Podcasts

Innovative Financing of the Nonprofit Sector - a look at the current Senate Inquiry, and how it fits with the Not-for-Profit Regulator.

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Jon Huggett looks around the world to see how nonprofits raise capital in tough times.

Jon Huggett looks at where nonprofits can find capital in a global financial crisis. He discusses four strategies: share results, be clear how much capital is required, raise captial as a team, find new sources of capital.

Jon Huggett invites you, or your organisation, to take the pub test, the radio test, and the granny test.

Jon Huggett explains how these three tests secure the resources needed to achieve scale.

Jon Huggett shines a light back on management, not just leadership, as critical to scaling nonprofits and running scale NGOs, and asks if the focus on "social entrepreneurs" has created a cult of "heroic leaders" at the top of their hierarchies, rather than effective managers who can support their heroic front-line workers.

Associate Professor Gianni Zappala is interviewed about the first of a series of papers on Conscious Business.

Spirituality is an increasingly significant factor shaping social trends and institutions in the 21st century. Indeed some have argued that it is the mega trend of our time and is informing and underpinning an emerging world view.  Gianni Zappala talks about the implications of what is often referred to as the “spirituality revolution” or “spiritual turn” for organisations and business. He situates the current discourse on corporate responsibility and corporate citizenship within the broader transformation that is occurring in world views. We may not always know or explicitly acknowledge it but we (and the institutions we form) all think and act according to the assumptions of a particular world view. Having a model of the world is foundational to most people contemplating (if not answering) the most basic existential questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? But world views also create constraints – they keep us (and the institutions we lead and work in) from seeing the assumptions that underlie our beliefs and subsequently our behaviour.

Peter Shergold assesses what the global financial crisis tells us about the character of corporate social responsibility.

Peter Shergold contemplates whether, and in what form, CSR will survive the global financial crisis. He discusses the effect on raising funds just as demands for services increases. He also discusses what the financial crisis shows us about the nature of corporate responsibility.  

Dr Debbie Haski-Leventhal shows the right government support can improve volunteerability, recruitability and accessibility.

Peter Shergold identifies seven distinctive features of nonprofit enterprise.

Peter Shergold argues that the private and nonprofit sector have much to learn from each others' challenges.

Peter Shergold discusses why nonprofit enterprises need to strengthen their organisational capacity.

Peter Shergold surveys the third sector, the not-for-profit sector, in Australia. He looks at the types and numbers of organisations in the sector and discusses how this forms an investment in the future of Australia. He discusses the challenges of calculating the value of what these organisations do.

Peter Shergold reflects on the success of nonprofit organisations in winning contracts to deliver government programs.

Peter Shergold discusses ways of increasing the capacity of not-for-profit organisations to apply learnings from the private sector to improve their organisations. He identifies seven key differences between organisations in these different sectors.