Sector recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
Posted on 11 Jun 2024
Community Hubs Australia CEO and North Melbourne Football Club chief Sonja Hood was among a diverse…
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 11 Jun 2024
Community Hubs Australia CEO and North Melbourne Football Club chief Sonja Hood was among a diverse…
Posted on 09 Jul 2024
Not-for-profits, charities and community groups have scored a significant win, with the federal…
Posted on 02 May 2024
A former drug addict and homeless man who turned his life around after volunteering at a Western…
Posted on 11 Dec 2023
The not-for-profit sector has backed the federal government’s planned reforms to the National…
Posted on 03 Feb 2024
The not-for-profit and charity sector has thrown its weight behind changes to the federal…
Posted on 16 Jan 2024
As the new year sets in, time may have run out for supermarket chains who have been accused of…
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 12 Sep 2024
Fundraising experts say that better understanding donors’ attitudes to the community sector will go…
Posted on 12 Dec 2023
Migrant advocacy organisations have welcomed the federal government’s long-awaited migration…
Posted on 07 Feb 2024
Collaboration is the key to success for a resource starved not-for-profit sector, says Nina…
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 03 Jun 2023
Not-for-profit organisations must digitally transform if they are to effectively meet the needs of…