The federal government and the federal Conservative Party have now announced their respective cabinet and shadow cabinet.
Board Voice will be reaching out to the leaders and Opposition critics of the key social ministries with letters of introduction – we …
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 …
This piece was written by Board Voice Co-Chair Leslie Welin, who is also Chair of the Board of the Clements Centre Society.
On May 31 in the Legislature of British Columbia, Adam Olsen, a member of the Tsartlip First …
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, …
We were delighted at the opportunity to see the work of our member organizations profiled by the BC government for Community Social Services Month in March 2021.
Eleven of the 12 agency profiles posted here were shared via the Ministry …
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 …
The pandemic has been far from easy for non-profit organizations, especially those providing critically important social services.
But as this piece from The Conversation points out, our organizations’ ability to respond, pivot and even expand our services during such a …
An investigation that set out to unravel a racist guessing game rumoured to be happening in one BC hospital’s emergency ward has revealed massive racism against Indigenous people around the province, both as consumers of health care and as health-care …
Premier John Horgan unveiled his new cabinet on Nov. 26, with a number of MLAs now leading ministries relevant to our sector who have personal work backgrounds in community-based …
