Governance Archives

March 8, 2024

How Have Canada’s Sports Organizations Gotten Away With So Much for So Long?

Bill Cross is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University and is studying in the MPNL program, researching governance of national sports organizations (NSOs), which oversee... More

March 1, 2024

Governance Excellence and the Board-CEO Relationship

Dr. Sharilyn Hale is an instructor in the MPNL program and the founder of Watermark Philanthropic Counsel. A practitioner, educator and researcher, Hale is a Chartered Director (C.Dir.) and an... More

December 11, 2023

Education & Research Infrastructure for the Nonprofit & Philanthropic Sector: Canada as Laggard

By Dr. Susan Phillips. Why does Canada lag far behind other countries in supporting graduate education and research for the philanthropic and nonprofit sector? There are numerous specialized centres and... More

July 18, 2023

How to Start a Nonprofit in Canada: Everything You Need to Know

The Muttart Foundation released a new report (July 2023) that outlines how to start a nonprofit organization in Canada, with specifics for each province and territory and at the federal... More

December 2, 2022

Art, now more than ever: Strategic changes at the Canada Council for the Arts

[Cet article est disponible en français.] At the end of 2022 Simon Brault, Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, sat down with PANL Perspectives to discuss... More

November 21, 2022

The Hockey Canada Fiasco: Yves Savoie Offers Lessons for Nonprofits in Canada

The Hockey Canada scandal has been in the news a lot this year. We spoke to Yves Savoie, an executive coach and strategy advisor to not-for-profits and charities, about broader... More

August 30, 2021

Who’s the Boss? Board Governance in Practice

Excerpt from Chapter 8 of the book “Intersections and Innovations: Change for Canada’s Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector,” edited by Susan Phillips and Bob Wyatt and published as a free e-book... More