Ontario’s Not-for-profit Corporations Act (ONCA) was proclaimed on October 19th, 2021. Nonprofits will have 3 years to update their bylaws and letters patent to comply with ONCA. On November 12, 2021, Orchestras Canada welcomed Benjamin Miller, a staff lawyer on the Nonprofit Law Ontario project of Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO), for a webinar that walked us through what is new in the ONCA, steps nonprofits need to take to transition to the ONCA, and how CLEO’s free resources can help you create ONCA compliant bylaws from scratch or adapt your current bylaws.  

To learn more about the ONCA visit nonprofitlaw.cleo.on.ca   

Resources: 

Recording of the webinar

Benjamin Miller’s Powerpoint

Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) resources to help in your transition to the ONCA:

• • Nonprofit Law Ontario Website (https://nonprofitlaw.cleo.on.ca/)

• • Interactive bylaw builder (https://nonprofitlaw.cleo.on.ca/transition-to-onca/update-governing-documents/cleos-bylaw-builder/)

• • How to adjust existing bylaws (https://nonprofitlaw.cleo.on.ca/transition-to-onca/update-governing-documents/how-to-adjust-existing-bylaws/)

• • Default bylaws with options (https://nonprofitlaw.cleo.on.ca/transition-to-onca/update-governing-documents/sample-bylaw-with-options/)

Benjamin Miller (he/him) is a staff lawyer on the Nonprofit Law Ontario project of Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) where he focused on nonprofit and charity law and policy. Over the past 4 years at CLEO, Benjamin has answered hundreds of nonprofit law questions and developed an online interactive bylaw builder for the ONCA. Benjamin also works at the Ontario Nonprofit Network and has worked at the Canada Revenue Agency in the past. Benjamin holds a JD and MPP from the University of Toronto and an MA in political theory from the University of Ottawa.