Resources
Factsheets
- Be an Active Listener (PDF 426KB)
- Being a Member of the Board (PDF 646 KB)
- Discover the Benefits Policies and Procedures Can Bring to Your Organization (PDF 186 KB)
- Meeting Minutes: Build Your Organization's Effectiveness (PDF 578KB)
- Resolving Conflict: Build Your Organization's Effectiveness (PDF 1319 KB)
- Respectful Meetings: Build Your Organization's Effeciveness (PDF 811KB)
- Risk Management: Build Your Organization's Effectiveness (PDF 385)
- Youth and Board Governance: Build Your Organization's Effectiveness (PDF 1045KB)
LeadershipTalks Webinar Series
- Meeting Minutes
- Agendas
- Alternative Voting
- Board Orientation Process
- Quiet Leadership
- Board Roles & Responsibilities
- Board Engagement
- Building Your Bylaws
- Risk Management
- Financial Statements
- Volunteer Recognition
- Partnerships
- Time Management
- 5 Key Steps to Recruit New Board Members
- 10 Steps to Human Resource Management
- Resolving Conflict
- Effective Meetings
- Age is Just a Number: Generations Working Together
- Effective Communication
- Assessing the Organization: Tools to Help You
Templates
- Agenda Template (DOC 18KB)
- Board Manual Template (DOC 26 KB)
- Constitutional Template (PDF 993KB)
- Financial Report Template (DOC 14KB)
- Meeting Minutes Template (DOC 44KB)
- Motion Form Template (DOC 23KB)
- Policy Template (DOC 13KB)
- Report Form Template (DOC 22KB)
- Strategic Planning Template (DOC 17KB)
Worksheets
- Board activity: Evaluating conflict (DOC 14KB)
- Board activity: Thinking about conflict (DOC18KB)
- Developing SMARTER goals and actions (XLS 73KB)
- Organization assessment tool (XLS 55KB)
- What is our Mission? (DOC 14KB)
- What is our Vision? (DOC 14KB)
Reference Sheets
- Making and Handling Motions (PDF 162KB)
- Meeting Minutes Checklist (PDF 155KB)
- Out of Order (PDF 127KB)
- Voting Methodologies (PDF 179KB)
Guidebooks
- Board Governance Guidebook - Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (PDF 1.1MB)
- Effective Meetings (PDF 1546KB)
- Human Resource Management for Agriculture Organizations (PDF 1039KB)
- Parliamentary Procedures (PDF 899KB)
- Running Effective Meetings Guidebook - Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (PDF 734KB)
Websites
- Alberta Agriculture and Forestry - ELearning resource
- Alberta Culture and Tourism – Board Development Progr
- Charity Central - Office in a Box
- Charity Village - ELearning resources
- Chartered Professional Accountants Canada – Not-for-profit governance
- Governinggood – Non-profit resources
- Human Resource Council for the Nonprofit Sector - HR resources
- Industry Canada - Corporations Canada
- Manitoba Companies Office
- Manitoba Federation of Non-Profit Organizations
- Newfoundland Labrador Department of Innovation, Business and Rural Development
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs – Effective Organizations Product Catalogue
- SaskCulture – Organizational resources
- Sector Source - Resources for charities and non-profits
- The Muttart Foundation - Board Development Workbooks
- Volunteer Alberta Resource Centre – Learning resource guides
- Volunteer Manitoba
