CCA provides media commentary on issues important to charities and NFPs and CCA CEO David Crosbie writes fortnightly in the Community Advocate on sector issues. We keep our member CEOs and senior staff up to date via CCA’s Daily Diary – a frank daily analysis of the national context, issues and news of interest to charity leaders (all in a two-minute read). Charity leaders who would like to know more, please contact our Partnerships Manager, Deborah Smith, info@communitycouncil.com.au
Purpose and values matter, creating value matters, and being valued matters. All of these need our constant attention, writes CCA CEO David Crosbie in The Community Advocate.
The Community Council for Australia is requesting that the essential role of charities and NFPs be factored into any measures relating to fuel shortages in Australia.
We can negate some of the negatives of AI if we stand for our values against the dehumanising exploitative use of AI, and continue to adopt and adapt AI in partnership with our communities, writes CCA CEO, David Crosbie in the Community Advocate.
If we want to unlock financial potential, create new opportunities, build capacity and leverage the $489 billion in assets held across the charities sector, we need to change how we calculate risk in our sector, how we budget, how we invest in ourselves, how we invest in our future. Targeted investment in more appropriate financial products could enable charities and NFPs to budget a little more easily, take more risks, and do more for their communities, writes CCA CEO David Crosbie in the Community Advocate.
For CCA, one of the main concerns about government grants is the lack of active engagement or meaningful dialogue between the charity and not-for-profit sector and grant-giving agencies about how government contracting can be improved, writes CEO David Crosbie in the Community Advocate.
CCA CEO David Crosbie writes for the Community Advocate: ‘The work of our sector is clearly an antidote to the dog whistling grievance politics that serves the interests of a small minority already emboldened by individual power and money. Our work is about unity, about shared experience, about promoting opportunity and hope. Collectively, we have a lot of work to do in 2026. We need to build engagement and strengthen the bonds that enable us to belong, to establish shared goals, to emphasise the “we” rather than them and us, and to act collectively.
