The Canada Revenue Agency's new guidance on fundraising is scheduled to be released in March. Preliminary details were revealed in an hour-long webinar on February 10, hosted by charity lawyer Mark Blumberg and co-sponsored by both the CRA's Charities Directorate...
Here are two related committee stories I've encountered over the past week. First, board members were interviewing an executive director candidate. The interview panel asked the candidate, currently employed in government, what was appealing about moving to a job in...
If a member thoroughly disrupts an annual general meeting (AGM), can they be removed or prevented from attending in future? Usually, AGMs are open to everyone although only members, or certain classes of members, have a vote. And members are...
Back in October 2011, CharityVillage® covered the early pilot launch of Imagine Canada's new Standards Programs, designed to be a guide to good governance and operating policies and practices and intended to complement standards that many organizations already have in...
Since we value honesty, but donors and funders don't want to support administration costs, how can we ethically define and report on administration costs? It is extremely unfortunate that some nonprofits perpetuate the misleading idea that it is possible to...
With the holidays behind us and a new year before us, chances are you're coming back to work and will have a few (or more) meetings on your calendar: committee meetings to further policy work, team meetings to check that...
Call it teamwork. Collaboration. Synergy. Whatever term you wish to use, there's a lot of it going on between sector organizations and government. Over the last few years it has become apparent to both people working in nonprofits and civil...
Our organization does not have a credit card, therefore staff members are refunded on program expenses. Fair enough. My dilemma arises when staff use their own credit card and collect points on those expenses. Is it ethical to collect points...
Situated in the hamlet of Rosebud, Alberta, 100 kilometres northeast of Calgary with a population of 100, the Rosebud Centre for the Arts was created with a mission of presenting arts and education in a faith-based community. And while its...
In an economic climate that's already impacting the flow of donor dollars to the nonprofit sector, Canadian charities, foundations and nonprofits are crying foul over the recent launch and national media coverage of a charity appraisal search engine by a...
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