Submission to Productivity Commission: Research Study on the NFP Sector

Click here to download Voice for SONG's submission to Productivity Commission: Research Study on the NFP Sector.

The Networked Nonprofit

“Management wisdom says that nonprofits must be large and in charge to do the most good. But some of the world’s most successful organisations instead stay small, sharing their load with like-minded, long-term partners. The success of these networked nonprofits suggests that organisations should focus less on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.” Quoted from “The Networked Non-Profit “ by Jane Wei-Skillern and Sonia Marciano in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2007.

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Caught in the Middle: What Small, Non-profit Organizations Need to Survive and Flourish

Canadian paper about the struggles for small community organizations, by Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI).

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Think Local: a new WSCF / SONG Booklet

This is a new WSCF and Voice For Song partnership publication.

Why are local community organisations important to healthy democratic communities? Think Local is a short dynamic encapsulation of our values – an essential resource for every community worker and management committee member. The Booklet identifies the many attributes of local small organisations, their contribution to social capital and financial economies and current opportunities for local organisations. It ask us to record the stories of some of the innovative work we do to add to the rich body of evidence of the importance of our work.

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