New Resource: President Clinton spoke on “Why Giving Matters . . ." at the Clinton/Slate 60 Little Rock, Arkansas gathering November 12-13, 2006 http://www.slate.com/id/2153456/. Full Podcast of his speech available from Slate Magazine at http://media.slate.com/podcast/Slate061114_Clinton.mp3.
Updated Website: Visit the updated "Standard Chart of Accounts" page on the Developing Your Organisation (DYO) website. Visit the new "Keeping Records" page on the Developing Your Organisation (DYO) website.
New Resource: Successful Communication: A Toolkit for Researchers and Civil Society Organisations
Overseas Development Institute
This handbook is geared towards the needs of researchers and practitioners in civil society organisations, including developing NGOs, research institutes, think tanks and universities. It addresses the questions of how researchers and civil society practitioners can best communicate evidence to inform or influence policy, achieve their stated objectives, or simply to make their knowledge accessible and understandable to a wider audience. For more information and to download the toolkit, visit http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2604.html
New Resource: Australia's Welfare 2005 Publication. Comprehensive and authoritative source of national information on welfare services in Australia. Topics include indicators of the welfare of Australia's population, ageing and aged care services, disability and disability services, assistance for housing, services for people experiencing homelessness, and welfare services expenditure and labour force. Also features an extended chapter on children, youth and families.
New Resource: Giving Australia: Research on Philanthropy in Australia - Final Report Released Oct. 2005.
New Resource: Giving Time: The economic and social value of volunteering in Victoria (PDF, 2,262kB) by Faye Soupourmas and Duncan Ironmonger.
New Resource: Strengthening NGOs' Online Resources. This is the first release of the Queensland Community Organisations Online Resources (QCOOR) website. Search for services, funding information, service delivery standards, business tools, reporting information, contacts and more. Although information is geared towards Queensland Community Organisations, several resources pertain to NGOs in other states.
New Resource: Building the Capacity of Small Voluntary Agencies Project undertaken during 1997-99 by the (then) Centre for Voluntary Organisation and funded by the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales has produced the following publications which are available on the London School of Economics Website:
A Handbook for Small Voluntary Agencies; Juggling on a Unicycle: a short guide to organising a small voluntary agency; Case Studies for Small Voluntary Agencies; Funding Small Voluntary Agencies; Funding Small Voluntary Agencies; Final Report.
New Resource: Best Practice in Funeral Industry Regulation (PDF, 847kB) a report for The Funeral Industry Regulation Working Party (Queensland) prepared by QUT's Prof Neal Ryan and Craig Furneaux (School of Management).
Latest Info Pages: See our latest information on family foundations, public liability issues, the charity definition inquiry and Nonprofit Car Fleet Safety.
New Resource: New Database Documents 318 Foundation Capacity-Building Programs
A foundation-funded database has been updated so that it now includes a total of 318 foundation programs that work to strengthen nonprofit foundations across the U.S. and the world. Foundations can learn about capacity-building grant making and direct service work of other foundations through the Philanthropic Capacity-Building Resources Database, a project of the Human Interaction Research Institute.