Interested in learning more about this topic? We partnered with the author for a free webinar - click here to view the full recording. This article was originally published in The Anvil, a Hamilton, Ontario quarterly newspaper, and is reprinted...
Editor's Note: This is the first article of a two-part series. Click here to read the second article, Dealing with difficult executive directors: Tips for boards. To paraphrase Tolstoy's famous quote about families: all happy boards are alike; each unhappy...
So you want to respond to an RFP, perhaps for a great contract being tendered by the federal government. Fantastic! But you’ve never done this before and have no clue where to start. STEP ONE: Understanding bidding on contracts in...
In recent years, boards of directors and their roles have changed in a variety of ways, but one thing hasn’t: members vote and help direct the future of the organization from the time of their very first board meeting. This...
Editor's Note: Are your nonprofit meetings unproductive? We partnered with Gord Sheppard for a free webinar on February 25, 2016 that helps you improve all of your meetings. Whether you're a board member, executive director, manager or staff member, you'll...
The 2015 federal election was less than five months ago, and saw the federal Liberal Party take power. In the wake of that event, nonprofit sector leaders and stakeholders came face to face with a stark new reality – a...
Editor's Note: Want to learn about the top 20 Canada Revenue Agency compliance issues for registered charities? We partnered with Mark Blumberg for a free webinar on January 28, 2016. Watch the recording today! A great deal has been written...
This past October 30, leaders from across Canada gathered at a hotel in Waterloo, Ontario for a week to explore new and innovative ways of measuring and improving child well-being in Canada. An initiative of UNICEF Canada, it was largely...
‘Innovate or die’ is a truism for any nonprofit, service agency, or social enterprise because the challenges we’re addressing are highly complex and unstable. But...how? It’s much easier to say how we want things to be than it is to...
Increasingly boards of directors for charities are expected to strengthen their governance practices, including their fiduciary and risk oversight. Driving this demand for stronger governance is research that finds that governance failures are at the root of many problems in...
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