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ASX Best Practice Corporate Governance Principles

Editor’s note: The adoption of codes such as the ASX Best Practice Corporate Governance Principles (outlined below) can assist Third Sector organisations to build an ethical culture. They will have a strong ethical culture when board and management lead with integrity, managers reinforce ethical conduct, peers display a commitment to ethics and the organisation integrates its values in day-to-day decision-making. The integration of Codes of Conduct and Ethics into the practice of the organisation, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Issue 8: Summer 2010-2011, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, Australia, Ethics, reporting requirements, values | Leave a comment

New FIA principles and standards of fundraising practice

Recently the Fundraising Institute of Australia (FIA) launched an important new Code of Practice, Principles and Standards of Fundraising Practice, which allows Third Sector organisations to check how they should be operating and allows donors to recognise complying organisations. Ethical fundraising is crucial to public trust in Third Sector organisations. The Code plays an important part in setting the framework for appropriate transparency, accountability and ethical practice. The principles are critical to how the fundraising profession … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Issue 8: Summer 2010-2011, Social Investment, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, Australia, Ethics, fundraising, philanthropy, Social Investment, transparency | Leave a comment

Ethics on the study program

by Leo d’Angelo Fisher. Business Review Weekly, September 2010 Stung by criticism that MBA executives contributed to the global financial crisis, many leading business schools in the USA and Europe have responded by rewriting their MBA curriculums. Fisher reports that the biggest shortcomings of the transgressors who brought the world’s financial system to the brink involve familiar keywords: ethics, values, sustainability, responsibility and accountability. He asks: If business schools are not to blame for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Issue 8: Summer 2010-2011 | Tagged accountability, Ethics, MBA (Master of Business Administration), sustainability, values | Leave a comment

Recent approaches to measuring social impact in the third sector: an overview

by Gianni Zappalà & Mark Lyons, CSI BP No.6, 2009. Summary by Gianni Zappalà. There is a growing interest in the measurement of social impact. In some countries, there are moves towards making the use of some form of social impact measurement framework or model compulsory for those Third Sector organisations that receive government funding. Three such social impact measurement approaches are gaining traction in Australia: Social Accounting and Audit (SAA); Logic Models such as … Continue reading →

Posted in Demonstrating Social Impact, Issue 5: Summer 2010 | Tagged accountability, Australia, Demonstrating Social Impact, financial accounting, logFrame, logic Models, measurement, Public Policy, reporting requirements, SAA, Social Accounting and Audit, Social Return on Investment, SROI, transparency | Comments Off

Contribution of the Not-for-Profit Sector

Draft research report, The Australian Government Productivity Commission; 14 October 2009. This commissioned study by the Australian Government has an ambitious ambit. It seeks to measure Third Sector contributions to Australian society at the aggregate, organisational, and program level. In doing so, the Productivity Commission states that it aims to enhance organisational performance, transparency for stakeholders, and related public policy. Chapter Three reveals the Commission’s evaluation approach. The Commission employs the theory of change model … Continue reading →

Posted in Demonstrating Social Impact, Issue 5: Summer 2010 | Tagged accountability, Australia, Demonstrating Social Impact, measurement, Productivity Commission, Public Policy, theory of change, transparency | 1 Comment

Disclosure Regimes for Charities and Not-for-Profit Organisations

by The Senate Standing Committee on Economics, Senate Printing Unit, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia; December 2008. Leaders of Australian third sector organisations may soon face new national disclosure regulations with the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Economics’ recent report on models to improve governance, accountability, and transparency in the not-for-profit sector. Historically, Australia’s legislation regulating not-for-profits came about in a piecemeal fashion, with lack of a coordinated approach to transparency and accountability. Charities are not … Continue reading →

Posted in Issue 2: Summer 2009 | Tagged accountability, Australia, Australian Senatte Standing Committee on Economics, Demonstrating Social Impact, disclosure, governance, Leadership, Public Policy, regulation, transparency | Comments Off

Agreeing to Disagree: Maintaining dissent in the NGO sector

Gemma Edgar, The Australia Institute; August 2008. The Rudd government is currently floating the idea of a National Compact to strengthen its relationship with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as part of its social inclusion agenda for Australia. Gemma Edgar of the Australia Institute provides a detailed discussion of the pros and cons of such a Compact, with a particular focus on implications for advocacy NGOs. On the plus side, a Compact would aim for a better … Continue reading →

Posted in Issue 1: Spring 2008 | Tagged accountability, advocacy, Australia, consultation, funding, National Compact, Public Policy, transparency | Comments Off

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