Strategic Issues for the Not-for-profit Sector

This is the second in a series of books with Centre for Public Policy (after Brian Howe, ""Weighing Up Australian Values""). This book will appeal to practitioners of NFP management and social policy. There are some 700,000 NFP organisations in Australia, and so a very wide network of practitioners and people involved in the sector. A subsidiary market of postgraduate students is also likely. It has potential to be used for courses at a Masters level, in areas of not-for-profit management and social policy. A number of contributors are centrally involved in relevant postgraduate coursework programs, including Master of Social Policy (University of Melbourne); Master of Public Policy and Management (University of Melbourne); Master of Community Management (UTS, Sydney); and, Master of Business (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies) (Queensland University of Technology). A recent seminar held by the Centre for Public Policy on this topic was sold out well before the event date.Bringing together some of Australia's leading and emerging researchers from different parts of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector, ""Strategic Issues in the Not-for-Profit Sector"" draws on original Australian and comparative research to provide a spirited exploration of strategic issues facing NFP organisations. A diverse, vital and ever-growing sector in Australia, the NFP sector provides the organisational framework through which many of the most disadvantaged in the community receive access to services and support. However, pressures such as a changing composition, an erosion of financial sustainability, the need to professionalise, and demographic trends affecting patterns of volunteering have put pressure on the NFP sector to innovate and grow in new directions.""Strategic Issues in the Not-for-Profit Sector"" considers the local and global drivers of change, as well as the industry, policy and community imperatives impacting upon NFP sustainability, providing a unique insight into not only the strategic issues, but also strategic responses available to the sector.