"Charitable bequest gifts are important to charities but evaluating legacy fundraising activities is problematic." This paper by Roewen Wishart & Russell N James explains their findings and implications for legacy fundraising. bit.ly/3nrIvux👇

There seems to be some confusion in the community about how the hospitals can be struggling at the moment with relatively few Covid cases in the hospitals. The issues in our hospitals don’t relate at the moment primarily to Covid case numbers. A 🧵

@benatipsos And my favourite explanation of the problems people have with exponentials. Particularly politicians.

U.S. authorities have taken issue with Turkey over its sales of armed drones to Ethiopia, where two sources familiar with the matter said there was mounting evidence the government had used the weapons against rebel fighters. reuters.com/world/africa/e…

Huge shout out to all the retail workers who have had a hell of a year, many of them losing their jobs & being the front line for enforcing public health orders. Wish them a Merry Christmas, check in and respect & protect them by wearing a mask.

Yemen has around 2.8 mill internally displaced people. Despite poverty, around 2.4 mill live in rented houses or hosted by host communities, rather than camps.

Useful discussion about equity and priorities in access to testing (USA context). Aged, immuno-compromised, and unvaccinated are the priorities says Benjamin Mazer Inclusion of unvaccinated might elicit "outrage", but read the rationale. Public health isn't about "punishing the wrong"

“You were ungrateful”: The cost of doing business in the mining boys club themarketherald.com.au/you-were-ungra… via @themarketherald

I’m a nurse practitioner working in specialist palliative aged care. Let me share with you just a little bit about what happens in a residential aged care facility/‘nursing home’ that doesn’t have registered nurses 24/7 365 days of the year.

A severe crisis which gets little public attention unrefugees.org.au/emergency-resp…

If you haven't yet had a family reason, or a work need, or been a volunteer, to see residential aged care, please read. My mum's experience was overall excellent, but so much can go wrong that's so avoidable.

4.2 million #refugees have now fled #Ukraine and 6.5 million people are internally displaced. #UNHCR estimates that another 13 million are stranded in hard-to-reach areas in Ukraine. #Donatenow: bit.ly/36ueEvX

Interview with Kerren Morris on Australia's fundraising Emergency Action Alliance - Ukraine appeal its first live [paid content] Emergency Action Alliance fpmagazine.com.au/the-power-of-c…

When you have our AUKUS partners identifying the threat climate change plays on national and regional security, we should be taking it seriously. But the Morrison Government has a blind spot on climate change, pretending it’s not an issue.  #auspol

I’m so proud for my service to professional fundraising, and thus to the NFP sector, to be recognised by my peers

Interested doing a PhD on the ethics of fundraising images, & the kinds of images that are most effective for raising money & support? This is your chance! You’ll also work with Australian Red Cross & MSF Australia and MSF New Zealand We’re accepting applications until the end of July.

On the 40th anniversary of my parents’ citizenship, I had the honour of delivering my first speech to parliament. #auspol

Great to be in the chamber during the introduction of Australian Labor's Climate Change Bill. After nine long years of inaction on climate change, I'm so proud to be part of a government that is finally acting to safeguard the future for our kids and generations to come.

Sean Turnell is an economist who went to work in Myanmar because he wanted to help reduce poverty and help the Burmese people. As Senator Penny Wong notes, his three year prison sentence today is utterly unjust. Australia will continue to press for Sean’s immediate release.

As a supporter of Rob de Castella’s Indigenous Marathon Foundation, I raced the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. I’ve now run all 6 world marathon majors in under 3 hours. Doing it for a good cause makes it that much more rewarding. strava.com/activities/793… Rob de Castella #auspolrunners