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Paid Charity Leave Up for Grabs

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 4th February 2014 - The Vodafone Foundation is offering the chance for two people to take leave from their regular jobs to work for a year at a charity of their choice. The 2014 World of Difference program,…

Union Weighs in on ACNC Abolition

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 4th February 2014 - The Community and Public Sector Union has condemned the decision to wind up the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission (ACNC) describing the move as short-sighted.…

Eco-grants Available for Sustainable Projects

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 4th February 2014 - Grants of up to $2000 are up for grabs to help schools, TAFEs and CITs get environmental projects off the ground. The grants are part of the Teachers Environment Fund and judges will…

Inquiry into Children Seeking Asylum Gathers Support

Staff Reporter, Monday, 3rd February 2014 - The Australian Human Rights Commission inquiry into the mandatory and closed detention of children seeking asylum in Australia has been welcomed by the national peak body for refugees.…

NFP Peak Calls for Better Job Support for Youth

Staff Reporter, Monday, 3rd February 2014 - Young people were hard hit by the Global Financial Crisis and are still finding it hard to secure work after leaving school, an employment peak body for Not for Profits says. Jobs Australia…

Violence Against Women Foundation Gains World Expert

Staff Reporter, Monday, 3rd February 2014 - A world-leading violence prevention expert who has worked with organisations including UN Women and Amnesty International Australia has been appointed as the Director of Policy…

Early Childhood Training Faces Quality Review

Staff Reporter, Monday, 3rd February 2014 - The national training regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) will be reviewing early childhood courses in a push for higher qualification standards in the early…

Welfare Network Appeals for Better Job Services

Staff Reporter, Friday, 31st January 2014 - The National Welfare Rights Network has renewed its calls for income support payments and to improve the employment services system after recent figures showed an increase in the…

Youth Summit Applications Open

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 30th January 2014 - Australians aged between 18 and 30 are encouraged to apply for the chance to represent their country at this year’s high profile Y20 youth summit in Sydney from July 12-15. Parliamentary…

Australia Day Gong for Workplace Giving Advocate

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 29th January 2014 - Australian Charities Fund’s Deputy Chairman and Founding CEO, Greg Hutchinson, received a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours Awards.…

App Sets Anti-Racism Challenge

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 28th January 2014 - An education-style mobile phone app, which challenges users to live for a week in the life of an Aboriginal man, a Muslim woman or an Indian student, has been launched. Developed by…

Salvos To Front Royal Commission

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 28th January 2014 - Australia’s best-known welfare organisation, the Salvation Army, will make its first appearance before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual…

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