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Finding Magic in Collective Impact

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th February 2014 - The problem with collaborative efforts is that organisations enter into them with some kind of belief in magic and then face the inevitable disappointment, a national conference on Collective Impact has been told.

Opinion

Creating a Thriving Social Enterprise Sector in Australia

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th February 2014 - The Social Innovation Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Alliance (SIEEA) has developed a Manifesto as a means of collectively advocating for itself and developing its own narrative in order to continue to grow. Meredith Turnbull from the Alliance expla

Opinion

Let’s Remember that a Backbone has Multiple Parts

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th February 2014 - The Head of Community Impact from United Way Australia, Jenny Riley is presenting on mobilisation at this week’s Collective Impact Conference. Here, Riley writes on an emerging ‘distributed backbone’ model.

Fraud Still a Threat to Australian NFPs: Survey

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 25th February 2014 - Just 28 per cent of Australian and New Zealand Not for Profits believe fraud is a direct threat to their organisation, despite the majority seeing it as an inherent sector-wide problem, according to the results of the 2014 BDO Not for Profit Fraud S

Brotherhood Monitors Youth Unemployment

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 25th February 2014 - Welfare Not for Profit The Brotherhood of St Laurence has launched a new campaign and a monthly Youth Unemployment Monitor, in response to what it describes as “youth unemployment in Australia hitting crisis point”.

Affordable Housing Plan Unveiled

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 25th February 2014 - Housing experts meeting at a national housing affordability roundtable in Melbourne today will discuss an equity co-op proposal to significantly reduce housing market entry costs and will establish a taskforce to bring the proposal forward.

Opinion

From Politics to Not for Profit

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 25th February 2014 - From her earliest school days Anna Bligh had a burning desire to make a difference. Now, after a distinguished political career, the former Queensland Premier writes for Pro Bono Australia about her recent transition from politics into the Not for Pr

Survey Gives Young Australians a Voice on Welfare

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th February 2014 - Australia’s national youth affairs peak body has launched an online survey to find out how young people experience Australia’s current welfare system.

Opinion

A Coffee Catch-up Delivers a Charity Challenge to Think Differently

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th February 2014 - A coffee catch up between two friends six years ago saw one cancer charity raise $10 million and expand its scope to being hands on in the prevention, research and funding process for cancer. Charity founder Gary Bertwistle says their success is due

Opinion

Charities Still Waiting to be Heard?

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th February 2014 - Any doubt that charities are the little people in political discourse and national policy debates is being clearly dispelled by the Coalition Government’s continued enthusiasm for dismantling the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission (

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General

Let’s Remember that a Backbone has Multiple Parts

Fraud Still a Threat to Australian NFPs: Survey

Brotherhood Monitors Youth Unemployment

Affordable Housing Plan Unveiled

Survey Gives Young Australians a Voice on Welfare

We’re not your average jobs board