Employing remote workers in your nonprofit: Legal considerations and practical tips

Includes 8 essential resources that’ll help you navigate the landscape of remote working effortlessly!  In recent years, remote work has become increasingly popular across many industries, including the nonprofit sector in Canada. With advances in technology and changes in work...

Another parental leave? How nonprofits can thrive while still celebrating personal milestones with their teams

Parental leave is a given occurrence in any sector, but especially in the nonprofit sector. In Canada, an estimated almost 80% of the nonprofit sector is made up of women. This is disproportionately higher than the 47% portion of the...

“The leadership did not reflect me”: An Interview with Paulette Senior about leadership in Canada’s nonprofit sector

In our April 2023 CharityVillage Connects podcast episode, we explored how Canadian nonprofit sector leaders are increasingly finding themselves under the microscope. In fact, the sector itself is grappling with issues related to accountability, transparency, and a lack of diversity,...

New, free tools to help Canadian nonprofits hire diverse, early-career talent

CharityVillage, in partnership with CivicAction, is proud to host HireNext, a free, made-in-Canada tool that helps employers better hire and retain diverse, early-career talent. By helping employers better recruit, screen, onboard, and, most importantly, retain young talent, HireNext takes the...

Women, work, and parenting: How the mental load of motherhood impacts the nonprofit sector in Canada

When speaking about the mental load of motherhood, please note that this does not statistically and accurately reflect single-parent households or LGBTQ+ households as there is simply not enough validated data (which is a problem in and of itself).   A...

What’s your biggest weakness: Reimagining the traditional interview

This article was previously published by Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia and is reprinted with permission. Think about the makeup of the labour market in the mid-1900s: Would you have been part of the workforce? Would workplaces have been safe for you? Would you have been hired, and...

4 cost-saving tech tips

The key word here is “cost-saving.” Because very few organizations have a robust technology budget, we want to help you make technology choices that will save you money and keep you focused on your mission. If you’ve been following our...

Ontario nonprofit HR: All policies you need in 2023 to be compliant

According to a Statistics Canada report, Ontario is home to over 58,000 registered nonprofits that together employ over 844,000 people. That’s a lot of employees, and employers have to ensure they’re complying with employment laws and applying them correctly to...

From Brittle to Nimble: How to Lead Organizations and People with Resilience

Original Broadcast Date: May 13, 2023. Summary: Many nonprofit employees are deeply connected with their work, even suggesting it is their life’s calling. On the one hand, this determination helps these devoted people commit to their work even as they experience...

Three years of unprecedented change: A look back at COVID-19 impacts on the workplace

As of April 2023, the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over.  However, as the third anniversary of the start of the pandemic has now passed, we thought it might be interesting to look back and recognize just how far we’ve...
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