In June, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), after consultations with numerous sector organizations, including Imagine Canada, Health Charities Coalition of Canada, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals, announced the release of new fundraising guidelines for the nonprofit community. A detailed...
Valerie Lambert is a relative newcomer to the nonprofit world. Before joining Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver in the role of executive director two years ago, her experience was exclusively in the private sector. When making the leap, she immediately...
I have been working with organizations, and especially managers, for 14 years now, and one thing is clear: managing people is hard. Some people want to be managers and seek it out. Others have been promoted to the position, regardless...
When the topic of recruitment is raised at board meetings, it is often met with sighs of despair or a blanket of silence. Directors rack their brains for potential candidates and inevitably someone decides to approach a friend out of...
A change of leadership is never an easy time for a nonprofit. The board has a lot on the line. Clients, staff, and funders are looking to them to find the right person to take the organization forward. The wrong...
Notwithstanding lawyer jokes, legal services are a necessary and important part of maintaining a well run nonprofit or charity. They can be delivered well or poorly, cost effectively or expensively. With increasing competition between charities, there is often a real...
If I have a dilemma in my role as board member and want to make sure I do the right thing, who can I ask for advice and how do I decide who to ask? What a great question! You...
What do I need to know about Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)'s new Guidance on Fundraising? That's an excellent question for all of us to ask...even with 20+ years in the profession! Go to the CRA website to find the new...
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently released a new Guidance on Fundraising document, with the purpose of educating charities on what is considered appropriate, and legal, with regards to fundraising activities. Since the CRA will be auditing charities' fundraising activities...
For board members and executives joining the nonprofit community from other industry sectors, the issues around taxation can be quite novel. Nonprofits, for example, are exempt from paying income taxes. Yet every nonprofit has a number of important tax obligations,...
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