Wherever you turn these days, there is no escaping the talk of financial doom and gloom. From newspaper articles to television news reports, from politicians and economists to the general public, the economic downturn and its impending consequences are on...
Nonprofit organizations are coming to terms with the impact the economic recession is having on their financial sustainability. It is projected that major gifts will be down substantially and that new donor acquisition will be quite challenging. On top of...
Times are tough. Money is tight, cutbacks are on the rise, and employment is on the decline. Bay Street is exceptionally cautious these days as nervous anticipation sets in. The automobile industry, the media conglomerates, banks - they're all feeling...
Let's say you get funded and rewarded based on the number of clients who get jobs, but the dilemma is this: do you only take clients that have a chance at employment success instead of the hard-to-serve clients who won't...
Last week in the newspaper there was a feature on another book about bad bosses. It seems that there’s an inexhaustible supply of these people. We know that bad bosses are poisonous, but we just can’t seem to escape them....
So often in the voluntary sector we talk about collaboration. However, a number of factors can make collaboration in the sector quite difficult. These include: Funder-driven legacy: Often in the Canadian context, when government has encouraged collaboration we have experienced...
Funding is tight, targets are hard to meet, and clients are demanding more from you. Emotions and stress are running high. You meet as a team to find a solution and, if you are like many, you might make the...
Economic and political uncertainty top global news headlines these days. Yet, in the midst of the turbulence, David Holtzman, senior knowledge exchange specialist at the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), reminds us that “learning is the most important investment we...
A recent report graced the pages of CharityVillage, giving the nonprofit community reason for pause. Titled, Strengthening Organizational Capacity, it drew its findings from an online survey of 235 nonprofit professionals in Canada, the US and the United Kingdom. Co-authored...
Paulette Vinette, CAE and Jack Shand, CAE collaborated on an original research project in 2008 to identify what board members want from their not-for-profit organizations. This article summarizes their findings, which were presented at the Canadian Society of Association Executives...
