This week’s Pro Bono News cartoon. The ideas came from Karen Mahlab’s (founder of Pro Bono Australia) blog post ‘The social economy – working towards the common good’. As the intro to the post says: There is a noticeable shift from purely profit-driven capitalism towards integrated social citizenship, which is happening in Australia and around the world, writes Karen Mahlab in her latest blog.
Today’s NFP Kneebone cartoon for Pro Bono, the not-for-profits on-line hub news page.
Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon following this week’s Four Corners (ABC TV) investigation into the payday loans industry. Read more on the Pro Bono website here.
This week’s NFP Kneebone cartoon for the Pro Bono news website:
Australian’s are told they will have to do ‘the heavy lifting’ to get the budget out of deficit. In this political climate many not-for-profit community organisations face uncertain funding – and futures.
Posts on the Pro Bono news website give plenty of background, and here’s the NFP Kneebone cartoon from the website.
‘Prime Minister Tony Abbott has placed the abolition of the charity regulator, the ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission) on the top of his repeal day hit list describing the process as the biggest bonfire of regulations in the country’s history’ writes the Pro Bono news website post ACNC In Repeal Day Bonfire. Social Services minister Kevin Andrews has introduced a Two-stage Plan to Abolish ACNC, removing ‘unnecessary regulatory control’ and directing the sector to ‘self-manage’.
9500 other ‘unproductive regulations’ are also to be abolished. Hey, who needs government?
There are many young people with disabilities living in nursing homes. The new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) promises a great step forward for supporting people with disabilities getting on with their lives. However, as this Pro Bono News post explains, it will not help those young people in aged care nursing homes as there is already a lack of suitable and affordable housing for all young people with disabilities. Research has found that ’53 per cent of young people in residential aged care received a visit from a friend less than once a year’.
Here is my cartoon for the Pro Bono website:
Here is today’s Pro Bono News cartoon.
The not-for-profit sector is set to do it tough under our new conservative government. The government has said it will abolish the charities regulator (ACNC), and the minister in charge of the new Disability Care (NDIS) is not in the cabinet. Read more here.
On the bright side, the UN World Happiness Report has ranked Australia in 10th place. Read the Pro Bono article here.
Pro Bono Australia publishes the Guide to Giving, Australia’s directory of Charities and Not for Profit Organisations.
They are Australia’s leading online News Service for the Not for Profit Sector, along with charity jobs and volunteer opportunities, events, and a directory of specialist suppliers for charities.
Pro Bono News has a weekly Kneebone cartoon take on an aspect of the Not For Profit sector. Click on the NFP Kneebone panel on the Pro Bono news page (or on the one below) to see this week’s cartoon.
Here are a couple of earlier cartoons:
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