scholarly journals Taking risks the safe way: risk management and insurance practices of Ontario's Voluntary Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ontario. Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Supporting Capacity ◽  
Working Paper

Taking Risks the Safe Way was developed as a knowledge‐building tool and research reference for nonprofit organizations across Ontario. The contents of this document will also guide the work of government in supporting capacity‐building among voluntary and community organizations, and provide a valuable resource for the insurance industry in serving the nonprofit sector. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation

scholarly journals Taking risks the safe way: risk management and insurance practices of Ontario's Voluntary Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ontario. Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Supporting Capacity ◽  
Working Paper

Taking Risks the Safe Way was developed as a knowledge‐building tool and research reference for nonprofit organizations across Ontario. The contents of this document will also guide the work of government in supporting capacity‐building among voluntary and community organizations, and provide a valuable resource for the insurance industry in serving the nonprofit sector. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation

scholarly journals Closing the Loop: Corporate Links to the Voluntary Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Mary Foster ◽  
Ida Berger
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Times

This paper brings together findings from three separate investigations to provide a deeper understanding of the changing roles of the government, for-profit and nonprofit sectors in ensuring civil society. The first study, based on a survey of 645 nonprofit organizations from across Canada, revealed a nonprofit sector changing to meet the challenges of the times, despite a general pessimism among leaders of nonprofit organizations as to their future (Meinhard & Foster, 2003a & b). The second, based on interviews with 20 Government of Ontario officials with links to the nonprofit sector, demonstrated how civil servants struggled to help nonprofit organizations adjust to the new policies and also encouraged them to form partnerships with the for-profit sector (Meinhard & Foster, 2003c). The research reported in this paper, based on interviews with 17 senior officers of Ontario-based corporations active in philanthropy, focuses on the corporations and probes more deeply in to the myriad of ways they are getting involved in their communities as socially responsible corporate citizens.The findings from the corporate interviews are compared and melded with those from previous interviews with government officials and nonprofit organizations to provide a three-dimensional perspective of the direction in which Canadian civil society may be moving. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial ventures in nonprofit organizations: determining probability for success

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Fitzrandolph ◽  
Leslie Miller
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Working Paper

[First paragraph of introduction]: In a recently published document entitled "Charities doing Commercial Ventures: Societal and Organizational Implications", (1998), Brenda Zimmerman and Ray Dart point out that even though charities have been undertaking commercial ventures for years, it would appear that we a poised for a dramatic increase in commercial activity. In response to government support radically decreasing, the phenomenon of nonprofit organizations taking on entrepreneurial ventures to generate additional resources is gaining momentum. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial ventures in nonprofit organizations: determining probability for success

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Fitzrandolph ◽  
Leslie Miller
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Working Paper

[First paragraph of introduction]: In a recently published document entitled "Charities doing Commercial Ventures: Societal and Organizational Implications", (1998), Brenda Zimmerman and Ray Dart point out that even though charities have been undertaking commercial ventures for years, it would appear that we a poised for a dramatic increase in commercial activity. In response to government support radically decreasing, the phenomenon of nonprofit organizations taking on entrepreneurial ventures to generate additional resources is gaining momentum. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Civic Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian Society: the role of nonprofit organizations in Canada’s four most diverse cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Farhat Faridi ◽  
Pauline O'Connor ◽  
Manveer Randhawa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Visible Minorities ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Specific Interests

Newcomer engagement or participation in the nonprofit sector has been shown to be an important pillar for upholding democracy, linked to voting behaviour and political participation; the creation of social capital; and enhancement of newcomer involvement in local decision making. This paper presents results of a study that focuses on two ways in which immigrant minorities have their interests represented in community decision-making: the first through the formation of ethno-specific voluntary organizations that represent their specific interests; the second via participation as leaders, board members and volunteers in ‘mainstream’ nonprofit and public organizations. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation

scholarly journals Commercial ventures in nonprofit organizations: stratgegic change or natural evolution?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes G. Meinhard ◽  
Louise Moher ◽  
Mary K. Foster ◽  
Susan Fitzrandolph
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Planned Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Working Paper

This paper investigates the change processes involved in establishing commercial ventures as revenue generating alternatives in eleven nonprofit organizations, and reports on factors contributing to their success. The eleven cases studied illustrate that the establishment of commercial ventures in nonprofit organizations may result from either deliberate planning or following emergent opportunities. Regardless of whether change was emergent or deliberate, successful organizations were ones that did not try to radically change their paradigms. Their ventures were either merely an extension of existing physical or human resources, or entwined with their mission very early in their life cycle. The unsuccessful and struggling ventures, however, were the result of intended, deliberately planned change strategies that failed because the ventures failed to mesh with the organization’s paradigm. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Revenue diversification as a strategic response by Canada’s nonprofit sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Foster ◽  
Agnes G. Meinhard
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Revenue Diversification ◽  
Strategic Response ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Track Record

Government policies in Canada have taken a “hard right turn” and tax cuts now have priority over investing in social programming. Both federal and provincial governments have been withdrawing from direct service provision with the expectation that the nonprofit sector will fill in the gap. At the same time, traditional government support for the sector has declined, which limits organizations’ ability to meet their current service demands. Using a sample of 645 organizations from across Canada, this paper explores the use of revenue diversification as a response to policy changes. The findings indicate that while nonprofit organizations in Canada have embraced revenue diversification to support program delivery, the extent of diversification is influenced by size, whether the organization is run by women or not, whether it is a relatively new organization or one with a long history and track record, and whether its mandate has a broad or narrow appeal. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Commercial Ventures in Nonprofit Organizations: Strategic Change or Natural Evolution?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Louise Moher ◽  
Mary Foster ◽  
Susan Fizrandolph
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Planned Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Working Paper

This paper investigates the change processes involved in establishing commercial ventures as revenue generating alternatives in eleven nonprofit organizations, and reports on factors contributing to their success. The eleven cases studied illustrate that the establishment of commercial ventures in nonprofit organizations may result from either deliberate planning or following emergent opportunities. Regardless of whether change was emergent or deliberate, successful organizations were ones that did not try to radically change their paradigms. Their ventures were either merely an extension of existing physical or human resources, or entwined with their mission very early in their life cycle. The unsuccessful and struggling ventures, however, were the result of intended, deliberately planned change strategies that failed because the ventures failed to mesh with the organization’s paradigm. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Keywords: nonprofit, commercial ventures, change Citation:

scholarly journals The impact of volunteer community service programs on students in Toronto's secondary schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Meinhard Agnes G. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
The Impact

[First paragraph of introduction]: One of the many challenges facing the nonprofit sector in Canada today is developing public awareness of the important role voluntary organizations play in the everyday lives of Canadians. Ranging from food banks, children’s aid societies, and immigrant service organizations, to opera companies and sporting societies, nonprofit and voluntary organizations offer a startlingly wide array of services which cannot be adequately provided directly through the open marketplace or the state. There are approximately 200,000 nonprofit organizations, 75,000 of which are registered charities. They account for 12% of the country’s GDP employing 5% of the national labour force and comprising nearly 10% of service sector employment (Stewart, 1996). In the past five years this sector accounted for 13% of job growth in Canada (Hall, 1996). The value of donated labour output was 13 billion dollars (Day and Devlin, 1996), representing an estimated half a million full time, full year jobs (Duchesne, 1989). Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Revenue diversification as a strategic response by Canada’s nonprofit sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Foster ◽  
Agnes G. Meinhard
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Revenue Diversification ◽  
Strategic Response ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Track Record

Government policies in Canada have taken a “hard right turn” and tax cuts now have priority over investing in social programming. Both federal and provincial governments have been withdrawing from direct service provision with the expectation that the nonprofit sector will fill in the gap. At the same time, traditional government support for the sector has declined, which limits organizations’ ability to meet their current service demands. Using a sample of 645 organizations from across Canada, this paper explores the use of revenue diversification as a response to policy changes. The findings indicate that while nonprofit organizations in Canada have embraced revenue diversification to support program delivery, the extent of diversification is influenced by size, whether the organization is run by women or not, whether it is a relatively new organization or one with a long history and track record, and whether its mandate has a broad or narrow appeal. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

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