I am a volunteer, and I am a donor. I donate to Christopher and Dana Reeve’s charity for spinal cord injury and research. Why? Because my father has a spinal cord injury. See the connection? It’s personal for me, which...
Over the last few years, a number of people in the nonprofit sector have started to question how the sector has always operated, wondering if things could be done differently. Some are even trying entirely new approaches to typical nonprofit...
‘Innovate or die’ is a truism for any nonprofit, service agency, or social enterprise because the challenges we’re addressing are highly complex and unstable. But...how? It’s much easier to say how we want things to be than it is to...
Increasingly boards of directors for charities are expected to strengthen their governance practices, including their fiduciary and risk oversight. Driving this demand for stronger governance is research that finds that governance failures are at the root of many problems in...
On October 19, 2015 Canadians will go to the polls to elect their 42nd parliament. Campaigning got underway in early August and will last a total of 11 weeks. By the time votes are cast all the major party leaders...
Over the last few years, a number of academic programs specifically focused on the nonprofit sector have been popping up across the country. This fall, the first four-year undergraduate degree program in nonprofit management will be launched at Brescia University...
Interviewing potential volunteers is one of the greatest parts of the volunteer recruitment process. Think about it. Someone has come out of nowhere, and they want to donate their time to you. Not just any time, but their priceless, unwaged,...
Anyone who starts a charity or nonprofit organization does so to make a difference. But while this is a worthy motive, Marc and Craig Kielburger, co-founders of Free the Children and Me to We, offer a different perspective: “Society needs...
To become accredited or not? That is a question on the minds of a number of nonprofit organizations at the moment - and not just the larger ones. What is accreditation? The accreditation process acknowledges that your organization has successfully...
Want to learn more about how you can better engage your employees through the use of storytelling? Lianne Picot presented a free webinar on Thursday, June 11 - you can watch the full recording here. 54% of employees in Canada and...
