Newsletters
Community Directors Intelligence
The newsletter for not-for-profit board members
These are the member publications of the Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA), Australia's leading resource for not-for-profit boards and committees. These include Community Directors Intelligence - bringing together our best content in a PDF newsletter - and Community Directors Update, an email update with all the news, analysis, and advice you need to be a better board member. Members can download newsletters below, with sample previews also available.
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Pandemic response
During 2020, the Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA) focussed its work on the Save Our Sector campaign to help NFPs to survive the crisis. As a result, you won't see many 2020 editions of the newsletter below. More information: communitydirectors.com.au/save-our-sector
Cracker calendar points the way
February 2020
Discover the great events in our 2020 Festival of Community Directors, read from our not-for-profit "Roadmap", nab scholarship opportunities, learn how NFPs are responding to bushfires, and, get the best tips about whistleblowing and codes of conduct.
Cultivate your culture
October 2018
Organisational culture, we all know, eats strategy for breakfast. We've drawn dozens of lessons from the Community Directors Conference, including the extraordinary cultural transformation of Greening Australia, and don't miss Susan Pascoe's blueprint for setting your cultural tone.
How to make a leader
July 2018
Leadership can make or break your organisation. Poor leadership can destroy your income, your reputation and your mission. This edition presents international research and analysis, strategies, the views of effective leaders and access to many of the resources you'll need.
The keys to collaboration
March 2018
We've spoken to legal and academic types, change merchants, not-for-profit movers and shakers, scrutinised case studies, and dipped into our library of resources to bring you this dossier. We present powerful alternatives to mergers, and show you how partnerships will help you survive tough times, and perform better.
Where's the money?
September 2017
Not-for-profit fundraising is grindingly hard. In this edition of Board Builder, we examine two case studies where things went wrong and reveal three ways to keep your nose clean by asking the right questions. Plus, we profile a neighbourhood centre that’s built a nest egg for the day.
