Question: What should one be aware of when dealing with a board run NPO?
Answer: Board members who decide what percentage of your donations will increase their personal wealth are rampant in abusing this designation

Question: How are NPOs classified in Canada?
Answer: incorporated or unincorporated

Question: How has Canada's government kept up with the changing forms of NPOs?
Answer: nonprofit legislation has not kept pace with legislation that governs for-profit corporations

Question: How do NPOs change their by-laws, if they had to apply for incorporation by Letters Permit, in Canada?
Answer: formal approval by the appropriate government

Question: How does Alberta handle NPOs filing for incorporation?
Answer: by the filing of Articles of Incorporation or Articles of Association

Question: How is incorporation handled in Ontario?
Answer: Letters Patent

Question: When was the Canada Corporations Act, Part II repealed?
Answer: 2009

Question: What did the creation of the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act mean for NPOs?
Answer: incorporation as of right, by Articles of Incorporation

Question: When did Ontario adopt the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act?
Answer: 2010

Question: When does Ontario expect the Canada Not-for-Profits Corpaoations Act to go into effect?
Answer: 1 July 2013

Question: When was the Canada Not-for-Profit corporations Act last ammended?
Answer: 10 October 2011

Question: Who grants a charitable status to an NPO in Canada?
Answer: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)

Question: What are donors to receive from a NPO?
Answer: income tax receipts

Question: How does an NPO keep their charitable status?
Answer: file annual reports

Question: How does the Canada Revenue Agency decide who can have a charitable status?
Answer: a common law test to its stated objects and activities

Question: What kinds of assets must the NPO spend in order to keep it's charitable status?
Answer: cash, investments and fixed assets

Question: What do NPOs in South Africa give to their donors?
Answer: a tax certificate

Question: What can a tax certificate issued by a South Africian NPO be used for?
Answer: a tax deduction by the donor

Question: Where are South Africian NPOs registered?
Answer: Companies and Intellectual Property Commission as Nonprofit Companies (NPCs)

Question: Who keeps track of the trusts of South Africian NPOs?
Answer: Master of the High Court

Question: Who would a South Africian NPO register with if they were a voluntary organization?
Answer: South Africa Revenue Services "SARS"

Question: What is the definition of a charity?
Answer: nonprofit organisation that meets stricter criteria regarding its purpose and the method in which it makes decisions and reports its finances

Question: Where are charity organizations registered in England and Wales?
Answer: Charity Commission

Question: Where would an NPO or charity organization register in Scotland?
Answer: Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator

Question: What is one of the contraints of an NPO with regards to assets?
Answer: generally not allowed to pay its Trustees

Question: Is a trade union governed by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator?
Answer: not regarded as "charities" in the technical sense

Question: How does a US NPO apply for tax exempt status?
Answer: applying to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Question: What are some things the IRS looks at in a charity applying for tax exempt status?
Answer: purpose, limitations on spending, and internal safeguards for a charity

Question: Does this tax exempt status apply to other taxes?
Answer: must pay federal tax on income that is unrelated to their exempt purpose

Question: What happens if an NPO does not abide by the tax laws?
Answer: losing its tax exempt status

Question: Who has the final say on whether or not an NPO is granted tax exempt status?
Answer: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Question: What form must an NPO make available to the public?
Answer: 990 forms

Question: Are the state requirements to be tax exempt the same as the Federal requirements?
Answer: generally have separate applications and their requirements may differ from the IRS requirements

Question: What financial form must be filed with both the state and federal governments each year?
Answer: IRS Form 990

Question: What is one example of an NPO in the United States?
Answer: Project Vote Smart

Question: What can states or cities offer to NPOs?
Answer: exemptions from other taxes such as sales tax or property tax

Question: Who is in control of the organization?
Answer: board of directors

Question: Who does the board hire to help with running the organization?
Answer: executive director

Question: How is the board of directors most often chosen?
Answer: self-perpetuating

Question: How is a board of directors less commonly chosen?
Answer: elected by a membership

Question: Where, on Form 990, does an organization have to list what type of board they have?
Answer: Part VI, section A, question 7a

Question: What are ways that a charitable foundation receives money for it's cause?
Answer: government funds, grants from charitable foundations, direct donations

Question: What type of funding do charitable organizations typically rely on?
Answer: external funding

Question: What are some problems that affect employee retention and volunteers?
Answer: unreliable funding, long hours and low pay

Question: What legislation did the US introduce to try and help the NPOs?
Answer: Nonprofit Capacity Building Program

Question: When was the Nonprofit Sector and Community Solutions Act adopted?
Answer: 2010

Question: What is the biggest concern of non-profits in Australia?
Answer: a purpose relating to a public good

Question: When was the Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act adopted?
Answer: 1976

Question: When was the Associations Incorporation Act adopted?
Answer: 1985

Question: What does the Associations Incorporation Act cover?
Answer: incorporated association

Question: Who covers incorporated associations or councils?
Answer: Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act

Question: What kind of marketing budgets do NPOs usually have?
Answer: minimal or nonexistent

Question: Why is marketing harder for NPOs?
Answer: taboo word that NPOs or others don't like to associate with such community benefit organizations

Question: What does an NPO need to have in order to begin thinking about expansion or rebranding?
Answer: an outreach strategy which includes a financial plan to execute that outreach/marketing strategy

Question: What is a moer low-key way that NPOs can get access to marketing and word of mouth?
Answer: leverage their access to various community stakeholders to get their name and cause recognized by the public

Question: How is resource mismanagement allowed to happen so easily?
Answer: employees are not accountable to anybody with a direct stake in the organization

Question: How can an NPO help to prevent financial problems?
Answer: strict controls

Question: What can a large influx of money from a for-profit company do to an organization?
Answer: alter the NPO's functions

Question: What can constitute accounting fraud when nothing is recorded?
Answer: Liabilities promised on the full faith and credit of the organization

Question: What is a major hurdle of the financial aspect of an NPO?
Answer: Resource mismanagement

Question: What problems with employment do Non Profits face?
Answer: Competition for employees with the public and private sector

Question: What are positions that employees really want, but there are never enough of?
Answer: management

Question: How important do NPOs consider hiring?
Answer: secondary priority

Question: What is a primary interest to prospective NPO employees?
Answer: wage and benefits package