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Will More Business-Like Social Enterprises Improve Care?

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th March 2014 - The big opportunity on the horizon for social enterprise development in Australia may be the National Disability Insurance Scheme, writes Chris Mason, from the Swinburne Centre for Social Impact, in an article first published in The Conversation.

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The Australia Council Must Hold Firm on ‘Arm’s Length’ Funding

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th March 2014 - The ongoing furore surrounding the corporate funding of the 2014 Sydney Biennale involves hard issues – “hard” as in “real” and “difficult to solve”, writes Julian Meyrick, Professor of Strategic Arts at Flinders University, in this pie

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Australian NFPs Falling Behind in Transparency

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 13th March 2014 - Australia will fall further behind China and the US in gathering information about Not for Profit organisations without the charity regulator, the ACNC, argues Not for Profit researcher Wesa Chau.

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Fairtrade: A Balancing Act

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 12th March 2014 - Criticism has been levelled at Fairtrade for becoming mainstream, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand explores the role of the Fairtrade label and its future in sustainable supply chains.

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Babies and Bathwater – Repealing is Not the Same as Fixing

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 6th March 2014 - While many in the Not for Profit sector appreciate the Coalition Government has made political promises with regard to the ACNC, it should not throw out the baby with the bathwater, but approach the issues so that the fall-out is reduced as far as po

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Time to Think ‘Solutions’ to Child Abuse

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th February 2014 - Not for Profit leaders, academics, practitioners and policy makers need to come together to cultivate innovative new ways to ensure child safety, writes Dr Sarah Wise from the Berry Street Childhood Institute.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Opinion

The Australia Council Must Hold Firm on ‘Arm’s Length’ Funding

Australian NFPs Falling Behind in Transparency

Babies and Bathwater – Repealing is Not the Same as Fixing

Let’s Remember that a Backbone has Multiple Parts

We’re not your average jobs board