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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my newish role as Strategic Relations Advisor at Nature Canada, I contribute to the Nature Canada Blog. While there will be less activity here on my jeanlanglois.ca site, you can read me from time to time over at Nature Canada. Today&#8217;s post is about finding nature in lobbying statistics&#8230; &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=193&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biodiversity as the next ethical business frontier</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s McKinsey Quarterly includes the results of their global survey on the link between business and biodiversity. They call biodiversity &#8220;the next environmental issue for business&#8221; after climate change, based on the observation that &#8220;Biodiversity now occupies a similar position in the public debate as climate change did in 2007.&#8221; McKinsey&#8217;s research suggest that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=185&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BC &amp; Ontario Charities: Ready for HST tomorrow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the harmonized sales tax (HST) comes into effect in Ontario and BC on Thursday, nonprofits need to be ready for the change. Charities should already be used to claiming the GST credit for Public Service Bodies (PSB). If you haven&#8217;t been (and don&#8217;t feel bad, it is remarkably common) now would be a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=176&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Social Responsibility is no longer optional</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate Knights has published its new report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in conjunction with the Globe and Mail. The report compiles information about the environmental, social, and governance practices of Canadian companies and identifies leaders and laggards across a range of economic sectors. What is perhaps most astounding when you look at the detailed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=170&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is not a mission-driven organization? (hint:BP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversations about my work the question often comes up: what is not a mission driven organization? Sadly, a stark example is being provided currently by a British petroleum company whose hubris is doing a lot of wanton killing in the gulf of Mexico. In this astonishing clip from a 2009 lecture to the Stanford [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=155&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Law Will Impact Ontario Nonprofits</title>
		<link>http://jeanlanglois.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/new-law-will-impact-ontario-nonprofits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 19:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ontario government has just introduced its Not-for-Profit Corporations Act in the provincial legislature. What does Bill 65 mean for Ontario-based nonprofits and charities? The answer is: it depends. Firstly, this act is intended to make changes to the legal basis, the legal existence if you will, of nonprofits. This would replace the applicable provisions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=151&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Distractions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 15:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth and final principle for deciding what matters in financial data is perhaps the most controversial. It may seem obvious to observe that efficiency requires that we not invest in measuring what does not matter. And yet much of the attention of donors and analysts (and even a few managers and boards) seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=129&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Benchmark Meaningfully</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third principle for deciding which metrics matter most is to benchmark meaningfully. Different kinds of nonprofits have vastly different business models, so careful consideration is required if these metrics are to be used to compare organizations. For example community foundations require large capital reserves while food banks do not. Major differences also exist among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=126&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read Trends, Not Stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second principle for deciding which financial metrics matter most is to focus on multi-year trends, no matter the metric under consideration. It is more effort to look at, say, the last five years of financial statements. But it is a more informative use of effort. If you need to cut down your effort you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=120&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go Deep, Not Wide</title>
		<link>http://jeanlanglois.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/go-deep-not-wide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first principle for deciding which financial performance metrics matter most is to go deep not wide. For both stakeholders and insiders, much more is gained by going deeper with a few key metrics that are carefully chosen and used well, rather than going broader with a proliferation of metrics that are superficially applied and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeanlanglois.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11632907&amp;post=112&amp;subd=jeanlanglois&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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