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How Are We Doing? The Essential Check-Ups
Is your group trying to look forward and evolve but having trouble knowing where to start? Been working on a project for so long, you’ve lost track of whether things are going as planned? Use evaluation as a starting point, a check-in or a final step.
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How Does Your Group Make Decisions?
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.
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Do You Run Effective Meetings?
Meetings are effective when they achieve the group’s objectives in a minimum amount of time to the satisfaction of all participants.
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How Welcoming and Healthy Is Your Group? A Check-Up For Volunteer Recruitment
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.
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Is Our Group Open, Welcoming and Volunteer-friendly?
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!
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Why Does Your Group Exist?
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.
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Why Do People Volunteer?
Knowing why people give their time and talents can help you plan for volunteer involvement.
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Why Involve Volunteers?
Even though bringing new people into the group can feel disruptive or slow you down, in the long run it will benefit you, your fellow group members and your community.
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Volunteers: The 10 Steps of Screening
Volunteer Canada's Safe Steps Screening Program provides an easy-to-use method for organizations to ensure that the people they serve are safe.
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Volunteer: Screening
Screening is a process designed to create and maintain a safe environment.
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Risk Management Guide
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People and Sport: An Organizational Self Assessment Guide
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Legal
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Succession Planning
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Meeting Management
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Strategic Planning
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Governance Models
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Template - Club Structure
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Template - Club Constitution
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Team Handbook Sample
Standard
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#11 People Roles and Responsibilities
An approved job description is completed for all staff and volunteer positions (including team/coaching staff). Criteria used to hire staff and select volunteers are established and documented...
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#19 Mission-Vision-Planning
The club has the following documentation that has been formally adopted by the membership and is reviewed on a regular basis...
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#20 Board of Directors and Terms of Composition
The board of directors holds a sufficient number of meetings annually (at least two, may be by electronic means) to ensure appropriate direction and oversight of the club’s activities...
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#23 Operating Budget
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...
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#24 Annual Reporting
Clubs complete annual financial statements in accordance with an acceptable accounting framework as identified by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA)...
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#25 Financial Transparency
The club makes the following information publicly available or available to members (e.g., on its website, in its annual report, in its financial statements) within six months of its year end...
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#28 Donation and Sponsorship Policies
The club has a policy established and published on how and at what amounts donations and/or sponsorships will be acknowledged. The policy should include a ban on tobacco sponsorship...
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