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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.
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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 [...]