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Economic downturns are typically accompanied by a reduction in charitable giving, and corporate giving is sometimes slower to re-materialise than individual giving. But our research of the top 100 ASX Australian Companies shows that... more
Economic downturns are typically accompanied by a reduction in charitable giving, and corporate giving is sometimes slower to re-materialise than individual giving. But our research of the top 100 ASX Australian Companies shows that thinking and giving strategically can mutually benefit companies and the community
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As a nation, we spend five times as much on alcohol as we claim in tax deductible donations each year (ASIC 2016). It’s worth asking what’s afoot in Australian giving and where arts givers/giving sit within this.
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Against a backdrop of increasing interest in higher education philanthropy, the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) surveyed Australian Universities to begin benchmarking their fundraising and alumni relations.... more
Against a backdrop of increasing interest in higher education philanthropy, the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) surveyed Australian Universities to begin benchmarking their fundraising and alumni relations. This data relates to the calendar year 2006, being the first full annual survey.
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Against a backdrop of increasing interest in higher education philanthropy, the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) surveyed Australian Universities to begin benchmarking their fundraising and alumni relations.... more
Against a backdrop of increasing interest in higher education philanthropy, the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) surveyed Australian Universities to begin benchmarking their fundraising and alumni relations. This data relates to the calendar year 2006, being the first full annual survey.
Against a backdrop of increasing interest in higher education philanthropy, the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) surveyed Australian Universities to begin benchmarking their fundraising and alumni relations.... more
Against a backdrop of increasing interest in higher education philanthropy, the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) surveyed Australian Universities to begin benchmarking their fundraising and alumni relations. This data relates to the calendar year 2006, being the first full annual survey.
Thinking of philanthropy as ‘a love of humankind’ leaves a space for those philanthropists whose giving supports all living things, regardless of whether their existence immediately benefits humanity or not. These biospheric values may... more
Thinking of philanthropy as ‘a love of humankind’ leaves a space for those philanthropists whose giving supports all living things, regardless of whether their existence immediately benefits humanity or not. These biospheric values may differentiate donors who give to the environment from those who support other cause areas, and research generally has not explored this difference. Drawing on data from Giving Australia 2016, our working paper explores what this national study suggests about the current state of environmental philanthropy in Australia. In a time of mixed but steady advances for the Australian philanthropic sector as a whole, the findings highlight the incremental but sustained growth in giving time, money and expertise to environmental organisations and causes. The global picture of environmental giving is changing, with new major donors from countries such as China and the United States (US) making national and international commitments to conservation and environmen...
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Since 2002, ACPNS has been surveying professional advisers to affluent Australians intermittently to seek their views and experiences around client and personal philanthropy. Why?: because professional advisers on finance, wealth... more
Since 2002, ACPNS has been surveying professional advisers to affluent Australians intermittently to seek their views and experiences around client and personal philanthropy. Why?: because professional advisers on finance, wealth management, law, accounting, taxation, estate management and beyond are an important nexus with people who have the capacity to channel significant funding into community need. Overall, this study suggests a slight shift away from advising affluent clients on philanthropic matters. It also highlights some perceived lack of organisational and professional association support and the feeling of many advisers that they do not have the expertise yet to advise in this area. These results provide thought fodder for advisers, their organisations and sector bodies.
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A longitudinal qualitative study was conducted with CEOs of 12 fundraising organisations across Australia to answer the question - how mights a change in the CEO's fundraising knowledge improve fundraising activity and outcomes for... more
A longitudinal qualitative study was conducted with CEOs of 12 fundraising organisations across Australia to answer the question - how mights a change in the CEO's fundraising knowledge improve fundraising activity and outcomes for their organisation? The CEOs along with the inaugural Australian Grantmaker of the Year, Caitriona Fay from Perpetual and lead researcher Dr Wendy Scaife travelled to San Antonio, Texas, USA to attend the annual Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) conference in March 2014. Participants identified five main success factors for such group learning initiatives about fundraising: - Getting away from the day to day business of running the organisation - Informal, social time to debrief and get to know others - Diversity of organisations whereby no one was in direct competition to others - Commitment, openness and willingness of individuals to participate - Group facilitation This research has been supported by the Perpetual Foundation – Trustees...
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Giving Australia 2016 is a large, complex, collaborative and important study for Australia’s nonprofit sector, community and those who make policy about it. This paper provides an overview of the Giving Australia project, including the... more
Giving Australia 2016 is a large, complex, collaborative and important study for Australia’s nonprofit sector, community and those who make policy about it. This paper provides an overview of the Giving Australia project, including the research questions and research design.
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Australian fundraisers and their organisational leaders (CEOs and board members) diverge sometimes in how they think about fundraising. In fact, eight key differences emerged in the recent Australian study that sparked this paper. A... more
Australian fundraisers and their organisational leaders (CEOs and board members) diverge sometimes in how they think about fundraising. In fact, eight key differences emerged in the recent Australian study that sparked this paper. A strong fundraising/leadership accord in attitudes toward fundraising would seem to be important, especially in tightened funding regimes. Both demand and competition for funding beyond the government dollar is growing. Many organisations are moving into community fundraising for the first time due to imperilled government funding. The sophistication of all donation sources is likewise on the rise. These factors add complexity to the fundraising role and to the task of boards and CEOs in managing fundraising strategy and activity. Some variances in professional outlook might be predictable between fundraisers and fundraising organisation leaders. However, the differences found in our study are in areas that potentially affect the organisation’s ability to...
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While there is overwhelming public support for the arts and overwhelming public participation in the arts, there is some reluctance amongst Australians to endorse higher levels of government funding for the arts. This divergence between... more
While there is overwhelming public support for the arts and overwhelming public participation in the arts, there is some reluctance amongst Australians to endorse higher levels of government funding for the arts. This divergence between strong support and participation, but ambivalence about who should pay, underlines the importance of this study of private sources of arts funding. For the purposes of this report, private sources are taken to embrace philanthropy, sponsorship, bequests, investment options, crowdsourcing and other fostering of individual giving. This includes the diversity of more traditional fundraising mechanisms such as major gifts, capital campaigns, bequests, workplace giving, fundraising events and direct marketing appeals. It also encompasses using public monies to better leverage private sources, and private in-kind support such as business mentorship.
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The international collaboration in this book creates a unique opportunity to establish, discuss and draw conclusions about fund-raising across nations. Based on the 26-country dataset provided by the authors in this volume, this chapter... more
The international collaboration in this book creates a unique opportunity to establish, discuss and draw conclusions about fund-raising across nations. Based on the 26-country dataset provided by the authors in this volume, this chapter describes and analyzes for the first time the diverse fund-raising environments around the world that are shaped by different historical, cultural, social, religious, political and economic conditions. It begins by noting the lack of research on fund-raisers and fund-raising in contrast to the extensive studies undertaken of donors and argues that the demand side of charitable transactions is worthy of greater attention if a complete and dynamic understanding of giving is to be achieved. It then presents and discusses key themes related to fund-raising in the countries represented in this book. A typology is suggested to impose order on the huge variety of fund-raising approaches and stages of development in the organization of this activity around the world; this typology also strengthens understanding of the connection between asking and giving. After offering suggestions for future research in this area of study, the chapter ends by noting that despite global differences in the evolution of fund-raising as a profession and the diversity of current contexts, fund-raisers in every country face shared challenges that would benefit from greater exchange of knowledge and best practices.
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Australia in a sense has two histories: that of its indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people based on a traditional culture of mutual dependence and reciprocal altruism (Turner, 1981) and the other from its 18th-century... more
Australia in a sense has two histories: that of its indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people based on a traditional culture of mutual dependence and reciprocal altruism (Turner, 1981) and the other from its 18th-century colonization as a British penal outpost. These colonial overtones have proved an abiding cultural force. A dominant government presence, British legal platform and ongoing sense that ‘the government will provide’ remain today (Liffman, 2008; McDonald & Scaife, 2011).
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‘Place’ and ‘community’ are gaining renewed prominence in philanthropy, coming together in new forms of place-based philanthropy as approaches that are systems-based, change-oriented and collaborative. While place signifies a locale that... more
‘Place’ and ‘community’ are gaining renewed prominence in philanthropy, coming together in new forms of place-based philanthropy as approaches that are systems-based, change-oriented and collaborative. While place signifies a locale that can be identified on a map, its integration with a participatory notion of community is generating a new rhetoric for philanthropic institutions that affects what they fund, how they fund, with whom, and how they view their responsibilities in communities beyond grantmaking (Easterling & Millesen, 2015; Ferris & Hopkins, 2015; Murdoch et al., 2007). Place-based philanthropy entails an inclusive view and active engagement of communities within a locale and an ‘intentional, strategic, long-term engagement’ in that locale (IVAR and Sheffield Hallam University, 2012) which invests in ‘collaborative partnerships to create, nurture, and sustain local and systemic changes’ (Fehler-Cabral, James, Preskill, & Long, 2016).
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While philanthropy is by no means the preserve of the wealthy, in an era when an increasingly disproportionate share of assets is accruing to the relative few (OECD 2011; Elliott 2015), wealthy individuals and families have become... more
While philanthropy is by no means the preserve of the wealthy, in an era when an increasingly disproportionate share of assets is accruing to the relative few (OECD 2011; Elliott 2015), wealthy individuals and families have become increasingly important. This report presents the findings of Giving Australia 2016 on philanthropy, with a particular focus on monetary giving by philanthropists and by philanthropic institutions including trusts, foundations and evolving forms of collective giving. It draws on various sources of data collected across Australia throughout the Giving Australia 2016 project.
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This report itself makes a contribution to the professional literature on giving and volunteering in Australia. While there is significant academic research into the nonprofit sector taking place across Australia’s universities, there is... more
This report itself makes a contribution to the professional literature on giving and volunteering in Australia. While there is significant academic research into the nonprofit sector taking place across Australia’s universities, there is little research that looks at the landscape of giving and volunteering at a particular point in time and then make comparisons with previous data. This synthesis of publicly available knowledge of the practices of giving of money, time, expertise, advocacy and other resources marks a turning point in our understanding of Australian giving and volunteering. This report also makes a contribution to the practice of giving and volunteering, particularly for nonprofit and charitable organisations. Professionals in the nonprofit sector have daily access to a flood of information covering all aspects of their operations. These reviews, in particular the summaries and the recommended reading lists, provide a reliable and impartial source of information for ...
Australians give their time and money to a diverse range of causes. This report provides evidence-based insights into the current state of giving and volunteering, trends, innovations and challenges for those interested in encouraging... more
Australians give their time and money to a diverse range of causes. This report provides evidence-based insights into the current state of giving and volunteering, trends, innovations and challenges for those interested in encouraging such behaviours for the good of the Australian and international community.
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In this article, we examine whether and how the institutional context matters when understanding individuals’ giving to philanthropic organizations. We posit that both the individuals’ propensity to give and the amounts given are higher... more
In this article, we examine whether and how the institutional context matters when understanding individuals’ giving to philanthropic organizations. We posit that both the individuals’ propensity to give and the amounts given are higher in countries with a stronger institutional context for philanthropy. We examine key factors of formal and informal institutional contexts for philanthropy at both the organizational and societal levels, including regulatory and legislative frameworks, professional standards, and social practices. Our results show that while aggregate levels of giving are higher in countries with stronger institutionalization, multilevel analyses of 118,788 individuals in 19 countries show limited support for the hypothesized relationships between institutional context and philanthropy. The findings suggest the need for better comparative data to understand the complex and dynamic influences of institutional contexts on charitable giving. This, in turn, would support ...
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... November 2008 dr Kym madden and dr Wendy sCaife ... bequests are a crucial income stream for nPos Charities regard bequest income as an important income stream. Indeed, some are heavily reliant upon it (Sargeant, Wymer, and Hilton,... more
... November 2008 dr Kym madden and dr Wendy sCaife ... bequests are a crucial income stream for nPos Charities regard bequest income as an important income stream. Indeed, some are heavily reliant upon it (Sargeant, Wymer, and Hilton, 2006). ...
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The 2010 Benchmarking Survey supports and extends results from 2005 and 2008. The 2010 survey was developed by taking into account participant feedback from 2008. With a view to provide the key information that participants want to know,... more
The 2010 Benchmarking Survey supports and extends results from 2005 and 2008. The 2010 survey was developed by taking into account participant feedback from 2008. With a view to provide the key information that participants want to know, the 2010 survey included more ...