TY - CHAP
T1 - Champions for Charities
T2 - Exploring Inclusive Leadership in the Non-profit Sector in Australia
A2 - Smith-Ruig, Theresa
A2 - Adapa, Sujana
A2 - Sheridan, Alison
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In 2011, the Australian Government announced a range of measures to reform the non-profit sector in Australia, including the creation of the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission (ACNC).The nonprofit sector in Australia comprises more than 60,000 charities (ACNC 2014). According to the Productivity Commission (2010), Australia's non-profit sector is the sixth largest in the world, after the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Israel and the United States, and is larger than the nonprofit sector in the United Kingdom and many European countries. According to the ACNC Report for 2015 (ACNC 2016), non-profits had a total income of over $134 billion, representing 8.3% of Australia's gross domestic product (GDP); donations to the sector totalled $11.2 billion; charities employed more than 1.2 million people, representing 10% of Australia's workforce; and there were approximately three million volunteers involved in the sector.
AB - In 2011, the Australian Government announced a range of measures to reform the non-profit sector in Australia, including the creation of the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission (ACNC).The nonprofit sector in Australia comprises more than 60,000 charities (ACNC 2014). According to the Productivity Commission (2010), Australia's non-profit sector is the sixth largest in the world, after the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Israel and the United States, and is larger than the nonprofit sector in the United Kingdom and many European countries. According to the ACNC Report for 2015 (ACNC 2016), non-profits had a total income of over $134 billion, representing 8.3% of Australia's gross domestic product (GDP); donations to the sector totalled $11.2 billion; charities employed more than 1.2 million people, representing 10% of Australia's workforce; and there were approximately three million volunteers involved in the sector.
KW - Organisation and Management Theory
KW - Human Resources Management
KW - Public Policy
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-60666-8_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-60666-8_2
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783319606651
SN - 9783319606668
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Leadership and Followership
SP - 21
EP - 42
BT - Inclusive Leadership : Negotiating Gendered Spaces
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -