Your not-for-profit organization is invited by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport to complete a brief, fully confidential survey which will help the Ministry in its efforts to support sport and recreation in Ontario. While the survey will continue into January 2015, your earliest response will be greatly appreciated. (Web-links to the survey are provided below in both English and French.)
The purpose of the survey is to help the Ministry to better understand the capacity (e.g. funding and human resources) of Ontario not-for-profit community sport and recreation organizations (CSROs). The survey examines various aspects of sports program quality (e.g. certification and standards) as well as the readiness of the sector for the upcoming Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA), to be implemented by 2016. The survey will not be used to evaluate individual CSROs and is for the Ministry’s internal use only. Results from the survey will allow the Ministry to better aid future development of all sports organizations, including small and rural not-for-profits.
Confidentiality: Your responses will be kept strictly confidential. Only SPR’s senior managers will have access to your organization’s responses. SPR has a 25+ year track record in studies of programs dealing with such topics as national security programs, family violence, patient medical experiences, and legal aid. SPR’s reports will only present summarized data and will not identify individual organizations.
Please Note: If your organization has more than one sport or recreation program, please complete a separate survey for each individual program. If your not-for-profit organization is an umbrella group, it would also be very helpful if you could distribute the survey invitation to each of your sport and recreation programs.
A methodologically rigorous assessment: The survey features a scientifically validated multi-item measure of organizational capacity, developed by Dr. Alison Doherty (Western University) and Dr. Katie Misener (University of Waterloo), with the assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Summary Report: In recognition of your participation, the Ministry will provide a copy of a summary report to your organization.
If you have any questions about the overall study, please contact Mir Nazmul Islam, Sport, Recreation & Community Programs Division, Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport ([email protected] ). If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Dr. Ted Harvey, Study Director, at [email protected]
Password: At the beginning of the survey, you will be asked to provide the following password which authorizes entry to the survey (please be sure to enter the password exactly as shown below):
Your password is: SC-531
To proceed directly to the survey, click one of the web-links below:
http://www.spr.ca/sports/organization.htm (English)
http://www.spr.ca/sports/organisationfr.htm (Français)
If you encounter any problems trying to access either web-site, please e-mail [email protected]