NGO Resources

To have a complete list of services that Volunteer Yukon can provide to non-profit organizations:

VY Services & Resources

If you use any Volunteer Yukon services, free of charge, please be a member of Volunteer Yukon. You will support a resource centre for Yukon non-profits.

Key resources for NGO staff and board members Are you looking for non-profit management templates, checklists, journals, books, or general information to assist you in your work? Are you looking for people who can help you accomplish specific tasks? Volunteer Yukon has a wide selection of resources that might help you.

A- Operational Checklists

These operational checklists help to ensure consistency, thoroughness, and ‘best practices’ while carrying out operational tasks, and were specifically developed for non-profit organizations based in Yukon’s rural communities.

To view operational checklists: http://volunteeryukon.ca/spip.php?article47

B- Lending Library Database

Volunteer Yukon has a lending library like no other in the Yukon, where literature covering the non-profit sector can be accessed in one central location.

With a VY membership, items in our library can be borrowed for up to three weeks at a time. Non-members may use the resources in-office at any time.

We have hundreds of books, journals, and newsletters on a wide variety of topics, including:

• Board Development: Finding and keeping good board members, defining roles and responsibilities, providing training and orientation, hiring and working with Executive Directors, and more.
• Volunteer Management: Finding, keeping, training, supervising, and recognizing volunteers, as well as recruiting volunteers from target populations such as youth, persons with disabilities, and older adults.
• Organizational Management: Fund-raising, financial management, marketing, communications, strategic planning, personnel management, proposal writing, leadership transitions, and more.

Some materials are also available in French.

You have to be a member to borrow books.

To view the lending library database: http://volunteeryukon.ca/spip.php?article75

C- Professional Services Database

Volunteer Yukon connects Yukon consultants with Yukon non-profit organizations. We maintain a directory of individuals & companies who have expressed interest in helping non-profit organizations—some of these consultants offer discounts to NGOs.

To view areas of specialization: http://volunteeryukon.ca/spip.php?article65

D- E-documents & Links

VY’s e-documents and links help to ensure that ‘best practices’ are utilized at all times, and were specifically developed for non-profit organizations based in Yukon’s rural communities.

To view e-documents and links:http://volunteeryukon.ca/spip.php?article44

E- NGO Centre for Yukon

In 2010, VY conducted a research project in partnership with Yukon Government (Community Development Fund) to look at various ways to help Yukon non-profit organizations in Whitehorse and the communities to sustain their services and maximize human, financial and fixed capital resources such as office space.

Horn and Associates was contracted to conduct a feasibility study. Please click on this link to see the results of the research: http://volunteeryukon.ca/spip.php?article78

VY is in discussion with two stakeholders who are looking to create an NGO centre in Whitehorse that will pull together NGOs from the same sub-sectors.

F- Master List of Yukon NGOs

Social Economy Research Network of Canada has compiled a list of all non-profit organizations currently operating in Yukon.

To access the list: http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/sernnoca/resources/organizations

G- Equipment Rentals

VY can give you access to an overhead projector, projection screen, flip chart, and a laptop. This service is available only to members. Maximum rental time is three days. A non-refundable rental fee and a refundable deposit both apply.

Item / Rental Fee / Deposit:

• overhead projector / $50 / $75
• projection screen / $25 / $50
• flip chart / $5 / $5

You have to be a member to rent our equipments

H- NonProfitNet

NonProfitNet is VY’s networking tool for the Yukon’s non-profit and volunteer sector. We advertise all of our events on this listserv and also post helpful hints on topics like financial management, chairing meetings, hiring staff, and more. You can also use NonProfitNet as a place to request information and ideas from others, to announce funding opportunities or to advertise donations of equipment, furniture, and so on. There are already more than 150 group members Yukon-wide, and the network is growing.

To sign up for NonProfitNet, send an email to nonprofitnet-yt-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and then simply "reply" to the confirmation email – or get a Yahoo ID and sign up that way. After subscribing, you’ll receive information on how you can post your own messages to NonProfitNet.

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