Surely, we tell ourselves, surely everyone who works in the charitable sector must be...charitable. We read frightening statistics about Canadian workplaces: nearly half of Canadians report having experienced one or more acts of workplace harassment at least once a week...
Editor's Note: This interview originally appeared on the Wild Woman Fundraising website and is excerpted with permission. You can read the full interview here. Mazarine Treyz: Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising, and today I'm interviewing Marc...
Recently, the federal government held a 10-week public consultation on the rules governing how charities engage in public policy. To ensure it was done collaboratively, Imagine Canada — with a mission of strengthening and supporting the charitable sector — put...
In the Liberal government’s 2015 mandate letter to the Ministry of Revenue after the elections, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seemed to acknowledge a need for more dialogue and better interaction with the nation’s charitable sector. The letter, addressed to Minister...
Want to learn more on this subject? We partnered with the author for a free webinar - watch the full recording here. With all the time you spend online, wouldn’t it be nice to communicate more in ways that didn’t...
Are you an executive director dealing with a difficult board? Read the first article in our two-part series for tips on how to improve the situation! It’s not easy being an executive director of a nonprofit organization. In addition to the...
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...
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...
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...
Education is the foundation for reconciliation – a message emphasized in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). What education? Why reconciliation? And how do these concepts and practices connect with the world of nonprofits? From...