Events
Pro Bono Australia will be media partners again this year for ACCSR's 5th Annual Conference. This conference will outline how CSR impacts and
fosters innovation and provide participants with practical insights into how to build innovation through CSR in their own organisations.
Australians consider Australia Day, on 26 January, as the nation's most important yearly event, according to research commissioned by the National Australia Day Council.
The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility’s 5th Annual Conference in Melbourne in February will turn the spotlight on The Innovation Imperative: Taking CSR from Risk Management to Value Creation.
Registrations have now opened for the 2012 ACOSS National Conference to be held in March in Sydney.
International Volunteer Day will be celebrated at the second annual Volunteers in Aid conference and expo to be held in Melbourne on Friday 2nd December 2011.
Philanthropy Australia’s President, Bruce Bonyhady AM, has been nominated as one of four Victorian finalists for Australian of the Year.
In the wake of last summer’s floods in Queensland - where twitter became a powerful resource for NFPs involved in emergency response and the ensuing rebuilding effort - Volunteering Australia’s upcoming National will take a special look at social media.
John McKenzie, Chief Legal Officer of Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) has been awarded the Law and Justice Foundation Justice Medal.
New wealth, created by the resources boom or by information technology, is the changing face of philanthropy in Australia according to Australian of the Year Simon McKeon.
Susan Barton – the founder of the Lighthouse Foundation - has been named the winner of BrainLink’s Women of Achievement Award.
US philanthropist, film-maker and Walt Disney heiress, Abigail Disney will visit Melbourne and Sydney later this year to share insights into philanthropy and preview her latest documentary on the plight of women in conflict zones.
The humble Aussie op-shop has received international accolades after the Salvos Stores made it into the finals of the Oracle World Retail Awards 2011.
With 18 workshops and 54 presentations, the three-day National Conference on Volunteering 2011 promises to provide a wealth of information, analysis and debate on every aspect of volunteering and volunteer management.
Hunger relief charity, Foodbank WA has been named as a finalist in this year’s Banksia Environmental Awards for its efforts to reduce food waste and implement recycling strategies.
One of Mission Australia’s aged care facilities, Charles Chambers Court, has won the National Organisation Award for excellence at the HESTA & ACSA Aged Care Awards in Sydney.
Professional services firm PriceWaterHouseCoopers has taken out two awards at the Australian Charities Fund’s Inaugural Workplace Giving Awards, with cancer support charity RedKite and home entertainment retailerJB Hi-Fi also among the award winners.
CEOs in Sydney and Melbourne are being asked to swap their business suits for fluoro vests to try their hand at selling The Big Issue magazine to support homeless and disadvantaged people.
The world’s most creative thinkers are coming to Melbourne as part of Creative Innovation 2011 and Pro Bono Australia readers have the chance to win free tickets and discounts to this exclusive event.
The Australian Communication Consumer Action Network is to examine Australia’s broadband future at its upcoming National Conference in Sydney.