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I was recently approached by Angela Palmier at Resource Etc in Illinois about my thoughts on virtual volunteering. She posted my thoughts almost in their entirely on her blog on Sunday [LINK]. In the article, I was trying to drive home the point that skilled consultants like myself are a different class of volunteer than [...]

On Monday morning, I sat in on a webinar put on by Miller Thomson LLP and Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP arranged by Enterprising Non-Profits entitled “Not-for-Profits Making Profits”. I’ve summarized my views on this topic in the video below (sorry about the thumbnail – I look like there’s something wrong with me) but in [...]

I’ll preface this article by saying that while I am not a Mac fan, I am also not a rabid Mac hate monger. I have never owned a Mac but have worked on them in the past and own an iPod Touch that is jailbroken to run the same applications as the iPhone. I am [...]

Over the past few decades, two realities have dominated the Canadian non-profit industry: 1. The demand for their services has grown exponentially as government decentralized its community services and has transferred ownership of service delivery to community-based organizations. 2. The number of non-profits that have emerged to respond to this reality has grown exponentially and [...]