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Of course the sector needs to be sustainable but that’s not the “be all, end all.” The real goal is to have a civil society with organizations that are there for the public good.

A new report funded by the Wellesley Institute. In this report I take a look at the impact of our antiquated legislation and regulatory regime for Canadian charities and nonprofits. The sources of revenue for Canada’s charities and nonprofits are changing and our regulation has not kept pace. The result is a tangled maze of [...]

Gradually, I have come to believe that we require our own language and a new way of approaching the nonprofit and charitable sector if we are to meet its challenges. The new language that I believe we need would have profound implications for how we think not just about organizations serving the public good but [...]

Join ONN in calling for a dedicated Public Benefit Corporations Act in Ontario
The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), expert working group has prepared three responses to the three consultation papers on the Corporations Act issued by the Government of Ontario. All three can now be found on the brand new ONN website.
Please check it out the [...]

For at least a decade voluntary sector organizations have been pushed to adopt more “business” practices. In some sectors this has lead to the opening up of what were traditionally voluntary sector fields to for-profit organizations. In other areas funders have tried to implement “business” practices in their funding agreements.
Unfortunately, the introduction of business [...]

The Sarnia-Lambton Rebound Program was hailed by Jason Clemens of the Fraser Institute as a model of “business practices” in a Globe and Mail article, October 2000, in which he exhorted other social service organizations to follow suit. The article implies that was business methods that tipped the balance and made this little agency so [...]

This is the first of a series of articles about the need to assess the impact of the new funder-provider relationship. During the 1990’s a quiet revolution has been taking place between funders and the not-for-profit agencies who deliver community-based services. Each funder has made changes independently and there has not been an evaluation [...]