non-profit | Renewal

Water Policy Fellowships

By Anna Strom on February 11, 2009 - 2:31pm

The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation is pleased to announce the fifth call for applications for its Water Policy Fellowships. Through the Fellowship program, the Foundation seeks to support emerging leadership, and promote better links between research and Canadian public policy by enabling partnerships between young researchers and non-governmental organization (NGO) mentors to address water policy issues.

TechSoup Canada

By Anna Strom on February 5, 2009 - 3:35pm

A great resource for non-profits is now available in Canada. TechSoup Canada provides nonprofits, charities, and libraries inexpensive access to technology through product donations, learning resources--and community.

Legal Limberness 101

February 19, 2009

Surrey Community Services Society, Surrey, BC

The legal and regulatory environment within which all not-for-profit organizations operate in Canada can be a complex and confusing - albeit necessary - component of effective organization management. The same regulations which make it possible to provide much needed services and programs on a tax-free basis with access to funding also create their own reporting, registration and governance isses for not-for-profit organizations.

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Accounting Athletics 101

February 18, 2009

Surrey Community Services Society, Surrey, BC

Much of the funding that supports the work of not-forprofit organizations comes from individual donors or from government agencies. Most, if not all, funders want to see that the organizations they support demonstrate appropriate dilligence around their ability to effectively use and track the funding.

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Financial Fitness 101

February 17, 2009

Surrey Community Services Society, Surrey, BC

Finance is a broad topic area with subjects from banking to organizational governance. Whether your need is to build a more financially healthy organization in order to create stronger plans to deliver on your core mission, or to access credit to level out irregular revenue flows, a broader understanding of financial matters can assist.

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Great Social Change Career Opportunity

By Thea Richmond on June 25, 2008 - 2:14pm

The Hollyhock Leadership Institute (HLI) is looking for a Senior Consultant. Keep reading for more details regarding this employment opportunity.

Pivot Legal Society

One of Canada’s leading social justice organizations.

Katrina’s Story

In 2001, first year law student Katrina Pacey discovered the Pivot Legal Society—an edgy nonprofit serving Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Working from a founder’s bedroom and borrowed office space, Pivot had embarked on becoming a prominent advocacy group for marginalized people. Katrina devoured the collaborative atmosphere of lawyers and east side citizens around the same table. She found her niche in law reform for sex trade workers.

Flack Block

The Historic renovated Flack Block, home to Renewal and Tides Canada Foundation, stands at the intersection of Cambie and Hastings: kitty corner from Victory Square, across from the Dominion Building, and adjacent to the Woodward’s redevelopment.

Endswell Foundation

Through the 1990s the Endswell Foundation was the largest, BC based, charitable foundation funding environmental issues in the province. Endswell's grant-making era is now complete.