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Australian Philanthropy is the official journal of Philanthropy Australia, and is uniquely placed to highlight developments, news and trends in the Australian philanthropic sector. Each issue highlights a specific theme of interest to the philanthropic sector, and also contains news, articles and profiles.

Note publishing of Australian Philanthropy is on hold with a planned re-launch in the second half of 2013.

Current Issue:82

Issue 82: Brave Philanthropy: Taking Risks and Testing Solutions

Brave Philanthropy: Taking Risks and Testing Solutions is the theme of our latest issue of Australian Philanthropy, Issue 82, Spring 2012.

Lisa Jordan, executive director of the Bernard van Leer Foundation wrote in Alliance magazine, (March 2012) "...taking risks is an inherent responsibility of organised philanthropy ... to use private money to try to solve intractable problems ... The question is, do we?" While foundations often explore and plan for financial risk in their investment management, there is little understanding of risk on the program side. "We have no forums where risk can be discussed ... and we rarely use the tools we have such as evaluation to help us understand the degree to which we have succeeded or failed."

The question of failure is a tricky one – it assumes we have identified a measure of achievement to be aimed for, and fallen short of that bar. But how many foundations have actually identified the impact they want to make in a given place or field, let alone measured success against those aims? If, on the other hand, the only true failure is a grant that nothing is learned from, why do many foundations inhibit the extent of their successes by not sharing the learnings? Issue 82 investigates whether Australian philanthropy does indeed take risks in its grant-making and learn from both its successes and failures.

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Adobe PDF File Innovation doesn't grow on trees – the art of finding and funding new solutions

By Brenton Caffin, CEO, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI)

The Australian Centre for Social Innovation works with people to create and spread new ways to lead better lives. We heard the call from the child protection system and in response we undertook a project to explore ways of preventing families fromb spiralling into crisis and to enable more families to thrive. The result was Family by Family.

Adobe PDF File Interview: Eda Ritchie

The R. E. Ross Trust, funding across Victoria, is one of the most innovative and respected foundations in the country, showing leadership across grant-making, communications and transparency. Eda Ritchie joined the Trust as trustee in 1997 and Louise Arkles asked her about the importance of risk-taking in philanthropy.

Adobe PDF File Interview: Dr Sam Prince

Picture this: a Scottish-born Australian doctor with Sri Lankan heritage running a chain of Mexican restaurants alongside his work in emergency medicine and doing aid work in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, and now in remote communities in the Northern Territory. Phew!
Dr Sam Prince lives this life – he’s a medical doctor, a business entrepreneur, and the founder of the charities Emagine Foundation and One Disease at a Time, and to top it off he’s not yet 30. Louise Arkles, editor of Australian Philanthropy, asked Sam Prince about his philanthropy and his approach to taking risks and testing solutions.

About Australian Philanthropy

Australian Philanthropy is the official journal of Philanthropy Australia, and is uniquely placed to highlight developments, news and trends in the Australian philanthropic sector. Each issue highlights a specific theme of interest to the philanthropic sector, and also contains news, articles and profiles. Recent issues include:

If you want to know what's relevant in Australia's philanthropic sector, you can't afford to miss Australian Philanthropy!

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Australian Philanthropy Archive

Issues of Australian Philanthropy are now being archived online through the PhilanthropyWiki.

Going back to 1983, we have the first edition of The Association of Australian Philanthropic Trusts Journal, through to its name change to Australian Philanthropy in 1989, through to our most recent editions.

Contents are listed on each edition's page, and we are working on scanning the older copies to make them available electronically, downloadable via their page on the Wiki. More recent editions are currently available to download in full by Members only (give us a call if you can't remember your username & password), as well as selected individual articles (which we hope to expand to cover more as time goes on).

Click here to browse all past & current editions of Philanthropy Australia's journal on the PhilanthropyWiki.

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Australian Philanthropy is distributed to members of Philanthropy Australia and to selected key policymakers and media representatives.

Non-members can subscribe to, or purchase individual copies of Australian Philanthropy via our Purchase Publications page.

Note publishing of Australian Philanthropy is on hold with a planned re-launch in the second half of 2013. Individual back issues are still available to purchase.

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