Your chance to preview key themes and fundraising messages from the largest ever study on giving and volunteering in Australia!
This year’s ACPNS/FIA Alumni Anniversary Breakfast is not to be missed! The event will focus on Giving Australia 2016, whose findings will be launched officially in December.
This multi-data project, led by ACPNS, the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology and the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs and funded by the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership, seeks to understand how, why and how much Australians give and volunteer in 2016 and what this means for the nonprofit and philanthropy sector. Special guest is Angela Perry of the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership, and Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes and Associate Professor Wendy Scaife will discuss key current messages from:
- individuals
- charities
- philanthropists and foundations, and
- businesses, large and small
Hear about the gaps, barriers and opportunities revealed, most popular fundraising vehicles and what is top of mind right now for the different giving sources.
| Date | Tuesday 8 November 2016 | |
| Time | 7.15am – 9.00am | |
| Venue | Victoria Park Golf Complex
Ball Room Herston Road Herston, QLD |
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| Pricing | FIA Member: $55
ACPNS Alumni Member: $55 Staff of Organisational Member: $65 Non-Member: $85 |
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| RSVP | REGISTER ONLINE | |
Ms Angela Perry
Angela Perry is a member of the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership that provides advice to Government on fostering a culture of philanthropic giving, volunteering and investment in Australia. Angela is also the CEO and Founder of Future Foundations Limited which engages mentors from business and creative sectors with disadvantaged children in rural and linguistically diverse communities. She is also a member of the Public Services Mutuals Task Force, launched in January 2014, by the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals. Angela is a qualified Barrister and solicitor.
Angela recently resigned from her position as the Global Head of Business Development Equity Plan Solutions and Executive Client Partnerships for financial services company, the Link Group. She assisted with establishment of the charitable giving and volunteering arm of the Victorian branch of the Link Group and worked with the community and businesses to build innovation and capacity and has spent many years volunteering in various roles, including teaching English to newly arrived immigrants.
Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes OAM, PhD, MAdmin, LLB, BA
Myles McGregor-Lowndes is the Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) at QUT.
Myles’ special research interest is the law and regulation of nonprofit corporations and he is the author of several books and publications on such issues. He is a founding member of the ATO Charities Consultative Committee and the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Advisory Board. In 2003 Myles was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the community by providing education and support in legal, financial and administrative matters to nonprofit organisations’.
Associate Professor Wendy Scaife BBusComn; MBusMgt, PhD, FFIA, FPRIA
Wendy Scaife is the National Project Director for Giving Australia 2016 and the Director of ACPNS where she leads a small, experienced team that delivers large and diverse research and sector impacts.
Wendy was on the National Compact and Research Australia Philanthropy Steering Committees, serves on the Charities Aid Foundation and US Association of Fundraising Professionals research committees and a disaster grants committee for the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal. She facilitates Queensland’s Social Investors Network and chairs a community heritage/social capital project. She was formerly a state CEO/ national Deputy CEO of a major health nonprofit.
