New research from SVA and CSI has found that not-for-profit organisations across Australia are, in general, not funded for the actual cost of what they do. The result is less effective operations and reduced impact.
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Recent research identifies key opportunities to increase philanthropic giving with implications for not-for-profit organisations.
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How do you spread the impact of your program when it is rooted in your local community’s response to young people doing it tough? BackTrack has been finding out.
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Supporting social purpose organisations through 2020 taught the Paul Ramsay Foundation and SVA key lessons about what leads to vulnerability or resilience in a crisis.
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Seven observations from seven initiatives that have replicated their model to increase social impact.
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What AIME Mentoring’s CEO, Jack Manning Bancroft can teach us about starting up a social purpose organisation and the philanthropy needed.+Video
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What will motivate corporate Australia to step up to systems change in its cross-sector partnerships? Five questions provide a road map.
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The realities of private ancillary funds (PAFs) and what it takes to position your organisation for that serendipitous alignment. +Podcast
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Catalytic funder ten20 Foundation shares its story and what its learnt about achieving systems change by funding collective impact initiatives. +Audio
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Indigenous women’s social enterprise, Marnin Studio and SVA describe what it takes to create a collaborative philanthropic partnership. +Audio
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Micro-credit founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus urges us to consider social business as a tool to address the world’s increasing inequity, whether it’s getting rural Bangladeshis out of poverty or Australians off welfare. +Audio
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Leaders in the social sector reflect on current trends and how their organisations are responding to be the most effective funders and service providers. Part 1 of 2. + Podcast
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SVA staff share a collection of articles, podcasts, books, videos and films touching on sector topics that have inspired them as they go about their work to address disadvantage.
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Incubating the Industry Employment Initiative highlighted the importance of knowing your endgame, evaluating to improve rather than prove, and of strategic funders who are willing to take risks. + Podcast
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Using various approaches as part of a well-managed portfolio can help corporates to maximise the benefits of their social investment activities for business and society. + Podcast
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Why corporate philanthropists need to adopt an outcomes management approach, the priorities to consider and how Woodside has done it.
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To affect positive social change, philanthropic organisations need clarity and alignment on four key elements as demonstrated by the Paul Ramsay Foundation.
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A review of philanthropic activity commissioned by the AMP Foundation has revealed Australian funders could do more to adopt best practice approaches.
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Understand what venture philanthropy is and the commitment required from both ventures and philanthropists to make it work.
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Michael Traill explores innovative ways to build an efficient capital market for social purpose – one smart and sustainable enough to solve today’s entrenched social problems.
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Movember’s story shows what can be achieved if you harness the collective wisdom of diverse stakeholders, galvanise disparate players to collaborate and focus on the goal.
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Ensure you have the basics covered as you build and maintain corporate funding relationships.
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The framework that drives sustainable social change in social purpose organisations (and their funders) supporting them to get better at what they do.
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Funders set up in perpetuity can afford to take a long-term approach to investments enabling them to build coalitions where more can be achieved.
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Applying a due diligence framework ensures choosing a fund recipient which best fits the funder’s strategy as well as having the capacity and capability to fulfil its aims.
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The Macquarie Group Foundation’s funding of a group of cancer charities demonstrates how a funder can support collaboration as well as some of the inherent challenges.
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How SecondBite, a rapidly expanding non-profit, sowed the seeds for a secure future.
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This six step process demystifies the art and science of finding, engaging and stewarding major donors.
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What are the challenges and how do you overcome them when your philanthropy becomes less about ‘giving money away’ and more about the social impacts you can achieve?
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How did the 124 year-old Wyatt Benevolent Institution become more strategic in achieving sustainable social impacts?
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How The Trust Company evolved its funding philosophy from small, ad hoc grants to ‘engaged philanthropy’ and the impact on grantees.
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