Events Calendar
ARACY organises a variety of events to create opportunities for our members and other stakeholders to share knowledge and generate new ideas and collaborations. We have embraced innovative technologies such as webinars and Access Grid technology to make the process of information exchange simple, beneficial and cost effective and to enable members from across Australia, including our vast regional and rural areas, to participate.
The ARACY Events calendar also gives member organisations an opportunity to share their events. Register your organisation's event. Do you have a suggestion for an ARACY Event? Please contact our Membership and Events Officer on 08 9476 7811.
Issues in measuring the contribution of not for profits |
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Issues in measuring the contribution of not for profits Wednesday 11 November 2009 - 14:30 to 15:30 (AEDT) This event has now passed. Access Grid View timezones for Australia.
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This event will be of interest to not for profit organisations and related public policy and research communities. The Access Grid is timed to provide discussion relevant to the recent release by the Productivity Commission of its Draft Report into the Contribution of the Not for Profit Sector study. ARACY is undertaking a major project on Measuring the outcomes of community organisations and will distribute to attendees in advance of this event a discussion paper prepared by KPMG. Not for profits, whether engaged in social service, social enterprise, sporting, recreational or other activities, provide a vital foundation for social inclusion. A focus on through-puts, lack of a common framework for outcome measurement, use of qualitative and quantitative methods and how community organisations are supported, are among the issues that will be discussed. Dennis Trewin AO is Associate Commissioner for the Productivity Commissions’ study into the Contribution of the Not for Profit Sector. He was the Australian Statistician and head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics from July 2000 until January 2007. Prior to that he was Deputy Australian Statistician and, from 1992 to 1995, Deputy Government Statistician in New Zealand. He has recently been working as a statistical consultant on assignment with a range of countries and with the UN, OECD and World Bank. Dennis holds other senior appointments in Australia, including as a Trustee and Board member for the Australian Reward and Investment Alliance. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne and Curtin Universities. Internationally, Dennis has been President of the International Statistical Institute having previously been Vice-President and President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians. He is a past Editor of the International Statistical Review. Until recently he was Chairman of the Global Executive Board of the World Bank's International Comparison Program. Peter Tyler is an Associate Director in KPMG's Health and Human Services Practice and a senior member of the KPMG team preparing a paper for ARACY’s Measuring the Outcomes of Community Organisations project. Peter has worked in and for government and the human services industry for more than 25 years. In this time he has accrued a wealth of experience in policy development, strategic planning, project management and information analysis and interpretation. His statistical and consultative skills have been important assets in designing and carrying out program reviews, evaluation and planning, and in undertaking performance measurement. Peter has worked within various settings, including: hospitals, community services, primary care, disability, housing and justice. Peter has a bachelor and masters in science (by research in probability theory) from the Flinders University of South Australia and is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. |
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Access Grid Locations | ||||
| State | City | Local Time | University or centre | Address |
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| ACT | Canberra | 2:30pm AEDT | Australian National University | Peter Baume (Medical School) building, |
| NSW | Newcastle | 2:30pm AEDT | University of Newcastle | Mathematics V206 |
| NSW | Sydney | 2:30pm AEDT | University of Sydney | School of Mathematics and |
| QLD | Brisbane | 1:30pm AEST | Queensland University of Technology | Rm 713, V Block (top floor of Library) |
| QLD | Brisbane | 1:30pm AEST | University of Queensland | Rm 621, GP South Building, Staff house Rd, |
| SA | Adelaide | 2:00pm ACDT | Flinders University | Room 1002, Physical Sciences Building |
| SA | Adelaide | 2:00pm ACDT | University of Adelaide | eRSA Access Grid Meeting Room, eResearch SA (formerly SAPAC Access Grid Meeting Room) University of Adelaide (North Terrace) |
| TAS | Hobart | 2:30pm AEDT | University of Tasmania | Tasmanian Partnership of Advanced Computing, |
| VIC | Melbourne | 2:30pm AEDT | University of Melbourne | Research Computing Services, Back of building (through the doors behind the lifts and straight down the end of the corridor) |
| WA | Perth | 11:30am AWST | University of Western Australia | WASP, |
Contact Details
| Website | http://aracy.org.au |
| leanne.drewitt@aracy.org.au | |
| Telephone | 08 9476 7807 |
| Host | Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth |