Five steps to outsourcing your nonprofit’s financial operations

Interested in learning more about this topic? Join us as we partner with Enkel to host a free webinar on March 7, A Day in Your Life With Outsourced Back Office Functions. Register today.  When managing a nonprofit, effective financial operations...

Meaningful engagement for impactful strategic planning

A new fiscal year for many Canadian nonprofits and charities is on the horizon - a time to wrap up, reassess, and reset. Strategic planning can play a critical role in guiding your organization at this pivotal time. To make...

The new T3010 Annual Information Return is here: What charities need to know

This article was previously published by Miller Thomson LLP and is reprinted with permission. On January 8, 2024, the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) released its latest version—the 24th version—of Form T3010 (Registered Charity Information Return). Registered charities do not pay federal income...

OHSA and AODA Compliance Responsibilities for Nonprofits: Understand Your Obligations and How to Implement Them

Original Broadcast Date: December 7, 2023. Summary: Managing workplace compliance requirements can be a daunting challenge for nonprofit employers, especially when you add the complexities of a remote or hybrid workforce, sometimes spread across multiple locations.   Add to that the...

Making the disability inclusion connections in your business and community: Five practical, powerful strategies for action

Making the disability inclusion connections to business and employment success is a three-stage process.   First, there’s grasping all the intertwined levels of connection. Second, there’s understanding the inter-related barriers to disability inclusion. Lastly comes bridge building: developing ways of making the connections...

Top Ten Compliance Issues For Canadian Registered Charities with Mark Blumberg

Original Broadcast Date: October 19, 2023. Summary: A great deal has been written about legal compliance surrounding charities in Canada. Much of that material, however, is highly specialized, hard to understand and sometimes esoteric. As a result, it can be...

Strategic Planning with Your Organization: The Why, The What and The How

Original Broadcast Date: September 21, 2023 Summary: Strategic Planning may be something your organization does actively, may be brand new to you, or may be somewhere in between. Wherever you are in the continuum, this workshop will give you something...

Practical tools for managers: Give more effective feedback with this simple formula

This article is a short excerpt from our recent webinar, Three things every leader should know: Practical insights to overcome the COVID retention crisis, presented by Rob Luke of Allen Leigh Consulting. You can watch the full recording here. Here's...

The treasurer’s role in a nonprofit and how to find the right person for the job

Every nonprofit, regardless of size or focus, needs a capable person who can oversee the organization’s financial management and operations. The treasurer is a member of the organization's board of directors or a part of the finance committee, and their...

How to evaluate the present leadership of your charity

This is the second part of a two-part series on assessing leadership talent at your organization. Read part one, on the benefits of leadership assessments, here. As a charity, you can use different strategies for leadership assessments. First, however, it...