Do the following situations sound familiar, if you lead a smaller Canadian charity?
- You have a quarterly board meeting coming up shortly and you are the only one available to write five detailed board memos on projects, complete with financial analyses.
- One of your community partners wants to meet urgently on the one day a week you aren’t paid to be in the office.
- Your accountant is looking for missing receipts to file your annual CRA report and you haven’t had time to do the filing.
These situations sound like the everyday experiences of the part-time or single employee who is trying to lead a small charity. And you would be right in thinking that this reality is both common and unfair.