‘Tis the season to be planning… or budgeting… or … wandering …Summer holidays already seem a year ago and the planning and budgeting season is no longer something that’s coming ‘next year’. It’s that time of the year where we typically all try to keep business as...
It’s a jungle out there. The Australian Not-for-Profit sector is crowded, with over 600,000 NFPs in operation. That’s 1 for every 38 Australians. We have more NFPs than we do emus.Many consider the sector to be at the point of over-saturation, the not-for-profit model...
When it comes to Not for Profit sustainability, Boards, leaders, researchers, consultants and think tanks alike are often engaged in a limited conversation that starts and ends with funding models. This closed loop thinking is made so by planning practices that ignore...
“Process Improvement is something we always look forward to.” – Said no one. Ever. This activity involves intense attention to detail, serious time-consumption and a healthy dose of staff push-back. The acknowledged cost savings reaped from Process...
One the eve of Movember’s $22.3m Australian Mental Health Initiative announcement, I sat down to reflect on the way that funding has changed over recent years, and how this in turn is increasing impact. Spark Strategy is humbled to be involved in one of the winning...