The CRA announced tonight that registered charities filing deadline for the T3010 that were or will be due from March 18, 2020 till December 31, 2020, will only be due on December 31, 2020. This will be a welcome relief…
Over the last year, Blumbergs has released 8 online courses. In case you are interested we have provided over the next 2 weeks a 50% discount coupon for new registrants wishing to access our Blumbergs charity law courses. We realize…
Here is an updated Canadian Charity Legal Checklist by Mark Blumberg. It is a checklist for Canadian registered charities to assist them with managing compliance issues. We use it as part of our informal risk reviews that we do for…
Blumbergs is pleased to announce that we will be hosting Blumbergs’ Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp again on Monday, April 20, 2020. An easy enough date to remember! This is a one-day boot camp on compliance and standards issues for…
Here is our article “Some initial issues for a new Canadian grantmaking foundation“. Hopefully, it will provide some ideas as to issues that new (and perhaps existing) foundations should be considering. Also, here is our more comprehensive Canadian Charity Legal…
Here are the CRA letters from a number of recent Canadian registered charity revocations. These letters from CRA cover many different grounds for de-registration. Some relate to relatively minor matters such as an organization being inactive for many years, to…
Here is our article Corporations Canada Launches Changes to Fees and Service Standard Times and New Express Services Today. There is some very exciting news in that article.
We have recently launched another online course entitled “Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) In Canada: Understanding this important and often misunderstood philanthropic vehicle? It is 1.5 hours long and covers a number of topics relating to donor-advised funds or DAFs.
We are pleased to launch our Blumbergs Canadian Charity Sector Snapshot 2017 with information on the Canadian registered charity sector for 2017. 2017 is the last year that there is currently full data available.
I have been asking the Ontario government for months for an update on whether ONCA is coming into force and when. On September 25, 2019 I received a short note from the Policy and Business Law Unit of the Ministry of Government…
Join us on Monday October 7, 2019 in Toronto for the 8th Annual Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Institute. We will be featuring a number of speakers covering different legal and compliance issues affecting Canadian charities and non-profits. It will be a full…
Are you a group outside of Canada considering fundraising initiatives in Canada or a group outside of Canada that has supporters in Canada? Are you wondering how to deal with Canadian supporters? The presentation will briefly introduce participants to the…
We have just launched our 3rd online course – this one is entitled “Fundraising from Canada: A course for groups outside of Canada“. It is geared towards those outside of Canada thinking about fundraising in Canada and the options for…
There has been a lot of media and social media coverage over the last few days about non-profits and charities and the rules around their involvement in the upcoming election. To my dismay, much of it has been inaccurate. While…
CRA in June 2019 brought in a new charity application system under their CHAMP modernization program. Here is our article Making sense of CRAs new online Canadian charity application system which discusses the new system and also provides a paper copy…
On June 28, 2019, the Tax Court of Canada released its decision Promised Land Ministries v the Queen, in which it upheld CRA's decision to suspend the registered charity Promised Land Ministries (“PLM”)'s receipting privileges for one year for failing to…
We have created two new online courses for those outside of Toronto who are not able to easily attend our programs. They might also be helpful to those in Toronto who cannot wait for our next session as they sometimes only…
Here is our article on “Objects of registered charities in Canada are sometimes not charitable“. Objects are very important and often Canadian charities don't understand that even though they are a registered charity their objects may not actually be charitable.
CRA has recently updated its Charities Listing and the most notable change is the fact that they have reduced the amount of information available on each Canadian registered charity. The Charities Listing used to have up to 15 years of data…
A great deal has been written about legal compliance surrounding charities in Canada. Much of that material however, is highly specialized, hard to understand, and sometimes esoteric. As a result, it can be difficult for charities, employees and volunteers to…
In December 2017, CRA introduced a new program, the Charities Education Program (“CEP”) which is aimed at helping charities comply with the requirements for Canadian registered charities. CRA said it aims to visit 500 charities a year with this program. The…
Here is our new Canadian Charity Legal Checklist. For those who are interested in reviewing legal compliance for their registered charity, they may find the checklist helpful. If you require legal assistance and wish to retain our law firm then please…
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a full-day event on international philanthropy on April 12, 2019: Blumbergs' International Philanthropy Conference 2019. See below for more details and we hope to see you there. Over 5000 Canadian…
The Blumbergs' Canadian Charity Law Boot Camp will be held again on Monday April 8, 2019. This is a one-day boot camp on compliance and standards issues for Canadian registered charities. You can register for the program here. This one-day workshop…