Author: Positive Change

Accountability & Risk Management: Canada’s New Long-Term Care Standards

CANADA’S NEW LTC STANDARDS – ACCOUNTABILITY & RISK MANAGEMENT on a MISSION Author: Gisele Guenard, BScN, MEd, VisionarEase Inc. & associates CEO, Founder – Client Centered Governance ® Essentials Certification & Nonprofit strategic planning services. FULL ARTICLE – Published in the British Medical Journal – Evidence-Based Nursing Warehouses for Death – Decades ago, research I […]

Nonprofit Board Engagement

Nonprofits with engaged boards are rocking it! Don’t you love being part of a governance team seeing success after success from your agency’s efforts? It’s about engagement, or… Passion! Rarely (never?) have I seen a successful, growing, stable and sustainable not for profit agency that did not have an engaged enthusiastic board of directors. Why […]

NONPROFIT SALARIES

Nonprofit salaries – a topic every NFP and charity Board of Directors struggles with, and perhaps now, post-pandemic, more than ever. The Great Resignation, and the rise in the cost of living/inflation rates are unprecedented and unplanned challenges which need to be tackled yesterday – or staff can easily move on.

NONPROFIT SUCCESS STORIES

Please join me in celebrating three inspiring nonprofit success stories below. Learn how one small nonprofit raised  $250,000 this year – in a pandemic! Have a success story you would like to share?   Contact me here.  I look forward to answering your questions personally.     Thank you, merci!   Gisele   Get your CLIENT CENTERED GOVERNANCE […]

ONCA Proclamation OCT 2021 – NONPROFIT NEXT STEPS

Days Hours Minutes Seconds The Ontario government has announced that: Ontario’s Not-For-Profit Corporations (ONCA), will be proclaimed (finally) and the new Ontario Business Registry will be launched on October 19, 2021.  ONCA, legislation nonprofits have been waiting for since 2010, is the “enabling” corporate legal framework for most not for profits and charities incorporated under […]

NONPROFIT TRENDS, ISSUES & AGENDAS

Should we be Talking about This? Nonprofit trends and issues of concern fluctuate. Effective board of directors – leadership teams are in tune with key developments in their own sectors and in the environment within which the agency operates. Ignoring environmental factors increases risk and has led to the demise of many NFPs and charities. […]

TRUTH, RECONCILIATION & NONPROFITS

Truth & Reconciliation / the Kamloops residential school children burial site discovery / the question “What can I / we do?” …our collaborative responsibility, for many of us, as descendants of settlers, as canadians.  How can your nonprofit be an agent of positive change in addressing the wrongs historically and currently perpetrated on Indigenous people? […]