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Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act
The Ontario Not-For-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) is due to be proclaimed in the fall of 2012. However, many organizations in the nonprofit sector will have great difficulty using the Act and face the risk of it destabilizing the governance mechanisms of their organizations. Read more…
Provincial Budget Watch
The 2012 Ontario Provincial Budget was released Tuesday March 27, 2012. The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) recognizes the significant fiscal pressures faced by the provincial government and finds reasons to be optimistic about some of the proposed plans for reforming policies, delivery and investments in public-benefit programs and services. We are, however, disappointed with the elements of the budget that affect the most vulnerable in communities across Ontario in a negative way. Read more.
Open for Business
ONN has been collecting feedback from the Network, identifying long-standing administrative issues pulled from various working groups and committees, to ensure that the sector’s issues are heard and properly addressed.
Working with the Open for Business Secretariat, we have identified and submitted five formal sector recommendations… Read More
Infrastructure Ontario Loans Expansion
ONN is pleased with the announced expansion of eligibility criteria to the Infrastructure Ontario (IO) Loan program. Eligibility is expanded to nonprofit organizations that own or operate community hubs where both community health and social services are located together. ONN held a seminar on Infrastructure Ontario on January 19, 2012. Read more…
The Drummond Report: Potential Implications for the Nonprofit Sector
ONN has gathered feedback from the nonprofit sector and developed a principled approach to inform the work ahead, leading up to to the 2012 provincial budget and beyond. Visit our Drummond page to download the ONN analysis and to see what other groups are saying.
EnAbling Nonprofits Ontario
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