Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
The partnership organisation set up less than 5 years ago to boost corporate volunteering in Victoria, firstly as Melbourne Cares and then as Australia Cares, has quietly closed…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
An evaluation of the ANZ Banks Progress Loans project delivered in partnership with the Brotherhood of St Laurence has found it is effective at meeting the key financial needs of people…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
While there appears to be an upsurge in the number of social and environmental sustainability guides rating "good companies", Iconoclasts Inc in the US has launched…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
Some leading companies have progressed beyond legal compliance, checkbook philanthropy, and stakeholder management to define a next generation of corporate citizenship that…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
Corporations can be held accountable for complicity in human rights violations regardless of where they may have been committed in the world.
Cases about alleged abuses have been…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
The first stage of a national review of Standards for Involving Volunteers in Not for Profit Organisations has seen a call for a refinement in the approach to managing volunteers rather…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
When co-founder and CEO of the social enterprise organisation, ISIS (Asia Pacific) group, Audette Exel took the stage at a recent Women and Management Dinner to speak as someone who…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th August 2009 -
Swinburne University of Technology has established Australia’s first Chair of Social Investment and Philanthropy.
The Truby and Florence Williams Chair of Social Investment…
Staff Reporter, Monday, 17th August 2009 -
A National Compact between the Federal Government and the Australia Not for Profit Sector would include a statement of agreed principles as well as a prioritised action list to ensure…
Staff Reporter, Monday, 17th August 2009 -
There has been an almost 5% increase in the demand for the services provided by Australia charities during the current economic downturn according to the latest survey by charity…
Staff Reporter, Monday, 17th August 2009 -
Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and Social Traders are co-hosting the 2009 Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) in Melbourne from 6-8 October with an international and local line…
Staff Reporter, Monday, 17th August 2009 -
Business executive Jo Brennan is stepping out of the corporate world of the Macquarie Group and into the Not for Profit sector as the new CEO of Habitat for Humanity Australia.
And the…