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Standards Program Trustmark An Excellent Safeguard
Accreditation through the Imagine Canada Standards Program is a way for not-for-profits to keep the hard-earned confidence and trust of the public.
Read MoreOnline Assessment of Your Board’s Performance – Simple, Effective and Inexpensive
Many larger organisations have their own board assessment processes, but fewer smaller ones do. Where do you start to evaluate your board’s effectiveness?
Read MorePutting the Profit Back into Not-for-Profits
Astute donors seek organizations that are able to demonstrate their effectiveness and show accountability, no matter how admirable the NFP’s mission. Here are five things you can do right now to improve your NFP’s effectiveness and efficiency.
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Help us Give the Capital Region its Annual Check-Up
It’s that time of year again Greater Victoria, time for your annual check-up, so open up and say ‘ahhh’!
Read MoreContingency planning – hope for the best, plan for the worst
What would you do if your annual income was suddenly chopped by 20%? This is not an unlikely scenario in the next five to ten years. It has already happened to some families and to some non-profits.
Read MoreOn-line systems documentation for non-profits
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing”. To be effective and valuable an organisation’s operating procedure documents must be accurate, accessible, complete and up to date so that the work they describe is logical, consistent, transferable, replicable and, above all, usable.
Read MoreStrategic Planning: The Missing Bits that Make it Work
Some initiatives get started and some don’t. When the plan itself is dusted off we realise that we have achieved some goals but not others. It’s rarely the fault of the planning process; it is usually the fault of the execution process – the means by which the recommendations in the plan are implemented by the CEO and his/her senior people.
Read MoreBest Practices in Grant Adjudication
Best practices in grants adjudication from Chris Jones, Certified management Consultant. Picking your winners with fairness, transparency, efficiency and accountability.
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