Canada’s first nationwide website blackout is happening today.
Given how much time board members give to their charity, is it ethical to also expect them to donate? Jane Garthson explains why it’s not only ethical, it’s necessary.
A reader wonders whether providing member lists to fellow members is a breach of privacy.
A board of directors is clearly a powerful and necessary mechanism for any nonprofit. When the right mix of individuals sit on a board, decisions regarding the mission, vision and planning can be made with clarity and lively, but functional, debate. But what happens when a board member’s performance isn’t up to snuff?
This article addresses how staff and board members can help the charismatic founder of an organization to gracefully move away from a leadership position.
This Q&A article advises readers on how they can ethically deal with a disruptive member at an annual general meeting.
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 place. So what did some of the participating organizations find out about their own operating standards levels while in the pilot? Is there a clear benefit to being involved in the program?
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?
Many organizations require staff to charge expenses to their personal credit cards, reimbursing them at a later date. But if the employee collects loyalty points on their cards, is it ethical for the employee to keep them rather than donate them back to the organization?
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 self-appointed watchdog organization that casts a shadow over them all.
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