CSI Update: Issue 22

Free Book offer! 'The World that Changes the World'

Peter has just contributed to a new book on how philanthropy, innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming the social system. It is edited by Willie Cheng and Sharifah Mohamed.

CSI is making 70 copies of 'The World that Changes the World' available FREE to CSI supporters on a first come, first served basis. Just email us on csi@unsw.edu.au.

Please put 'Free book offer' in the subject line.

 

September edition of Social Business on Sky Business News

In our September program, Peter spoke with Documentary filmmaker Ian Darling about his film Polly and Me which attempts to raise awareness of the issues of addiction, abuse and neglect. Greg Foran from Woolworths talked about their Fresh Food Rescue program where surplus fresh food is rescued from the waste stream and turned into meals for the needy. Scott Harris, CEO of the Beacon Foundation, also spoke about the work the Beacon Foundation is doing in low socio-economic status secondary schools to provide positive pathways to employment.

Latest news included the National Pro Bono Resources Centre latest survey results, the progress of the Hepburn Wind farm in Daylesford and Mission Australia's Men's Homelessness report. Read more.

Watch Social Business.

  

Robyn Archer talks about resilience in the Arts at Yakety Yak

In our monthly 'Yakety Yak' dinner and conversation series, Peter Thompson speaks to individuals who have shown exceptional leadership in the field of public and social innovation, corporate responsibility, social entrepreneurship or philanthropy.

Robyn Archer, director, performer, writer and public advocate for the arts talked about the need to nurture emerging artists and art forms to create a resilient and thriving sector. She also urged business to form stronger partnerships with artists, and discussed the many benefits this provides to employees including unlocking creativity.

Watch the video.
 
 

Patrick McClure on ethics
CSI Ethics Fellow, Patrick McClure, discusses how to establish and maintain an ethical culture within organisations, in the August edition of 'The Board Builder'.

He says there is a strong business case for CEOs and boards of not-for-profit organisations to build a strong ethical culture, including managing risk, being accountable to stakeholders, building capacity in the organisation and protecting reputation.

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Social Entrepreneur of The Year's Vision: Empowering African Communities
UNSW Commerce graduate Shanil Samarakoon has been named 2010’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year, by the School for Social Entrepreneurs. While still at university he set up Empower, an organisation that helps poor communities gain access electricity generation – a key component to social and economic growth. In an interview for Knowledge@Australian School of Business, Shanil outlines Empower’s latest project that aims to generate self-reliance in rural villages in the African nation of Malawi.

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APSILC supports Victoria's first Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce
MBS Asia Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre has become a foundation sponsor of Kinaway - Victoria’s Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce. Kinaway is a new independent professional association formed to support Aboriginal businesses and improve social outcomes for the Aboriginal community in Victoria. More.

Photo L-R: Jennifer George, Dean & Director MBS and Wayne Kayler-Thompson (CEO of VECCI) 

 

 Jeremy Nicholls visits WA and Sydney

Jeremy Nicholls focuses on finding ways for organisations to better understand and manage the social value they create. He has co-written a number of guides to SROI and developed the SROI Primer with London Business School. He has also developed an online version of SROI and worked on many SROI analyses for private, public and third sector organisations.

During September, Jeremy will visit WA and Sydney. In Perth, he will conduct workshops for BHP Billiton and meetings for those interested in SROI. To register, go to csi@unsw.edu.au. In Sydney, he will conduct an introductory course on SROI.


John Elkington on managing sustainability top-down and bottom-up
John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development, and a founding partner and executive chairman of Volans, and co-founder of SustainAbility. A recent CSR international survey of the top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth: after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, and alongside Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank.

A limited number of places are still available for John's upcoming workshop 'The C-Suite agenda: managing sustainability top-down and bottom-up'. Aimed at sustainability and CSR managers, these workshops will discuss latest trends on corporate citizenship, responsibility, accountability and sustainability and new models of behavioural change.

The workshop will be help in Sydney on 11 October and in Melbourne on 19 October. Register your interest by emailing csi@unsw.edu.au


  'Innovative collaborations for social change' - workshops with Tonya Surman

Tonya Surman is founding executive director of the Centre for Social Innovation in Canada - a dynamic convergence space whose mission is to catalyse, connect and support new ideas that are changing the world.

Tonya will conduct a series of workshops in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland from Mon 20 - Fri 24 September. In these three hour interactive workshops Tonya will explain why everything that you thought you knew about collaboration is changing, what some of the big trends shaping the future look like and how these changes are going to impact the practice of social innovation.

Visit http://www.sidialogues.org.au/ To find out more or to register for these workshops.


CSI (WA) Upcoming Events

Tues 21 Sep: Networking Drinks with Jeremy Nicholls (SROI) and Les Hems (CSI - Director of Research). See invite for details.

Wed 6 Oct: Public Lecture with Cheryl Kernot - The future of Social Business and Social Enterprise in Australia. More details to come.


ANZTSR Conference - registrations now open

The 10th biennial Australia New Zealand Third Sector Research Conference is on from November 15 to 16. The conference is titled “The Third Sector as Civil Society in Australasia: Identity, Role and Influence in the New Century”. Register here.


   

Interviews for CSI Conjoint Chair - Swinburne University of Technology

Interviews are currently being held for the CSI conjoint chair at SUT. We hope to be able to make an announcement shortly.