Commit to Kids provides policies, strategies, and a step-by-step plan for reducing the risk of child sexual abuse, encouraging organizations to take an active, participatory role in protecting children in their care.
This card is a component of Commit to Kids, a program that helps organizations prevent child sexual abuse and create safe environments for the children in their care.
This card is a component of Commit to Kids, a program that helps organizations prevent child sexual abuse and create safe environments for the children in their care.
Social enterprise has become a buzz in the nonprofit sector. This book attempt's to provide individuals and social service agencies with enough information to help them decide if and how social enterprise may fit with their specific organization.
This guidebook is designed to give you an overview to the incorporation of not-for-profit societies within Alberta and guidleines to consider when incorporating.
This is a story about transition and change.
Avoiding abuse, injuries, fraud and other types of risky situations to protect the volunteers, members, participants and everyone else involved in your group must be made a top priority. And risk management starts with careful planning.
People make decisions on a daily basis. Often these decisions have a small impact on their daily routine; in other cases, they have a huge impact on many people.
Does your organization have difficulty recruiting new volunteers? It may be more than a lack of willing volunteers. It may be time to take a closer look at how your organization works.
The kind of experience a new member has with your group is more important than you might realize. If people don’t feel welcome or needed, their interest and enthusiasm will disappear and your group has just lost a valuable resource!
Just like you might need a map to keep from getting lost on a trip, effective organizations need a map to stay on track and avoid losing their sense of direction.
Volunteer Canada's Safe Steps Screening Program provides an easy-to-use method for organizations to ensure that the people they serve are safe.
Screening is a process designed to create and maintain a safe environment.
The club has the following documentation that has been formally adopted by the membership and is reviewed on a regular basis...
The club has board-approved/adopted and regularly reviewed code of ethics/conduct with which all directors, staff, coaches and volunteers...
The club has an annual operating budget approved by the board and approved or presented at the annual general meeting. The board or a board committee reviews actual revenues...