
Media lessons from the federal election
Posted on 11 May 2022
All politicians, whatever their stripe, are media tarts. Why? No media = no exposure. No exposure =…
Posted on 11 May 2022
All politicians, whatever their stripe, are media tarts. Why? No media = no exposure. No exposure =…
Posted on 11 May 2022
Snap a photo of a 2022 federal election candidate visiting your charity or community group and you…
Posted on 11 May 2022
Stay in touch with news and information on the politics affecting the community sector.
Posted on 09 May 2022
There’s not much hope around today. Specifically, neither major party seems to want to own that…
Posted on 09 May 2022
Everybody (close enough) likes dogs, and everybody wants to help blind people, so a charity that…
Posted on 03 May 2022
Australia’s most important conference for community leaders has laid down the challenge to…
Posted on 02 May 2022
A Victorian Government-funded program delivered by the Institute of Community Directors Australia…
Posted on 04 Apr 2022
A new study provides the ammunition that not-for-profits need to argue for funding for core costs…
Posted on 04 Apr 2022
Australian not-for-profits are world leaders when it comes to attracting top talent, but most…
Posted on 04 Apr 2022
Le Smith was an accomplished leader in Darwin before she took on ICDA’s Diploma of Governance in…
Posted on 04 Apr 2022
Author, journalist, commentator and feminist Jamila Rizvi says women must decide whether they want…
Posted on 04 Apr 2022
A Queensland theatre group with a flair for the dramatic and responding to its critics has been…
Posted on 04 Apr 2022
I’ve spent the past 20 years working with what’s known as the third sector, and it’s a term that’s…
Posted on 25 Feb 2022
If there’s one thing that not-for-profits should learn, according to Community Vision CEO Michelle…
Posted on 25 Feb 2022
Social marketer Brett de Hoedt is a man of 1000 opinions, and he’s here to share his knowledge…
Posted on 25 Feb 2022
I work with the not-for-profit sector, and I know that the difference between that lot and the…
Posted on 25 Feb 2022
Australian not-for-profits have the chance to reshape their sector in the wake of covid-19…
Posted on 01 Feb 2022
There are a lot of genuinely terrifying bogies out there: COVID, climate change, rivalry with…
Posted on 03 Jan 2022
Leadership expert, Leading Edge author and Emergent CEO Holly Ransom says not-for-profits have a…
Posted on 29 Dec 2021
In his latest column, Our Community's Denis Moriarty argues community responsiblity is the key to…
Posted on 17 Dec 2021
Australia needs a reboot. We need to rebalance the weight we allocate in our lives and our…
Posted on 16 Dec 2021
Social marketer Brett de Hoedt is a man of 1000 opinions, and he’s here to share his knowledge…
Posted on 13 Dec 2021
Australia’s best social impact measurement practitioners have been recognised for showing the way…
Posted on 27 Nov 2021
Not-for-profits are accelerating their digital transformation in the wake of the pandemic, but…
Posted on 27 Nov 2021
Not-for-profit employers should brace for a huge movement of workers in the next year, according to…
Posted on 18 Nov 2021
Government abuse of grantmaking schemes seems to be attaining a solidly bipartisan level of concern…
Posted on 10 Nov 2021
Paula Westhead is among scores of recent graduates of ICDA’s governance diploma, which is tailored…
Posted on 03 Nov 2021
Board directors from more than 15,000 not-for-profit organisations will soon be required to hold a…
Posted on 29 Oct 2021
The Institute of Community Directors is doing its bit to boost women in leadership, rolling out a…
Posted on 27 Oct 2021
Data breaches are among the biggest risks facing not-for-profits, but according to one cyber…
Posted on 27 Oct 2021
Not-for-profits are increasingly relying on social media to get their message out, but a recent…
Posted on 27 Oct 2021
As organisations begin to adapt to a world with covid-19, here's some advice from the Community…
Posted on 27 Oct 2021
“Cause days’’ have long been a key part of NFP marketing – think Daffodil Day (since 1986) and Red…
Posted on 26 Oct 2021
Julienne Price, executive manager, Schools, Not-for-Profits and Women in Focus, Commonwealth Bank…
Posted on 22 Oct 2021
It’s no surprise that the Institute of Community Directors’ Policy Bank is one of its most visited…
Posted on 04 Oct 2021
Australians get most of their ideas about politics from television, and most of their television…
Posted on 30 Sep 2021
Leading not-for-profit thinker Paul Ronalds, CEO of Save the Children Australia, says many…
Posted on 15 Sep 2021
As the head of a small organisation with "big ambitions", former ABC broadcaster and accomplished…
Posted on 06 Sep 2021
When you hear the word ‘charity’, what’s your first thought? I’d suggest that ‘charity’, like…
Posted on 25 Aug 2021
The urgency to get Australians vaccinated continues to grow and begs the question for…
Posted on 24 Aug 2021
Pressure on not-for-profit organisations comes from all quarters: shifting government’s priorities,…
Posted on 23 Aug 2021
Policymaker, public servant, and author Andrew Wear is sick of problems and is hell-bent on finding…
Posted on 18 Aug 2021
Yasmin Poole, 22, is part of the next generation of not-for-profit leaders studying with the…
Posted on 12 Aug 2021
Australia’s best community treasurers come from a range of not-for-profits and every corner of the…
Posted on 28 Jul 2021
Every now and then in Australia something goes badly wrong for a not-for-profit in full view of the…
Posted on 28 Jul 2021
With three decades of experience across business and the not-for-profit sector in Australia,…
Posted on 06 Jul 2021
When people phone Our Community asking about how to sort out glitches in their meetings, my usual…
Posted on 23 Jun 2021
Not-for-profits in Australia are coming under intense pressure a year on from the start of the…
Posted on 14 Jun 2021
Not-for-profit sector doyen Robert Fitzgerald has issued a rallying cry to Australian board members…
Posted on 14 Jun 2021
Not-for-profit board members want greater recognition of their sector and the unique challenges…
Posted on 14 Jun 2021
As not-for-profits seek to resume COVID-normal service, many organisations will want their staff…
Posted on 30 May 2021
Australia’s most progressive leaders, thinkers and community agitators have gathered in their…
Posted on 25 May 2021
One of the things about a global upheaval is that afterwards things that were once taken for…
Posted on 20 Apr 2021
Broome student Eloise Page has become the first person to complete ICDA’s governance diploma course…
Posted on 14 Apr 2021
In his latest commentary, Our Community's Denis Moriarty takes aim at the Federal Government's move…
Posted on 15 Mar 2021
Not-for-profit data experts Seer Data & Analytics say there are good reasons why for-purpose…
Posted on 05 Mar 2021
Portable leave entitlements for community sector workers, which allow employees to accumulate long…
Posted on 05 Mar 2021
Young People on Boards scholarship winner Matt Whitely, 27, said the Diploma of Governance course…
Posted on 05 Mar 2021
Our Community has forged a new legal partnership with leading law firm Maddocks to cater for the…
Posted on 05 Mar 2021
The Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA) is quizzing sector members about their…
Posted on 02 Mar 2021
The Institute of Community Directors Australia are hosting the third Festival of Community…
Posted on 12 Feb 2021
Even not-for-profits make mistakes. In this help sheet, media professional Brett de Hoedt, aka the…
Posted on 12 Feb 2021
Taking control of your finances is never easy at the best of times and has become even harder for…
Posted on 27 Jan 2021
In his latest column, Our Community group managing director Denis Moriarty reflects on the…
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Posted on 09 Dec 2020
The Institute of Community Directors has always maintained that having diverse funding sources is…
Posted on 09 Dec 2020
Australia’s best community treasurers say riding out the tough times requires the kind of creative…
Posted on 26 Nov 2020
Against the odds, the 2020 Communities in Control conference was one of the liveliest ever. An…
Posted on 11 Nov 2020
Our Community’s Innovation Lab has taken out top honours in its category in the Connecting Up…
Posted on 02 Nov 2020
In his latest column, Our Community group managing director Denis Moriarty reflects on the…
Posted on 29 Oct 2020
As an Aus-NZ study revealed 70% of NFPs struggled with work-from-home tech, here's a few tips to…
Posted on 08 Oct 2020
The latest addition to our Policy Bank is a fully revised privacy policy template.
Posted on 06 Oct 2020
In his latest commentary, Our Community's Denis Moriarty reveals why recent suggest fundraising…
Posted on 17 Sep 2020
How do you measure the social impact of anything when the nation has been thrown into disarray by…
Posted on 11 Sep 2020
Social enterprise Our Community (“where not-for-profits go for help”) has described recommendations…
Posted on 08 Sep 2020
One of Australia’s best community treasurers, Mark Floresta, is upbeat about the possibilities for…
Posted on 07 Sep 2020
Everybody approves of community. I certainly do. Everyone agrees we need more of it. There’s a…
Posted on 02 Sep 2020
The world’s first $1 coin designed to spark greater generosity is set to transform donations in…
Posted on 01 Sep 2020
Amid criticism over bushfire fundraising and spending, charities need to "tell their story" better,…
Posted on 26 Aug 2020
Taking a human-centred approach to decision-making could be the key to harnessing your…
Posted on 20 Aug 2020
Want to get in touch with hard-to-reach groups? Help could be at hand with a special group of…
Posted on 03 Aug 2020
For nearly all Australians, everything about COVID-19 seems to be precisely calculated to fall into…
Posted on 16 Jun 2020
Australia’s best qualification for not-for-profit leaders just got better. As workers amp up their…
Posted on 01 Jun 2020
As the high tide of the coronavirus crisis recedes over the coming months (touch wood), we know…
Posted on 28 May 2020
The Australian government has, quite rightly, provided assistance to Australian businesses to get…
Posted on 21 May 2020
As part of the Institute of Community Directors’ commitment to encouraging good governance, this…
Posted on 15 May 2020
This article is just one of the ways the Our Community Group is working to support not-for-profits…
Posted on 12 May 2020
If COVID-19 can be thanked for anything, it might be for creating an unprecedented focus on mental…
Posted on 11 May 2020
Think Impact director Suzi Young explains why the coronavirus crisis is an opportunity for the…
Posted on 08 May 2020
Let’s cut to the chase. Rural Australia is in a downward spiral which has no natural stopping…
Posted on 06 Apr 2020
We go through life, all of us, thinking that the world around us is stable, fixed and reliable. We…
Posted on 20 Mar 2020
The Our Community Group is working to support not-for-profits through the COVID-19 crisis, as part…
Posted on 20 Mar 2020
This article is just one of the ways the Our Community Group is working to support not-for-profits…
Posted on 05 Mar 2020
The Festival of Community Directors is well underway for season 2020, and over the next two months…
Posted on 24 Feb 2020
The first LGBTIQ+ winner of a $1000 part-scholarship to complete a Diploma of Governance wants to…
Posted on 19 Feb 2020
The 2020 Festival of Community Directors – a year-long celebration of community governance – has…
Posted on 13 Feb 2020
Confucianism and Taoism are among the world’s great religious and philosophical traditions, and…
Posted on 13 Feb 2020
Hundreds of not-for-profit leaders will be given the chance to win a part-scholarship to complete…
Posted on 12 Feb 2020
An updated free whistleblower policy released by ICDA for use by not-for-profits has been a popular…
Posted on 12 Feb 2020
As part of the Institute of Community Directors’ commitment to encouraging good governance, this…
Posted on 10 Feb 2020
Not-for-profits are yet to truly embrace the power they wield, former World Vision chief Tim…
Posted on 10 Feb 2020
If you’re a Victorian cemetery trust member, make sure you’ve completed the free governance and…
Posted on 28 Jan 2020
A detailed study of arts governance published as a joint venture between the Australia Council for…
Posted on 11 Dec 2019
There's never been a better time for all not-for-profits to review their whistleblower policies and…
Posted on 11 Dec 2019
A landmark study of Australian not-for-profit governance has created the clearest picture yet of an…
Posted on 04 Dec 2019
In December 2019, the Institute of Community Directors Australia launched a major study into…
Posted on 18 Nov 2019
As the door closes on the 2019 Festival of Community Directors, the Institute of Community…
Posted on 01 Nov 2019
The talent that will illuminate Australia's most important community conference has been locked in,…
Posted on 20 Oct 2019
The Festival of Community Directors is dedicated to providing the best tips, tools and training to…
Posted on 07 Oct 2019
Nearly half of Australia's not-for-profits are giving their directors - including treasurers,…
Posted on 16 Sep 2019
Australia’s not-for-profits are almost evenly split between thriving organisations and battlers…
Posted on 02 Sep 2019
Thousands of crimes targeting Australia's not-for-profits are going unreported, a detailed study…
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Posted on 15 Aug 2019
Schools governance is in the spotlight after a very public spat in Queensland, experts suggest that…
Posted on 22 Jul 2019
ICDA executive director Patrick Moriarty’s first response to ICDA's Spotlight Report Assessing…
Posted on 20 Jun 2019
Nearly all chairs enjoy their role as a board member, understand their responsibilities as board…
Posted on 14 Jun 2019
Community directors know better than most that not-for-profits must do as much as they can with the…
Posted on 11 Jun 2019
Our Community's Innovation Lab has flicked the switch to better understanding by not-for-profits.
Posted on 03 Jun 2019
More than one in 10 not-for-profits doesn’t bother tracking its success, while one in four say they…
Posted on 10 Feb 2019
Not-for-profits will need to revise their approach to assessing income following the introduction…
Posted on 10 Feb 2019
Our Community researchers have proven how important it is for fundraisers to tailor their suggested…
Posted on 10 Feb 2019
Pregnant women have the right to nap at work when they need to, under a new pregnancy and parenting…
Posted on 10 Feb 2019
Directors under pressure to deliver funds, good leadership Why a net return at the end of the…
Posted on 10 Feb 2019
Elections a time to take stock Elections and likely changes in governments will mean inevitable…
Posted on 15 Nov 2018
Not-for-profit directors wanting to know more about the performance of their organisations should…
Posted on 15 Nov 2018
The explosive review that picked over the toxic culture linked to Australian cricket's shameful…
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Posted on 15 Nov 2018
If anyone doubted the power of community to connect us, keep us healthier, and battle disadvantage,…
Posted on 15 Nov 2018
Connectors are the precious people who know many others and get things done. They have an uncanny…
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Posted on 15 Oct 2018
Looking at change? Consider this no-holds-barred Greening Australia presentation charting the…
Posted on 15 Oct 2018
Our Community founder and group managing director Denis Moriarty AM says Our Community's…
Posted on 15 Oct 2018
Community directors face an unprecedented burden of increased regulation, decreased funding and low…
Posted on 15 Oct 2018
Community directors are better equipped to crack the code when it comes to regulation, data,…
Posted on 15 Oct 2018
Words, like people, have their good times and their bad times. This is a very bad year for the word…
Posted on 15 Oct 2018
ICDA's executive director and head trainer Patrick Moriarty says the strife striking down…
Posted on 15 Oct 2018
In June 2019, top executive Michael Clark from the Adelaide-based charity SYC was sentenced to…
Posted on 15 Oct 2018
A convincing pitch is a powerful tool you can use to unlock opportunities, form relationships with…
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Posted on 15 Oct 2018
Dr Lucy Bernholz, a world-recognised thinker on digital and data trends, and a specialist in…
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Posted on 15 Oct 2018
Knowing that an organisation needs a good culture to thrive is one thing, but how do you get there?
Posted on 10 Oct 2018
Culture will be the key for all organisations In the wake of royal commissions into child abuse and…
Posted on 16 Jul 2018
This article comes from Nonprofit Quarterly.
Posted on 16 Jul 2018
US education pioneer Dr Mary Gentile has seen first-hand some of the most devastating ethical…
Posted on 15 Jul 2018
Are leaders born, made, or something in between? It's a tricky question, and one that's been…
Posted on 15 Jul 2018
Each year, Our Community hosts the Communities in Control conference for 1000 representatives of…
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Posted on 15 Jul 2018
Most not-for-profit leaders aim to set - and expect the people in their organisations to practise -…
Posted on 15 Jul 2018
For all of the talk about the importance of leadership, relatively few resources are applied to its…
Posted on 15 Jul 2018
Alexander conquered the known world in his twenties. Caesar conquered Gaul. Frederick the Great won…
Posted on 15 Jul 2018
The concept of diversity applies to many factors besides gender, but gender diversity should be the…
Posted on 16 Apr 2018
A cyber attack on Family Planning NSW, which exposed the personal information of up to 8000 clients…
Posted on 15 Jan 2018
Community directors can breathe easier following a significant tax ruling brokered by Our…
Posted on 30 Nov 2017
The cloud can keep you connected with your members and stakeholders.
Posted on 30 Nov 2017
Not-for-profits aren't investing enough on IT to keep pace with other sectors, an industry study…
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Posted on 30 Nov 2017
Not-for-profits are being outspent on digital technology almost three-to-one by corporates, an…
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Posted on 30 Nov 2017
Not-for-profit recruiting expert Richard Green backs the Our Community Innovation Lab's finding…
Posted on 29 Nov 2017
You might assume that the demand for ICT skills on not-for-profit boards and executive teams would…
Posted on 17 Oct 2017
Knowing how to assess an organisation's finances is something that many people without accounting…
Posted on 17 Oct 2017
Our Community's thinker-in-residence, Chris Borthwick, casts a close eye over the financial…
Posted on 14 Sep 2017
A good not-for-profit board chair, if you consult the relevant literature, combines the leadership…
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Posted on 23 Dec 2013
A quick look at building better board equality on not-for-profit boards.
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Posted on 23 Jun 2013
Over the past couple of months a continuing query in our governance training sessions has been…
Posted on 29 Mar 2012
A long standing challenge for groups in the sector is to attract young people to their board, and…
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Posted on 29 Dec 2010
According to the Denver Foundation in the United States, full board diversity cannot be realised…