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Go Slow to Go Fast – A Mantra for Getting Started with Collective Impact

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 22nd April 2014 - As the field of Collective Impact grows in Australia many communities and causes are grappling with the challenge of getting started writes Dawn O’Neil and Kerry Graham, Principal Consultants at Collective Impact Australia.

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Welfare Review Needs to Incentivise Sustainable Employment

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 17th April 2014 - Assistance to get and keep a job should be front and centre of the Government’s review of welfare support for people with disability, writes Disability Employment Australia CEO Craig Harrison.

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Three Key Challenges in Creating Community Impact

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 15th April 2014 - Creating Community Impact is achievable with some hard work, writes Executive Director and CEO of United Way Australia, Doug Taylor.

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Investing in Volunteering Underpins Civil Society

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th April 2014 - If Australia wants to foster a civil society and mutuality, it must develop and promote a thriving volunteering culture, writes Brett Williamson, CEO, Volunteering Australia, and Sue Noble, CEO, Volunteering Victoria.

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Old School Marketing Vs New School Thinking

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 3rd April 2014 - Charities need to embrace a digital-centric approach to ALL their activities, or they risk getting left behind by their donors, argues digital marketing experts Richenda Vermeulen and Prarthana Holburn.

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Time to Demonstrate Philanthropy’s Policy Impact

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 3rd April 2014 - Understanding philanthropy’s mission is crucial to realising how philanthropy engages in shaping public policy, writes philanthropic Policy and Research Manager Krystian Seibert.

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‘Elect Us’ Takes On NFPs of the Future

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 1st April 2014 - It’s dateline 2020 and policy consultant and NFP leader, Moira Deslandes, reviews a new online platform in a new world of Not for Profit corporatisation and board transparency.

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Regulation Bonfire Offers Little Warmth for Not for Profit Sector

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 27th March 2014 - To abolish the ACNC on the grounds that it has failed in its first year to unravel the Gordian knot of Australia’s long legacy of regulatory hodgepodge amounts to policy vandalism, writes policy analyst at ANU, John Butcher.

Repeal Day an Exercise in Deregulation Smoke and Mirrors

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 27th March 2014 - There are some big deceptions behind Tony Abbott and Josh Frydenberg’s Repeal Day initiative, writes John Wanna, Chair of Public Administration at Australian National University, in this piece first published on The Conversation.

Total Value the Key for Workplace Giving

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th March 2014 - Taking into account the value of all aspects of workplace giving including Institute matching, workplace fundraising, volunteering and in-kind support has reaped rewards, writes Pamela Lee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.

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Opinion

Welfare Review Needs to Incentivise Sustainable Employment

Three Key Challenges in Creating Community Impact

Old School Marketing Vs New School Thinking

Time to Demonstrate Philanthropy’s Policy Impact

‘Elect Us’ Takes On NFPs of the Future

Regulation Bonfire Offers Little Warmth for Not for Profit Sector

Repeal Day an Exercise in Deregulation Smoke and Mirrors

We’re not your average jobs board