Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 889609897RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,251,872) as filed with the CRA.
Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from donations, 17% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $420K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Dress for Success: This program entails individual consultations on professional business attire to women facing financial barriers who want to join the work force return to school or engage in volunteer opportunities. In addition to information and workshops on business culture and appropriate dress participants are offered gently used clothing and accessories at no cost to help them look and feel their best. Employment & Life Skills Program: This program offers a series of workshops that help immigrant women plan and prepare for their future in Canada. The training provided in this pro…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $1M | $114K | — | $372K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $1M | $93K | — | $427K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $938K | $107K | $0 | $467K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $991K | $789K | $139K | $0 | $456K |
| 2020 | $1M | $941K | $843K | $83K | $0 | $381K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $420K from 16 charities:
- Dress for Success Canada Foundation$120K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Hunter Family Foundation$25K
- Calgary Learns Association$24K
- The Calgary Foundation$24K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$12K
- The Ed Stelmach Community Foundation$10K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$10K
- Paul Barber Foundation$10K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$3,478
- Cidel Foundation$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$697K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ayden Athwal (director); Gillian Barnett (secretary); Brittany Humphry (board chair); Maiko Maruyama (director); Colleen Purdy (treasurer); Kara Haug (director); Terra Davidson (director); Reanna Dorscher (vice-chair); Ashley Tedham (director); Cindy Cameron (director); Tanya Sharma-Moore (director); Shaira Nanji (director); Lori James (executive director); Lianne Fretwell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889609897RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.