This month in philanthropy: September 2024
Philanthropy Australia
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
Welcome to the latest edition of our gallery designed to showcase events, launches, project updates and activities happening in our busy member community.
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Gifts in wills: How can charities ensure that promised bequests are realised?
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
In this joint Q&A, Morgan Koegel and Rohani Bixler, two of the specialist speakers at Philanthropy Australia and Include a Charity’s Legacy Lunch in October, share some findings from the latest research on unfulfilled bequests. Ahead of their upcoming report, they provide valuable insights on the cost of ‘missing gifts’ and what charities and advisers can do to ensure a donor’s legacy achieves the impact that was intended.
GiveOUT’s Emily Scott on receiving her Churchill Fellowship
Emily Scott
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
Philanthropy Australia recently heard from two of the ‘bold change-makers’ who received 2024 Churchill Fellowships and will be enriching the sector with their international research. Here, fellow recipient Em Scott, CEO of GiveOUT, shares some of her plans for advancing LGBTIQ+ philanthropy in Australia – or ‘growing the pot of gold under the rainbow’.
Sector leaders among 103 ‘bold change-makers’ to receive Churchill Fellowships
Fri, 20 Sep 2024
A number of friends and colleagues of Philanthropy Australia have received 2024 Churchill Fellowships to do a study tour overseas. They include Erin Dolan, from the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, Bernadette Black AM, CEO of Seed Futures, who spoke at the 2023 Philanthropy Meets Parliament Summit in Canberra, and Em Scott, CEO of GiveOUT. Here, Erin and Bernadette share more on their study plans and how they hope the research will feed into their work across the sector.
2024 Philanthropy Australia Conference – concurrent sessions
Philanthropy Australia
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
Recordings of the concurrent sessions of the 2024 Philanthropy Australia Conference in Adelaide, 6 and 7 August 2024.
Stacey Thomas: ‘Truth-telling can be uncomfortable, but it is our work to do’
Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Stacey Thomas, CEO of The Wyatt Trust, delivered a powerful talk from the heart at the Philanthropy Australia Conference to a packed auditorium on reckoning with the past of the Trust and its founder, English colonial settler Dr William Wyatt. She spoke frankly about how his life impacted the lives of local First Nations peoples. Here, Stacey reflects on why it was important to deliver that speech to that audience and how she feels about the groundswell of feedback she’s received. She offers advice on how others can start their journey and where The Wyatt Trust, with its 138 years of history, goes next with theirs.
