By Rachel Corbett and Kevin Lawrie. We continue to help National Sport Organizations (NSOs) comply with the new Not-for-Profit Corporations Act and, as part of the governance restructuring that some NSOs are undergoing, we thought it would be valuable to review the current voting structure of ALL NSOs. We found some interesting results. With assistance [...]
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Olympic Team Selection – What Your NSO Needs to Know to Be Dispute-Ready!
By Rachel Corbett and Kevin Lawrie. The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games are fewer than 90 days away and many NSOs are preparing to select, or are in the middle of selecting, the teams and athletes that will represent Canada in London. Athletes who are not selected for a major event like the Olympics [...]
Strategic Management + Good Governance = High Performing Sport Organization
By Dina Bell-Laroche and Rachel Corbett. Okay, so Dina and Rachel got to thinking about what it takes for organizations to perform at a high level. Most of us working in sport have a good idea of what athletes and coaches need to be their best – these are our prescriptions for what sport organizations [...]
Harassment Issues in Sport – from 1994 to 2012
In 1994, Rachel Corbett wrote a handbook on Harassment in Sport that was distributed to NSOs and other amateur sport organizations around the country. As part of our 20th anniversary of service to the Canadian amateur sport industry, we thought it might be interesting to post the handbook and ask Rachel about the evolutionary changes [...]
Don’t Overlook Some Financial Impacts of the NFP Act
To date we have written extensively about the impacts that the NFP Act will have on membership classes and board structures. These are the main issues that NSOs and MSOs will need to address in order to become compliant with the NFP Act by 2014. However, there are many other seemingly smaller changes that organizations will have [...]
Reflections on Penn State, Scouts Canada and Graham James
By Rachel Corbett. I have just finished reading Theo Fleury’s book, Playing With Fire. I have owned this book for two years, but never took it off my shelf. However, in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal, and the revelation that Scouts Canada has been quietly keeping it’s own registry of pedophiles, [...]
Simplifying Risk Management
By Rachel Corbett. In recent months I have been following a blog on risk management written by Melanie Lockwood-Herman. She is the Executive Director of an American non-profit dedicated to helping non-profit organizations manage risks. Funded primarily by insurance companies (don’t hold this against them!), the Non Profit Risk Management Centre provides lots of great [...]
Sport Canada Introduces Governance Principles for Sport Organizations
by Rachel Corbett. Along with some other governance experts, I have been working with Sport Canada for some time on creating a prescriptive set of “good governance principles” for the Canadian sport community. This is a topic dear to my heart, and I have spent over a decade trying to impress upon sport leaders the [...]
Proposed Changes to the Income Tax Act to Affect RCAAAs
by Rachel Corbett. The federal government is in the final stages of reviewing changes to the Income Tax Act that will affect Registered Canadian Amateur Athletic Associations (RCAAAs). The impetus for these changes is the revocation of charitable status from a number of NSOs in recent years (see Football Canada and the Tax Man). It [...]
Wait and Hurry Up! New Corporations Act to Take Effect October 17, 2011
by Rachel Corbett. Industry Canada has very recently published their transition guide (HTML) for the new Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (NPCA) that will take effect in a few short days. They have also published all sorts of materials on their web site about the new Act, how to transition, and all the various forms and documents [...]
Latest Writings
- Snapshot of Voting Structures of National Sport Organizations
- Off-Side: Additional Penalties for Doping Infractions Struck Down
- Olympic Team Selection – What Your NSO Needs to Know to Be Dispute-Ready!
- Flying High… What Sport Leaders Can Learn from a Canadian Success Story
- Strategic Management + Good Governance = High Performing Sport Organization