PHILANTHROPY'S FUTURE IN THE SMART STATE PROJECT
Queensland Community Foundation has embarked on an ambitious
research project to identify priorities for future areas of
funding and activity. This project will be of immense value, not
only to the Foundation, but also to the Queensland charity and
community sector generally.
The project which culminates in a report, due out in November
2005, will be a comprehensive review of philanthropic funding
needs of Queensland nonprofit organisations. The project will
assist Queensland Community Foundation to decide how to place its
discretionary general fund disbursements for the ensuing five
years. The Report also will be published as a "free to all"
document to enable the Foundation's Named Funds, nonprofit
organisations generally and other philanthropic organisations and
individuals to use the research for their own purposes.
It is hoped that this will be one of the most exhaustive and
inclusive studies of philanthropic funding needs for the charity
sector ever carried out in Queensland. Experts associated with the
QUT Centre of Philanthropy will conduct the research for the
Foundation. In a cooperative process, they also will tap into, and
be guided by, the experience and knowledge of many Queensland
charities, nonprofits and philanthropic foundations.
It's important to note that the Community Foundation's existing
corporate sponsors will meet the cost of this blueprint for the
future. It will be an additional commitment to their normal
support for the Foundation. Those sponsors are Anglo Coal
Australia, QIC and The Public Trustee Office.
On April 7 the Honourable Mike Ahern and Dr Myles McGregor
Lowndes OAM launched the project at a luncheon held in the offices
of QIC. Board members of QCF were on hand to answer any questions
regarding the project. It was also an opportunity to meet the two
facilitators for the project - Dr Linda Griffith and Dr Daniel
McDiarmid.
Mike Ahern stressed the important role that the charities,
nonprofit organisations and the peak bodies in the sector have to
play in this research through the dissemination of information
about the seminars, surveys, focus groups and launch of the
findings of the project.
Seminar 1 - 13 April 2005
Seminar 2 - 18 May 2005
Seminar 3 - 22 June 2005
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