Late last year, Liberal MP for Mississauga East-Cooksville, Albina Guarnieri, drafted a private member’s bill into parliament titled C-470. If passed, the bill would revoke the charitable status of any charity paying an employee $250,000 or more.
This article explains one of the best ways to maximize the effectiveness of volunteers.
When the Haiti earthquake struck, Canadians wanted to support aid programs. And for the first time, in record numbers, they did it through their mobile devices.
Over the last few years the concept of office consolidation has been adopted by voluntary sector organizations: splitting rents, sharing office supplies, and in the process, reducing all manner of overhead costs associated with running a nonprofit or business of any kind. Yet while the idea is fiscally sound, there are pros and cons to sharing one’s workspace with other organizations.
Despite much of the rumbling heard around Canada and BC about the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games preparations, one thing is clear to many who work in the charity world on the west coast: the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) is going out of its way to make these games one of the most socially sustainable events ever put together.
For a voluntary sector struggling to keep its head above water in the best of times, news of the economic climate continues to ripple through the nation, causing concern to charities, donors, and the much-relied-upon foundations that grant monies to those most in need.
This article explores a new initiative to cover the costs of police information checks (PICs) for eligible volunteers in nonprofit and voluntary sector organizations.
Contemplating entering into partnership with a government body is something that can send shivers down the spines of executive-level staff at nonprofits and charities. But sometimes appearances can be deceiving and approaching a government – municipalities for the purpose of this article – can result in pleasant surprises, if you do it right, that is.
Pardon the pun, but there’s an age old question asked in almost every era of marketing: how do you capture the imagination, attention and spirit of youth? And for practitioners in the third sector, the question is a burning one, considering that philanthropy is a trait that benefits from modeling examples at an early age.
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.
