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Posted on 06 Feb 2024
Our Community’s legal partner Maddocks predicts organisations will need to do their homework in…
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 06 Feb 2024
Our Community’s legal partner Maddocks predicts organisations will need to do their homework in…
Posted on 25 Jun 2025
Boards should be alert to a series of recent updates and regulatory shifts in accounting standards…
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 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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Posted on 07 Feb 2024
Australia’s not-for-profit peak body, the Community Council for Australia (CCA), says the sector…
Posted on 07 May 2024
In a sporting first, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to preventing violence against women…
Posted on 22 Nov 2023
Sector leaders have called for the federal government’s new cyber-security blueprint to include…
Posted on 09 Oct 2023
Charity leaders have met with senior federal government cyber security officials to discuss the…
Posted on 27 Feb 2024
UPDATED: The federal budget won’t be handed down until May, but charities and not-for-profit…
Posted on 19 Jun 2024
One of the not-for-profit sector’s peak representative bodies has joined forces with the federal…