It's easy to bring your eco-values to work every morning, just follow our top five tips. Post them today, get your coworkers involved and see how much of a difference you can make. Commute smarter Walk or cycle to work....
I was in the lounge at an airport a few months ago and heard a voice that I recognized. On the phone with their office, one of my clients was in a three-way call with two employees. Everyone within earshot...
In my organization, each chapter appoints a representative to the provincial board. But the one from my chapter has been voting against what the chapter wants. She says she votes for what's best for the province instead. How do we...
March: the month that normally segues winter into spring. But did you know it's also Fraud Awareness Month? The issue was brought into sharp focus this month with scammers using the March 11 earthquake in Japan to commit charity donation...
Toyota, Tiger Woods and the Roman Catholic Church got us all thinking and talking about crisis in recent years. Public relations analysts everywhere are ready to comment across the media on how such crises are handled. The stakes are high...
Alice Housing provides safe second-stage housing and supportive counselling for women and children leaving domestic violence. Established in 1983 and located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, it's the largest second-stage housing organization east of Quebec, offering 19 safe housing units and...
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is in the midst of attempting to clarify its guidelines on how the more than 700 Canadian animal welfare charities can legally operate and continue to maintain their charitable status. Until March 31, the agency...
Over the past few months, CharityVillage's® Sustainability Series has covered six different aspects of embedding sustainability in a charity. Starting with a broad introduction to the world of sustainability, the series has covered issues of a building a core team,...
For the vast majority of Canada's 85,000+ charities, the work they do is often unheralded, workmanlike and of interest only to the stakeholders impacted by their cause. The organization keeps its head down, does the best it can on whatever...
In an earlier article on The Characteristics of Executive Leadership, I outlined what employees in the nonprofit sector do. But what do nonprofit organizations do? First, two observations: Observation one is that many nonprofit organizations feel they are unique. Board...
