The Charitable Registration Decision Tree Project

The Charitable Registration Decision Tree Project: "Prospective Canadian charities, listen up. A Nova Scotian legal team specializing in voluntary sector matters is currently in the process of drafting what they believe will become the country's first charitable registration decision tree - a document designed to guide charitable organization hopefuls through the sometimes sticky morass of the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) rules on how it makes its decisions before conferring charitable status upon an organization. It also covers what you should know if you're granted charitable status.

Scheduled to be launched online on March 31 courtesy of a joint effort between the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia (LISNS), itself a charity, and the CRA - the agency is helping to fund the project through its Charities Partnership and Outreach Program to the tune of $90,000. LISNS's Charitable Registration Decision Tree project will help clarify the 'requirements and obligations of charitable registration and alternatives to registration,' according to the CRA."