Looking for the latest sector news? Catch up on what’s happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SG’s busy research team.
The research team at Strategic Grants spend hundreds of hours every month reviewing newsletters, funder sites, LinkedIn and many other resources to find funding and grants to update in our Grants Expertise Management System (GEMS), ensuring our clients have a strong pipeline of funding prospects.
We also share relevant articles with the rest of Team SG as our commitment to keeping up-to-date with what’s happening across the sector here at home in Australia and New Zealand, and across the globe.
Here’s a round-up of what we’ve been reading lately.
Latest sector news
Australia’s not-for-profit workforce needs a major revamp: report
With the blueprint yet to be finalised, a Synthesis of Responses was released that summarises and collates the contributions.
Read more: https://www.communitydirectors.com.au/articles/blueprint-flags-revamp-for-not-for-profit-workforce
Embracing trust, eschewing dogma in philanthropic practice
This sentence from the article sums it up nicely: “It frees nonprofits up to focus on what matters and provides them the flexibility to allocate resources where they are most needed.”
Read more: https://cep.org/blog/embracing-trust-eschewing-dogma-in-philanthropic-practice/
Payment by Outcomes trial: Social enterprises prove their worth
This article looks at how the Payment by Outcomes trial is progressing with some very positive results for social enterprise employers. This is a different funding model from what some service providers may be used to, but the data is encouraging.
Knowledge gap creates missed opportunity for philanthropic advice: Research
Talking with clients about philanthropy and structured giving is an area of improvement for financial and wealth advisors. The part of the article and research I liked is “The report found advisers and clients have differing notions of the purpose of charitable giving. 61 per cent of advisers said they will usually bring up the topic if there is either a high level of tax that could be offset or their client has far more assets than they need. On the contrary, clients are often motivated by causes that they care about in addition to the tax benefits.”
Paul Ramsay Foundation: What we’ve learned about scaling grants
The Paul Ramsay Foundation has released reviews for both funders and service providers on how to scale initiatives. They reviewed its past and current partnerships to identify what works and what doesn’t. The review examines the question: ‘What have we learned about our partnerships that are supporting ideas to scale?’
Read more: https://www.paulramsayfoundation.org.au/news-resources/what-weve-learned-about-scaling-grants
ACPNS current issues information sheet: Ancillary Funds
Who doesn’t love data! We look forward to this research report every year as it shows the trends and distributions of Ancillary funds within Australia. Due to a small percentage of ancillary funds not publicly sharing their distribution data, this research reports on the data received by the Australian Taxation Office.
2024 Family Matters report
Aboriginal community-controlled organisations receive the least amount of government funding to deliver child protection services. The annual Family Matters report examines government actions to address over-representation and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection systems.
Read more: https://www.snaicc.org.au/our-work/child-and-family-wellbeing/family-matters/
2024 Digital Technology in the Not-for-Profit Sector report
This report by Infoxchange provides comprehensive insights into how the not-for-profit sector in Australia and New Zealand have used technology during the past year, with insights from 765 organisations.
Download the full report here: https://www.infoxchange.org/au/digital-technology-not-for-profit-sector
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