We’re delighted to announce that Board Voice has successfully worked to have the first day of Volunteer Week in BC declared Non-Profit Volunteer Boards Day!
April 24 will be the first ever Non-Profit Volunteer Boards Day in BC. The proclamation …
Finance Minister Selina Robinson tabled the 2022 budget in the BC Legislature this week. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights noted in Tyee journalist Andrew Macleod’s coverage of the budget, which the Tyee describes as a …
A cautionary and very expensive tale for any non-profit board recently played out in BC Supreme Court, where the board of Literacy Alberni Society failed to convince the court that they were wrongly found “vicariously libel” in a defamation judgment levelled against …
We’ve been following Canadian Senator Ratna Omidvar’s efforts to change Income Tax Act legislation around requirements for charities that have ended up restricting their ability to give funding to non-charities whose work they support. The bill is now in third …
Statistics Canada has just released 2019 data providing insight into Canada’s non-profit workforce, which now accounts for almost 13 per cent of all jobs in Canada.
No surprises to see that the majority of workers in these 2.5 million jobs …
If you’re looking to really go deep on the details of the federal budget tabled this week as it applies to charities and non-profits in Canada, this article from law firm Miller Thomson ought to do it. The article was …
The federal government’s first budget in two years was tabled Monday, followed by BC Budget day on Tuesday. Here are some highlights for the community social services sector from those two budgets.
For our sector, …
The charitable sector is famously resilient and up for a challenge. But a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to bounce back is being sorely tested.
Imagine Canada’s latest Sector Monitor report details the strain the sector is under …
The latest figures from a recent crowdsourcing survey done by Statistics Canada indicate that Canadian non-profits have a long way to go to ensure diversity on their boards – including even having a written policy on board diversity.
StatsCan underlines …
Vantage Point CEO Alison Brewin shares her thoughts in a post on the Charity Village blog on the five most important considerations to think about when two non-profits are exploring whether they should become one.
Brewin notes that everyone from …
