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	<description>Beyond Numbers brings you insightful commentary and reviews of pertinent events and research that impacts the non-profit sector</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Get Moving – May 31, 2008 deadline</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/public-benifits-corporations-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modernization of Ontario Legislation for the Nonprofit Sector</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), expert working group has been hard at work on a more detailed study of the legislative options for public benefit organizations and drafting these briefing notes for the field.Act now! Make sure your organization participates in the consultation process and take the time to forward this brief to your networks. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report: We Can’t Afford to Do Business This Way</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/we-can%e2%80%99t-afford-to-do-business-this-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lynneakin.com/we-can%e2%80%99t-afford-to-do-business-this-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Study of the Administrative Burden Resulting From Funder Accountability and Compliance Practices. 
My research on the administrative burden resulting from funder accountability and compliance practices is now available. Undertaken with the support of the Wellesley Institute, the studies findings will help nonprofit organizations and their funders improve their effectiveness and responsiveness.
Some excerpts:
“The findings are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow Up - Building a Network</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/follow-up-building-a-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my memo in June 2007 proposing that a network, rather than an organization, was a better fit for the nonprofit sector two things have happened.
Firstly, in contrast to my first paper which was met with a resounding silence, my network proposal generated many enthusiastic responses. Many of you contacted me to say what a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memo to the Sector</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/memo-to-the-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I introduced the paper Advancing the Nonprofit Sector  in which I identified the key characteristics for successfully organizing the nonprofit sector as – independent (non-government) funding, cross sector involvement, experienced volunteer and staff leadership, and an open functional structure.
I then set out to speak with many people in the various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Successful nonprofit congress held in the United States</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/successful-nonprofit-congress-held-in-the-united-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The time has come to work together to address our common challenges and opportunities&#8221; Over 400 nonprofit leaders from 47 states gathered in Washington, D.C.in October 2006 to affirm the nonprofit sector&#8217;s shared values, identify the top three priorities and draft state action plans to address these priorities. We will find the report highlights very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advancing the Non-Profit Sector</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/advancing-the-non-profit-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one galvanizing issue that should unite the nonprofit sector in Ontario, it is the financing and regulatory problems that currently threaten the sector’s well-being. Katherine Scott of the Canada Council on Social Development describes the cumulative impact of these problems as a “perfect storm” in the making.
The sector needs to take action, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nonprofit Organizational Capacity Quiz for Funders</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/the-nonprofit-organizational-capacity-quiz-for-funders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lynneakin.com/the-nonprofit-organizational-capacity-quiz-for-funders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Providing responsive, safe and effective programs in communities requires organizational capacity. Try the following quiz to help identify the organizational capacity you would like to see in your nonprofit partners.
Download the Quiz
The Nonprofit Organizational Capacity Quiz for Funders
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		<title>Community Service Organizations at Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/community-service-organizations-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lynneakin.com/community-service-organizations-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Community service organizations are at risk – of failing their mandates, failing their communities, betraying the public trust, and fading away as viable organizations.
We now have a significant body of Canadian research that documents the vulnerability of community social service organizations. New funding practices, widely adopted by governments and others in the early 1990s, have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Policy and Practice Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.lynneakin.com/the-policy-and-practice-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lynneakin.com/the-policy-and-practice-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Eakin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A survey of voluntary sector organizations was undertaken as part of a larger collaborative problem-solving initiative between Social Development Canada and the Voluntary Sector Forum focusing on the Code of Good Practice on Funding. The survey focused on the funding of administrative costs in federal government agreements with voluntary sector organizations.
The lack of funding to [...]]]></description>
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