Australian Centre For Philanthropy And Nonprofit Studies

Commissioner Susan Pascoe speaks on Not-For-Profit Regulation Inquiry, plus Tim Longwill talks to us on the Sestili v Triton underwriting insurance case and Heather Watson will talk to us about Sim Aust v Simaid case.

Ted Flack, CPNS Doctoral Student and Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Director of The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, give their opinions on the role annual reporting plays for public fundraising charities.

Reflections on the future of volunteering, and the impact of recent legal reforms on philanthropy.

Concerns that business people express regarding philanthropy and implications for the nonprofit sector. Plus: What is the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council and what do they do in terms of the nonprofit sector?

Volunteering Queensland CEO, Diane Morgan, on New Models for Voluntary Action; Leonie Bryen on how volunteers are changing and what organisations can do to incorporate episodic volunteers. Update on Australian tax deductible giving statistics for 2004-2005 by Myles McGregor-Lowndes.

Kel Ryan, Deputy Sate President of the Queensland Branch of the RSL, talks about the challenges facing veteran organisations.

How the sector operates: Dividing itself into silos or subsectors or working together as a whole?

Current issues in nonprofit research agendas, what progress has been made to date in the field and a review of The Non-profit Sector - A Research Handbook.

Conversation with Australian CEOs Jane Schwager (Nonprofit Australia) and David Thompson (Jobs Australia)

Discussion about the Federal Court decision - Word Investments - handed down on 3 November, 2006 about taxation status of a charitable organisation which was a commercial fundraising enterprise.

What are the issues raised by big philanthropy, and can philanthropy in total or as a sector ever be too rich?

Bob Wyatt - Executive Director, Muttart Foundation, and Prof Helmut Anheier - Director, Centre for Civil Society, UCLA, give their perspectives on nonprofit organisations and public policy.

Pros and cons of nonprofit organisations becoming more like business and more similar to one another.

Three major aspects about the organisational behaviour of nonprofit organisations which have major implications for management: organisational values, multiple stakeholders, multiple revenue streams.

Discussing concerns about duplication in the nonprofit sector.

Information on new ruling by High Court; the definition of charity for taxation purposes; ATO rulings TR2005/21 and 22; and income tax guide for nonprofits.