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Addressing social issue areas in the context of COVID-19
The Centre for Social Impact is producing a series of fact sheets to address specific social issue areas in the context of COVID-19. Fact Sheet One: Homelessness > Download Fact ...
impact2020 continues
Over six weeks during April, May and June 2020 more than 5,000 people attended one or more of CSI's hour-long impact2020 webinars, which covered a range of social impact topics and ...
Media Release: New report calls for urgent reforms to support charities
New report calls for urgent reforms to support charities as analysis reveals charities could power post-COVID economic recovery A new report launched today by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the ...
Sally McGeoch: On a crusade in the social enterprise sector
This article is part of 'For the love of giving' - a storytelling series featuring just some of the people who give to, work and volunteer in the Australian for-purpose ...
Media Release: Economic focus of Government COVID-19 responses revealed by Social Progress Index
A new fact sheet by the Centre for Social Impact reveals the extent that social vulnerabilities are addressed by Australian federal and state governments’ policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Media Release: New national research project to evaluate the state of the charity, not-for-profit and for-purpose sectors
The Centre for Social Impact is inviting charity, not-for-profit and for-purpose leaders to participate in an Australian-first research project in the wake of COVID-19. The Centre for Social Impact has ...
Media Release: 12 million Australians concerned about their financial wellbeing as a result of COVID-19
A new policy paper by the Centre for Social Impact highlights how effective Australian federal and state governments’ financial wellbeing have been in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...
COVID-19 update from our CEO
You may have seen recent news that UNSW Sydney is the latest university to announce job losses as part of its efforts to remain sustainable. COVID-19 has had a devastating ...
Outcomes measurement workshops: Know your social impact
Centre for Social Impact UWA is running a series of 2-day interactive Outcomes Measurement Workshops across Australia. The Outcomes Measurement Workshops will: Provide you with a background to the relevance and ...
Investing in our social fabric or paying the price of social dislocation?
Why we need to save Australian charities to win the war on COVID-19 By Professor Kristy Muir and Dr Ioana Ramia, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW Sydney The latest ABS ...
Media Release: New report forecasts dire financial future for charities in Australia
A new report launched today by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) forecasts that more than 200,000 jobs in the charity sector could be lost ...
Media Release: Youth unemployment due to COVID-19 to have significant social impact on young people for years to come
New policy paper by the Centre for Social Impact highlights the significant impact on youth unemployment since COVID-19 with social impacts to affect young people for years to come. The ...
Media Release: Charities must connect with their communities to survive
Sector leaders have stressed that charities and not-for-profits must engage with their local communities to improve viability and growth following the impacts from COVID-19 and the bushfires. In today’s impact2020 ...
Economic Dignity: A way forward
We turn to our principles to determine the best course of action when we are uncertain. Principles can bring clarity to complex situations and they can help us understand how ...
The value of charity and charities
How do we ensure our charities' survival, contribution and rebuild in the wake of COVID-19? CEO Update - May 2020 by Professor Kristy Muir My Aunty Val passed away recently. ...
Media Release: National rapid-response research program to guide for-purpose sector through COVID-19
The Centre for Social Impact (CSI) today announced the launch of a national research program: Pulse of the For-Purpose Sector & Building Back Better. This large, national program has multiple ...
Media release: Digital equality has never been more important – leading academics
Governments, telcos must do more to halt a widening and deepening digital divide which threatens to generate serious social and economic harm post-COVID-19. Addressing personal and organisation digital inequality, particularly ...
impact2020.online launches today
impact2020: a new online platform bringing together Australia’s for-purpose sector to connect, learn and collaborate At a time when COVID-19 is keeping Australians apart, the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) ...
Efficiency through amalgamation? Not so fast, says Prof Jo Barraket
As we confront the huge resource demands of the COVID-19 crisis and the economic trials of a post-COVID world, discussions about how best to ‘improve’ the efficiencies of not for ...
Media Release: AACSB International Recognises the Swinburne CSI Social Start Up Studio
AACSB International Recognises Swinburne Business School’s Centre for Social Impact for the Swinburne Social Start Up Studio Tampa, Fla., USA (April 21, 2020)—Today, AACSB International (AACSB)—the world’s largest business education ...
What ought one do?
COVID-19 a quandary of ethical decision making Like many people, my husband and I have started shopping for five of our older neighbours who shouldn’t be leaving their homes. This ...
Three-year research program evaluates Vanguard's impact
Aurora Elmes As people across Australia grapple with the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 it’s clear we’ll need to draw on our resourcefulness, innovative spirits and kinship to get ...
COVID-19: Engaging our leadership, our humanity, our values
CEO Update: March 2020 It’s early in the morning. I sit on my deck, barefooted typing away. The bird song is all I can hear. The cockatoos are dive bombing ...
New CSI scholarship recipients announced
After a rigorous phase of considering the many applications we received for our first round of scholarships in 2020, we’re so pleased to be announcing and introducing the 16 successful ...
People with disabilities absent in COVID-19 response
13 March 2020 Leading health and disability researchers from the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney and University of New South Wales are calling for urgent action from State and ...
Media Release: New social progress index ranks states and territories on social performance in Australian first
A new index to measure the quality of life for people across Australia has been launched today. The Australian Social Progress Index (SPI), which ranks states and territories on their ...
Lisa George: Leading Macquarie Group Foundation
This article is part of 'For the love of giving' - a storytelling series featuring just some of the people who give to, work and volunteer in the Australian for-purpose sector. ...
Charities: Is trust in surplus or deficit?
CEO Update: February 2020 This weekend Australians and internationals opened their hearts and their wallets again during the Fire Aid Concert for bush fire relief. $9.5m was raised for the Foundation ...
Connecting our financial ecosystem
Dr Archana Voola writes about the importance of bringing together the entire financial ecosystem of stakeholders to improve the well-being of all Australians. One year on from the release of ...
CSI announces two new members of its adjunct team
The Centre for Social Impact at UNSW Sydney is pleased to announce the addition of two more members to its Adjunct team. Adjunct Professor Abigail Powell continues her relationship with ...
Lifting your gaze: Governing for social impact
In a partnership between the Centre for Social Impact (CSI), AGSM @ UNSW Business School, JBWere and NAB, more than 200 social impact leaders from across the Australian not-for-profit sector ...
CSI congratulates Australia Day honours recipients
The Centre for Social Impact sends its heartfelt congratulations to the many and varied Australia Day honours recipients working in the community sector - each with a strong commitment and ...
Sarah Davies: Building a better tomorrow
This article is part of 'For the love of giving' - a storytelling series featuring just some of the people who give to, work and volunteer in the Australian for-purpose ...
CEO Update: January 2020
LEADERSHIP IN A SUSTAINED CRISIS “The task of leading during a sustained crisis - whether you are the CEO of a major corporation … [or the Prime Minister of a ...
Social Impact Summer Webinar Series
We’re pleased to be sharing CSI Swinburne’s recent Social Impact Summer Webinar Series. Across four weeks in late 2019, multidisciplinary researchers presented their cutting-edge research across four topics related to ...
What happened to the NDIS?
Associate Professor Gemma Carey, Research Director Centre for Social Impact, UNSW Sydney It’s hard to look at a newspaper or turn on the TV without hearing about some kind of ...
CSI UWA recognised in 2019 Workplace Excellence Awards
Dr Ramon Wenzel and the Centre for Social Impact UWA (CSI UWA) team have been recognised for their Workforce Analytics work in the 2019 Workplace Excellence Awards. Workforce Analytics, built by ...
Director Update - More than Homes
What makes it so hard to exit entrenched disadvantage? Professor Paul Flatau, Director of CSI UWA and research lead on the 100 Families WA project seeks the answers. Entrenched poverty and ...
CSI UWA has moved to the UWA Business School
As of Friday 18 October 2019, our Centre for Social Impact at the University of Western Australia (CSI UWA) team will be located at the UWA Business School. (Don't worry, ...
Media Release: Perth families on support payments cannot meet basic needs
A landmark study has shown that families living on Newstart and related income support payments are living well below the poverty line, with income being grossly inadequate to provide for ...
CEO Update: September 2019
When we are arguing about whether or not the “inequality” narrative is misleading, it detracts from us talking about the real heart of the issue, writes Professor Kristy Muir. Almost ...
Centre for Social Impact UWA joins the Impact Investment Alliance WA
The Centre for Social Impact at the University of Western Australia (CSI UWA) is pleased to announce they have become a founding member of the new Impact Investment Alliance of ...
Media Release: Australia retains global Social Progress Index rank in 2019 despite fall in ‘Foundations for Wellbeing’
Australia has been ranked 12th in the world on social progress for the second year in a row but has gradually declined in rankings since 2015, according to an index ...
Media Release: Affordability continues to be a key barrier for improving digital inclusion in Australia
Today the 2019 Australian Digital Inclusion Index report was released. The Australian Digital Inclusion Index is a comprehensive picture of Australians’ online participation through three measures - access, affordability and ...
Social Enterprise Evidence Forum
On August 1, 2019, 80 people from 48 organisations across five Australian states and territories convened at Swinburne University of Technology for the Social Enterprise Evidence Forum. Hosted by the ...
CSI's 2019 Scholarship Recipients Announced
The Centre for Social Impact is thrilled to announce the recipients of the latest round of scholarships. $60,000 AGSM MBA (Social Impact) and Emeritus Professor Richard Henry AM and Dr ...
Media Release: Over half of families in financial hardship can't pay utility bills; health and wellbeing adversely affected
Download: 100 Families WA Baseline Report Download: Financial Vulnerability Snapshot Personal loans including pay-day loans, debts arising from household and personal bills, overdue rent and student loan debts are severely ...
World first outcomes framework in homelessness developed in Western Australia
A world first outcomes measurement framework for homelessness has been developed by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI UWA) as part of the Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (WAAEH). ...
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