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New Community Sector Banking CEO outlines bank's value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... sector. The ability to provide services into the affordable housing sector, or unique financial considerations of the disability sector, supporting direction into helping inclusiveness for the indigenous population, all things that are considered to ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... not-for-profit and other non-government institutions into providing social services, such as the creation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), there is clear need for metrics to evaluate and compare what works and what doesn't when it ...

Workplace diversity a driver of innovation: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... levels of your organisation. Address biases in recruitment and retention that may be preventing women, people with a disability, Indigenous Australians, mature-age workers, people from culturally diverse backgrounds or same sex-attracted people from ...

ASX companies report shared value strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... companies were asked to identify the social issues they focused on. Respondents cited employment, education, homelessness, disability, health and indigenous disadvantage, but there was no clear relationship between the sector that the company belonged ...

School for Social Entrepreneurs holds NDIS training

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... accelerator program to educate social enterprises for the changes that will come with the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). NDIS is being implemented across Australia, and SSE's Accelerator program will incorporate the ...

GRI, Fundacion ONCE launch disability reporting guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Fundacion ONCE, a leading organization of the European Network for CSR and Disability (CSR+D), have launched a guide for organisations to use in communicating commitments relating to inclusion of people with ...

DCA panel addresses employment of people with disabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... ntial employees with disabilities. DCA cites statistics that an estimated 18.5% of the Australian population has as disability, but only half of those aged 15 to 64 participate in the workforce. "People with disabilities in Australia are limited by what ...

Co-ops, mutuals a "third way" for public service provision

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... service provision, and creating new public service mutuals. Among other case studies, the report looks at the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as one example of how those strategies can be adopted. "The one thing that we've got an increasing ...

SVA suggests reform for social enterprise capital funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... long term contribute to savings to government in terms of provision of service around welfare, healthcare, aged care, disability and so on and support a significant industry," Learmonth said."Social enterprise and non-profit is a substantial sector in ...

BCCM forms task force to examine public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... alternative or effectively address a particular problem, emerging issue or market need such as the transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme." In addition to McFee, other members of the task force will include Rowan Dowland, general manager ...