Community Sector News

Current Trends in Australian Nonprofit Policy notes that there has been a large growth in nonprofits in Australia over the past 30 years. It looks… Read More

Rural population decline is challenging many regional communities with the loss of working age people, services and capacity as the local population ages. However Regional… Read More

The health and community sector in Australia is moving towards portable funding models. Dealing with the complexity of costing services  notes that while market participants… Read More

Two new investments have been announced, one in NSW which is the first to look at reducing parolee reoffending and re-incarceration.  The second is in… Read More

Data as a Means, Not an End is a case study of an organisation that had grown.  They realised they needed to reassess the data… Read More

“We are now beginning to learn that there is a cost in social fragmentation and division.  This cost is political and, as a consequence, economic.” … Read More

Social impact models are starting to play a growing role in thinking about the best way to deliver services. Australian governments are increasingly looking to social… Read More

In Patrick Lester's article Defining Evidence Down he points out that “With evidence-based policy, we need to acknowledge that some evidence is more valid than… Read More

In Dial down the ‘innovation culture’ rhetoric and seek shared purpose Deborah Blackman, UNSW public management professor says:  “Forget lofty goals like developing an innovation… Read More

Having recently witnessed how unforgiving, destructive and frightening an extreme weather event can be within my own community, I am not surprised that 25% of… Read More

If you suspect your writing is boring and not being read, Kivi Lerous Miller has 20 Tips to Energize Dull Nonprofit Writing

There has been a call by JBWare for the community sector to consolidate. It maintains there are too many charities and that this is a… Read More