For the last five years Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com has surveyed US NFP organisations about their communication practices and procedures. The results are compiled into an annual ‘Nonprofit Communications Trends Report’ and give an interesting insight into how NFPs are interacting […]
Melbourne’s Third Sector conference offered up great insights earlier in April. The event attracted a large delegate base from associations and charities from within Australia, with a number also attending from New Zealand. Hailed as a ‘hotbed’ of leading professional […]
Peter Glensor comes from a background of leadership in the community sector, with over 40 years of experience in a variety of industries. Peter joined not-for-profit organisation Social Development Partners (SDP) as their Executive Director in January this year, bringing […]
What defines a ‘leader’? Marcus Buckingham, Gallup Team Member and author of best-selling business titles: “You are a leader if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo”. These are […]
In a world where we are really, really time-poor it can be helpful to get that balance of how to be effective with our marketing and do it in a way that doesn’t consume us with having to post ALL […]
We have observed many instances where elected and appointed directors and trustees, who had joined the board with good intentions, become disillusioned and dissatisfied for a variety of reasons. It may have been the recruitment process, lack of induction, the […]
Throughout April and May the Office of Ethnic Affairs hosted its annual EthnicA conferences in Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton and Auckland. The conferences bring together diverse cultures, community groups and organisations to share ideas and experiences, encourage debate on diversity issues, […]
“I had heard many of my colleagues talking about Twitter. And, it seemed that bit too complicated – there was a real danger of being feeling embarrassed as I didn’t know my tweet from my hashtag! How could I take […]
In lots of respects the nonprofit sector could take a leaf from the private sector when it comes to CEO assessments. In the case of the private sector, the CEO’s assessment criteria are usually linked to the company’s financial performance […]
Chief Executives and Committee Members of trade and industry representative associations should consider attending the upcoming SEEANZ Conference. The 27th Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand are holding their annual conference in Sydney on the 17-18 July 2014. […]