As a board member and senior manager of a nonprofit you are responsible for creating and participating in the development of your organization's strategic direction and implementing the change associated with delivering upon that strategy. While there are few ethical...
"Accountability" has become an important watchword in fundraising. The need for it has always been a legal requirement in fundraising, but what it meant and the public’s awareness of it have developed in recent years. Our next few columns will...
Few topics generate more heated discussion in non-profit organizations than whether development professionals (staff or consultants) should be paid a percentage of the money raised, receive commission-based compensation, or be paid a performance bonus. Perhaps because it is a practice...
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is; until we have stopped saying "It got lost", and say, "I lost it." - Sydney...
Why has the issue of the morality of charitable gaming become topical in the Boardrooms of Charities? In 1970, an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada made it possible for charitable and religious organizations to conduct lottery schemes pursuant...
Poor moral behaviour seems rampant in society, witness recent insider trading scandals, The United Way, Covenant House, and political scandals --- all of them moral issues. In fact, says Neal Davis, Vice-president for Development and Public Affairs, Heidleberg College, Tiffen,...
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