Program #10
February 1, 2007
Part 1: Reimbursing the Costs of Volunteering
Part 2: Bill to Reform Queensland's Associations Incorporation Act
Presenters:
Sha Cordingley, Volunteering Australia
Prof Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Director, The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT
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For More Information on Reimbursement of the Costs of Volunteering
- National Survey of Volunteering Issues, 2006 - Volunteering Australia (www.volunteeringaustralia.org)
- Impacts of petrol prices on volunteering, 2005 - Volunteering Australia (www.volunteeringaustralia.org)
- Boomnot: Volunteer's Resources Online - sponsored by WA Department of Community Development
- Income tax guide for non-profit organisations - Australian Taxation Office (www.ato.gov.au)
- Cost of Volunteering Taskforce Report 2007 - Volunteering Australia (www.volunteeringaustralia.org)
- Russel Commission on Young People’s Volunteering - Volunteering England (www.volunteering.org.uk)
For More Information on the Bill to Reform Queensland's Associations Incorporation Act
- CPNS Current Issues Information Sheet 2007/1: Bill to Reform Queensland's Associations Incorporation Act
Current Issues Info Sheet Bill to Reform Qld Assoc Inc Act
- CPNS Working Paper No 36: Associations Incorporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2006.
Working Paper No 36 (PDF 211 kb). Also available via http://eprints.qut.edu.au
- Bill to Reform Queensland's Associations Incorporation Act
The Bill is available on the Office Of The Queensland Parliamentary Counsel Web site
http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/OQPChome.htm
- Further materials are available on the Developing Your Organisation (DYO) Web Site including research papers, streamed audio and video of legal and policy debates about the reform of the Act, manuals and handbooks https://olt.qut.edu.au/bus/DYO
Presenters
Sha Cordingley
Chief Executive Officer, Volunteering Australia
Sha Cordingley is the Chief Executive of Volunteering Australia; the national peak for volunteering. Sha currently serves on the boards of the International Association for Voluntary Effort (IAVE) and the Australian Nonprofit Roundtable. Sha has written a number of published articles and papers on volunteering, including a chapter in Volunteers and Volunteering published by The Federation Press. She has also been involved in a number of pieces of research into volunteering. She has represented the interests of volunteering in many forums and has been on a number of government advisory committees and given evidence before relevant government inquiries. Sha was on the Sydney Olympics Advisory Committee on Volunteering and co- chaired the IYV2001 Community Council of Advice. For the past nine years she has been Final Judge of the National Australia Bank Volunteer Awards and one of the judging panel for the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership’s Awards for three years. She has presented at many conferences, including the IYV2001 UN Symposium on Volunteering in Geneva in 2001. Sha is an active volunteer and was presented with a Centenary of Australia Medal for her work in volunteering.
Prof Myles McGregor-Lowndes OAM
Director, The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT
Myles has advised and held board positions in a large variety of nonprofit organisations over a period of 25 years. He is a consultant to McCullough Robertson Lawyers engaged solely in high level legal and taxation advice to large national and international nonprofit organisations. He is also a member of the ATO Charities Consultative Committee on the introduction of the New Tax System and advisor to the ATO on nonprofit taxation training and education materials and served on the recent Volunteering Australia Taskforce investigating the Rising Costs of Volunteering. Myles will be releasing CPNS Working Paper No 36 Associations Incorporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 shortly.
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