The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP
Shadow Assistant Treasurer | Shadow Minister for Competition and Productivity
Shadow Minister for Charities and Not-for-Profits | Shadow Minister for Trade In Services | Member for Fenner
Reconnected Sector Consultation - Melbourne Multicultural Hub 28 April 2017
Connectivity
- Cooperatives and networks aren’t known and accessible to others, making collaboration and resource sharing difficult
- Would like to see increased connectivity and strengthen networks between sector and non-sector actors to tap into shared resources and feedback from clients and consumer groups, such as:
- Greater information sharing through ACNC on who is doing what
- Creation of a tool/app to find where other relevant actors are
- Would like time, space and resources to network and connect
- Assistance in development of digital platform to:
- Facilitate telling personal stories
- Fundraising and finding grants
- Mailing lists
Experience sharing and learning
- Facilitation of information and expertise sharing between business and NFP sectors
- Support and facilitate partnerships and collaboration between service providers, researchers and think
- Removing red tape for resource sharing
- Need to create space for mentors to participate that may not want to be ‘part of’ an organisation
Funding and local support
- Federal seed funding for locally-based initiatives
- Useful to focus on deliverables as opposed to funding positions
- Minimum five year financing
- Face-to-face reporting
- Streamlined funding-reporting system
- Provide resources through ACNC to help measure outcomes to ensure they’re relevant and realistic
- Better partnership arrangements with local governments
- Can play a greater role in connecting actors
- Encouraging ‘peppercorn’ rental arrangements
- Shared facilities model (physical space, administrative systems)
- Inclusion of social contact hours as part of service delivery and value
- Build capacity of organisations to become financially sustainable or independent
- Develop profitable activities to subsidise non-profitable parts of NFP
Volunteering and human capital
- Individuals empowered at local level who can facilitate and coordinate social capital building in organisations
- Structure activities that give volunteers a sense of ownership
- Training for organisations to better identify how to harness volunteers and match them to organisational objectives
- Need methodologies to investigate how volunteers contribute and harness their strengths
- Corporate volunteering not always matching needs
- Industry not always sure how to find places to donate their skilled volunteers
- Incorporating skills building into volunteering activities
Services
- Funding support to receive up to date service information, not just report it
- Support small service providers and educators that understand how service will be delivered in local context
- Creation of a NFPs payments platform to reduce transaction costs
- Creation of a shared administrative support model
- Incentives to innovate need to work on a local scale as innovation occurs on this scale
Communication
- Combination of effective use of social media and small number of physical meet ups for ‘real life’ connection
- Need to use communication technology to effectively increase input by younger generations
- Harnessing stories of those with relevant lived experience to humanise service
What aspects could work across diverse situations?
- ‘Innovation’ can be a buzzword and can detract from core business. Often there is no need to reinvent the wheel, but valuing honest evaluation and improving existing strong initiatives
- Improving information sharing between generations
- Matchmaking resource tool to better connect resources to who needs them
- Mobile and flexible funding structures
- Recognition and celebration of NFPs as second largest sector in Australia
- Discretionary funding component to tailor to specific personnel needs
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