Upcoming Events

How to Start a Non-Profit in 5 Easy Steps

Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM ADT
Location: Virtual Workshop
Hosted By: Kings Volunteer Resource Centre

Have a passion for making a difference? Turn your vision into action with our 90-minute virtual workshop, How to Start a Non-Profit in 5 Easy Steps. Designed specifically for aspiring changemakers in Nova Scotia, this session will guide you through the essential steps to launch your organization—from defining your mission and understanding legal requirements to securing funding and building your team. Whether you’re brand-new to the non-profit world or ready to take your idea to the next stage, you’ll leave with the confidence to get started. Join us online, connect with like-minded leaders, and take the first step toward creating lasting impact in your community. Your cause deserves it.

About the Presenter:

Joel Stoddart is an experienced facilitator, known for his engaging and practical approach to group learning. With a background in both small business and non-profit development, Joel aims to deliver training where people walk away with confidence and knowledge. He has served on several non-profit boards including The Booker School, Deep Roots Music Cooperative, and the Clean Annapolis River Project. He spent many years working at the Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre, and now works with the Community Business Development Corporation (CBDC). He lives in the Annapolis Valley with his wife Sacha, son William, and daughter Hannah.

Training Resources

The Kings Volunteer Resource Centre is dedicated to supporting the volunteer sector with educational resources. We monitor trends, gather knowledge, build capacity, and share information.

Our goal is to foster strong foundations within social purpose groups to ensure that their work continues. We offer online workshops in the spring and fall, led by industry experts on various topics to help develop policies and practices to enhance the long-term growth of community groups. 

Workshops

Workshops
Financial Literacy for Non-Profits
Financial Literacy for Non-Profits

Learn the essentials of Finacial Literacy. Whether you are a Board Treasurer, or just looking to understand the financial statements, Financial Literacy is key.

Creating and Supporting inclusive Environments for Neurodivergent Volunteers
Creating and Supporting inclusive Environments for Neurodivergent Volunteers

This workshop will focused on understanding the strengths and challenges which neurodivergent people bring to the workplace.

Volunteers are a critical resource for so many businesses and organizations. Persons who are neurodivergent often want to volunteer and have some exceptional skills which can provide a vital resource in these times of fewer people volunteering. This workshop will focused on understanding the strengths and challenges which neurodivergent people bring to the workplace. Creating an environment that allows these volunteers to feel comfortable and carry out volunteer opportunities successfully will be discussed. Strategies and supports that can be incorporated into the environment will be described. Tips for supervisors and others working with neurodivergent volunteers will be provided along with a question and answer session. A neurodivergent young woman who would love to volunteer more will also provide her views on what barriers she faces when searching for fulfilling volunteer and work opportunities.

Retention & Succession for Voluntary Boards
Retention & Succession for Voluntary Boards

Presented by Jeff Kelly, The Flower Cart Group, this webinar gives viewers information and examples for retaining board members, and planning for succession.

Past Workshops

Webinars

Webinars
Volunteering Counts: Formal and Informal Contributions of Canadians in 2018
Volunteering Counts: Formal and Informal Contributions of Canadians in 2018

Volunteer Canada is joined by Statistics Canada to hear highlights from their recent article based on data from the 2018 General Social Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participating (GSS-GVP).

Volunteering gives people a place and the space to shape our communities. In 2018, 79% of Canadians aged 15 years and older reported volunteering, either formally as part of an organization or informally, on their own without the involvement of a group, helping extended family, friends, neighbours and strangers.

Altogether, 24 million people contributed to improving the health, well-being, education and safety of Canadians and enhancing Canadian communities.

Shifts in Volunteering
Shifts in Volunteering

In this conversation and virtual workshop, led by Lisa Mort-Putland, Executive Director, Volunteer Victoria, we will unpack how COVID-19 impacted volunteerism in the short-term and explore how the non-profit sector might respond to new shifts, expectations, trends, and realities for the long-term.

Laying the Foundation for the Next 20 Years of Volunteer Engagement
Laying the Foundation for the Next 20 Years of Volunteer Engagement

2021 marks the 20th anniversary of 3 significant milestones for the non-profit and charitable sector in Canada:

(1) the International Year of Volunteers 2001;

(2) the launching of the first Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement;

and (3) the signing of an Accord between the Government of Canada and the (voluntary) non-profit and charitable sector.

We reflect on the past 20 years and look ahead to ensure we work together to lay a strong foundation for the next 20 years.

Volunteer Symposium

Every year, KVRC hosts a daylong Volunteer Leadership Symposium each spring, featuring keynote speakers and timely workshops related to volunteer leadership and nonprofit management.