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There appears, from our experience, to be a shift in the not-for-profit community service sector to ‘commercialisation’ of service delivery and care. Not-for-profit organisations are increasingly being exhorted to act more like the ‘corporate sector’ and to think ‘commercially’ when making decisions about their service delivery.
This romance is not all bad. At the same time it is not all good. Read more
Richard Flannery in his essay ‘The Australian Disease: on the decline of love and the rise of non-freedom’ writes: ‘ . . . in present day Australia, it doesn’t matter what you do or what you have done, so long as you conform to power. The only true crime in an ever-more bland Australia is to not conform Read more
I first met Steve in the early 1980’s at an alternative Christian communities gathering out at Malabar in Sydney. For the next thirty years I had the privilege of working and talking with Steve in a variety of different contexts, including working directly with Read more
We all know it is good financial management to reduce debt and generate a surplus. The end is meant to justify the means.
But does it? Read more
We have read, browsed and noticed many books on the seven best habits for all sorts of things – so here is a list of seven challenges for not for profit community service organisations. When these challenges are apparent in your organisation you need to think seriously about where it is heading and if it is the right place to be. Read more