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Does your non-profit describe each member class and define its rights in its bylaws?
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Classes are groups of members that have different sets of rights. For example, some non-profits have voting and non-voting classes of members.
If you aren’t sure whether your non-profit has member classes, check its bylaws. If a non-profit has more than one class of members, it is required to describe the class and list its respective rights in the bylaws.
Note that this does not refer to different categories of members (e.g. family and individual memberships; gold and silver memberships) unless there are different rights associated with that category.
Does your non-profit know Robert's Rules of Order well enough to run a meeting?
Robert’s Rules of Order can get pretty technical. Your non-profit doesn’t need to know Robert’s Rules cover-to-cover to effectively run a meeting. Your non-profit can likely run a meeting without issues if it can handle:
Do your non-profit’s financial statements disclose how much it pays under its contracts for service?
A contract for services is when there is an oral or written agreement for your non-profit to pay a person or company for performing a service (e.g. employment agreements, professional services, cleaning contractors, etc).
Does your non-profit have any contracts for service?
A contract for services is when there is an oral or written agreement for your non-profit to pay a person or company for performing a service (e.g. employment agreements, professional services, cleaning contractors, etc).
Does your non-profit remunerate its directors?
Remuneration is when a non-profit gives money to its directors for being a director (e.g. wages, honoraria).
Remuneration does not include gifts (i.e. small, irregular tokens of appreciation).
Remuneration does not include reimbursing a director for expenses caused by being a director (e.g. travel to a meeting).
Does your non-profit understand what officers do?
Officers (also known as board roles or portfolio positions) are directors who have special tasks or responsibilities.
The board roles are usually President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
If your non-profit adopted model bylaws, you will have these positions in your non-profit's bylaws.
Do the recipients of your non-profit’s group email messages opt-in before those messages are sent?
Opt-in means the recipients of the email messages actively agree to receive emails from your non-profit. Email recipients typically opt-in by subscribing to an email list.
Does your non-profit charity ever send out fundraising emails?
Fundraising means activities conducted by or on behalf of a charity with the primary purpose of raising funds to support the charity. Electronic messages sent by or on behalf of a charity for fundraising are exempt from the application of CASL. If the charity sends other kinds of electronic messages to the public then it will have to follow CASL rules.