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**Nancy: Are board volunteer hours included in advocacy activities? Jon: Staff time and hours do count, any purchases of print material/campaigning/etc do count. EBC could use 12.5% of our resources toward political activity at a max. | **Nancy: Are board volunteer hours included in advocacy activities? Jon: Staff time and hours do count, any purchases of print material/campaigning/etc do count. EBC could use 12.5% of our resources toward political activity at a max. | ||
**Chris: Partisan activity is never permitted. | **Chris: Partisan activity is never permitted. Political activity is restricted to 10% of financial resources for charities. What constitutes "political activity" is well-defined by the CRA (and does not necessarily include what many people would consider political). [http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/chrts-gvng/chrts/plcy/cps/cps-022-eng.html Info] and [http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/vdgllry/chrts-gvng/srs-pltclctvts-eng.html more info]. | ||
**Dan: CPAWS is a charity and does a lot of good advocacy work. EBC has a lot of non-advocacy programs so i dont think we would find this difficult. | **Dan: CPAWS is a charity and does a lot of good advocacy work. EBC has a lot of non-advocacy programs so i dont think we would find this difficult. | ||
**Alex: could we give money to another org (non charity) to do advocacy? | **Alex: could we give money to another org (non charity) to do advocacy? | ||
**Chris: Political is defined by CRA as anything trying to influence policy. We can only donate to other charities. This would affect our relationship to Bikeology (but that org is undergoing dramatic changes this year too). | **Chris: Political is defined by CRA as anything trying to influence policy. We can only donate to other charities. This would affect our relationship to Bikeology (but that org is undergoing dramatic changes this year too). We can still partner with other non-charity organizations and pay for things (e.g. the projector rental of the YEG Bike Coalition). The difference is that whatever we spend our money on has to be related to our charitable objects, and if that spending is political, it comes out of our 10%. | ||
**Jon: Record keeping. There will be more, but our bookkeeper doesnt think this will be a problem. This would enhance our record keeping. | **Jon: Record keeping. There will be more, but our bookkeeper doesnt think this will be a problem. This would enhance our record keeping. | ||
**Jon: CRA recommends that charities have their financials reviewed by an auditor which will cost at least $4k and must be done annually. | **Jon: CRA recommends that charities have their financials reviewed by an auditor which will cost at least $4k and must be done annually. | ||