Not for profit sector goes national
Leaders of Australia’s 700,000 non profit organisations have met in Canberra to plan on becoming a more effective force nationally in the face of Government review and reform agenda.
They represented philanthropy,welfare, overseas aid and many other non profit endeavours which in 2006-07 employed 884,000 people or 8.2% of Australians in employment.
They had an income of over $74 billion and engaged with more than 2.4 million volunteers.
David Thompson, chair of the National Roundtable of Non Profit Organisations, said the need to find a collective voice had arisen from the Government’s plan to form a National Compact, and through other measures on its reform agenda.
“We must take our place at the table as the Government considers major policy issues.”
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