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1. Checklists, Fast Facts, Tipsheets
Fundraising Activities Checklist
Planning a fundraising event? Developing a fundraising plan? This checklist will help you to be more accountable in your fundraising activities.
Fundraising and Tax Receipts
Fundraising events such as luncheons, banquets, or golf tournaments involve giving benefits to the donors. These benefits are known as advantages under the Income Tax Act. When calculating the eligible amount for an official donation receipt...
2. Guides
Road to Accountability Handbook
This handbook introduces the concept of accountability, shares some good accountability and transparency practices and suggests a pathway for charities to learn more about how to be accountable.
Road to Accountability Self-Diagnostics Pack
The purpose of this pack is to assist small and mid-size registered charities and non-profit organizations in assessing their accountability and transparency practices and in planning their further learning.
3. Podcasts
Allocation and Reporting of Expenditures for Fundraising Activities
Interview with Peter Broder, lawyer and Policy Analyst with the Muttart Foundation in Edmonton, Alberta on allocation and reporting of expenditures for fundraising activities with multiple purposes.
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Overview of CRA's Guidance on Fundraising by Registered Charities

This interview with Peter Broder, covers:

* definition of fundraising
* cost of fundraising activities
* private gain
* other CRA requirements and provincial fundraising requirements.

Peter Broder...

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Third Party Fundraising
Registered Charities and Third Party Fundraisers - Considerations when hiring fundraising professionals, do's and don'ts of fundraising and more....
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7. Webinars
Fundraising by Registered Charities: The Basics
In June of 2009 CRA released its Fundraising Guidance for Registered Charities. The guidance provides infromation on everything from "what is fundraising" to "how to allocate fundraising expenses". This informative presentation provides an overview...
8. LawNow Articles
Fundraising Cost Ratios
In early April, a column appeared in the Vancouver Sun lamenting, yet again, examples of exorbitant profits earned by for-profit fundraising companies contracted by charities to solicit donations on their behalf. LawNow Volume 33,...
Lessons for Canada in the American Approach to Telemarketing Fraud Against Charities
Earlier this year, The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) won massive judgments against two different telemarketing groups for misrepresenting to donors the benefits to charities associated with their solicitation. In light of these judgments the...