What your Charity Should Know
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How Much Should A Canadian Charity Spend on Overhead?
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| by Mark Blumberg
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| What are appropriate overhead costs for a Canadian registered charity? ‘Overhead’ can be defined as the ongoing expenses of a charity that cannot be directly attributed to any specific charitable activity, but may still be necessary for the charity to function...
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Nonprofit Organizations, and Human Resources Management
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| Staffing decisions are among the most important decisions that nonprofit organizations make. Just as businesses and organizations of all sizes and areas of operation rely on their personnel to execute their strategies and advance their goals, so too do nonprofit groups. It follows, then, that nonprofit organizations need to attend to the same tasks as profit-seeking companies do when they turn to the challenges of establishing and maintaining a solid work force.
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Receipting by Canadian Charities Takes Front and Centre in Federal Budget
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| by Mark Blumberg
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| For anyone interested in the charity sector it was hard to miss the approximately 25 pages in the March 22, 2011 proposed Federal budget (the “Budget”) dealing with registered charities and certain entities other than registered charities that can issue official donation receipts, which are cumulatively referred to as “qualified donees” under the Income Tax Act.
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Receipting Kit for Canadian Registered Charities launched by the Charity Law Information Program
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globalphilanthropy.ca
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| The Charity Law Information Program (CLIP) has released the Receipting Kit for Canadian Registered Charities. The kit is 25 pages long and provides an overview of what a registered charity needs to generally know about receipting. As well, there is an attachment which is about 115 pages long with CRA guidance on receipting and even a CRA auditor checklist on receipting.
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| The kit is available for free.
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Running Effective Meetings
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| Robert's Rules of Order - For Fair & Orderly Meetings & Conventions
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robertsrules.org
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| Provides common rules and procedures for deliberation and debate in order to place the whole membership on the same footing and speaking the same language.
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Fundraising
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| The Big Event: 5 Tips for Making Your Next Fundraising Event a Great Success (PDF)
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NetworkforGood.org
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| Do your events raise awareness, but no money? Are you struggling to turn participants into fundraisers? Here are five steps to move the focus of your event from attendance and awareness to fundraising.
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Project Evaluation
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| Project Evaluation Guide For Nonprofit Organizations: Fundamental Methods and Steps For Conducting Project Evaluation (PDF)
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ImagineCanada.ca
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Self-Test for Helpers
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| Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers
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Traumatic Stress Research Group
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| Helping others puts you in direct contact with other people’s lives. As you probably have experienced, your compassion for those you help has both positive and negative aspects. This self -test helps you estimate your compassion status, which includes your risk of burnout, compassion fatigue and satisfaction with helping others.
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