Governance
This section breaks down the structures and systems that help keep creative projects and organizations running smoothly. From understanding boards and bylaws to making collective decisions and ensuring accountability, this section offers clear guidance on how governance can support sustainable, values-driven work.
Producing Models
There are many different forms of producing relationships, many of them between venued and non-venued companies. Here are a few examples of ways you can collaborate with another organization to put on your production that will hopefully help define who is doing what.
Incorporated and Non-Profits
A non-profit is an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends.
They can be non-incorporated like an artist collective. Or they can be incorporated through the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. Incorporated non-profits must have a Board of Directors, with articles and bylaws to govern themselves. When they are incorporated, we call non-profits 'societies'. Non-profits may also choose to obtain Charitable Status which is granted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) upon application by a non-profit.
Board of Directors
For an incorporated non-profit organization, a board is a group of volunteers who agree to take on the governance of and responsibility for a given organization. With the governance structure of incorporated non-profits, boards have ultimate legal authority over any persons working for the organization. Officially, they are your boss.
In the best-case scenario, a board is essentially a dedicated community of people (often non-artists) who want to help support the work of artists without financial compensation in return.