’ strike disrupts donation drives and fundraising efforts.
Welcome Hall Mission CEO Sam Watts said the strike comes at a critical time of the year.
“About 40 per cent of all donations that come in over the course of the year come in in November and December,” Watts said.
Welcome Hall Mission’s toy drive which took place on Saturday is one of the charity’s biggest events of the year and Watt said roughly half of the donations are sent by mail.
“One of the things that I fully expect is that we might be down as much as $1,000,000 by the end of the first quarter of our fiscal year, which ends in December. And so that's something we're going to have to make up,” he said.
Nicole Danesi works for Canada Helps, an online donation platform.
“So, for many charities in Canada, this is really like the nightmare before Christmas,” she said
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