Public Ancillary Funds – Expiration of Transitional Period
Public Ancillary Funds that receive deductible donations as deductible gift recipients (DGRs) will need to ensure they comply with the Public Ancillary Fund Guidelines 2011 (“the Guidelines”) by 1 June...
View ArticleA Charter of Relationship for Volunteers and Employees in Not For Profit...
Transcription: This is Joanne O’Brien from CRH Law. I’m going to be talking to you today about a charter of relationship for volunteers and employees in not-for-profit organizations. One of the tools...
View ArticleDisputed de facto relationships
Transcription: Hello, Margaret Arthur, partner from CRH Law speaking with you today about disputed de facto relationships. In years gone by a relationship which was generally between a man and a woman...
View ArticleCRH Law and the Better Boards Conference
Both our esteemed partners, Joanne O’Brien and Brian Herd (as well as Brian’s brother, Patrick Herd from Community Business Australia) presented at the Better Boards Conference held last weekend at the...
View ArticleAustralian Company Numbers (ACNs) to be scrapped
Draft legislation has been released by Treasury which will enable the Australian Business Number (ABN) to be the single numerical identifier for companies registered under the Corporations Act 2001....
View ArticleConsortiums in the Not For Profit Sector
Transcription: There is a growing trend in the not for profit sector to have collaborations by using consortiums. This has even been encouraged by a number of government funders in relation to recent...
View ArticleCollaboration in the Not For Profit Sector
Transcription: This is Joanne O’Brien from CRH Law talking about collaboration in the not-for-profit sector. Not-for-profit organizations have traditionally been very good at collaborating together....
View ArticleJoint Ventures in the Not For Profit Sector
Transcription: A joint venture is an arrangement between two or more entities, usually with an idea or an aim to have a commercial outcome. They’re more often seen in the for profit sector, but...
View ArticlePartnerships in the Not For Profit Sector
Transcription: This is Joanne O’Brien from CRH Law talking about partnerships in the not for profit sector. Partnership is a term that not for profit organizations commonly use when they’re...
View ArticleMergers & amalgamations – learn to control your destiny
A lot has been written about mergers and amalgamations in the NFP sector following David Crosbie’s call for charities to merge or shut down but the piece the has resonated most with me was from Kevin...
View ArticleCharitable endorsements retrospectively revoked
A recent decision of the Federal Court upheld the decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and the ATO that the charitable endorsements held by the Study and Prevention of Psychological...
View ArticleFringe Benefit Tax Changes and NFP’s
From 1 April 2016, a single grossed up cap of $5,000 per year, per employee will apply for the value of fringe benefits exempt from fringe benefits tax (FBT) purposes, in relation to meal entertainment...
View ArticleChanges to the Privacy Act – Data Breaches
On 6 December 2015, the Government released a draft of the Privacy Amendment (Notification of Serious Data Breaches) Bill 2015 for public consultation which, if passed, will introduce some changes to...
View Article5 Tips for renewing your constitution
Transcription: This is Joanne O’Brien from CRH Law. Talking about 5 tips for renewing your constitution. All too often the constitution of a Not-For-Profit Organization is a document that sits on the...
View Article5 Tips for successful meetings
Transcription: This is Joanne O’Brien from CRH Law talking about 5 tips for successful meetings. Something that often causes a lot of problems for not-for-profit organizations is meetings and meeting...
View ArticleCorporate Governance & Insurance Premiums – A Connection?
Insurance can be boring but not when you don’t have it and something happens when you wish you had. Like lawyers, it is a necessary evil, a cost of doing business. For Boards of Directors who ignore it...
View ArticleKey Ingredients for Successful Collaboration
Social Ventures Australia recently reported on the outcomes of the SVA Quarterly breakfast forum held in Perth late last year. The subject under discussion was the impact of innovative collaborations...
View ArticleACNC Lives On
The charitable and not for profit sector has welcomed news that the Government’s plans to abolish the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission (ACNC) will not proceed. In a media statement...
View ArticleCould you do with a Lawyer on your Board?
Statistics from America suggest two interesting things about board membership: A lawyer/director increases an organisation’s value by 9.5%; and The number of lawyer/directors in America has doubled in...
View ArticleQLD Government seeking expressions of interest in new Social Benefit Bonds...
The Queensland Government has announced its launch of the Social Benefit Bonds scheme (the Scheme), and is now seeking expressions of interest. What are social benefit bonds? As way of background,...
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