Information Sheets
Click on any of the following for an information sheet:Boards and Management Committees:
- The Basics of Governance
- What is Governance? - Why can it become such a problem in NGOs?
- Duties of Management Committees
- Fiduciary and other duties
- Board and Executive Officer Responsibilities
- Making good board decisions
- What should your board be like? Should you like your board?
- The Role of the Chair
- The Role of the Public Officer
- The Role of the Secretary
- The Role of the Treasurer
- The Obligations of Committee Members under the Associations Incorporation Act 1991 (ACT) - provided by Softlaw Community Projects
- Policies you need to have in place
- Financial reports to the board - some starting points
- What is a conflict of interest? What are the warning signs that there is one?
- Glossary of governance terms
- Transparency and Accountability
- Using your core documents
Raising the Standard:
- Introduction
- Section 1 - Good practice standards for community service organisations
- Section 2 - Self-assessment and quality planning guide
- Section 3 - Tools to support self-assessment and quality planning
- Section 4 - Self-assessment workbook
- Section 5 - Quality improvement plan workbook
Structure and Strategy:
- Help! Our organisation is in trouble, and we don't know where to start
- Who's for incorporation? - why incorporate? and when?
- Incorporated Association or Company Limited by Guarantee?
- The incorporation process
- Dissolution of an incorporated association
- The Common Seal
- Annual General Meeting Nuts and Bolts
- Strategic Planning Nuts and Bolts
- Strategic planning jargon
- A mission planning exercise
- We don't need a strategic plan...
- Membership standards
- Membership - some starting points - rules, registers and cessation of membership
- Advocacy - basic principles
Funding:
- Writing Funding Proposals for Success
- Using the Standard Funding Agreement - annotated version
- Community Organisations and funding - approaches for finding alternative sources of funding
- Finding Resources and Partnerships - a tool for clearly defining what resources you need and who you can approach
- Selling your project - a tool to help in approaching organisations for resources
- Sponsorship links
Human Resources:
- The Recruitment Cycle (pdf)
- What you need to know about staff contracts
- The Board and personnel
- What is an Award?
- Enterprise Bargaining and Workplace Agreements
- Grievances - what are they?
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Managing staff performance - starting points
- Setting up a staff performance review
- Training - an examination of theories about training.
- Why Network?
Human Rights:
- Being a Human Rights Organisation
- Acknowledging Traditional Owners About Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country
- Your basic privacy obligations
Risk Management and Emergencies
- Safety at Public Events
- Why develop emergency management plans?
- Business Continuity Planning and Emergency Management Checklist also available as a word document
- Emergency Preparedness Worksheet
- Emergency Management weblinks
- Preparing for emergencies cartoon
- A basic overview and training program on Risk Management from Queensland Government - http://www.riskmanagement.qld.gov.au/
Insurance:
The NSW Council of Social Servicehas several information sheets:
- Reading Insurance Policies (pdf download)
- Public Liability Insurance (pdf download)
- Renewing your insurance (pdf download)
- Unauthorised foreign insurers (pdf download)
- Community groups, markets, entertainers and insurance (pdf download)
