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About Quarterly
The Quarterly shares insights from our work and across the sector, to prompt learning and discussion about effective practice.
As a non-Indigenous organisation, SVA has leaned on existing First Nations led and developed guides to improve our service delivery, designing a set of First Nations Practice Principles striving to create positive impact for First Nations organisations and communities.
The work of field-building intermediaries is complex and can be difficult to define. Yet, they play an important role in addressing some of the greatest social challenges.
Indigenous evaluation case study: how we did it, why the process was important, the critical insights we gained along the way and resulting implications for not only the client, Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa and Martu people, but also for evaluators and Indigenous program and policy makers.
New research from SVA and the CSI has found that not-for-profit organisations across Australia are, in general, not funded for the actual cost of what they do.
New research from Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) has found that not-for-profit organisations across Australia are, in general, not funded for the actual cost of what they do. The result is less effective operations and reduced impact.
Researchers in social network theory and educational leadership provide an analysis of how SVA’s The Connection is using networks to improve education outcomes within communities experiencing disadvantage.
SVA’s newest board member, Aboriginal non-profit leader and Fulbright Scholar, Adam Davids offers insights for Indigenous not-for-profits by drawing on the experience of successful racial minority-serving institutions in the USA.
Supporting social purpose organisations through 2020 taught the Paul Ramsay Foundation and SVA key lessons about what leads to vulnerability or resilience in a crisis.
Covid-19 has had a massive impact on the social sector, not least in making planning for future demand extremely challenging. Using scenarios proved a valuable way to understand potential impacts on demand in the Victorian child and family services sector, given the many uncertainties.
