Calendar
You are welcome to attend training courses in a wide range of topics which can be found here
September 2024
Not-for-Profit Finance Week is a celebration of ideas, knowledge and financial capacity-building for the $100 billion Australian not-for-profit sector.
The aim of this event, held September 2024, is to increase the profile of the not-for-profit sector, bolster the financial capacity and sustainability of the sector, and provide support for the staff, board members and treasurers carrying out the important task of overseeing the finances.
Join us for a week of information-packed FREE webinars.
This workshop has been designed to help directors understand their roles and responsibilities as a board member, and how to review and apply the organisation’s constitution.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 5 September 2024
Time: 1–4pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $175 (normally $245)
Session 1: Regulatory and legislative compliance, decision-making and ethical obligations
Date: Thursday, 12 September 2024
Time: 3–5pm AEST
Location: Zoom
Session 2: Keeping the board on track with responsibilities and timelines
Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024
Time: 3–5pm AEST
Location: Via Zoom
Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to benefit community organisations. However, its use also brings risks. Boards are responsible for being aware of these risks and managing them, in relation to their own decision-making processes and in relation to the organisation’s use of AI generally.
Join ICDA and learn how your board can safeguard your organisation against the risks of artificial intelligence.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
The best leaders bring out the strengths in those around them. Getting the best out of your people is always important, but for time- and resource-poor organisations, even more so.
Join ICDA for this interactive workshop where will look at the role coaching plays in inspiring your team to harness their strengths and insights, achieving the largest possible impact.
We’ll cover:
- Understanding coaching and its benefits
- Exploring shared and unique strengths in teams
- Building a coaching culture
- Asking powerful questions, goal setting and other coaching techniques
- Common coaching challenges
- Action planning and what’s next
Key Details
Date: Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Time: 1–4pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $175 (normally $245)
As Peter Drucker famously said, "What gets measured gets managed."
Is your organisation’s CEO reviewing process as effective and aligned with your organisational values as it should be? Ensuring your CEO meets expectations and steers your organisation in the right direction is crucial for success. But how do you plan and conduct an impactful CEO performance review?
Over the course of the webinar, you will gain insights on:
- Building a strong partnership with your CEO
- Identifying the right participants for the review (and who to exclude)
- Key elements to include (and what to avoid)
- Establishing an effective timeframe for reviews
- Structuring the review process for maximum effectiveness
- Aligning the review with the CEO's job description and organisational objective
Key Details
Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
Session 3: Supporting inclusion and accessibility and ensuring effective induction and onboarding of new board members
Date: Thursday, 26 September 2024
Time: 3–5pm AEST
Location: Via Zoom
October 2024
Fundraising is the lifeblood of most community organisations, yet it’s an often-neglected task. Most organisations draw the majority of their income from just one or two sources. That’s a dangerous strategy. If one of those sources dries up, you could quickly face a budget black hole.
This course is designed for grassroots community groups that want to find out where to find funding, and how to win it.
Key Details
Date: Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Time: 1–4pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $175 (normally $245)
With so much turmoil in politics, there has never been a better time to understand and advance your organisation's government engagement strategies. Budgets are tightening, elections are looming, governance is becoming more complex, and advocacy can be difficult to achieve with decision-makers. What steps should you take to elevate your government engagement efforts?
Presented by government engagement experts at Tanck, this webinar will cover:
- What is effective government engagement?
- The three rules of government engagement
- Planning, process, performance
- How to develop your relationships and advocacy
- Navigating Budgets and Elections to secure outcomes
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 3 October 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
Volunteers are the lifeblood of the community sector, whether they’re sizzling sausages at the local fair, coordinating vital fundraisers, or providing vision and leadership in the boardroom. Without them, many organisations would be unable to keep the doors open.
Despite this, many organisations aren’t aware of their legal responsibilities when it comes to volunteer management. That’s why we’re hosting this webinar on volunteer management with Maddocks, our preferred legal supplier. Join us as we take a deep dive into volunteer management.
Key Details
Date: Friday, 4 October 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: FREE!
In this webinar, Dr Amantha Imber will take you through the latest scientific findings in relation to what really drives highly inventive and disruptive thinking – and how participants can apply these findings to their role.
You will walk away with a set of practical tools that you can use in your own role and also with others across the organisation to innovate what you do and disrupt the competition.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 10 October 2024
Time: Noon–1pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
Artificial intelligence. It’s the talk of the town. Promising unprecedented efficiency, innovation and profitability, AI has arrived, and it’s only going to get stronger.
Yet as we embrace the wonders of technology, it’s crucial to recognise the profound wisdom embedded in ancestral knowledge – timeless insights passed down through generations from our ancestors, our traditional holders of wisdom.
While AI excels in crunching numbers and detecting patterns, collective human wisdom is far more nuanced than that.
How do we ensure AI systems respect diverse perspectives and uphold Indigenous values of respect, reciprocity and interconnectedness?
Join Community Directors Council member Jahna Cedar as we explore this topic.
Key Details
Date: Friday, 11 October 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
When STREAT started its journey in 2009, its long-term plan was to scale through replicating its youth training program and social enterprise business model. But as the organisation has looked forward to 2040, its strategy is now focused on working with others and using a challenge-led innovation approach to fix complex problems and scale its impact.
For Bec Scott this feels like a precious arc in her career, returning to the challenge-led innovation approach she was involved with at the start of her career in science and innovation at the CSIRO.
At this keynote presentation, Bec will share some of STREAT’s more recent work collaborating with others to build networks, precincts, aggregators, communities of practice and incubators. Participants will learn top tips that will help them propel their work forward and have an impact on a larger scale.
Key Details
Date: Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Time: 1pm–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
During a glittering AFL football career filled with individual and team success, fame and a $7 million fortune, Tom Boyd went through the most difficult time of his life at 22 years old, suffering severe insomnia, depression and anxiety that forced him to the sidelines.
This was the start of a new perspective, one that meant the traditional measures of success no longer motivated him.
In this keynote, Tom shares the tools and strategies he used to overcome the biggest challenges of his life. Learn how to proactively manage your mental health, and how to turn your struggles into strengths.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 17 October 2024
Time: 1pm–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
In today’s activist age, leaders must navigate a complex environment in which employee emotions, public misinformation and customer pressure combine to influence decision making in powerful ways.
Many organisations exist in an ecosystem where not saying anything constitutes saying something, and fear that the work environment may be affected by events happening outside the workplace.
Hosted by ICDA's General Manager, Adele Stowe-Lindner, this webinar explores:
- the different forms workplace activism can take
- the effects of workplace activism on boards and organisational strategy
- ways in which effective communication and relationship management can transform potential conflicts into opportunities for growth.
Key Details
Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Time: Noon–1pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
Advanced Leadership for Community Chairs is an online course offered by the Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA).
The course consists of five sessions of two hours each that have been designed to build knowledge, skills and confidence in the chairs of community organisations. It is suitable for leaders who are already serving in the role of chair, as well as those who aspire to the position.
The sessions will cover:
- Visionary leadership - ensuring your vision and purpose are at the centre of governance
- Backstage and front of house: using both to make good decisions
- The chair’s relationship with the CEO
- Strategic funding: Developing your case for support
- Ethical board leadership
Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent, and they can be potentially devastating for businesses. But what if we changed our perspective? What if, instead of merely defending, we prepared our organisation to withstand and bounce back from these attacks?
This Cyber Governance Principles training will shift your focus from mere cyber security – a strategy designed to protect data and systems – to cyber resilience.
Presented by 4walls Cyber Advisory, this webinar will cover:
- Aligning cyber security with organisational risk and governance priorities
- Equiping leaders to oversee effective cyber policies and controls
- Fostering a security-first culture to safeguard reputation and trust.
Key Details
Date: Monday, 28 October 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
The Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA) is offering a Diploma of Governance designed for the board members of Australian not-for-profit boards and committees, and the CEOs and other senior staff who work alongside them.
The training materials and assessments for this qualification have been developed by the Institute of Community Directors Australia, which also completes all training and assessments. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be issued with a certificate of completion from ICDA.
Both prospective and current members of boards are eligible for enrolment. Deep knowledge of a not-for-profit organisation is highly desirable.
ODG2411
Start Date: 29 October 2024
Introduction: 6 Nov 2024 - 9:30am - 10:15am
Tutorial 1: 12 Nov 2024 - 9.30am - 11.30am
Tutorial 2: 10 Dec 2024 - 9.30am - 11.30am
Tutorial 3: 4 Feb 2025 - 9.30am - 11.30am
Tutorial 4: 4 Mar 2025 - 9.30am - 11.30am
Tutorial 5: 1 Apr 2025 - 9.30am - 11.30am
Tutorial 6: 29 Apr 2025 - 9.30am - 11.30am
As not-for-profits and charities prepare their case for a better deal ahead of the federal election, the Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA) is giving you the chance to hear from the sector’s top campaigners about what it takes to win.
ICDA has assembled a panel of experts for the latest Not-for-profit Agenda, our free one-hour quarterly news webinar, airing at 12.30pm (AEDT) Thursday, October 31.
Shadow Charities Minister, Senator Dean Smith, is this episode’s special guest, who will address some of the sector’s big issues, followed by an audience Q&A.
The Not-for-profit Agenda is hosted by senior ICDA media team members, Community Directors Intelligence editor Matthew Schulz and Community Advocate editor Greg Thom.
This free webcast is part of ICDA’s mission to educate, inform and inspire leaders, directors and staff within the community sector.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 31 October 2024
Time: 12.30pm–1.30pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: FREE!
November 2024
We all dream of living in a perfect world where everyone is on the same page and everything runs swimmingly. That’s not realistic. The unfortunate truth is that conflict can arise at any situation (and it’s not always a bad thing). Having a plan in place to help guide your board or organisation through the conflict will help you minimise the impacts. Join us for a interactive session that outlines the steps you need to take to prevent and deal with conflict.
Key Details
Date: Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Time: 1–4pm AEST (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $175 (normally $245)
Imagine walking into a room and delivering a pitch that leaves funders eager to support your vision. Whether you're seeking to launch a new initiative or expand your organisation's impact, knowing how to craft and present the perfect pitch is critical to securing the funding you need. In this session, you'll learn actionable strategies to refine your pitch, connect with funders, and confidently communicate your ideas.
Join us to transform your pitch into a powerful tool for success!
Key Details
Date: Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: FREE!
You may not know it yet, but you could be the perfect mentor for an aspiring leader.
Becoming a mentor could futureproof your organisation, equipping aspiring leaders with the skills and knowledge required to make a difference going forward. Mentoring someone outside your organisation could also help support the sector, helping you make an impact on societal change long into the future.
But being a great mentor takes work. In this session we’ll discuss how to provide mentoring that is effective and drives impact.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 7 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
Access to stable and sustainable funding is often the one critical stressor for not-for-profit organisations. While grants, donations and membership are usually central to funding strategies, there is growing interest among organisations to develop social enterprise activities or switching to a social enterprise model.
In this webinar, Social Traders will explain what a social enterprise is, how not-for-profits can include social enterprise activities and models into their organisational structure, and provide advice on how to unlock your organisation's unique selling proposition to progress purpose and increase income.
Key Details
Date: Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: FREE!
Cash-strapped community organisations may be sitting on a gold mine without even realising it. There’s lots of money to be made in the leasing and subleasing of office spaces, community halls and gardens. You may even be able to rent out just a small part of your venue.
The rules can be confusing, and so many organisations turn down enquiries, placing it in the “too hard right now” basket, and then never having the time or space to come back, seek help, and find a solution.
That’s why we’re hosting this webinar with Maddocks, to give you the time and space to explore what’s possible, and have your questions answered.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 14 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
Leading for Transformation is an online program that will equip leaders with the skills, knowledge, tools and connections required to take the next big step in their leadership journey.
Taking place each Monday across 4 weeks, we'll be bringing together leaders from across Australia, via Zoom, to hone their leadership skills and explore what it truly means to lead.
Leaders will be invited to use the program to challenge themselves between each of the sessions, immediately strengthening their leadership capabilities with an opportunity to debrief with their peers and ICDA's expert training team.
Program participants will be guided by ICDA's expert trainers through the following topics:
Many social enterprises find managing rapid and/or inconsistent periods of growth challenging. Ensuring your organisation has the right people around the table making informed, ethical and thoughtful decisions will support your organisation to flourish in any environment.
In this webinar, ICDA will discuss the principles and best practices of leadership and decision making, including how effective risk management, combined with solid policies and procedures, lead to better outcomes for your community and your customers.
Key Details
Date: Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: FREE!
The Google Ad Grant offers eligible nonprofits up to $10,000 per month in free Google Ads to boost their visibility and drive traffic to their websites. However, many organisations find it challenging to make the most of it. This webinar is designed to help you understand the ins and outs of the Google Ad Grant and how to leverage it effectively for your cause. Take your ad grant performance to the next level with practical solutions and expert advice!
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 21 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
Securing sustainable funding for social enterprises presents both challenges and opportunities. Join us for a panel discussion featuring experts from philanthropy, impact investing, and social enterprise as we explore current and emerging funding models for the sector.
We will delve into the Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) reform agenda, discussing its implications on community-led organisations and the critical role of inclusive and innovative financial strategies in driving social impact.
Key Details
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: FREE!
We know secretaries play a vital role on the modern board, particularly in relation to board transparency. As a result, secretaries may find themselves in a difficult position, caught between board members fighting over what should be shared with the wider public, and what should not. What should the relationship between the secretary and the rest of the board look like?
Key Details
Date: Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $88 (normally $110)
As year-end approaches, is your digital fundraising set up for optimal performance? Unlock the full potential of your campaigns by focusing on data-driven results and a refined strategy that maximises traffic and conversions. Don't miss this session where we'll provide practical guidance to help you fine-tune your digital strategy and ensure your end-of-year campaigns deliver maximum impact.
Key Details
Date: Thursday, 28 November 2024
Time: 1–2pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: FREE!
December 2024
Overseeing the finances is probably one of the most important tasks you have as a board member. Financial literacy will put your organisation in the best position to promote and fulfil your organisation’s mission. If you don’t understand how the finances work, you’ll be at risk of getting caught up if anything goes wrong. This session will help you to understand the finances at your organisation.
Key Details
Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Time: 1–4pm AEDT (check the webpage for your local time).
Price: ICDA members can attend this webinar for just $175 (normally $245)