Sustainable Community Organisations - Conclusion

Conclusion

There is great joy and freedom in working in the not-for-profit community sector. We are not bound by external policy and can be creative, innovative and responsive to changing needs. But to be sustainable we have to pay attention to all these factors, one at a time. Start with building the Board and ensuring positive relationships between the Board and the CEO and work systematically from there.

To quote from my childhood hero, Nelson Mandela:

‘There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.’

In creating sustainable organisations – even those that are small in size – we have to aim for the highest ideals and the highest standards of which we

References

These include the Inquiry into the Definition of Charities and Related Organisations, 2001; Senate Inquiry into

• Disclosure Regimes for Charities and NFP organisations, 2008; (NCOSS Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics – Inquiry Into the Disclosure Regimes ) and Productivity Commission Report into The Contribution of the Not-for-Profit Sector, 2009.
• NDS News Update, , New Focus on Not-For-Profit Sector Reform, 29 September 2010
• Mahoney, Catherine, Industry Planning, Joining the Dots…One at a Time, NCOSS News, 4, July 2008.
• NCOSS Sector Development Strategy 2007 – 2010.
• Some of these points are adapted from an article written while I worked at NCOSS: Koonin, R New South Wales Council of Social Service, (2008) NCOSS News Vol 35, Number 5 3

Table of Contents

Related posts:

1. Sustainable Community Organisations in this Time of Challenge
2. Sustainable Organisations
3. Sustainable Community Organisations – The Context
4. Essential Features of Sustainable Community Organisations
5. Sustainable Organizations
6. Organisational Sustainability – Conclusion
7. Why Do We Need Community Based Organization?