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
This submission outlines nine measures the Community Council for Australia (CCA) believes will significantly strengthen Australia’s not-for-profit (NFP) sector and drive real economic savings for government over the coming financial year and beyond.
Charities need to be independent, but that does not mean they should be cut adrift by government to fend on their own, writes CCA CEO David Crosbie, in Pro Bono News, 31 January 2019.
Surely charities can do better than accept assumption-ridden superficial measures developed by unknown economists from outside of the sector, writes Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie in Pro Bono News as the ACNC considers measures for Object 1 b of the ACNC Act.
Sometimes it takes dark times to see bright stars, writes Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie in Pro Bono News. Reflecting on 2018 David says he is looking forward to seeing more bright stars shine across the charity sector next year.
If I could have anything, I would like to see a more compassionate Australia in 2019, writes CCA CEO David Crosbie in Pro Bono News, 6 December 2018.
Neither the market nor the state alone can re-thread our social fabric, rebuild democracy and respond to a rapidly changing age. Charities must be at the heart of it. We must drive change or accept our future irrelevance writes CCA CEO David Crosbie in Pro Bono News, 22 November 2018.
