impact2020 and impact2021 webinar series

Over six weeks during April, May and June 2020 more than 8,000 people attended one or more of CSI's 35 hour-long impact2020 webinars, which covered a range of social impact topics presented by 100+ innovative researchers, educators and thought leaders within the Centre for Social Impact network.

From July 2020 we continued with monthly webinars as part of impact2020 and in 2021 we ran monthly webinars as part of the impact2021 webinar series, until December 2021.

We invited our partners, team members and alumni to present or be an audience member and we welcomed thousands to our virtual events. Thank you to everyone who was involved.

The recordings of each of our impact webinars are listed below and are also available on CSI's YouTube channel .

impact2020 webinar series: Part one

• Avoiding getting stuck in crisis mode and reimagining the future (23 April): Professor Kristy Muir (CSI)
• Australian Social Progress Index (24 April): Dr Megan Weier (CSI) and Isabella Saunders (CSI)
• Digital inclusion - Current challenges and future implications (27 April): Professor Jo Barraket (CSI) and Dr Chris Wilson (CSI)
• Philanthropy in the context of COVID-19 (28 April): Krystian Seibert (CSI), Sarah Davies (Philanthropy Australia), Lisa George (Macquarie Group Foundation) and Maree Sidey (Australian Communities Foundation)
• Homelessness was always solvable - With crisis comes opportunity (29 April): Professor Paul Flatau (CSI) and Chris Hartley (CSI)
• Social innovation - Responding to the COVID-19 crisis and its longer term impacts (30 April): Doug Taylor (Uniting) and Melanie Rayment (TACSI)
• Activating social connectedness - What, why and how during COVID-19 (1 May): Professor Jane Farmer (CSI) and Ebony Gaylor (Australian Red Cross)
• The NDIS - Where are we and what are the challenges? (5 May): Associate Professor Gemma Carey (CSI)
• Citizen science for social impact (6 May): Dr Cobi Calyx (CSI), Associate Professor Alice Motion, Dr Maxine Newlands and Casey Gibson
• In conversation with Michael Traill AM (7 May): With Doug Taylor (Uniting)
• Introduction to outcomes measurement (8 May): Professor Paul Flatau (CSI)
• Starting young - Social impact leadership at school (11 May): Dr Ali Walker (CSI) and Daniel Pozarik (Randwick Public School)
• Social enterprise and an inclusive economy - within and beyond COVID-19 (12 May): Professor Jo Barraket (CSI)
• Revealing the social impact investment icebergs (13 May): Dr Mike Moran (CSI) and Libby Ward (CSI)
• Understanding and diagnosing collaboration issues (14 May): Dr Jack Noone (CSI)
• In conversation with Tom Dawkins (15 May): With Rhonda Yanitsas (CSI)
• Impact investment 101 (18 May): Michael Katz (CSI) and Adam McCurdie (Humanitix)
• Home learning during COVID-19 - Another mechanism that perpetuates education inequity? (19 May): Dr Meera Varadharajan (CSI), Dr Don Carter, Amanda Pratt and Leigh Toscan
• Social impact 101 (20 May): Dr Ali Walker (CSI) and Joe Kwon (ConFit)
• Accelerating collective social impact using Data Cooperatives (20 May): Professor Jane Farmer (CSI) and Associate Professor Amir Aryani (CSI)
• Building back better (21 May): Professor Kristy Muir (CSI) and David Crosbie (Community Council of Australia)
• The emotional face of firefighting: The case of the Black Saturday bushfires (22 May): Dr Graham Dwyer (CSI)
• International social impact through Work Integrated Learning (25 May): Sandeep Kirpalani (CSI), Janel Tumpalan (CSI student) and Zachary Sharah (CSI student)
• Youth unemployment & relational support s (25 May): Dr Mariana Atkins (CSI), Lisette Kaleveld (CSI) and Paul Abbott
• Financial intelligence - Strategic accounting for social enterprise (26 May): Kate Saporta (CSI)
• Social enterprise facing a crisis head-on (27 May): Kate Saporta (CSI) and Loretta Bolotin
• Governance for Social Impact taster (28 May): Professor Kristy Muir (CSI) and Adjunct Associate Professor Shamal Dass
• The gendered effect of COVID-19 (28 May): Dr Ioana Ramia (CSI), Scientia Professor Louise Chappell, Professor Rae Cooper, Professor Abigail Powell and Professor Siobhan Austen
• The journey of Kua (1 June): Darcy Small (Kua) and Brody Smith (Kua)
• Left without protection - Temporary visas and COVID-19 (1 June): Chris Hartley (CSI), Monique Dam, Carolina Gottardo and Charmaine Crowe
• Social impact assessment during times of crisis (2 June): Dr Ioana Ramia (CSI), Dr Ariella Meltzer (CSI) and Brendan Bourke (YourTown)
• Social cohesion - Creating connections in place (3 June): Professor Robyn Eversole (CSI) and Dr Kiros Hiruy (CSI)
• Measuring the outcomes of consumers of community services (4 June): Professor Erin Wilson (CSI)
• The future of education (5 June):David Gonski AC, Professor Peter Shergold AC and Professor Kristy Muir (CSI)
• Will Australian charities be COVID-19 casualties or partners in recovery? (26 June): Professor Kristy Muir (CSI), Suzie Riddell (SVA) and Dr Cassandra Goldie (ACOSS)
  

• Social connection: A community of practice (July): Professor Jane Farmer (CSI/SIRI), Ebony Gaylor (Decade of Action), Associate Professor Anthony McCosker (CSI/SIRI) and Jasmine Knox (CSI/SIRI)
• Learning from Sacred Heart Mission's Journey to Social Inclusion Program (August): Cathy Humphrey (SHM), Professor Paul Flatau (CSI), Associate Professor Monica Thielking (Swinburne University) and Fred (a former Journey to Social Inclusion participant)
• Understanding and designing Indigenous financial services, during and post-pandemics (September): Phil Usher (First Nations Foundation), Lynda Edwards (Financial Counselling Australia), Eveanne Liddle (NAB) and Dr Megan Weier (CSI)
• Mapping Government responses to COVID-19 using the Social Progress Index (October): Dr Megan Weier (CSI) and Isabella Saunders (CSI)
• The role of technology for not-for-profits, in the context of COVID-19 (November): David Spriggs (Infoxchange), Dr Catherine Brown (LMCF) and Mark Rayner (Wombat Housing), and moderated by Dr Chris Wilson (CSI Swinburne)
• Study options with the Centre for Social Impact (December): Dr Michael Moran (CSI), Bryony Parker (Uniting WA), Jacquie Love (Secret Sisterhood) and Mark Harwood (ygap), and moderated by Rhonda Yanitsas (CSI)

impact2021 webinar series

• SILA Program launch (February): Professor Kristy Muir (CSI), Jo Taylor (Paul Ramsay Foundation), Jenny Wheatley (Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation) and Leonard Vary (Myer Foundation)
• Indigenous Voice: Engaging our community in the co-design process, Webinar One (March): Dr Donna Odegaard AM (First Nations Broadcasting Australia), Hon Jeff Kennett AC (Former Premier of Victoria), Dr Emma Lee (CSI) and Dr Sadie Heckenberg (Swinburne University of Technology)
• Innovations in workplace giving (April): Lisa Grinham (Good2Give), Danielle Maxwell (Findex), Ariahne Thompson (WWF-Australia) and Krystian Seibert (CSI)
• Indigenous Voice: Engaging our community in the co-design process, Webinar Two (May): Dr Emma Lee (CSI), Her Excellency, Vicki Treadell CMG, MVO (British High Commissioner), Chris Kenny (Sky News Australia) and Dr Sadie Heckenberg (Swinburne University of Technology) - Webinar recording not available
  
• Building resilient charities to support Australia's wellbeing (June): Professor Kristy Muir (CSI), Suzie Riddell (Social Ventures Australia), Donna de Zwart (Fitted for Work), Marcia Scott (Fitted for Work) and Cassie McGannon (Social Ventures Australia)
• Embracing complexity: Addressing financial wellbeing with a systems based approach (July): Professor Kristy Muir (CSI), Dr Jeremiah Brown (CSI), Campbell Morrison (NAB), Phil Usher (First Nations Foundation) and Dr Jack Noone (CSI)
• Why telehealth must better support refugees and migrants in Australia - and how (August): Dr Devaki Monani (Charles Darwin University), Mary Ann Geronimo (Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils Australia), Apajok Biar (CREATE Foundation), Dr Ben O’Mara (Swinburne University of Technology) and Professor Gemma Carey (CSI)
  
• Outcomes measurement on a shoestring (September): David Boutkan (The Family Centre), Karen Wilcox (UNSW), Toby Dawson (IRT Group) and Dr Ioana Ramia (CSI)
  
• Ten years of reform of the for-purpose sector: Where have we come from and where are we going? (October): Professor Peter Shergold (CSI), Professor Kristy Muir (CSI), Paul Ronalds (Save the Children Australia), Belinda Drew (Community Services Industry Alliance) and Professor Gemma Carey (CSI)
• Building back better: A mental health deep dive (November): Barbara Jordan (Z Zurich Foundation), Dr Sarah Youngson (General Practitioner, WA), Lisette Kaleveld (CSI), Kelly Clark (CSI), Professor Eoin Killackey (Orygen) and Dr Aurora Elmes (CSI)
• Recasting the role of the Productivity Commission? A discussion on Indigenous policy and evaluation (December): Romlie Mokak (Australian Productivity Commission), Dr Ganesh Nana (New Zealand Productivity Commission), Craig Ritchie (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), Adjunct Professor Muriel Bamblett (Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency) and Professor Gemma Carey (CSI)

For more information or to request public use of a impact2020 or impact2021 webinar please get in touch with the CSI team .