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March 2, 2010
Graduate Certificate | Yakety Yak | Jonty Olliff-Cooper | Muhammad Yunus
Decision Making for Third Sector Executives | Social Return on Investment
Graduate Certificate in Social Impact commences this semester
The Graduate Certificate in Social Impact commences this semester at UNSW, Melbourne Business School and Swinburne University of Technology. To date, 50 scholarships will be offered over the next five years.
Responses have been encouraging, with the program full at UNSW and the first course over-subscribed at MBS.
Thanks to our investors - AMP, Chief Executive Women, Clayton Utz, Louise Gourlay, MBS Alumni, Macquarie Group Foundation, NAB, Pricewaterhouse
'Yakety Yakking' about social enterprise with Audette Exel
Audette Exel, ISIS Group co-founder and CEO of ISIS Asia Pacific spoke about her transition from banking and finance to setting up a social enterprise which supports women and children in poverty in Nepal and Uganda.
Audette spoke candidly about her passion for helping people in need, the lessons she has learned along the way, and the importance of her legal and banking experience in teaching her how power, money and capital works.
Thanks to Pricewaterhouse
Jonty Olliff-Cooper visits Australia
The Head of the Progressive Conservativism project at Demos, Jonty Olliff-Cooper was brought to Australia by CSI in February to speak at a number of events including the CSI/CISCO Australia & New Zealand Public Sector Summit.
Jonty talked about issues of engaging citizens in policy formulation and the need for new ways to deliver government services. Jonty is a Senior Researcher at Demos in the UK. His work focuses on community, childhood, welfare reform and public service innovation. Before joining Demos, Jonty was an adviser to the UK Conservative Party's Policy Unit.
- Listen to Jonty's interview with Radio National's Fran Kelly about Progressive Conservatism.
- Read Jonty's bio.
Muhammad Yunus to talk on abolishing poverty - March 8 and 9
We are delighted that Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus will talk at two public events on 'Abolishing Poverty - The Human Rights Priority', next Monday March 8 in Sydney and Tuesday March 9 in Melbourne.
Professor Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, fuelled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. Grameen Bank has lifted millions out of poverty by disbursing $6.6bn in millions of tiny loans to the poor. This concept of microcredit is now a mainstream strand in dealing with poverty.
Limited places still available.
- Sydney event session now closed
- Read more about Melbourne event.
Decision making for third sector executives course - March 24, Sydney
Do you want to learn how to improve decision making in your organisation? Presented by Jon Huggett, this executive course will show you how your teams can make better decisions more efficiently and how this can improve the culture of your organisation. Scholarships are available.
It will be particularly useful for executives in organisations where decision-making is shared: with other executives, among employees, and with the board.
Introduction to Social Return on Investment (SROI) executive course - March 24, Sydney & April 7, Perth
With the increasing interest in measuring social value creation, we are offering an introductory executive course In Social Return on Investment (SROI) in both Sydney and Perth.
SROI is an approach to understanding and managing the impacts of a project, organisation or policy. Based on stakeholders, it puts financial value on the important impacts identified by stakeholders that do not have market values.
This course is for leaders and managers from the third sector and social investment sectors who want to understand the scope of SROI and impact mapping, and how to apply the principles within their own organisations.
It will be led by Jeremy Nicholls - Di
Read about our SROI accredited training courses in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
Measuring Social Impact is a key focus area for CSI in 2010, so stay tuned for more related news and events.