Hot Topic live webinar - vote results

The votes are in and you’ve decided our inaugural Hot Topic Live webinar subject - The Trump Effect – What will it mean for Philanthropy in Australia. Thank you to everyone who voted! Here are the results from last week’s poll:
 

  1. The Trump Effect – What will it mean for Philanthropy in Australia? (42%)
  2. Corpuses – Is now the right time to spend down? (33%)
  3. Melbourne CBD’s solution to homelessness  – Is this the best we can do? (25%)

The Trump Effect live webinar, will be held on Thursday 27 April 2017. Registration details will be available closer to the time – for now, please save the date.

Our Hot Topic Live Webinar Series will run throughout the year, with topics chosen via a poll. Each session will give you free access to a panel of experts on a current social and/or philanthropic burning issue.

Amelia Telford on climate change

"We can't afford for climate change to be an issue that divides us." - Amelia Telford, speaking at a Philanthropy Australia event. Amelia is the National Director of the Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. Watch >

Creating an enduring social innovation ecosystem

Krystian Seibert, our Advocacy and Insight Manager, is moderating a social innovation panel on Friday 31 March. The panel of leading thinkers, including Yvonne Strachan who led Scotland’s Social Economy development, will provide guidance on how to ‘really change the world’ harnessing the power of people, policy and technology. More >

Social Impact Investing Discussion Paper

🔒Premium The Australian Government has released a ‘Social Impact Investing Discussion Paper’ exploring ways to facilitate the growth of the Australian social impact investing market. More >

People in philanthropy

The Colonial Foundation has announced that its Executive Officer, Ms Janice Robins, had advised her planned retirement from that position by December 2017. The Foundation has begun a professional search to secure her successor. Chairman, Peter Smedley, has said Janice will leave the Foundation in great shape with clear direction.

David Rockefeller, Co-founder of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has died at age 101. In 1998, David was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his philanthropic work, the USA's highest civilian honor.

Sector vacancies

Development Manager, Shaun Parker & Company (NSW)
CEO, United Way Ballarat & The Ballarat Foundation (VIC)
Community Philanthropy Coordinator, Inner North Foundation (VIC)
Senior Development Officer (Creative Industries), QUT (QLD)
More >

Sector events

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