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2013 Voluntary Sector Reporting Awards winners announced

Posted on February 19, 2014

Toronto — Feb. 19, 2014 -  Canada’s most prestigious charity awards have selected their 2013 winners. The Voluntary Sector Reporting Awards (VSRAs) announced five winners and two honourable mentions from 16 finalists from across Canada at an awards luncheon in Toronto on February 7. The winners each received a prize of $5,000.

“If you want to know who some of Canada’s best charities are, then all you have to do is look at the VSRAs. We honour the best charity annual reporting. These are charities that have excelled at transparency and accountability. Congratulations to all our winners,” said Steve Salterio, Director of the CPA-Queen’s Centre for Governance, which organizes the VSRAs every year in partnership with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.

Grant Thornton is the event’s exclusive accounting firm sponsor and the National Post the media sponsor for the program.

The awards, now in their sixth year, recognize Canada’s best non-profit annual reports. This year, new expanded rules allowed national and international charities across Canada to enter the VSRAs for the first time, as long as those organizations have a significant presence in Ontario. More than 130 charities were nominated.

The winners in the five categories are:

International Organizations:
Canadian Feed The Children
Toronto
www.canadianfeedthechildren.ca

National Organizations:
YOUCAN
Toronto
www.youcan.ca

ONTARIO ONLY ORGRANIZATIONS

Total revenues over $10 million
Vita Community Living Services
www.vitacls.org

Total revenues from over $1 million to $10 million
United Way Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington
Kingston
www.unitedwaykfla.ca

Total Revenues up to $1 million
Hospice King (Operating as Hospice King-Aurora)
Aurora
www.hospicekingaurora.com

Honourable Mentions
Aurora Cultural Centre
www.auroraculturalcentre.ca

Covenant House Toronto
www.covenanthousetoronto.ca

“We are delighted to see so many worthy charities getting recognition through the Voluntary Sector Reporting Awards. It’s clear that the VSRAs are having a positive effect on financial reporting in this province and across Canada,” said Brian Leader, FCPA, FCA, Vice-President of Learning at the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.

More information about the VSRAs is available online at www.annualreportaward.ca.

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About the CPA-Queen’s Centre for Governance at Queen’s School of Business
The goal of the CPA-Queen’s Centre for Governance is to raise the bar on Canadian governance research with respect to transparency and financial accountability and convey that research’s implications to academics, students and the public at large. Situated at Queen’s School of Business, one of the world’s premier business schools, the Centre conducts cutting edge basic and applied research on governance dealing with such issues as fraud prevention and detection and improving the quality of Canadian securities’ regulation.

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