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Pollinate Energy to partner with Powershop

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
Pollinate Energy, a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, is establishing a partnership with Victorian energy retailer Powershop that will see the retailer donate $50 to Pollinate ...

EY buys Net Balance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Sustainability leader. Nationally, EY Australia's climate change and sustainability services team will grow to more than 90 people as a result of the merger, EY said. The acquisition is expected to be completed in September 2014. As a result of the merger ...

SVA: Newpin social benefit bond returns 7.5% in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... positive side, you have significant improvement in the management and evaluation of the program," he said. "The UnitingCare people would say the Newpin program has better controls and management than it did before.... There's also a change in environment ...

JBWere: private ancillary funds increase in size, distributions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... to mirror the attitudes to risk of the founder or trustee of the PAF, and can also be quite conservative, said Knowles. "People come in with their own views, and they are often aware that they're managing money for charitable donations," he said. "The ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
People of Asian backgrounds are under-represented in leadership positions at Australian companies, with only 1.9% of ASX200 executives having Asian cultural origins, compared to 9.6% of the Australian population, according to research from Diversity ...

Christian Super engages with Transfield Services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... still remain, Murphy said. "The execution in the provision of security services is highly dependent on the quality of the people on the ground and the governance of their hiring and performance. We are still to hear from Transfield how their welfare-led ...

ARENA funds expansion of Doomadgee Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... expected 528,000 litres of diesel per year." Doomadgee Solar Farm is located in Doomadgee, an Aboriginal community of 1,052 people, according to Ergon Energy. It has a 2.44MW diesel power station, which is the fourth largest of Ergon's isolated power ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Addarii beliuevesthat the answer is not to cut social spending, but rather to turn it into investment for wider return. "People like me think that we can do something better, something different," he said. "We can work on that 50% of the global social ...

Australian Forestry Standard releases supply chain standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... particularly paper, or any other composite product, that some of the wood can come from an uncertified forest," Stanton said. "People have said, 'ok, we can understand why it's not 100% certified, but the other wood, it should meet the basic requirement ...

CDSB consultation finds broad support for framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... cnsultaiton platform, and 46 individuals or organisations provided responses to the consultation. "My impression is that people want to understand how different frameworks align with each other or interact with each other," said Lois Guthrie, CDSB executive ...