2009 - Informing the Australian nonprofit sector

The Right Honourable David Blunkett discusses his thoughts and experiences on mutual action and voluntarism in the Third Sector.

Ted Flack responds to the Productivity Commission's draft research report 'Contribution if the Not-for-Profit Sector' and Associate Professor Jo Barraket discusses current efforts to map the Australian social enterprise sector.

CPNS PhD research student, Ruth Knight speaks about her current research into the organisational culture of large nonprofit organisations and their attitudes to change. Former CPNS visiting academic, Pamala Wiepking discusses the activities and initiatives of the European Research Network on Philanthropy.

Myles McGregor-Lowndes discusses the compliance burden of nonprofit accountability, including ways to reduce red tape. In a related topic, Ken Crofts, Charles Sturt University PhD Candidate, discusses accountability reporting by faith based benevolent institutions.

Andrew Hewett, Executive Director of Oxfam Australia discusses a variety of issues related to organisational transparency in the nonprofit sector, including accountability and critical success factors and barriers to achieving transparency in a large nonprofit organisation. Andrew grounds this discussion in examples and experiences of Oxfam Australia, recipient's of the 2008 Price Waterhouse Coopers Transparency Award.

Dr Gavin Nicholson looks at evaluating the effectiveness of nonprofit boards and discusses ways in which your nonprofit board can benefit from work that a CPNS research team is currently undertaking. Bernie Morgan, Chief Executive of the UK's Community Development Finance Association discusses community development finance, financial inclusion and social investment with Associate Professor Jo Barraket. Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes examines the latest tax-deductible gifts data from the ATO and lets us know who the most generous people in Australia are.

Following on from the Modernising Charity Law conference hosted by CPNS in April 2009, Senator Ursula Stephens, Bob Wyatt, Professor Dennis Young and Laird Hunter QC, reflect on the thoughts and insights gained by attending the conference.

Bob Wyatt, Professor Helmut Anheier and Robert Fitzgerald AM provide a three continent discussion of the impact of the global economic crisis on nonprofit organisations and the Third Sector in general.

Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes and CPNS researchers Rhonda Richards, Frances Hannah and Anne Overell discussrecent legal cases involving nonprofit organisations and their implications for other organisations in the sector. Stephen Hutchinson also joins the podcast to speak on the current Community Door website and a currently running survey asking for your input into a revitalised site.

Associate Professor Jo Barraket considers the drivers the debates surrounding social enterprise and the impact that divergent concepts of social enterprise affect the way we understand how social enterprises work, their social value and the potential of social enterprises in the network era.