A draft of the new Societies Act is coming before the BC Legislature during this sitting. Section 99 of the proposed Act would allow any member of the public or a corporation to bring legal action against a society on …
Non-profits and charities have an essential role and voice in shaping public policy in Canada and BC. We should not be intimidated out of that role, and certainly not because of misconceptions about the rules.
There are two big questions …
On January 17th Imagine Canada hosted a Public Policy Session in Vancouver, designed to inform board directors on the impacts of recent changes to the federal government’s approach to charities and the effects that is having on charities.
There has …
Andrew Gage from the West Coast Environmental Law Society 
attended a roundtable discussion on the proposed Societies Act in Vancouver on January 26th, led by Minister Michael De Jong.
Andrew reported that Minister De Jong ran the meeting himself and …
While the public comment period on the BC Government’s proposed changes to the BC Societies Act is over, the BC NDP has launched an online petition to collect as many names as possible to oppose the proposed changes.
The online …
56 BC societies–including Board Voice–have signed and submitted a letter opposing proposed changes to the BC Societies Act that would allow any “interested party” to apply to the courts to have the actions of the society ruled “not in the …
The BC Government is proposing changes to the Societies Act that would allow any “interested party” to apply to the courts to have the actions of the society ruled “not in the public interest.”
This single change could tie up …
National Volunteer Week celebrates Canada’s 13.3 million volunteers.
In British Columbia, we have a vital and innovative non-profit (community benefits) sector. There are some 26,000 community benefit organizations in B.C., each with a board of directors. That means there …
Family Services of Greater Vancouver Board Chair Joanne Haucsh and Lookout Society Director Jim Frankish have weighed into the media discussion on the audit scandal that has engulfed the Portland Hotel Society (PHS).
Hausch and Frankish spoke to the Globe …
Collective Impact is in approach to solving ‘wicked social problems’ with Five Conditions of Collective Success: common agenda; shared measurement systems; mutually reinforcing activities; continuous communications; and backbone support organizations.
Collective impact is explained in a paper by John Kania …
