Glossary
This glossary provides definitions and explanations of the terms we use throughout the Organizational Standards Initiative. You can get to this page from your right hand side Navigation menu, or by clicking on these words as they appear in the indicator questions and other text.
- Accessibility
- Anti-oppression
- Anti‐oppression framework
- Best Practices
- Bisexual
- Board
- Board of Directors
- By-laws
- Canada‐Ontario Immigration Agreement
- Capacity development
- Client-centred
- Clients
- Coaching
- Community
- Community-based research
- Continuum of services
- Core Competencies
- Criminalized
- Disability
- Equity
- Fiduciary
- Financial controls
- Financial statements
- Fiscal
- Gay
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Good Practices
- Governance
- Immigrants
- In-Camera meeting
- Indicators
- Informal economy
- Information management system
- Intersex
- Leadership
- Lesbian
- Less-than-full status
- LGBT
- Listserv
- Logic model
- Management
- Management letter
- Mission statement
- Newcomers
- Non-status
- Oppression
- Organizational Capacity
- Organizational Development
- Organizational standards
- Organizational Structure
- Principles
- Professional development
- Professionalization
- Promising Practices
- Queer
- Questioning
- Recommended Process for Working on the Self-Assessment
- Refugees
- Rencontre à huis clos
- Risk management
- Sector
- Settlement
- Staff
- Stakeholder
- Standards
- Strategic plan
- Strategic planning
- Strategic thinking
- Succession Plan
- Survivors
- Systemic
- Technological infrastructure
- Terms of reference
- Transgender
- Transsexual
- Two-Spirited
- Values
- Women in vulnerable situations
- Work-life balance
