If you were asked to define “impact” for your favourite non-profit organization, you would likely think about their role delivering vital services, supporting vulnerable communities or advocating for positive social, economic and environmental change. Would you think about an organization’s “impact” in terms of how it manages its own workforce – ensuring the organization provides a safe, healthy and inclusive workplace for its employees or offers fair, equitable compensation?

Governments rely on more than internal expertise when shaping budgets, designing programs, and setting policy direction. Increasingly, both federal and provincial governments turn to nonprofit partners and sector leaders to identify gaps, test ideas and ground policy decisions in lived experience. For nonprofit organizations, participating in policy consultations is not just symbolic – it can be a meaningful way to influence systems change. Knowing when to engage, how to fram

Interveners regularly participate in cases before the Supreme Court of Canada(SCC). Their role is to provide the SCC with useful and different perspectives on the law, grounded in their own experience or expertise. In doing so, interveners provide context to the law and its broader effects, which can assist the SCC in rendering high-quality decisions that are responsive to the lived realities of Canadians. Many non-profit advocacy organizations represent some of the most well

Employers are expected to conduct timely and impartial investigations when allegations of harassment, discrimination, or other workplace misconduct arise. In Alberta, these obligations are rooted in the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the Alberta Human Rights Act, and the employer’s common law duty of care. Understanding the investigation process is essential for all organizations, particularly those without dedicated human resources expertise, and becomes especially impo