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Keewaytinok Native Legal Services is presenting a free workshop:

 

NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS - THEIR GOVERNANCE

corporations workshop participants including lawyers Mary Chakasim and Fintan Lee

PRESENTERS: Fintan Lee, Staff Lawyer Mary Chakasim, Lawyer

DATE: February 15, 2006, 9:30-4:30

LOCATION: Christ the King Cathedral (Basement), Moosonee

WORKSHOP BRIEF

Corporations set up not for making a profit, but generally to provide a community service, for example housing. The focus of the workshop is on governance issues and will not be on how to set up such a corporation.

TOPICS

* General review of a typical not-for-profit corporation By-law which is the document governing the corporation.

* Duties of directors and officers.

* Conflicts of interest for directors and officers.

* Codes of conduct.

* Fiscal and Managerial Responsibility.

* First Nations and Corporations

* Changes in federal not-for-profit corporate legislation (time permitting).

Please call Trina at 705 336-2981 to register