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CSI AMPLIFY SOCIAL IMPACT Online Those of you who have been following the Centre for Social Impact’s (CSI) “Amplify Social Impact” (Amplify) project since it was first announced in 2018, are no doubt very excited...
Posted 04 Apr 2022
SOCIAL & GREEN BENEFITS CALCULATOR The revenue generated from operating social and affordable housing in Australia is insufficient to finance new social and affordable homes. As a consequence, the provision of social and affordable housing...
Posted 15 Mar 2022
Information from oecd.org Are our lives getting better? How can policies improve our lives? Are we measuring the right things? The OECD Better Life Initiative and the work programme on Measuring Wellbeing and Progress answer...
Posted 20 Nov 2020
NICOLA STURGEON – WHY GOVERNMENTS SHOULD PRIORITIZE WELLBEING WEAll is the leading global collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals working together to transform the economic system into one that delivers human and ecological wellbeing....
Posted 11 Nov 2020
Creating social value is no longer just the work of the community sector. As we attempt to “build back” our economies through infrastructure projects, everyone across the construction sector is being asked to embed social...
Posted 28 Oct 2020
The ASVB was based on the UK Social Value Bank, which was developed three years before us, in 2014.The policy context that largely drove the development of the UKSVB, namely the Public Services (Social Value)...
Posted 30 Sep 2020
You might be aware that the ASVB is based on a model that was developed by the UK housing sector, the UK Social Value Bank. The tool was developed in response to their Government’s introduction...
Posted 26 Feb 2020
AUSTRALIA’S BLACK SUMMER For many, it’s been an incredibly rough start to the year. First there were fires – we saw 12 million hectares of our country burn, at least 32 lives and 2,700 homes lost...
Posted 17 Feb 2020
Governments in Australia are leading a dramatic shift in how they procure goods and services, embedding social procurement into their own supply chain practice and demanding similar of anyone who wants to work with them....
Posted 28 Oct 2019
With the Australian Social Value Bank (ASVB) recently becoming a certified social enterprise, I was keen to attend my first Social Traders Conference in Melbourne. I wanted to gauge the current momentum behind the social...
Posted 18 Sep 2019
