Podcasts of CSI speakers

Small Conversations on Big Topics

Listen in on a series of short informal presentations on big issues in social impact. Speakers are leaders in their fields and we thank them for their contribution to our ongoing debate.
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Corporate Responsibility	Demonstrating Social Impact	Management and Leadership
Philanthropy	Public Policy	Social Innovation
	The Third Sector

Corporate Responsibility

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Conscious Business
In this podcast, Associate Professor Gianni Zappala is interviewed about the first of a series of papers on Conscious Business.

View Gianni's paper 'Spirituality is the new Black'.

Gianni Zappala

May 2009

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After the GFC: the future of CSR
In this podcast Peter Shergold assesses what the global financial crisis tells us about the character of corporate social responsibility. He contemplates whether, and in what form, CSR will survive.

Peter Shergold

April 2009

Length: 11.06 minutes

Demonstrating Social Impact

Presentation Description	Presenter	Date	Podcast
Measuring the return on social investment In this podcast, Prof Göran Roos introduces the topic of measuring the return on social investment and the relationship this has to stakeholder identification and prioritisation. Prof Roos is Honorary Professor at Warwick Business School in the UK.	Göran Roos	Nov 2008	Loading... Length: 5.58 minutes

Management and Leadership

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Management, not leadership

In this podcast Jon Huggett shines a light on back management, not just leadership, as critical to scaling nonprofits and running scale NGOs. He wonders if the current focus on "social entrepreneurs" has created a cult of "heroic leaders" at the top of their hierarchies, rather than effective managers who can support their heroic front-line workers.

Jon Huggett

Oct 2009

Length: 9.09 minutes

Philanthropy

Presentation Description	Presenter	Date	Podcast
The Edna McConnell Clarke Foundation's capacity building initiative In this podcast, Woodrow McCutcheon talks about an experiment in grantmaking that the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has carried out, involving the provision of funding for high-performance nonprofits with a focus on financial support for administrative activities. Woodrow "Woody" McCutcheon, Portfolio Manager, has more than 25 years of experience in small business management, technical assistance and youth development.	Woodrow McCutchen	Sept 2008	Loading... Length: 3.55 minutes

Public Policy

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Manners in which government and political leadership can enhance volunteering In this podcast Dr Debbie Haski-Leventhal outlines the myriad of ways in which governments can support volunteers and organisations that rely on them, improving volunteerability, recruitability and accessibility.	Dr Debbie Haski-Leventhal	April 2009	Loading... Length: 5.46 minutes
Exercising leadership in a shared power world In this podcast, Prof Paul 't Hart briefly introduces the subjects of collaboration and government-nonprofit relations. He discusses the use of role play to help bring mutual understanding between two very different sectors.	Paul 't Hart	Nov 2008	Loading... Length: 5.24 minutes
Government and the third sector In this podcast Prof Geoff Mulgan muses on the complex relationship between governments and civil society. He considers how to open up public services and the potential danger of scale and looks at more flexible and responsive approaches to working with local community organisations as a means of promoting social innovation. Prof Mulgan is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University and a visiting fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.	Geoff Mulgan	Sept 2008	Loading... Length: 3.47 minutes
The contracting-out of governance services in the United States In this podcast Prof Steven Rathgeb-Smith talks of the challenges presented to governments, public services and not-for-profit organisations by the contracting out of public programs. His summary of the American experience is highly relevant to Australia. Professor Smith is Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle and the faculty director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy.	Steven Rathgeb Smith	Sept 2008	Loading... Length: 8.02 minutes

Social Innovation

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A new approach to public innovation In this podcast Charles Leadbeater reflects on radically new approaches to public innovation that move beyond the ‘industrial public sector' of the past. He speaks about regarding the recipients of programs as principals able to promote their own solutions to social problems and the centralising of relationships to improving outcomes. Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and collaborative creativity who has worked as a senior advisor to government and business.	Charles Leadbeater	Sept 2008	Loading... Length: 10.37 minutes

The Third Sector

Presentation Description	Presenter	Date	Podcast
Raising capital in tough times In this podcast Jon looks around the world to see how nonprofits raise capital in tough times.	Jon Huggett	Oct 2009	Loading... Length: 5.55 minutes
The pub test, the radio test, the granny test In this podcast Jon invites you, or your organisation, to take the pub test, the radio test, and the granny test. If you cannot pass these tests, your organisation may find it hard to raise money.	Jon Huggett	Oct 2009	Loading... Length: 7.06 minutes
The distinctiveness of nonprofit enterprise In this podcast Peter Shergold identifies seven distinctive features of nonprofit enterprise. He argues that the private and nonprofit sector have much to learn from each others' challenges.	Peter Shergold	April 2009	Loading... Length: 14.27 minutes
The importance of capacity building in the nonprofit sector In this podcast Peter Shergold discusses why nonprofit enterprises need to strengthen their organisational capacity. Dr Shergold is the Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact.	Peter Shergold	April 2009	Loading... Length: 9.57 minutes
Challenges for nonprofit contracted to deliver government services In this podcast Peter Shergold reflects on the success of nonprofit organisations in winning contracts to deliver government programs. He identifies six key challenges that winning tenderers face.	Peter Shergold	April 2009	Loading... Length: 11.56 minutes
Myths in the third sector Prof Mark Lyons argues that the current view of many in the public and third sector - that governments are regularly outsourcing services through competitive tendering - is merely a misrepresentation of the traditional system of government subsidisation for nonprofits.	Mark Lyons	April 2009	Loading... Length: 8.28 minutes