MONITORING & TRACKING THE FIELD - Organizational capacity in Sport Organizations

Layout 1 MONITORING & TRACKING THE FIELD CFLRI’S BULLETIN SERIES MONITORING SPORT AND RECREATION IN CANADA Organizational capacity in Sport Organizations The Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute’s Table 1: Percentage of organizations indicating sufficient human 2020-2021 Sport Organizations Survey asked administrators resources to provide quality sport programs in sport organizations. [...] one-quarter and one-half of Sufficient human resources sport organizations report Generally speaking, between one-quarter and one-half of having sufficient staffing and sport organizations report having sufficient staffing and human resources to provide human resources to provide quality programming to a great extent, and very few organizations (20% or less) say that quality programming to a do no. [...] With this in mind, a greater proportion of larger organizations feel that they have sufficient managerial staff, • facilities and venues; executive, or board members to provide quality sport • the development of coaches and leaders; programming to a great extent, whereas there were • the development of athletes; no significant differences between smaller and larger • media exposure, promotion and. [...] volunteered in a sport related activity and devoted 103 hours/ year on average.2 In Sport for Life’s Impacts of COVID-19 on insufficient financial resources for the support of Local Sport Organizations study, 40% local sport organizations facilities/venues and the development of coaches, leaders, reported that they were predominantly volunteer-based and, and athletes. [...] The pandemic has contributed to challenges with membership and engagement (8%) and long-term funding human resourcing as many of these organizations have commitment from government (7%).3 Despite the difficult experienced difficulties with the retention of staff and circumstances, some sport organizations have been able volunteers, which may have been in part due to illness and/ to enact necessary.