Operating a registered charity

Topics

• Checklists for charities
  Easy-to-follow checklists to help with the responsibilities of operating a registered charity
• Toolbox for directors, officers, and volunteers
  Resources for maintaining charitable registration
• Registration number
  Every registered charity is issued a nine-digit business number, with a program identifier of RR, and a four-digit reference number
• Obligations of registration
  Annual return, spending requirement, books and records
• Activities
  Guidelines for certain activities such as business, social, fundraising, and gifting to non-qualified donees
• Fundraising activities
  Activities, issuing receipts for fundraising events, cause-related marketing.
• T3010 charity return
  What is a complete return? When is the return due? Which form should you use? What is the correct mailing address? What are complete financial statements?
• Compliance and audits
  How the CRA promotes compliance, audit information, non-compliance issues
• Policies and guidance
  Policies and guidance about operating a registered charity
• Issuing receipts or receiving donations 
  Information about receiving gifts and issuing receipts
• Annual spending requirement (disbursement quota)
  What is the disbursement quota? Avoiding common mistakes, spending too little or too much
• Books and records
  What are adequate books and records? How long must they be kept? Where must they be kept?
• Making a change to your organization
  How to change the legal name, address, director, authorized representative, legal status, purposes, activities, and bylaws of a registered charity. How to initiate a request for a fiscal year-end change, re-designation, associated status, permission to accumulate funds, disbursement quota reduction, or an amalgamation, merger, or consolidation
• Educating charities about the risks of terrorist abuse
  How terrorists abuse charities, assessing and reducing the risks, checklist for charities, and how to report suspected terrorist abuse
• Questions and answers
  Answers to questions about operating a registered charity
• Transition to Ontario’s Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010                                                                                    Information for registered charities incorporated under Ontario’s Corporations Act
• Transition to the new B.C. Societies Act
  Information for registered charities currently incorporated under the Society Act of British Columbia