This volume closes with our usual mix oflaw, policy and management analysis. Professor Phillips investigates further the rule for political activity by charities in his comment on the Human Life International case. While he thinks the case was rightly decided, he also notes disturbing elements for future consideration. Blake Bromley advocates leaving the courts a…
Reinventing Your Board By John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver Published by Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1997, 232 pp., $40.95 REVIEWED BY VICTOR MURRAY Faculty of Administrative Studies, University of Victoria The phenomenon know as John Carver’s “Policy Governance Model” for the management of nonprofit boards seems to be continuing unabated. By November 1998, the…
“Viewpoint” and “Counterpoint” provide forums for informed discussion of issues of wide interest to the voluntary sector. The opinions expressed are those of the authors. (The following article is based on a letter to a friend and fellow volunteer for the Schulich’s Management Advisory Service (MAS), an organization which offers the services of skilled management…
This article was developed from a paper presented at “Investigating in the Whole Community: Strategies for a Caring Society”, a conference organized by The Trillium Foundation of Ontario, which took place October 15-16, 1998 in Toronto. Introduction Building community capacity is about far more than addressing social problems. It is about both social intervention and…
Human Life International of Canada v. Minister of National Revenue1 [hereafter HLICJ is the most recent judgment from the Federal Court of Appeal [the Court] dealing with charities and politics. In some respects it is not an easy decision to understand, and it seems on the surface to extend significantly the reach of the political…
Viewpoint and Counterpoint provide a forum for informed debate of issues of wide interest in the philanthropic sector. The opinions expressed are those of the authors. [This Discussion Paper resulted from a study of accountability by an independent panel commissioned by the Voluntary Sector Roundtable. It was released for consultation at the annual symposium of…
This article was developed from the Administrator’s Annual Report in which he included a thought-provoking outline of the Foundation’s proposed “Youth Engagement Programme Initiative”, successor to the successful programs for “Children at Risk” initiated in 1990. The past year has been one of reconstruction and evolution as Laidlaw Foundation continues to be an innovator, inspiration…
Introduction The profile, role, and expectations of the nonprofit sector have reached new heights in recent years, yet we know very little about the impact this development has had on the world of work in the sector. Does the sector have the human resources capacity to accommodate these new demands? What do they mean for…
This article was developed from a presentation to the Second Annual Symposium of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, held in Toronto, May 9, 1996. The author wishes to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of Robert Vokey in the preparation of this text. I am not one of those who believes that the voluntary sector is a…
Cy-pres Cy-pres applications would appear to represent the only charity law cases the provincial courts deal with these days, a product presumably of the fact that “definition” cases all revolve around Revenue Canada registration decisions and are thus dealt with by the Federal Court of Appeal. My discussions of cy-pres cases in a number of…