What to look for when considering expert help from a consultant.
An interview with Marc Kielburger, Ashoka fellow, co-founder of Leaders Today, and executive director of Free the Children, about social enterprise in Canada.
What were you doing when you were a teenager? Founding a nonprofit organization? Heading up two successful business ventures? Discovering an effective and natural alternative to immunosuppressive drugs? Me neither! Yet, these are just some of the extraordinary activities that this year’s Top 20 Under 20 award recipients are up to.
Key guidelines to improve your next meeting.
A profile of Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver, an organization celebrating their 50th anniversary. Find out how things have changed for the organization over the past half-century.
Despite the oft-maligned paradigm of governments entering into contract with private firms to provide services and/or build infrastructure for the public good, public-private partnerships, or P3s, continue to gain steam in Canada. Where do nonprofits fit in?
While hiring outside help may not be the most common route for the society and other organizations, it is still often considered a significant step toward achieving mission goals.
A different approach to helping volunteers and staff perform effectively is to help them learn how to "think like a CEO". This article offers some tips on how volunteers and staff can think like a CEO when they are participating on committees, boards, councils and the like.
There are 161,000 nonprofit and voluntary sector organizations in Canada…and counting. To ask the question, “Is the proliferation of nonprofits an opportunity or a threat?” is a little like asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Depending on who you talk to, or what aspect of competition you are discussing, the answer will be different.
A Can-Do attitude, while ideal to serve all the community’s needs,must be able to work within the boundaries of organizational priorities.
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