Best Practices
- AFP Code of Ethics
- Ethical standards and principles are the foundation for maintaining public trust, for every AFP member. AFP provides a self-governed process for addressing ethical concerns.
- Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement
- Designed to present a setting in which organizations can discuss how their volunteers are engaged and supported. It provides a framework for organizations to start discussing the role that volunteers play in helping achieve their purpose or mission.
- Imagine Canada's Promising Practices Catalogue
- Showcases successful
projects and initiatives that nonprofit and voluntary organizations have
undertaken, offering the user practical examples of tried and tested solutions
to real world problems that organizations have tackled.
- Ontario's Accessibility Standards for Customer Service - A Guide
- This guide gives a basic overview of the requirements of the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service, Ontario Regulation 429/07. This Ontario law came into force on January 1, 2008. It is the first accessibility standard created under the authority of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA).
The
guide is designed to help people or organizations that provide goods or
services to the public or other third parties to understand their obligations
under the customer service standard. It explains the standard in plain terms.
- Ontario's New Violence & Harassment Standards - Bill 168
- All Ontario employers face a deadline to ensure that policies, procedures, and training for the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), and its amendments (Bill 168), are in place and completed by June 15, 2010. The legislation introduces a comprehensive approach to addressing violence and harassment in the workplace.
Express Employment Professionals has kindly offered to share (at no cost) two documents with the nonprofit community to help you meet your obligations under Bill 168.
Download Express Employment Professionals' FAQs page and Sample Violence & Harassment Policy that you can tailor for your own organization (items in red may be changed to suit your needs).
