Risk management: Exercising your due diligence

In this final article about risk management, we offer suggestions on preventing regulatory risks and offer you a crisis management plan template.

The state of Canadian nonprofit board governance

As private sector companies scramble to comply with mandatory new disclosure and accountability laws, nonprofits are taking a good, hard look at their own governance policies and procedures.

Risk management: You need a risk management strategy and plan

This article is the third in a four-part series offering risk management approaches to not-for-profit organization leaders and volunteers. This article examines risks that involve technology and intellectual property and we provide advice on developing a risk management strategy and plan.

Governance Q&A: Managing waiting lists, line-ups and wait times with overloaded staff

A new hire at an agency asks about how ethical it is to handle line-ups on a first come, first served basis.

Mission, vision, values

How to create a realistic vision for a nonprofit organization.

Governance Q&A: The ethics of loyalty to an organization and their cause

How do staff, whose contracts and positions depend on renewed funding, balance their loyalty to an organization with the realities of supporting their families?

Risk management: A people issue

This is the second in a series of four articles on risk management ideas for not-for-profit organization leaders and volunteers. In this article, we focus on risk management prevention strategies to avert human resource-related risks.

Governance Q&A: Why organizations don’t always draw on the knowledge of their volunteers

A volunteer with four years of experience doesn’t feel that their insight and knowledge is being utilized.

Don’t call me, I’ll call you: Implications of a national do-not-call registry

Last year, the federal government decided it was finally time to curb the number of unwelcomed phone calls the public receives. Feeling the time was ripe for legislative restraint of telemarketers, Bill C-37 proposed the establishment of a National Do Not Call Registry.