Below you will find a list of all posts that have been categorised as "Blog"

Safety, Risk and Insurance – Five Key Takeaways

Focusing on safety will help your not-for-profit protect (both its staff and the people it serves), comply with its legal obligations, and attract and retain funding, volunteers, staff and members. Here are five things you should know about safety, risk and insurance in your not-for-profit.

30 August 2024|Post

Reframing governance – an effective enabler for quality service delivery

Organisations are complex enterprises, and how they are run is equally so. It can help to think of governance as a bundle of components, including the organisation’s leadership, decision making and responsibility frameworks, risk identification and management, and relationships both within the organisation and between the organisation and its stakeholders.

25 June 2024|Post

What is Governance?

Organisations are complex enterprises, and how they are run is equally so. It can help to think of governance as a bundle of components, including the organisation’s leadership, decision making and responsibility frameworks, risk identification and management, and relationships both within the organisation and between the organisation and its stakeholders.

25 June 2024|Post

Rights, choices and dignity of risk – a human rights perspective

Risk is an inseparable part of life. It's the tightrope walk we take every day, from crossing the street to pursuing our dreams. However, when it comes to older adults, a well-meaning but misguided desire to shield them from harm can morph into ageism.

18 June 2024|Post

Heatwave injustice: human rights impact of extreme temperatures

In this month's human rights blog, CLCQ's Monica Taylor examines the intersection of the climate crisis and human rights. As the climate crisis intensifies, Monica writes, we must urgently prepare our communities for the devastating impacts that our brutally hot summers will bring.

6 March 2024|Post

Conversation with Larissa Baldwin, GetUp CEO

This month, I caught up with proud Widjabul Wia-bul woman, Larissa Baldwin-Roberts, who among many other community commitments is the CEO of GetUp! and Director of Research for Passing the Message Stick—a First Nations-led research project designed to shift public narrative in support of First Nations justice and self-determination.

20 September 2023|Post

Blog: Prisons are failing our children and communities

In a previous role, I sat at tables in Brisbane’s youth detention centres and listened to children share their stories. In the children’s eyes I saw resilience and strength but also a deep sadness.

6 July 2023|Post
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