The Illawarra Forum Inc. supports and resources community based organisations through providing information services, community management support, financial management services, partnership development, facilitation of planning, learning and development opportunities and policy development.
Is the writing on the wall for small community organisations? How can small organisations compete successfully in funding programs which favour large organisations providing a range of services across broader geographic areas?
Flexible models of community management. This publication looks at five local approaches in flexible models of community management. It illustrates how a community organisation may adapt their constitutions to their particular needs, both philosophical and practical.
Impacts of short-term funding contracts and service cuts in the Illawarra. This paper explores the implications in the community sector. It lists the services whose funding is threatened and includes their contact details.
Valuing the non-government community services sector across the Illawarra: a joint research project of the Illawarra Forum Inc and Shellharbour TAFE Community Services students in 2005 highlights the current challenges facing community services in our region.
How Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) communicate with other Non-Government Organisations as well as Government Organisations This report comes from a research project initiated by the Illawarra Forum Inc. with a TAFE student (Diploma in Community Welfare Work) in 2005. The research project was to investigate how NGOs communicate — identifying the methods, tools and patterns used.
Working Together for NSW is an agreement negotiated between the Human Services CEO's Forum and the Forum of Non-Government Agencies in 2006. It includes a broad range of policy and practice issues and some of the extremely complex arrangements in our service systems.
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