SVA Quarterly

Lisa Fowkes unearths insights that suggest we should be talking about class and economic mobility in Australian workplaces. The reasons are not just because family background shouldn’t dictate our fortunes, but because of the economic benefits of more inclusive practices. Read the full article here: https://www.socialventures.org.au/our-impact/we-need-to-talk-about-class/

SVA's specialists in mergers, Irmke Bonte and Divya Roy, explore whether you should consider a not-for-profit merger with four questions that boards and leadership should ask themselves. These questions reflect the focus on impact: understanding how you make impact and how your impact could be increased. Read the article https://www.socialventures.org.au/our-impact/the-four-questions-to-ask-when-c...

Stephanie Chiang outlines how making integration efforts effective in the long term requires investment in people, infrastructure and systems. This invisible work, called the 'glue' is fundamental to successful outcomes. Read the article: https://www.socialventures.org.au/our-impact/making-integration-stick-investing-in-the-glue/

Sue Cridge, founding director of The Connection, an SVA incubated venture developing educational leadership capacity, shares what drives her, how The Connection started and some of the moving highlights from its 10-year journey. She also speaks of its potential now it has transferred to The Smith Family. To read her article about The Connection's journey, go to: https://www.socialventures.org.au/o...

Tom Hall, Global Head of social impact and philanthropy at UBS talks with SVA’s CEO Suzie Riddell about how to catalyse the impact investing market, sharing stories from the global market and opportunities in Australia. See www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/powering-up-the-impact-investing-market/

At SVA’s summit into impact at scale, three leaders in social change in Australia and the UK shared their insights into what it takes to create impact at scale? The speakers are: - Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, UK National Health Service Confederation  - Kristy Muir, Chief Executive Officer, Paul Ramsay Foundation  - Cindy Reese Mitchell, Program Director for Indigenous Women’s Entrepre...

Dr Neela Saldanha, Executive Director, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation & Scale (Y-RISE), visited Australia on the invitation of SVA to give the keynote address at our summit on impact at scale. She explained why successful pilots often don’t achieve the same results ‘at scale’ and provided questions to consider when expanding a change program. View the slides referred to in the podcast: htt...

Elyse Sainty, director in the Impact Investing team at Social Ventures Australia, spoke with Patrick Flynn, director of public affairs at SVA, as she’s about to pass on the baton after 10 years leading SVA’s work in social impact bonds (SIBs) and outcomes contracts. https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/outcomes-contracting-trailblazer-shares-knowledge-before-passing-the-baton/

Research from SVA and CSI found that not-for-profit organisations across Australia are, in general, not funded for the actual cost of what they do. The result is less effective operations and reduced impact. Author of SVA Quarterly article, Sam Thorp explores this tendency and its impact. For more see: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/paying-what-it-takes-to-create-impact/

Sally Garis outlilnes how strategic partnerships offer corporates the opportunity to create business and social value. She looks at how companies are adopting more effective ways to partner with the non-profit sector. From the SVA Quarterly aritcle: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/building-effective-corporate-partnerships-with-non-profits/

Field-building intermediaries play an important role in social sector ecosystems and they need to be supported financially. But what do they do and what kind of funding do they need to sustain their work and impact? Annabelle Roxon provides this audio of the SVA Quarterly article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/social-sector-intermediaries-what-are-they-and-what-do-they-need/

With a growing body of evidence backing the highly supportive Housing First approach, including the recent evaluation of the Aspire SIB, why has it not been funded and adopted more extensively across Australia? Pat Bollen looks at what the Housing First approach is and why it is successful then explores how these pilots could become standard policy. Based on SVA Quarterly article here: https://www...

Building on the SVA Quarterly article which encourages us to approach grief support as core business, SVA's Emily Adams talks to Dr Kerrie Noonan from the Death Literacy Institute about the concept of disenfranchised grief and grief literacy. They also explore some of the ways that employers and managers can support their staff to grieve. To read the article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-...

Divya Roy describes taking a systems approach to help get the most out of a food supplly chain drawing on work with the City of Greater Geelong to improve the region's food security. For the full article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/a-systems-approach-to-food-insecurity/

SVA's Doug Hume and Desmond Campbell discuss a Koori-designed program in the Children’s Court of Victoria which is providing a more effective and just response for Koori families. With potential for expansion across Victoria and Australia, it offers a step towards greater self-determination in the child protection system. See article here:https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/a-step-towa...

Elyse Sainty talks with Patrick Bollen about the Newpin family reunification program deployed under the Social Impact Bond (SIB) mechanism in three states and about what SVA has learned. Read the article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/social-impact-bonds-a-tale-of-three-newpins/

Anna Ashenden describes the common outcomes framework for disability housing co-developed by SVA and the disability sector, why it was developed and what it means for people with disability. Read the article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/disability-housing-what-does-good-look-like/

SVA's CEO Suzie Riddell talks with Professor Megan Davis, the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law and Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous at the University of NSW, and primary architect of the regional dialogues behind the Uluru Statement from the Heart. They discuss the Statement, where it is up to and why it is so important. Read the article here: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/the-...

Covid-19 has had a massive impact on the social sector, not least in making planning for future service demand extremely challenging. This recording outlines how using scenarios can help to understand the potential impacts on demand given the many uncertainties -- as exemplified in some work that SVA has done in the Victorian child and family services sector. Nancy Tran explains. This audio is bas...

SVA CEO, Suzie Riddell talks to Rob McLean, Director Emeritus of McKinsey and Company, about problem solving, what makes it hard for not-for-profits and how the seven step process described in his recently co-authored book can be applied to complex social issues. For more on the seven steps, read the article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/bulletproof-problem-solving-could-it-work...

SVA's Jonathan Finighan explores how the right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination has significant implications for evaluating policies and programs that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and experts are showing the way. Read the article here: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/how-can-evaluation-b...

SVA's Impact Investing Director, Rebecca Thomas on how improvements to the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) landscape can be made to deliver high quality housing options for people with disability? For the article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/where-to-next-for-specialist-housing-accommodation-sda/

Part 2 of 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. Find the full article here: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/social-impact-bonds-a-letter-from-the-frontline-part-2/

After seven years ‘in the trenches’ as part of Australia’s foray into social impact bonds, Elyse Sainty shares her insights around social impact bond myths and legends. Find the article here: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/social-impact-bonds-a-letter-from-the-frontline-part1/

Increasing numbers of Australians experience severe financial vulnerability and stress. SVA consultant, Louise Campbell describes some emerging trends with the potential to 'move the dial' on financial wellbeing. Read the article here: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/shifting-battlegrounds-for-financial-wellbeing/