Malcolm Burrows is a philanthropic advisor and charitable gift planner with 35 years of experience. He founded and is Executive Director of Aqueduct Foundation, a public foundation with donor advised funds. Aqueduct Foundation is the 13th largest foundation in Canada by assets and has granted $900+ million to registered charities since inception in 2006. Malcolm lives in Toronto, Canada.

He is Head, Philanthropic Advisory Services at Scotia Wealth Management and its 110-year-old private foundation services practice.  After a start in the arts and journalism, Malcolm worked for three major Toronto charities from 1990 to 2004: University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, and SickKids Foundation.

Malcolm is an active educator, writer, coach, and volunteer in the Canadian charitable sector. He writes regularly to think out loud and share ideas. Many articles on this website were originally published on Canada’s top estates blog, All About Estates.

Malcolm is a public policy wonk and volunteer in the charitable sector. Through the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, he has contributed to the development of new charitable tax incentives, including the elimination of capital gains on gifts of public securities and the 2016 “estate donation” rules.  His proposal for gifts of private securities and taxable real estate published by C.D. Howe Institute was included in the 2015 Federal Budget. He was CAGP’s course director from 1999 to 2011. He is a founding co-chair of CAGP’s Working Group on Donor Advised Funds.

He loves governance and board work in the NFP sector. Currently, he is a director of The Muttart Foundation (Edmonton) and a member of the Indigenous and Canadian Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Previously, he served on the board of Canada Helps, CRA’s Charities Directorate Technical Issues Working Group, was Co-Editor of The Philanthropist, and a board member of both the Canadian and Spanish sections of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).