Best practices to help you prepare for your year-end audit

Interested in learning about auditing? We’ve partnered with Enkel to offer a free webinar on March 16. Register here. Year-end audits for nonprofit organizations are an independent examination of their financial statements and records. They are there to ensure that the...

Recession-Proofing Your Nonprofit: How to Continue Serving Your Mission During Challenging Times

Original Broadcast Date: January 12, 2023. Summary: Serving your mission during a recession can be tricky without proper preparation. Looking back helps us all plan ahead. Let’s turn back time and gain learnings from the Great Recession of 2007 as...

Preparing for a recession: Survive and thrive

Interested in learning how to recession-proof your organization? We’ve partnered with Keela to offer a free webinar on January 12. Register here. How your nonprofit can continue serving your mission during the incoming recession The past few years have challenged our...

Why are Canadian nonprofits still not embracing digital transformation?

Why have some nonprofits missed out on the digital revolution? In our latest episode of the CharityVillage Connects podcast, we spoke to sector experts who say now is the time for Canadian nonprofits and charities to embrace digital transformation, especially...

Importance of a nonprofit budget

Upcoming webinar: Budgeting and forecasting for nonprofits & charities Want to learn more about budgeting best practices?  Join our upcoming webinar with CharityVillage—“Budgeting and Forecasting for Nonprofits & Charities”—on Thursday, August 11, 2022, at 10 am PT / 1 pm...

What is digital transformation and how can your nonprofit prepare for it?

Digital transformation is a very buzzwordy phrase these days. But what does it actually mean? What are you transforming from and what are you becoming? How do you begin this transformation and then how do you sustain it?  Simply put,...

Clearing the legislative path for improved collaboration between charities and Indigenous organizations

Update: Bill S-216 has now been passed “in essence” via Bill C-19, the Budget Implementation Act. Bill C-19 included measures that changed the “direction and control” requirements that regulate charities who work with non-charities.  According to Senator Ratna Omidvar, sponsor...

Is a “culture of service” harming nonprofit professionals?

This article is an excerpt from Conscious Service: Ten Ways to Reclaim your Calling, Move beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself (Hazelden Publishing, Publication Date: April 2022) and is reprinted with permission. The role of workplace and community culture has...

Creating community together: An invitation to leadership

This article is an excerpt from Conscious Service: Ten Ways to Reclaim your Calling, Move beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself (Hazelden Publishing, Publication Date: April 2022) and is reprinted with permission. To create community together, there must...

Venture for Canada begins its impact investing journey

To be entrepreneurial means to act upon ideas and opportunities to build value for others – whether it be social, economic, or environmental. The definition, developed by the European Commission, is the driving concept behind Venture for Canada’s mission: Fostering the...