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o_n_n: ONN presents teleconference on Bill 65 next Wednesday, September 8. Get updated, register now: http://bit.ly/aYsJC3

o_n_n: Aug 26 is the deadline for Bill 65 submissions. Send in your letter of support for the ONN brief! Go to: http://bit.ly/cESeOw

Bill 65, An Act to revise the law in respect of Not-for-Profit Corporations, will apply to all charities and nonprofits that are incorporated under the Province of Ontario and most Ontario organizations are provincially incorporated. This is important legislation that impacts you!

Does your nonprofit organization care about:

• Calling your organization a public benefit corporation so the public can easily know your intent is to provide for the public good?

• Limiting the liability of your volunteer Directors?

• Accessing Community Bonds with credible oversight to raise funds?

• Ensuring that the threshold for annual audits is not reduced to $100,000?

• Maintaining your organization’s choice on the use of proxies?  read more »

The Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development has been working with Volunteer Canada on a study to better understand the world of volunteering today.

If you are an organization that involves volunteers, please complete the survey by following the link below and please forward this link to those who volunteer in your organization.

English: https://study.opinionsearch.com/IntWeb.dll?IMODE=2&PROJECT=ONLINE_48562.48562

French: https://study.opinionsearch.com/IntWeb.dll?IMODE=2&PROJECT=ONLINE_48562.48562F  read more »

o_n_n: Launched! The first 'census' for Nonprofits & Charities on Social Enterprise! ON Nonprofits stand up & be counted: http://bit.ly/djWxrC

This week, ONN in partnership with the Social Venture Exchange (SVX) has launhced the Social Finance Census - A Survey of Ontario Nonprofits (including Charities) on Social Entperise Financing & Regulation. Read what Adam Spencer, Founder of SVX, has to say about the importance of this project!

It's time for a Social Finance Census

We have decided to ride this wave of popularity to launch the first ever Social Finance Census. At the risk of stoking further controversy, I will say that this Census is not mandatory.

So what exactly is the Social Finance Census?  read more »

o_n_n: Nonprofits need the long-form mandatory census, too! http://bit.ly/cJJfYa

Many of the most immediate and vocal opposition to the recent decision made by the federal government to eliminate the mandatory long-form questionnaire in the Canadian census has come from the business community, which uses this data to forecast labour and marketing trends, for example.

However, the loss of the reliable and in-depth data that the long-form (in its mandatory form) provides will also significantly hurt the nonprofit and charitable sector in Ontario – and Canada. Many charities and nonprofits rely on census data to develop services that meet the needs of their evolving communities. Others, like Imagine Canada and our own Ontario Nonprofit Network, rely on such data to better understand important trends in the sector.  read more »

o_n_n: Critical August public hearings for Bill 65 - Ontario's proposed Nonprofit Corporations Act. Support, Attend & Present! http://bit.ly/aum24W

Important Sector Notice: Public Hearings in August Bill 65, Ontario’s proposed Not-for-profit Corporations Act, has the potential to be precedent-setting legislation that will serve the sector’s future, but this is a critical point in time as the draft Act moves into Committee for review. We need to advocate for three key changes in the current draft, and ensure two features are supported and remain in the final Act.

We support:

• The new designation “public benefit corporation” (whereas the federal act refers to nonprofits as “soliciting corporations”);

• The ability of nonprofits to engage in commercial activities as long as revenues are used to forward our public benefit objectives.

The changes we want:  read more »