For the board that has to decide, and the coordinator who has to carry it out
Ending well is possible, and now it is written down.
Charitable Ends, the first of the Public Benefit Guides, is out now: the whole of how a Canadian charity or not-for-profit closes, transfers, merges, or amalgamates, in plain language, from the first hard conversation to the last filing.
Where do things stand?
Five words the practice uses. Pick the one that is closest, and the page will say where to go next.
Steady
Good. Steady is the time to read this, not later. The Guide is written so a board can decide early, and the boards that end well are the ones that looked while nothing was wrong. Put it on the shelf in the boardroom now and it will be there the year it matters.
The GuideStretched
Something important has to keep moving and the people who would normally move it cannot. A vacant role, a project drifting, a board with more on it than it can manage. That is the whole reason the practice exists. Tell us what is happening and roughly when, and you will get a clear answer either way.
The PracticeTell us what is happeningIn transition
A merger on the table, programs moving to a neighbour, an amalgamation, a leadership change with a deadline attached. The Guide treats transfers, mergers, and amalgamations as processes of their own rather than variations on closing, and the practice takes files like these.
The GuideThe PracticeWinding down
Then the order of things matters more than the speed. Some deadlines in a wind-down do not move, and a few start running before anyone notices. The Guide sets out the whole critical path from the first hard conversation to the last filing, and where a board has already committed to winding down, the Coordinator's Toolkit costs nothing.
The GuideStart a conversationNot attached
The accountant, the lawyer, or the retired administrator every board in town calls first, who does one of these files a year as a kindness. Or someone who simply wants to know how public good is wound up in this country, and by whom. The Guide was written with you in mind too, and the Primer is free and made to be handed on.
The free PrimerAbout the company
Public Benefit Guides · No. 1
Charitable Ends
A Practical Guide to Ending Well in Canada's Charitable Sector. What a board's duties are when the question arrives, who has to agree, what the staff are owed and when, where the assets may lawfully go, what the regulators need and in what order, and what has to be kept after the doors close.
Its sources were confirmed through 24 August 2026, and that date is printed in the book. A free Primer sets out the critical path for a board that has not read anything yet. Foundations, which puts the Guide together with the Critical Path for your province or territory and access to the Foundations Course, is in development.
The series.
One charity topic at a time, in the same shape every time: the book, a free Primer, and the people who can help. All the Guides
The Practice.
We take on work that has to keep moving when an organization is stretched: a vacant role, a project drifting, a board with more on it than it can manage. Some of that is a beginning, some of it is repair, and some of it is a closure. Closure is the part nobody is trained for.
Directors are the scarce thing in this sector, not money. A volunteer who has to make a hard decision deserves what a paid professional would get, and until now they have had to assemble it themselves, in the evenings, out of fragments.
One list
Hear from us when it is worth your time.
We write when there is something to say, and not otherwise: a new Guide, Foundations when it is ready, a roundtable near you. There is no schedule, and we do not write often.
One email, no form. Reply and we add you.
Start a conversation.
Tell us what is happening and roughly when. We will tell you whether this is a fit, and you will get a clear answer either way.