Policy & Economics

Challenging Existing Frameworks for Price Indexation in Australian Human Services Procurement: Achieving Sustainability, 2023

Queensland’s Community Services Funding Indexation An Estimate for the 2023-2024 Budget Year

Queensland’s Cost Indexation for Government Purchasing of Human Services, 2023

Western Australia's 2022 Sustainable Funding Survey Report. A report for the Western Australia Council for Social Services, 2023

Tasmania's Cost Indexation for Government Purchasing of Community Services, 2022

Tasmania's Community Services Industry: Sustainability and Market Failure Risk, 2022

The Challenge of Sustainability: Queensland's Not-for-profit sector and the Impact of Growing Financial Pressures. A Report for the Queensland Council of Social Service, 2022

Value of Queensland's Not-for-profit Sector: Its sustainability and economic contribution. A report for the Queensland Council of Social Services, 2021

Human Services Data Assets Project: An Initial Review of the 2018 ACNC Dataset & Other Data Sources. 2020 

Understanding the Economic Value of the Charitable Human Services Sector in Western Australia: An Initial Review of the 2018 ACNC Dataset & Other Data Sources.

Value of the Not-for-profit Sector 2020: The Second Examination of the Economic Contribution of the Not-for-profit Human Services Sector in the Northern Territory. A Report for the Northern Territory Council of Social Service, Darwin, Australia. August 2020

WA’s Not-for-profit Landscape 2020: The Second Report on WA Charities. October 2020

NDIS & Disability Services

Six Years and Counting – NDIS White Paper

Six Years and Counting: The NDIS and the Australian Disability Service System. A White Paper 2019.

Six Years and Counting – NDIS Green Paper

NDIS Green Paper 1: Data Assets, Efficiency and the NDIS. 2020

NDIS Green Paper 2: Deliberations on the NDIS Housing Market and Accommodation Provisions. 2020

NDIS Green Paper 3: Proxies for Risk – A First Line of Defence. 2020

NDIS Green Paper 4: Demand, Supply & the NDIS—A Matter of Words? 2021

NDIS Green Paper 5: NDIS Industry Literature Summary. A Review of the Collection of Industry, Government and Academic Reports. 2021

NDIS Green Paper 6: Cost Differentials, Cost Pressures & Labour Competition Impacting Western Australian Disability Service Delivery

NDIS Parliamentary & Government Submissions

Developing a new NDIS Agreement between Western Australia and the Commonwealth: Submission to the WA Government. 2022

Submission to consultation on NDIS Thin Markets. ARC Linkage Team. 2019

NDIS National Roll Out: Overview of Major Issues. 2018

NDIS Issues Overview Adapting to Build and Utilise What Works. 2018

NDIS Collaborations, Mergers & Acquisitions

Research Report: Market Design and Evolution for Better Outcomes. Findings from Investigation of Mergers of Disability Service Providers. July 2018

NDIS Accounting, Finance & Markets

Australia’s Disability Services Sector 2019 The National Performance Benchmark Project – Report 3: Summary of Key Findings May 2019.

NDS Disability Services Market Report 2018: The business confidence and financial sustainability of the disability service sector. 2018

Australia’s Disability Services Sector 2018 The National Performance Benchmark Project – Report 3: Summary of Key Findings December 2018

Disability Services Market Report 2018. A Report for National Disability Services, Canberra.

NDIS Policy Reports

Market Capacity Framework: An Approach for Identifying Thin Markets in the NDIS. A report developed by the Centre for Social Impact, Sydney. 2019

Working Papers

The 2021 NDIS Pricing Review: Western Australian Costs Assessment – Drivers of Cost Increases

NFP Finances

Decision Usefulness: A re-examination of the information needs of nonprofit GPFR users, Gilchrist, West and Zhang. 2021

Earnings Management in Australian Not-for-Profit Disability Services, Gilchrist, Etheridge and Liu. 2021

The Not-for-Profit Balance Sheet: A Resource for Directors and CEOs, A Report for the Not-for-Profit Sector Banking Team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd, Sydney, Australia. 2020

Issues Paper: Better Financial Reporting for Australian NFPs. A report developed by Baxter Lawley. 2018

Annual NFPs UWA Summit Reports

Regulation of the Not-for-profit Sector. Regulation and the Contemporary Not-for-profit: A summit The Hon Robert French AC. University of Western Australia, Perth. 26 November 2018.

Report on Regulation and the Contemporary Not-for-profit Based on the Proceedings of a Summit held at The University of Western Australia on 26 November 2018.

Managing NFP Performance

Outcomes: Research Into Practice: Working Paper 5. A report of the National Outcomes Measurement Research Agenda for Grant Thornton Australia. 2020

Outcomes: Research Into Practice: Working Paper 4 – An Organisational Outcomes Framework. A report of the National Outcomes Measurement Research Agenda for Grant Thornton Australia. 2018

Outcomes: Research Into Practice: Working Paper 3 – Sector Practice & Policy Issues. A report of the National Outcomes Measurement Research Agenda for Grant Thornton Australia. 2018

Outcomes: Research Into Practice: Working Paper 2. A report of the National Outcomes Measurement Research Agenda for Grant Thornton Australia. 2017

Outcomes: Research Into Practice: Working Paper 1. A report of the National Outcomes Measurement Research Agenda for Grant Thornton Australia. 2016

Collaboration, Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions

John Butcher & David J. Gilchrist: "Collaboration for Impact: Lessons from the Field" (ANU Press) (2020) - Free Download

The Sum of the Parts: Collaborations and Strategic Restructuring in the Australian Charities Sector Industry Research Report. June 2019

Multiparty Collaboration for Public Benefit Discussion Paper 4: Towards a collaborative practice. June 2018

Multiparty Collaboration for Public Benefit Discussion Paper 3: Building relationships and trust. June 2018

Multiparty Collaboration for Public Benefit Discussion Paper 2: Characterising collaboration. June 2018

Multiparty Collaboration for Public Benefit Discussion Paper 1: Contextualising collaboration. June 2018

John Butcher & David J. Gilchrist: "The Three Sector Solution: Delivering Public Policy in Collaboration with Nonprofits & Business" (ANU Press) (2016) - Free Download

The Three Sector Solution: Delivering public policy in collaboration with not-for-profits and business.

Regulation & Governance

Board Performance and Governance in Small Not-for-profits: Report for Participants. 2022

Looking at the Charitable Purposes/Activities Distinction Through a Political Advocacy Lens: A Trans-Tasman Perspective. 2019

Board Performance and Governance in Small Not-for-Profits: Report for Participants. 2018

Report for WA Charities - Building Resilience: Utilising Restricted Reserves

Guidance Materials for WA Charities - Building Resilience: Utilising Restricted Reserves 

Contributions & Impact

ANZTSR Submission - Productivity Commission Review of Philanthropy May 2023

See Me, Know Me: Building Trust and Sustainability in the NDIS. 2022

Focus on Purpose: What does a world-leading framework of charities look like? Charities Law Reform. 2022

Giving Back: A snapshot of Chartered Accountants' contribution to the not-for-profit in Australia and New Zealand. CAANZ. 2021

Response to the Treasury Threshold Working Group 2021

Council of Regional Disability Organisations NDIS 2021-22 Annual Pricing Review

Not-for-profit Cash Reserves: NFP Insight. CAANZ. 2020

Remunerating Not-for-profit Directors. NFP Insight. CAANZ. 2020

Mergers, Amalgamations & Acquisitions in the Australian Not-For-Profit Human Services Sector. A Joint Research Report by RMIT University & CPA Australia. 2020

NDS Submission: NDIS 2021-22 Annual Pricing Review

NDS NDIS 2021-22 Annual Pricing Review WA Comments: Briefing Note

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