New site to help NFPs tackle climate change
Posted on 12 Sep 2022
A new website with practical tools for community leaders aims to help the $176 billion…
Want to make this year the one you achieve your organisation’s biggest goals? Then you’ve got to prepare. And we can help.
From this month, we’re hosting the Festival of Community Directors, “a year-long celebration of community governance”, with events and training aimed at inspiring and educating community leaders. Why? Well, Roman ancient Marcus Cicero stressed “diligent preparation” before action more than 2000 years ago. And US Speaker Nancy Pelosi last year urged more women to step into leadership, with the advice: “Organise, don't agonise.”
As our Community Directors Council chair Susan Pascoe (AM) says: “The organisations meeting and exceeding their goals are, almost without fail, well-governed by competent boards with a healthy culture and a commitment to continual improvement”. That's why our Festival is a packed program covering ethics, human resources, communications, policy, strategy, finance, testing impact, whistleblowing, fundraising, AGMs and much more.
Talking of preparation, in this edition we've asked Ms Pascoe and several other not-for-profit experts to predict the biggest challenges and opportunities you’ll face this year. Completing our new national survey of the sector’s big issues will help that knowledge grow too, alongside a chance to win great prizes – including tickets to the unmissable Communities in Control Conference on May 20-21.
Posted on 12 Sep 2022
A new website with practical tools for community leaders aims to help the $176 billion…
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Research has long been at the heart of the charity and not-for-profit sector’s efforts to…
Posted on 09 Jul 2024
A new research project is set to detail the negative experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
Posted on 20 Oct 2023
A joint initiative between IT company Ingram Micro and Microsoft is designed to grant…
Posted on 09 Apr 2024
University researchers have developed an online survey tool designed to help not-for-profits…
Posted on 02 May 2022
A Victorian Government-funded program delivered by the Institute of Community Directors Australia…
Posted on 06 Feb 2024
Our Community’s legal partner Maddocks predicts organisations will need to do their homework in…
Posted on 10 Apr 2024
Not-for-profits have been hit by a spike in insurance premiums because of a perfect storm of…
Posted on 13 Dec 2022
The Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA) hosted 10 community directors and…
Posted on 16 Mar 2023
In a sign of the lightning speed of technology development, a newer and more powerful version of…
Posted on 21 Sep 2023
The launch of Australia's first dedicated legal service for whistleblowers aims to support those…
Posted on 13 Dec 2022
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