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The Quarterly shares insights from our work and across the sector, to prompt learning and discussion about effective practice.

This story from the field demonstrates how Lifeline Australia brought the beneficiary voice and experience into developing a text-based, crisis support service.

The right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination has significant implications for evaluating policies and programs that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and experts are showing the way.

Elyse Sainty’s letter from the frontline of Australia’s foray into social impact bonds in which she outlines her ‘thoughts and prayers’ for their future. Part 2.

After seven years ‘in the trenches’ as part of Australia’s foray into social impact bonds, Elyse Sainty shares her insights around SIB myths and legends.

Seven observations from a review of initiatives that have replicated their model to increase social impact.

SVA’s incoming CEO, Suzie Riddell, asks Goodstart how, as a social enterprise, it balances its commercial and social goals; and what role influencing the system plays in meeting its purpose.

What the Indigenous student mentoring organisation, AIME Mentoring’s CEO, Jack Manning Bancroft can teach us about founding and scaling a social purpose organisation and the philanthropy needed. Jack talks to SVA’s Dave Williams.

A growing emphasis on rich theories of change, being pragmatic about data, and clever valuing of outcomes has put SROI at the forefront of accounting for what really matters.

This guide for setting up an outcomes management approach is drawn from Managing to Outcomes: A guide to developing an outcomes focus.