Workshop: Bring Your Own By-Laws with CLEO

Name: 
Workshop: Bring Your Own By-Laws with CLEO
Description: 
Ontario’s Not-for-profit Corporations Act (ONCA) was proclaimed on October 19th, 2021. Nonprofits have until October 18th, 2024 to update their by-laws and letters patent to comply with ONCA. In this half-day working session, participants will work through their by-laws and letters patent and a special workbook to identify what they might want or need to change in order to comply with ONCA.
 
Register HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuduGhqDstHdeZQWxx3lmNmJpVG72OUNgG  (Free, but registration is limited)
 
Preparation: Participants are advised to review their governing documents ahead of time to be somewhat familiar with the layout and content. Participants must bring a digital or physical copy of their by-laws and (preferably) letters patent.
 
This session is for: senior leaders, board members, and anyone involved in the corporate governance of organizations already incorporated under Ontario’s Corporations Act or a special Act.
 
This session is not for:
 
  • organizations that are not themselves incorporated but part of a larger organization or government,
  • organizations incorporated under Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act,
  • organizations incorporated under Co-operative Corporations Act,
  • organizations incorporated through the Ontario Historical Society, or
  • other statutes outside of Ontario
 
Speaker:
Benjamin Miller (he/him) is a staff lawyer on the Nonprofit Law Ontario project of Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) where he focuses on the legal needs of nonprofits and charities. Over the past 5 years at CLEO, Benjamin has answered over a thousand nonprofit law questions and developed an online interactive by-law builder for the ONCA. Benjamin also works at the Ontario Nonprofit Network and has worked at the Canada Revenue Agency in the past. Benjamin holds a JD and MPP from the University of Toronto and an MA in political theory from the University of Ottawa.
 
Register HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuduGhqDstHdeZQWxx3lmNmJpVG72OUNgG   (Free, but registration is limited)
Start Date: 
Feb 03, 2023
End Date: 
Feb 03, 2023
Start Time: 
9:00am
End Time: 
2:00pm
Location: 
Online
Location Summary: 
Online