The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy Program provides an opportunity for community foundations to apply for financial support for employees. This webinar covered the key components of the program and what community foundations need to consider when applying.
Stewarding donors through a time of crisis means reaching out, strengthening, and maintaining relationships. This was a conversation on key strategies the Winnipeg Foundation and Hamilton Community Foundation have put in place to ensure donors receive the right messages and are connected during a time of crisis.
As coronavirus spreads, registered charities and non-profit organizations (“NPOs”) that help the needy and vulnerable are likely to face unprecedented demands. Thus, it is critical that operations continue to the extent possible. This article discusses some key governance considerations that should be top of mind for management and boards of directors in the coming weeks, if not months.
The right software investment can be more than ROI — it can create impact for your organization. Join Jennifer DeBues, Director of Operations and Granting as well as Board Member Betty Morris from the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough as well as Stuart Reid, Executive Director of the Community Foundation Grey Bruce as they share how their investment in Foundant’s CommunitySuite solution has supported their organizations.
Watch this easy-to-understand video to learn why the Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) developed the Framework and how it can help you! This resource is courtesy of Financial Reporting & Assurance Standards Canada.
Making a charitable gift of real estate to a community foundation can help you turn a valuable asset into community good. Charitable gifts of real estate range from personal residences, vacation homes, rental properties, farmland, ecologically sensitive and commercially developed land.
A gift of appreciated securities is one of the most tax effective ways to give. Eligible securities include publicly listed stocks, bonds, mutual fund units or exchange traded funds on approved stock exchanges in Canada and internationally. There is beneficial tax treatment of these gifts because they are exempt from capital gains tax.
A community foundation’s charitable activity is primarily in making grants to qualified donees, and its community leadership work. However, a community foundation may also be able to engage in direct program and service delivery enabling it to provide funding directly to an individual (for instance providing scholarships directly to students) or to an organization that is not a registered charity (for instance to a not-for-profit).
This manual is intended to serve as your guide as you explore the “how to” of putting a community foundation together. In its presentation of ideas and practical advice, it also serves to highlight the past history and current activity of individual community foundations across Canada. It does so in order to demonstrate that every organization, no matter how successful, had to start somewhere.
The final webinar in our financial stewardship series provides an overview on the importance of internal financial controls necessary for all community foundations. Employee risk, hiring practices, tracking financial systems and best practices will be featured.