This subject guide has many tools and resources for organizations of all types but specifically is helpful for non-for-profits, societies, social enterprises and co-operatives.
If there are any links that you feel should be on this page, please contact lala@lillooet.bclibrary.ca with suggested updates.
Categories are listed alphabetically below:
- Board of Directors
- Financials
- Grants & Fundraising
- Legal Help for Societies
- Social Enterprise & Cooperative
- Truth & Reconciliation
- Volunteer Recruitment
- Other
Board of Directors
Get your board functioning the way it’s supposed to.
Financials
Understanding financials is a key aspect to running any organization or business.
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- Accounting Athletics addresses the role and responsibilities of the Board and more specifically, the Finance Committee – the Treasurer, Executive Director, Accountant or Bookkeeper – in reading financial statements, what to look for and when to be concerned.
- Cash Flow Calisthenics focuses primarily on the roles and responsibilities of senior staff to maintain the financial well-being of a not-for-profit organization. It includes advice on cash flow planning and developing “what-if” scenarios, and provides guidance on how to work with allied professionals to improve cash position.
- Enterprising Exercises supports the staff and board of organizations that are currently operating a social enterprise. It poses important operational questions, and provides tools and success metrics to help identify areas where a social enterprise could be made stronger or more focused.
- Financial Fitness Workbook to help evaluate your non-profit
- Legal Limberness addresses the fundamental legal issues, from the duty of care to statutory obligations, for which the Board of Directors and senior staff are responsible.
Grants & Fundraising
Find grants to fund the next big idea.
Legal Help for Societies
Resources for understanding legalities of societies.
Social Enterprise and Co-operative
Everything you should know about social enterprises and co-operatives.
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- Action Plan Recommendations to Maximize Social Innovation in British Columbia
- BC Centre for Social Enterprise Blog
- BC-Centre-for-Social Enterprise – Legislative Innovations and Structural Lessons
- Buy Social Canada – Social Enterprise Certification
- CF Leadership Institute- Social Economy Intro
- Community Connect HUB – What is A Social Enterprise?
- Development Impact and You: Practical Tool to Trigger and Support Social Innovation
- Government of Canada – Start a Social Enterprise
- Investopedia-Social Enterprise Definition
- Information Sharing, and Resource Sharing in Prince Rupert
- Innoweave Social Enterprise Information Session
- ‘Just do it’: the Lean approach to enterprise development
- Learning Processes to Support it
- Let’s Explore: Coast Community Resource Hub
- Lillooet Area Community Connect Hub: We are Stronger Together
- North Coast Innovation Lab: Summer Cohort Findings: Enhancing Coworking,
- Purppl: Connecting Your Impact to Your Operating Model
- Scaling Impact: How to Get 100X the Results with 2X the Organization
- Scaling Impact Information Session
- Shaun Loney – The Problem Solver’s Companion – A Practitioners Guide to SE
- Social Innovation in British Columbia: BC Social Innovation Initiatives Across the Public, Non-Profit, and Business Sectors
- Scaling Out, Scaling Up, Scaling Deep: Advancing Systemic Social Innovation and the
- Social Enterprise Workbook
- The Canadian Social Enterprise Guide
- The State of Social Finance in Canada’s Charitable Sector
- THRIVE-Social Enterprise – Agency Self Assessment
- THRIVE-Social Enterprise Tools
- Your Social Enterprise Journey
Truth and Reconciliation
Learn about truth and reconciliation through these documents.
Volunteer Recruitment
Why is are finding volunteers so difficult? Learn how to engage volunteers.
Other
Other miscellaneous links.
Go back to the main Volunteer Connect page.
