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March to June 2010 webinar schedules and registrations now available!

This spring, choose from 24 webinars. Click here for the full schedule and to register.

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Never been to one of our live workshops? Take a sneak peek at David Hartley in action at one of our full-day risk management workshops. Click here to watch!

Child Protection and the Cornwall Inquiry

"Cornwall Inquiry Releases Report with Recommendations Regarding the Prevention of and Responses to Child Abuse" by Terrance Carter and Esther Oh of Carter's Professional Corporation

Attention: Ontario Nonprofits and Charities! HST Is Coming!

On July 1, 2010 HST will replace Ontario’s PST. The Ontario Nonprofit Network is offering seminars that will lead nonprofits and charities through the key elements of the HST, help you to understand how the HST will affect your organization and develop a plan for the necessary changes.Click here for information on these seminars.

Tip of the Month

Every month, Melanie Herman of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center in the USA posts a helpful tip for managing risk within your nonprofit. Read February's Tip of the Month, "Nonprofit Finance and Audit Committees: What's the Difference?".

Columns from risk management experts

New to our website, experts on risk management for nonprofits write articles every month that are geared to your nonprofit or charity. Read the expert advice columns

Here's what we're hearing...

"I just wanted to say thank you for the Risk Management for Non Profits and Charities training you provided recently. In the course of a 21-year career and 13 years of volunteering in the not-for-profit sector, this was the most beneficial one-day training event I can recall, both in terms of quantity of new and usable information and in quality of delivery. Thanks again."
- Mike Davey, Sergeant, Sault Ste. Marie Police Service and Board Chair of Victim Services Algoma.
"I am so grateful for the work that you do at your organization. I created a driving policy this year and I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t had the support of your organization.....Thank you! You are making a huge difference through your work."
-Jill Mercier, Alzheimer Society of Kitchener-Waterloo
"David Hartley has a very solid understanding of the needs of nonprofits and charities and makes very reasonable suggestions to ensure that we are running our organizations in a way that protects, not just our property, but our reputation and people. He approaches risk management in a way that makes it seem much less intimidating and much more manageable. Additionally, he is a very engaging speaker with lots of excellent real world examples from the field."
- Christine Oldfield, Executive Director of Volunteer Centre of Guelph/Wellington (Host of workshop on Nov. 12, 2009)
"I can’t say enough how much I learned at the event ... I have shared the website with many, many people ... We will definitely want to engage with the centre again in the near future! "
- Sheri Benson, Executive Director, United Way of Saskatoon and Area (Host of our recent 2-day training in Saskatoon)
"This one-day workshop gave us invaluable information: it gave us the foundation to build upon."
- Robin Kerr, Executive Director, Victim Services Algoma
"The workshop was informative, practical and interactive with lots of helpful ideas and a great resource binder. The day also flew by because of your high energy presentation style."
- Sol Kasimer, former CEO of YMCA Canada, and a leader in the nonprofit sector for over 40 years, attended a recent 1-day workshop in St. Catharines. (Sol is currently Special Advisor to Imagine Canada's CEO)
"I am very impressed with what your group is pushing out to non profits. Great stuff and presented in a practical way. Great job - keep it up!!"
- Maureen Crawford, Director of Membership, Habitat for Humanity Canada
Read other testimonials

Ryerson Report on Risk Management in the Voluntary Sector

Ryerson is a partner in the Ontario Volunteer Partnership (OVP) along with our Centre. The Ontario government recently released their report on risk management in the voluntary sector. Read more....