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Recent and Upcoming Events
Social Enterprise World Forum
2 – 5 September 2008, Edinburgh Scotland
SVA is proud to be an Event Partner of the inaugural Social Enterprise World Forum to be held in Edinburgh Scotland.
The Social Enterprise World Forum will examine the conditions needed for social enterprises to thrive, highlighting outstanding examples of innovation and best practice from around the world. Participants will engage with representatives of governments that are actively supporting and promoting social enterprise and will analyse the challenges of changing world and local markets. Social enterprises and support agencies will emerge with shared actions to improve sustainability and increase social and economic impact.
The Forum will be the first international gathering of practitioners and support agencies dealing exclusively with social enterprise and will bring together social enterprise leaders and champions from all continents to collaborate, share best practice and plan future developments. This collaboration will raise awareness of social enterprise as an expanding global mechanism for social change and will explore the merit of ongoing collaboration for key stakeholders.
The anticipated outcomes of the forum include the establishment of an annual Social Enterprise World Forum to be held in Australia in 2009.
To learn more about the World Forum and how you can attend, visit the CEiS web site.
Upcoming Hub Meeting Place
1 July 2008
Parramatta Social Enterprise Hub will host the next Hub Meeting place on Tuesday 1 July. These meetings are an opportunity for social entrepreneurs and community organizations to:
• Be inspired by industry experts
• Share ideas
• Network with like-minded people.
Special guest speaker will be Peter Cox, the CEO of Future Employment Opportunities Inc. (FEO) which provides training employment placement services and enterprise activities for job seekers and others of all ages in Central and Northern VIC. Peter has a nationally recognised track record of establishing start-up social enterprises that are sustainable and create real social and environmental impact.
Don’t miss this complimentary session which will demonstrate the advantages of joining the Hub Meeting Place for social enterprises in the Parramatta LGA.
Event Details
Tuesday 1 July 2008
4.00 – 6.00 pm, with refreshments
Darug Room, Western End, Level 2
Parramatta City Library
Civic Place, Parramatta
No charge
RSVP by Tuesday 24 June to
Ruth Johnstone, Hub Co-ordinator
0413 185 551 or ruth@socialenterprisehubs.org
For additional information, please download the Hub Meeting Place Invitation or visit the Social Enterprise Hub web site, www.socialenterprisehubs.org .
SVA Indigenous Investor Circle Special Event Presented by the Martu People
12 June 2008
SVA and Gilbert + Tobin were recently privileged to host an event with a delegation of Martu people and Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa, an organisation which works to protect, retain and strengthen Martu culture. Hailing from the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the group were in Sydney at the end of their ‘Culture Matters’ speaking tour of Canberra.
Presented by Martu people Muuki Taylor, Dawn Oates, Anthony Gibbs and Desmond Taylor, with Sue Townsend and Peter Johnson from Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa, the afternoon session explored culture as a prism through which Martu people view the world and which powerfully informs their choices, decisions and actions. Feedback was excellent, with attendees saying that they took home a meaningful insight to the Martu people, their society and why programs must be based on an understanding of their culture and what is important to them in order to succeed.
You can learn more about the Martu in the book 'Cleared Out', which covers the first contact a group of Martu people had with European Australians in the 1960s. Please visit the AIATSIS website for more information.
SVA Consulting Launch
29 April 2008
The Macquarie Group Foundation hosted the official launch of its partnership with SVA Consulting at a cocktail event in Sydney.
The evening featured several interesting speakers, including Jon Huggett from the Bridgespan Group. Founded in 2000 and incubated at Bain & Company, Bridgespan is an American non-profit organisation that brings leading-edge strategies and tools to the challenges and opportunities facing non-profit organisations and foundations. Jon joined Bridgespan in 2005 as a partner in the San Francisco office and in 2007 helped establish the New York office, where he is currently located.
Bridgespan is a powerful example of how specialised consulting services can help build stronger and more effective non-profit and philanthropic organisations. Macquarie Group Chairman David S. Clarke AO, SVA Chief Executive Michael Traill and Head of SVA Consulting Duncan Peppercorn addressed how SVA Consulting has built on Bridgespan's lead to create a strategy consultancy for the Australian non-profit sector.
Additionally, Graham Long, CEO of the Wayside Chapel, spoke about how his organisation has already benefited from working with SVA Consulting. Click here to read a case study about Wayside’s experience.
The Macquarie Group Foundation hosted a similar event in Melbourne on 1 May 2008.
Learn more about SVA Consulting
(left to right) John Huggett, Duncan Peppercorn, David S. Clarke AO, Michael Traill and Graham Long, speakers at the Sydney launch of SVA Consulting on 29 April 2008.
SVA Indigenous Investor Circle Launch
19 March 2008
In late 2007, SVA hosted a series of business leader lunch briefings on Indigenous issues in Sydney and Melbourne. Featured panellists at these informing events included:
• Professor Mick Dodson, Professor of Law, ANU
• Romlie Mokak, CEO, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association
• Gregory Phillips, medical anthropologist and educator
• Megan Davis, Director, Indigenous Law Centre
Building on the success of these briefings, SVA launched the Indigenous Investor Circle at a lunch in Sydney in March. Featured speakers included Lt Gen (Retd) John Sanderson AC, Special Adviser to the Western Australian Government on Enhanced Aboriginal Participation in the Social and Economic Development of the State, and Megan Davies, Director of the Indigenous Law Centre and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales.
Guests not only listened to sustainable solutions to the unacceptable levels of Indigenous disadvantage in our country from these experts, but they were also given the opportunity to ask tough questions and learn more about how they can get involved in making a difference.
Goldman Sachs JBWere and SVA hosted a similar launch in Melbourne on 6 May. Featured speakers included Rex Wild QC, co-author of the ‘Little Children are Sacred’ report and Gregory Phillips, medical anthropologist.
For further information on this initiative please download our Indigenous Investor Circle brochure.
SVA Executive Director Jan Owen and Lt Gen (Retd) John Sanderson AC answer guests’ questions at the Sydney launch of the Indigenous Investor Circle initiative on 19 March 2008.
Launch of ‘Good Times and Philanthropy: Giving by Australia’s Affluent’ Report
10 March 2008
In a report recently commissioned by the Petre Foundation, researchers from the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) found that the personal wealth of Australia’s affluent has grown at a vastly faster rate than their charitable giving.
SVA hosted an information-packed launch of the report to give guests the unique opportunity to hear why philanthropist Daniel Petre AO commissioned the report; the facts on Australia’s giving levels compared to our overseas counterparts; and how non-profit organisations can tap into the current environment of unprecedented wealth.
Speakers included Senior Research Fellows Dr Kym Madden and Dr Wendy Scaife, Netus Executive Chairman Daniel Petre AO and SVA Chief Executive Michael Traill.
SVA hosted a similar event in Melbourne the following day.
To learn more about this research report and read related media coverage, click here.
(left to right) Dr Kym Madden, Dr Wendy Scaife and Daniel Petre AO, speakers at the launch of ‘Good times and Philanthropy: Giving by Australia’s Affluent’
The New World of Philanthropy Lunch
Featuring Kingsley Aikins, Chief Executive of the Worldwide Ireland Funds
30 October 2007
In this period of great affluence, the most compelling economic question for a substantial portion of Australia’s wealthy is how to better structure and deploy their giving in fulfilling and beneficial ways. SVA’s New World of Philanthropy Lunch provided around 80 attendees with a unique opportunity to hear from global philanthropy expert Kingsley Aikins on three key emerging trends:
• Wealth accumulation – and its intergenerational transfer
• New types of social investors – the tactical philanthropist
• Better ways of giving – structural options
Offering essential insight into improved giving strategies, Kingsley Aikins is responsible for raising over a quarter of a billion dollars for The Ireland Funds. With operating experience in 12 countries, he is uniquely positioned to comment on the dramatic changes now affecting global philanthropy.
Global philanthropy expert Kingsley Aikins presents his thoughts on trends and outcomes in world giving to an audience of 80 philanthropic leaders.
SVA's 2nd annual Taking Care of Business conference
This practical learning conference offering interactive sessions specifically designed for chief executives, financial officers, treasurers and program managers of non-profit organisations was held in March 2008.
 Click here for further information about the conference
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