Today is the deadline for the submission to the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) consultation on political activities by charities. For some, this deadline has been a motivating force behind their work ever since the consulting process was announced on September 27, 2016. For others, it’s been a big yawner. For most, it hasn’t even registered on the radar. In this first article of her new column Gail Picco outlines why she thinks you should be paying attention.
Thanks to Pay it Forward - a program sponsored by Hilborn and Westjet, I was able to attend the 2016 Sponsorship Week and hone my sponsorship prowess. This is what I learned from the leading experts in our field.
The work that charities do is extremely important to our society, so it is vital that various stakeholders, such as the public, the media, the government, donors, employees, boards, and others have access to key information on what the charity is doing and how it is doing it. In general transparency will ultimately increase public trust and confidence in the sector by making the public more informed about the work of charities and making it more difficult for people to misuse charities.
Falling on November 29th this year, GivingTuesday marks the official opening of the holiday giving season. In the three years since the global giving movement started in Canada, donations through CanadaHelps on GivingTuesday have grown 302 per cent. Shannon Craig offers some advice for how you can make the very most of this extraordinary day
