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April 23, 2025

By Jean-Marc Mangin, President & CEO, Philanthropic Foundations Canada and Bruce MacDonald, President & CEO, Imagine Canada

Philanthropist Journal article

Jean-Marc Mangin

Jean-Marc has been President & CEO of Philanthropic Foundations Canada since 2019. Prior to PFC, Jean-Marc led a renewal process of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest national organization of Canadian researchers and scholars as its Executive Director. He also has had a long career serving in international development with the UN, NGOs, and the Canadian Government in responding to global humanitarian disasters and development challenges. As CUSO Executive Director, he led a merger with VSO-Canada, and he was the first Executive Director of Global Call for Climate Action, a cross-sector civil society initiative supporting transformational change to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Born in Manitoba, raised in Quebec, and educated in BC and Ontario, he holds an MA in Political Sciences and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto. The land that Jean-Marc lives, learns and works on has been home to many Indigenous communities throughout time, and is the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin People.

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