Many of the issues and challenges in the local voluntary sector are also reflected in larger national trends. Part of CCVO’s mission is to provide leadership on policy matters affecting the sector as a whole. Our current work focuses on the following key challenges facing the sector:

Funding Issues

Insurance Issues

Human Resources Issues

Click on any topic area above to learn more about the issue, learn about CCVO’s activities in the issue area and to access resources about this issue.

Policy Issues: What's New

December 4- Learn More about New PC Leader Ed Stelmach's Positions on the Voluntary Sector

November 27- CCVO Pre-Budget Presentation to Calgary City Council

September 25- Federal Government Announces Program Cuts

September 2006- Information about Alberta's PC Party Leadership Race.

August 4, 2006- Federal Government's Blue Ribbon Panel on Grants and Contributions seeking online feedback.

May 30, 2006: CCVO Endorses Imagine Canada's Submission about the Proposed Federal Accountability Act.

April 2006: CCVO's submission to the Federal Government's 2006 pre-budget consultation process.

New Publication: Civil Society and Public Policy: A Directory of Non-Profit Organizations Engaged in Public Policy.

IMPACS releases Election kit for Charities

November 2005: CCVO presentation to the City of Calgary's 2005 budget process

October 2005 CCVO Submission to the Federal Government's Standing Committee on Finance (Pre-Budget Consultation)