Here’s what we’re hearing from some of the thousands of nonprofit leaders who’ve attended a live workshop...

• “The best workshop on governance and risk management that I have attended! David presented two difficult subjects and kept the entire Board engaged and interested!” Adrienne Smith, Manager, B.C. 4-H
• "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
• "the workshop you presented was so great (and so entertaining) that I just couldn’t leave! Honestly!" Cathy Cavanagh, Finance & Operations Manager, Northumberland United Way in Cobourg, ON
• “At the end of the Webinar, we were so inspired that 10 participants signed up for a monthly working group to develop Risk Management Systems for each of our organizations...I think this is going to be a great way for us to keep each other accountable on improving our Volunteer Programs, and share our own solutions and innovations peer-to-peer. Thank you for providing this opportunity to gather together and start the ball rolling." Stacy Ashton, Executive Director, Community Volunteer Connections, serving Tri Cities and New Westminister, B.C.
• “I really enjoyed the webinar and found it extremely informative. Thanks for providing this.” Amanda Hudson, HR Advisor, HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector, Ottawa
• "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)
• "Thank you for your informative and thought provoking presentation at the BoardMatch leaders Session. I really enjoyed going down the rabbit hole with you and from the discussion afterwards so did everyone else. You are an excellent ambassador for your program; you bring life and a reality check to the subject matter."
  - Susan Dunne, Director of Programs and Administration, Altruvest Charitable Services
• "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, so we admit he may be biased!)
• "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
• [Both workshops were] "scintillating."
• "Simply excellent. This is the best investment of time, at a bargain price, I have made in the last decade."
• "Amazing workshop and facilitator! Kept day moving. Timing was perfect. Can't thank you enough!"
• "Incredibly informative!"
• "I got more out of this workshop than any I've attended in recent memory."
• "Wonderful. I was afraid it would be dry and boring and it was anything but."
• "Usefulness of resource package: Wow!!"
• "I was delighted that the focus in your workshop was about how to manage risk effectively, not avoid it."
• "Great workshop. Thanks for making a difficult topic easy to understand!"
• "It exceeded my expectations. I learned new things that I had not expected to learn."
• "Thank you! This helps me to think about things like this in a more focused way. It doesn't seem as overwhelming!"

Read what participants are saying about our fall 2009 webinar series...