High Stakes: What Drummond Means for the Nonprofit Sector

The following resources are intended to provide a foundation for you and your organization to build on as you frame and participate in conversations with partners, communities, governments, and the broader public in the days and months ahead.

Current Resources:

1) NEW – A brief, incisive sector-based analysis of Drummond’s report. The four fundamental principles that guide this work are intended to help focus dialogue within the sector and between the sector and the provincial government as it prepares its 2012 budget. Download Full Document

2) UPDATED – What Others are Saying: A List of Drummond Resources. Click to find data and coverage on the value of the nonprofit sector, economics and Drummond’s report.

3) A quick reference list of the recommendations most likely to directly affect the broad nonprofit sector. We have not included recommendations made for specific subsectors.

4) A short list of relevant quotes from the report, which indicate the Commission’s approach to a number of key areas that affect the sector, for example, accountability, risk, and privatization.

Provincial Budget Watch:

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Get your Drummond Messages Out

The Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services (aka the Drummond Report) opens up a critical dialogue about the government’s fiscal and public service plans for Ontario in the coming months and years.

This is a discussion we all need to be part of: ultimately, it is about the future of the communities and people served by nonprofits across the province. The Commission makes hundreds of recommendations, most of which are to some degree relevant for the nonprofit sector.

ONN has focused on aspects of the report that affect the broader nonprofit sector. We welcome an analysis of the report and its potential implications from individuals, organizations, and specific sub-sectors. We are currently compiling postings on the Commission’s report from across the broader nonprofit sector.

Let us help get your messages out – email heather.laird@theonn.ca if you have something to post on our site.