Searching the CRA Charity Directorate’s website - a workaround

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Have you ever had trouble finding information on the CRA’s website relating to charities?  Well the site has really improved over the last couple of years and is a lot more user friendly.  However, here is a suggestion if you are looking for a document on the CRA website.  Go to google and if you are are looking for information on disbursement quota type in the following:
disbursement quota site:http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/chrts-gvng/chrts/

That will search the charity directorate website in English for documents that have the words disbursement and quota - if you want the phrase “disbursement quota” try putting it all in quotation marks “disbursement quota”.  Now I must admit that finding documents on disbursement quota is not going to help you actually understand anything about it - for that you need to speak to Elena Hoffstein!  Unfortunately there is only so much that CRA and its webmaster can do - the rest is in the hands of Finance. 

Charity Lawyer Mark Blumberg

Mark Blumberg is a lawyer at Blumberg Segal LLP in Toronto, Ontario.
To find out more about legal services that Blumbergs provides to Canadian charities and non-profits please visit www.canadiancharitylaw.ca or www.globalphilanthropy.ca

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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  11/20  at  05:02 AM

That hits the target dead center! Great asenwr!

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