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It is important to manage legal risk for NPOs. For these Not-for-Profit organizations (NPO), there are often many requirements and guidelines to follow. Especially regarding funding and leadership. To ensure compliance, your organization's board and senior management must conduct regular legal check-ups. This will ensure proper due diligence and prevent costly mistakes and avoid exposure to legal liability. According to Carters Professional Corporation, the following 10 tips identify key issues that charities and NPOs should address for effective legal risk management.      

As of November 2018, CRA will no longer provide peel and stick barcode labels with the Registered Charity Information Return (T3010) package. These barcodes contained the charity’s BN/registration number and the charity’s fiscal year end date. You will continue to receive the Registered Charity Basic Information Sheet (Form TF725) with the package, however, the barcode labels will no longer be on the back of it.

There is no denying that social media's importance to businesses and organizations, including not-for-profit organizations (NPOs), is growing exponentially. Just this past year, Facebook hit 2 billion monthly users, and this number continues to grow (Tech Crunch, 2017). This makes Facebook the largest social platform.

In order to ensure compliance with legal requirements, and to avoid exposure to legal liability, it is important that the board and senior management of charities and Not-for-Profit Organizations (NPOs) undertake regular legal check-ups to ensure proper due diligence. According to Carters Professional Corporation, the following 10 tips identify key issues that charities and NPOs should address for effective legal risk management.

With 2018 here, many people may have made it their new year’s resolution to donate to charities and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) for the very first time. How exciting – people want to choose your cause to donate towards! This means the donor recognizes your organization to be effective in trying to achieve its mission, and has been given the feeling that he/she is part of an important cause. Although this is all very exciting, it is important to make lasting impressions with first-time donors so that they will want to give back again.

Do you know if your organization is maintaining good organizational governance? Good organizational governance is imperative to an organization for passing the will and interest of your stakeholders. As a director, you can ask yourself these questions to evaluate your management: