By Pepper Parr
July 6th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
News from the Art Gallery is hard to come by.
They now have a communications/marketing person; Nadine Heath. She reached out to point to what she thought were misunderstandings on my part as to just how that annual meeting in June went.
Emma Quinn, new AGB Executive Director
In her email note to me she also mentioned that the new Executive Director is Emma Quinn who comes to the AGB with 30 years of experience working with cultural, charitable, and not for profit organizations in Ontario, paired with deep knowledge of the arts and craft sector. Emma will transition to her new role on July 25, 2022.
Quinn was the Executive Director of the Textile Museum in Toronto for a number of years
Settling into the job might require some time going over the AGB’s Charitable Annual Return for the 2021 fiscal year which has been published on CRA’s website, and it appears to have a few truly strange errors.
Whoever completed the return sets AGB as a charity with revenues of under $100,000, when they were in fact required to complete Schedule 6. The consequences of this are that significant financial details, including fundraising costs, are not broken out as they should be, making the AGB impossible to compare to its past returns and to other medium to large sized charities, and making it appear on the “Quick View” that their fundraising costs were 0.
Strangely enough, they also reported the City of Burlington grant as “other revenue” instead of “government revenue”.
Lots of questions. Want to talk to the two lawyers who were directors but are no longer on the Board. The Chair who was re-elected at the June meeting resigned shortly after.
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