Tax Law for NFPs Guide
Tax Law for NFPs explained
Our Community has made available an online outline of Australian tax law and legal structures to provide a simple, general explanation and guide for Australian NFPs. It includes some helpful diagrams. Click here to access the page.
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Defining Volunteering
What makes a Volunteer?
Volunteering Australia has released a definition of volunteering: volunteering is time willingly given for the common good and without financial gain. Explanatory notes can be found here.
Other recent articles on this topic include: Calling all Volunteers – What’s in a Name? (Probono Australia), Charities Working Overseas Dominate Volunteers – Report (Probono Australia) and How to: Assess whether a volunteer is actually an employee (Moores)
Read MoreWorking with other organisations
NFP Law Information Hub: Working with others
NFP Law Information Hub has recently added a new section Working With Other Organisations. This includes helpful information on auspicing, MOUs, joint ventures and partnerships, and amalgamation and mergers.
Read more here: http://nfplaw.org.au/workingwithothers
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Checklist for NFP Administrators
ATO CHECKLIST FOR NFP ADMINISTRATORS
The ATO has developed a very helpful new checklist to help not-for-profits hand over their tax affairs to a new administrator. The Handover checklist: not-for-profit administrators also provides a helpful list for current administrators. It covers the following topics: registrations, legal structure, tax concessions, your workers, reporting and paying tax, and record keeping.
Read MoreImplementing Volunteering Standards
Volunteering Australia’s online tool
Volunteering Australia has launched a new online tool that organisations can use to implement the National Standards for Volunteer Involvement. The online tool streamlines the process — simply complete the online self-assessments and it tells you what additional actions your organisation needs to take to achieve compliance with the National Standard.
Access it at: www.volunteeringaustralia.org
Read MoreThinking Big: To merge or not to merge – that is the question
Considering Mergers?
Thinking Big: To merge or not to merge – that is the question is a new helpful guide for charities and not-for-profits considering mergers.
Read MoreThe 10 Steps of Crisis Communications
Crisis Communications
A guide to addressing communication issues in managing a crisis from Jonathan Bernstein, read it here.
Read MoreACNC Webinars
The ACNC is now providing regular online training sessions for charities through their webinars. Check back often to see when new ones are posted, and if you’ve missed any videos and presentation slides of completed webinars are also available for download.
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Guide to Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of Interest; A Good Practice Guide has been produced by the Northern Ireland Audit Office, but is very relevant to the Australian context and may help your organisation better manage real or potential conflicts of interest.
Read MoreThe (Australian) Journey towards long-term missionary Service
Richard Hibbert (SMBC), Evelyn Hibbert (Sydney College of Divinity), and Tim Silberman (SMBC) have published a study of the factors that are influential in current missionaries’ decisions to serve God long-term. They discovered that the three key influences in the decision to become long-term missionaries were: meeting missionaries and other missions-minded people; participating in short-term mission trips; and being exposed to the world and its needs.
The full article, published in Missiology: An International Review, can be found here.
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