Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres
May 29, 2011
Happy to pass on Infoxchange Australia advice that it is launching a ‘suite of cloud based applications aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the not-for-profit sector’. About The Cloud Apps AppPac4nfp brings together Microsoft’s cloud based CRM, collaboration […]
April 29, 2011
Question: What level of cultural and financial support is there out there for non Indigenous children who can speak an Aboriginal language to develop a possible career path in this area? Bearing in mind that the annual cost for a […]
April 20, 2011
Social Innovation Sydney will run one of their ‘Bar Camps’ as their first Social Innovation Startup Camp over Saturday May 7 and Sunday May 8, 2011. What Is A BarCamp? BarCamps are a way of meeting and build relationships with […]
March 29, 2011
There is an ongoing interest in PWF articles on CoHousing and Community Land Trusts. I’ve just heard a Radio National podcast with ‘Urban Coup’ , an initiative of a group of Melbournians who want to create not just housing, but […]
March 18, 2011
The content of the Closing the Gap report, 2011, has been called ‘underwhelming’…and it seems SOME insightful thinking on this issue just never sees the light of day, either in political circles it seems, or in mainstream media. Government Should […]
March 16, 2011
Connecting Up 2011 is about making technology accessible, understandable AND practical. Now in its seventh year the conference focuses on how nonprofits and charities can use technology to help them do what they do even better. About The Program Connecting […]
March 10, 2011
Commercial buildings are far more energy efficient than the residential sector according to data released at last week’s Green Cities 2011 Conference by property investment analyst IPD, AND commercial properties outperform non-rated buildings financially, reports The Age newspaper. Sustainability engineers […]
March 6, 2011
‘What does it take to make democracy work?’ What has happened to the civic organisations where citizens could once go to address shared challenges? Do civic organisations know HOW to work with citizens today? The US Kettering Foundation is tackling […]
February 18, 2011
There was a social innovation Learning Festival in Melbourne in late February – based on a systemic approach not a ‘mechanistic mental model’ such as World Cafe and Open Space. A Power Camp And A Love Camp.. In Adam Kahane’s […]
February 17, 2011
I see that Westpac Wonthaggi is running a free Cashflow Seminar for small businesses in Bass Coast Shire, Victoria. The question to be discussed is: “While my company generates great total annual revenues, we often find ourselves in month-to-month cash […]
February 16, 2011
Xris Reardon from Melbourne’s Third Way Theatre tells us Barbara Santos will run workshops in Brisbane for training in Aesthetics of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Barbara is the former General Manager for the Centre of Theatre of the Oppressed […]
February 10, 2011
Skilled Migrants NOT Finding Work? was posted on PWF in May 2008 and now, after 40 comments from all around the world, we’ve closed the comments section, BUT Dr Lech Keller-Krawczyk PhD (Monash), MA (Melbourne), BComm (Warsaw) has emailed us […]