This document provides information about the 6th Annual GiveWell Nonprofit Forum taking place on various dates in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. The forum focuses on building resilience in the nonprofit sector and features sessions on topics such as sector regulation, investment strategy, economic outlook, governance, risk management, leadership, partnerships, and operational efficiency. Speakers include government representatives, nonprofit leaders, and experts. Registration information is provided at the end.

1. Brisbane 20 June 2011
Sydney 21 June 2011
Melbourne 23 June 2011
6th Annual
givewell NONprOFIt FOruM
Building resilience in the third sector
WHO SHOuld attEnd? Sector Reform and Regulation: The National Not-for-Profit
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Chief Executives Regulator and the development of a capital market for social
Board Members economy organisations
Investment Committee
Investment Strategy: Setting investment policy to meet
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Development Managers
organisational objectives
Chief Financial Officers
Finance Managers Economic Outlook: How will the “new normal” economy impact
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on charitable giving and the business of nonprofit entities?
Strategic Governance and Risk Management: Building and
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maintaining an effective board
Partnering for success: Both with business and with other
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nonprofits for a shared service provision
Human Capital Management: Building a culture of
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innovation with limited resources

2. 8.00am Chris Leggett, Manager, Philanthropy
and Exemptions Unit, Treasury (Brisbane)
WHAT IS A FISH BOWL
Registration opens Facilitated by:
DISCUSSION? Ian Learmonth, Director, Social Finance,
8.30pm We will be placing our Social Ventures Australia
speakers and experts
Opening from the Chair at the heart of the 10.30am
audience, encouraging
Michael Walsh, Executive Director, all attendees to engage
Givewell Morning tea and networking
and actively participate in
the conversation.
8.35pm This style of facilitation will:
CAPACITY BUILDING
Opening Keynote • Encourage lively, intense and AND INVESTMENT
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal
focused discussion STRATEGY
• Keep the exchange fast-paced and
Minister for Human Services and Social
Inclusion (via video) highly relevant 10.50am
• Tease out fresh perspectives
Laying the foundation
FUTURE REGULATION • Challenge the traditional speaker/
for a social economy
audience dynamic
AND FUNDING Room layout: • Building capacity in the third sector
8.45am • Organisational mentoring;
programmes and outcomes
speakers
Presentation & discussion: • Robust planning through
audience
Steps towards a national financial sustainability
not-for-profit regulator: • Examining some case studies
What should be the goals, 9.25am Sandy Blackburn-Wright, Head of
scope and function of national Organisational Mentoring, Group
nonprofit regulation? Fishbowl discussion: Sustainability and Community,
Westpac (Brisbane, Sydney)
Looking in some more detail at the Future regulation and funding
scoping study being undertaken by of the third sector Julienne Price, Head of Social Sector
Treasury and PM&C, and an opportunity Banking, Westpac (Melbourne)
In this session we ask panelists to put
for attendees to make their voices heard.
their views forward, and then invite
the audience to join in the discussion
11.20am
Chris Leggett, Manager, Philanthropy
and Exemptions Unit, Treasury (Brisbane) using a “fishbowl” discussion format. Trends in consumer
Helen McDevitt, Office for the Not-for- Participants: spending and implications
Profit Sector, Department of the Prime
Tony Thirlwell OAM, CEO, National for charitable giving
Minister and Cabinet (Melbourne)
Heart Foundation NSW (Sydney and • Retiring baby boomers and rise of Gen Y
Martin Jacobs, Principal Adviser, Melbourne)
• Increase house price and mortgages
Personal and Retirement Income
Cameron Prout, CEO National Heart
Division, Treasury (Sydney) • Frugality – low retail sales etc.
Foundation QLD (Brisbane)
• Continued low returns
9.05am Les Hems, Director of Research,
Centre for Social Impact from investments
Towards a capital market for Belinda Drew, CEO, Forresters • Rise in Aus$ and business profits
social economy organisations: Community Finance
• Wage pressures – the mining boom
How should a capital market for Robert Pekin, CEO, Food Connect and shortage of skilled labour
social economy organisations
Steve Hawkins, Executive, The
operate? Benevolent Society (Brisbane, Sydney) Harry Cator, CEO, DMP Asset Management
Innovative Financing of the Nonprofit
Sector – a look at the current
Peter Winneke, Myer Family Company 11.50am
(Melbourne)
Senate Inquiry, and how it fits with Building a sustainable platform
Tamara Hartwich, Treasury (Sydney)
the Not-for-Profit Regulator.
Helen McDevitt, Department of Prime
– setting investment policy for
Les Hems, Director of Research, Minister & Cabinet (Melbourne) not-for-profits in 2011
Centre for Social Impact
Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Whether funding ongoing activities
Director, The Australian Centre for or providing the basis for long term
Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, development, a Not-for-profit’s
QUT (Brisbane)

3. investment pool requires careful LEADERSHIP AND In an engaging and challenging 30
management and consideration as to the minutes, two of the leaders in this area
objectives it serves. Using case studies, PARTNERSHIPS will provide a unique perspective on
we will explore the role of investment the tools, frameworks and approaches
strategy and setting in place the roadmap 2.00pm currently being used around the
for future management of the Not-for- world. This session will give you:
Beauty and the beast:
profit’s investment capital to ensure • The knowledge to approach impact
the sustainability of its endeavours.
nonprofit partnerships
measurement with confidence
with the private sector
Keith Drewery, Head of Family • The understanding of the strengths
Office and Wealth Services, It’s been proven that there’s considerable
and weaknesses of various approaches
Myer Family Company (Brisbane) value in cross sector partnering. Here we
consider how to form successful business • The ability to express the change you
Miles Collins, Manager, Investment make and turn that into enhanced
partnerships, and their value in the current
Research and Advisory, Myer fundraising ability (for NFPs)
climate of social responsibility and
Family Company (Sydney)
enterprise. • The certainty that your investment
Farren Williams, Investment Adviser, is delivering results (for investors)
Myer Family Company (Melbourne) Audette Exel is a unique and inspiring
player on the nonprofit scene. ISIS Jerry Marston, Director, Net Balance
12.20pm operates projects in Uganda and Nepal, Ross Wyatt, Associate Director, Net
funded entirely by the ISIS business based Balance
Maximising operational in Sydney. She joins us to share her ideas
efficiency around successful partnering. 3.00pm
In this session we look at case studies The Heart Foundation has long partnered
of not-for-profit organisations who with the private sector to achieve highly Coffee
have successfully re-organised mutually beneficial outcomes. We’re
their business systems, and pleased to welcome two of their CEOs STRATEGY & DIRECTION
found significant efficiencies. who share their experience of corporate
• Where do we find inefficiencies
relations and principles for success. 3.15pm
that can be resolved? Audette Exel, CEO and founder, Managing multiple risks
ISIS Asia Pacific (Sydney)
• Hard to base on size, often more about • What is Risk Management
the complexity of the existing systems Cameron Prout, CEO National Heart within an NFP context
Foundation QLD (Brisbane)
• Calculating the “true cost” of • Relevance and application of
individual programmes Tony Thirlwell, CEO National Heart Australian Standard ISO 3100
Foundation NSW (Melbourne) • How NFP’s should react from an
• Linking up fundraising, accounts,
implementation perspective
the CRM and the programmes 2.30pm • Case Studies
Trish Hall, CEO, Star Business Solutions
Knowing the change you make David Rosenbaum, Principal,
(Sydney, Melbourne)
Optimum NFP
Impact. It’s become one of the most
Joanne Collinson, Managing Director,
misused words in the community sector.
blueStar Business Solutions (Brisbane)
We are all striving to make an impact but
3.45pm
how certain are we that it has happened? Building an effective board;
12.50pm How much impact have we made? How
directing an effective
Lunch do we provide evidence that our work has
value? How do we engage supporters by
organisation
understanding impact rather than input? Who makes the best nonprofit board mem-
bers? Donors, experienced business peo-
ple or experienced nonprofit operators?
 WITH THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
How do we manage a voluntary nonprofit
board and ensure it is effective, responsive
and professionally run?
Duncan Peppercorn, Executive
Director, Social Ventures Australia,
Head of SVA Consulting
SUPPORTER
4.30pm
Networking and Drinks

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