Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre (GCCC) is a neighbourhood-based organization that provides programs for children and youth and facilitates community events and volunteer opportunities for neighbours to meet, connect and get to know each other. For over 30 years, GCCC has been empowering strong...
Do you remember that icky feeling back in school, when you were assigned a piece of homework that you didn't see the point in doing, but had to do it anyway? Well, I bet that’s the same feeling you get...
You’re at home again. Working. From. Home. Again. While there’s nothing that this article can do to break the monotony of your four walls or make your kids leave you alone long enough to take a deep breath, we can...
CharityVillage has offered free webinars to our audience of nonprofit professionals for almost 10 years now. And with so many people now working remotely and shifting their training and learning online, we’ve had several requests from our webinar participants to...
In the late 1980s, an organizational consultant in rural America coined the term “information silos” to describe how an organization may be as rich with information as a silo is with grain, but the information remains trapped, again like grain...
Want to learn more about budgeting for beginners? Watch the accompanying webinar recording. I vividly remember the first time I was asked to prepare a budget. I wasn’t sure where to start. There was no written process. I couldn’t find any...
Want to learn more about how to make digital transformation affordable and doable at your organization? Watch our recorded webinar on the topic. The Transformers franchise is all about an intergalactic, millennia-long war between the Autobots (the good robots, er,...
We’ve all heard the mantra “do more with less,” and it’s an especially familiar mantra in IT departments everywhere. When applied to the nonprofit universe, the mandate takes on much more serious implications than the private sector, sometimes with life...
You may not have been aware, but on June 1, 2019, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)’s Charities Directorate rolled out a new, online, digital registration platform for charities. Yes, modernization has arrived at The Agency. The new Charities IT Modernization...
Remember that classic refrain: “Birds gotta fly / Fish gotta swim”? There’s another line one could add: “Governments gotta procure.” Not as catchy, granted. Still, the reality is that obtaining and providing services and resources for social services, training and...
