2024 Philanthropy Australia Conference – plenaries
Philanthropy Australia
Mon, 2 Sep 2024
Recordings of the plenary sessions of the 2024 Philanthropy Australia Conference in Adelaide, 6 and 7 August 2024.
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This month in philanthropy: August 2024
Philanthropy Australia
Fri, 30 Aug 2024
The August edition of our gallery designed to showcase events, launches, project updates and activities happening in our busy member community.
Video: Inspiring Story – Foundation Barossa
Philanthropy Australia
Mon, 26 Aug 2024
Foundation Barossa nurtures and builds its community’s strength and assets, responding to challenges and opportunities and supporting organisations and individuals to do likewise.
New trends in giving favour disruptors and causes over established charities
Kristen Lark, CEO of The Funding Network Australia
Fri, 2 Aug 2024
The landscape of philanthropy is undergoing a profound transformation and McCrindle’s NFP Insights: Empowering Impact report, published earlier this year, provides important data for not-for-profit leaders looking to secure their organisations’ futures. The Funding Network Australia CEO, Kristen Lark, reflects here on the new patterns in donor behaviour.
Australian youth mental health NFPs among recipients of US$3m grants from Lady Gaga’s foundation
Dee Rudebeck, Advisor, News & Storytelling
Fri, 26 Jul 2024
A number of local organisations working to help improve outcomes for young people’s mental health and wellbeing outcomes were among 65 charities in 10 countries to receive grants totaling US$3 million from the Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) in collaboration with the Cotton On Foundation. Among them here were the Raise Foundation, Strong Brother, Strong Sister and batyr.
What can grantmakers learn from the next generation? Reflections from the NEXUS Global Summit
Bella Conyngham, New Gen Network Lead
Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Bella Conyngham, Philanthropy Australia’s New Gen Network Lead, was part of a 17-strong delegation who travelled to New York for the annual NEXUS Global Summit. Last week, NEXUS Australia Executive Officer Lucy Steggles shared an abundance of key takeaways, which you can read online. Here, Bella shares some thoughts and questions about philanthropy that she’s brought back to Aussie soil from the event.
Inspiring leaders are leading the way on Pay What It Takes
Jo Taylor, Executive Chair of the PWIT Coalition
Fri, 19 Jul 2024
For the last three years the Pay What It Takes (PWIT) movement has been working to transform the way funders work with not-for-profits to address the critical issue of underfunded overhead costs. Here, Jo Taylor, Executive Chair of the PWIT Coalition, provides an update on progress so far and new research as more and more leaders get behind the campaign.
