Community Sector

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Victoria, like NSW is reforming its heath and community sector.  In Kym Peake: leading reform in the health and human services sector Peake notes the… Read More

Bill Shorten has appointed Andrew Leigh to the newly created position of shadow minister for charities and Not for Profits.  In Labor Creates New Shadow… Read More

In Peter Shergold's four principles to transform cross-sector work, he acknowledges that cross sector collaboration (ie between government and the private and non-government sectors) often… Read More

Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine, the inaugural Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Non-profit Leadership in 2014 notes that  the Sector Needs to Lead on Trust and Confidence …… Read More

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