What are some ways nonprofits engage with citizens to promote civic engagement? (4)
1) efforts to enlist volunteers and donors to participate in their programs;
2) engaging in activities that bring community members together, such as through program participation and community events;
3) participation in collaborative arrangements with other nonprofits and less formal community groups;
4) activities that promote education and awareness within the community
What is the result of increasing socio-economic inequality in Canada:
the last 40 years there has been an increasing polarization between higher skill and higher pay employment opportunities and lower skill and lower pay employment opportunities
the lower-pay labour market sector is primarily characterized by:
the sale of goods and services
What are some changes in the nature of work in Canada:
- an increase in part-time, temporary employment opportunities, making full-time, permanent, meaningful work harder to attain.
- Social mobility becomes even more difficult, because of such forces as globalization and technical innovations, which render insecure the future of many professions once deemed secure
The increasing patterns of job insecurity can also reinforce existing patterns of inequality:
by blocking the mobility of people from lower income levels to higher levels.
Two key institutional frameworks that create socio-economic inequality in Canada
the labour market and the housing market
Canada’s third sector is also known as _____ _______ and the other two dominant sectors of society are:
civil society; the government and the market
For nonprofit corporations (i.e., those nonprofits registered only at the provincial level of government) to qualify for tax exemption, some profit-generating activity is allowable (3):
- the revenue cannot be excessive
- cannot exceed the needs of the existing programs at the organization
- revenues cannot be distributed to members
For charitable nonprofits (i.e., those nonprofits registered with the federal government), their participation in revenue-generating activities are limited by:
the Canada Income Tax Act
Social finance can be defined as:
an approach to mobilizing multiple sources of capital that delivers a social dividend and an economic return in the achievement of social and environmental goals
Examples of social finance initiatives:
Social Impact Bonds, Pay for Performance Contracts, and Social Investment Funds
The term social investment has emerged in recent years to describe:
efforts that have blended financial and social returns, such as social enterprise initiatives
True or false: In Canada there is no bilateral agreement between the governments in Canada and the nonprofit and voluntary sector to clearly outline the relationship between the government and civil society
True; there is the document An Accord Between the Government of Canada and the Voluntary Sector. This document does not represent an agreement, but rather a framework
From a social work lens, the perspective we are most interested in is that of the
“service user group”
