Professional knowledge organized across six faculties and 39 programs. Each course follows a structured five-component arc — scenario-grounded, practically framed, and designed to be immediately applicable. Purchase individual courses or access the full calendar through an annual subscription.
Examines director liability exposure when a Red Deer non-profit society continues operations after insolvency, misallocates restricted grant funds, and faces creditor claims during a flawed dissolution process.
Examines board disclosure obligations when a religious diocese's Insurance Committee with professional expertise failed to report known misconduct risks to its liability insurer in 1980s Newfoundland.
Boards of publicly traded companies must recognize when serial litigation by unsuccessful bidders constitutes abuse of process and respond with procedural defences under BC corporate law.
Examines how a 24-person provincial committee in Peterborough created governance structures that inadvertently discouraged senior member participation and blocked institutional knowledge transfer over three months.
How Canadian non-profit boards assess and improve their own governance effectiveness — board self-assessment tools, director development, governance planning, and building a board culture of continuous improvement.
Governance principles for Indigenous and community-controlled organizations in Canada — cultural governance frameworks, community accountability, volunteer governance, and sustainable capacity building.
How governance works for Canadian social enterprises — the dual bottom line, impact measurement, investor and funder relations, and how to govern an organization that must balance mission and financial sustainability.
The foundational governance obligations of Canadian non-profit organizations — the legal framework, member governance, financial governance, and charitable status compliance that every non-profit board must understand.
The regulatory and compliance obligations that Canadian non-profit boards must govern — CRA compliance for charities, privacy law, employment law, and how to build a compliance governance framework.
A non-profit board approved a major renovation. Years later the building is failing and the programs inside are affected. This course examines what governance obligations attached to the capital project, what the board should have done before and during the work, and what accountability looks like when things go wrong.