Evaluating volunteer programs is essential to benchmarking our progress in providing the best service to our stakeholders, but it is also an area of the volunteer management cycle that we tend to skip over. Sometimes you just don?t have the...
Where should I be next in my career? Is there a certain point or level I should reach by a certain age? What about education versus experience? Recruiters, executive coaches, management consultants and HR professionals are all familiar with these...
A revolution is brewing. It began as early as 2006, with the realization by some that the Canadian nonprofit sector needed to project a cleaner, more trustworthy image to the public and to donors at large. The catalyst for this...
My nonprofit had more people come forward to run for the board than the number of vacancies. The board recommended only certain candidates to the members, the same number as there were vacancies. Was it ethical to do that? It...
You hear it all the time. For a collaborative to become successful there needs to be a high level of trust amongst its members. I agree. Trust is needed for collaborative members to share important and relevant information and work...
Many women were a-twitter when data released last month from the 2011 Canadian Nonprofit Sector Compensation and Benefits Survey showed men earning more than women in the top five out of six job levels. Although the pay gap reported was...
According to some observers, the vast majority of internships at nonprofits and elsewhere may well be illegal. "There is widespread mischaracterization of interns as persons receiving training," says Andrew Langille, a lawyer and blogger in Toronto who specializes in employment,...
In an earlier article, Making Strategy Happen, I examined the factors to be taken into account for the successful implementation of a strategic plan. Since the fall season typically brings a period of annual planning and budgeting for nonprofits, it's...
Can my nonprofit make me serve another without my consent? I'm the human resources officer of a charity with 44 staff. My boss doesn't think that should be full time, and plans to contract with another charity, with 13 staff,...
What nonprofit doesn't want to raise awareness, attract more supporters, increase donations? And yet, many don't take full advantage of one of the best ways to achieve all of these: leveraging knowledge capital. Knowledge capital, also called intellectual capital, represents...
