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Harnessing the power of client feedback
Harnessing the power of client feedback
  • Quarterly article
Harnessing the power of client feedback Organisational effectiveness

A good client feedback system helps improve both client outcomes and financial sustainability. What does it look like and how does the disability sector stack up?

  • Disability
  • Health and wellbeing
Funding their vision: organisations share their stories
  • Quarterly article
Funding their vision: organisations share their stories Impact investing

Four very different social purpose organisations describe how social impact investing has provided a flexible, mission-aligned and supportive approach to funding their vision – often to their surprise.

  • Health and wellbeing
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Employment
Strategy: to consult, inform or simply wing it?
  • Quarterly article
Strategy: to consult, inform or simply wing it? Strategy

Malcolm Garrow explores the importance of being intentional about who to engage in the strategy development process, and offers guidance on how to do it well.

  • Charities and social sector
Why STEM practices should be taught across the entire curriculum
  • Quarterly article
Why STEM practices should be taught across the entire curriculum Research report

If the Australian workforce is to be prepared for the future, science technology engineering and mathematics practices must be embedded across the entire curriculum, according to a report commissioned by SVA.

  • Education
Networking for social purpose: what’s needed?
  • Quarterly article
Networking for social purpose: what’s needed? Collaboration

Networking and collaboration are increasingly important for achieving social change. SVA’s successful model – in education – points to the core elements needed for growing an effective network.

  • Education
How to grow impact investing
  • Quarterly article
How to grow impact investing Impact investing

What will it take for the Australian impact investing market to flourish? Brendan Ferguson takes a comprehensive look at the challenges and ways to overcome them.

  • Charities and social sector
The cost of dying
  • Quarterly article
The cost of dying Systems change

How do you address the costly business of funerals for those that can’t afford them? SVA and a host of unlikely partners might just have nailed it with an initiative tackling both funeral costs and the way people save.

  • Charities and social sector
How to reduce child poverty in Australia
  • Quarterly article
How to reduce child poverty in Australia Research report

New research from the Australian National University has SVA and Brotherhood of St Laurence calling on the government to raise income support rates given the current levels predict dire outcomes for children and families relying on social security payments.

  • Early Years
How culture grows effective outcomes
  • Quarterly article
How culture grows effective outcomes Outcomes management, Strategy

Te Whānau O Waipareira is working with SVA Consulting to build an outcomes management culture and strategy to measure what really matters for Māori families in West Auckland.

  • First Nations