Charities Forum - For CEOs and Chairs of Charities

The Charity sector is often reactive, rather than talking across practice areas and specialities to learn from each other, and take a proactive approach.   

We want to provide a place to change this by convening this Charities Forum, facilitated by Steven Moe, Partner at Parry Field Lawyers, where we will host a quarterly call to: 

• update the sector on developments (this time, things like the $100,000 cap on donation tax credits and an overview of key recent reports and papers)

• learn from others across the sector and have a chance to meet new people (using break out rooms),

• encourage collaborations to catalyse, and

• discuss where needs are and what policies could be proactively prepared and presented to local and central Government. 

The Charities Forum will allow a voice to be heard which is currently fragmented across diverse areas under the banner of charity. The same issues often affect us all and we can learn from each other and plan for the future more proactively, to shape what the ecosystem will become.  

For our first gathering on Friday 23 October, 12.00pm, we will be joined by Monica Briggs, Chief Executive Officer at Child Cancer Foundation, Mel Smith, Chief Executive at CCS Disability Action, and Clive Pedley, Director and Chief Executive at Giving Architects, who will each share about their experience in this space.

The Charities Forum is open to CEOs and Chairs of charity boards. Feel free to forward this on to someone who you think may be interested. 

Note: This has been done overseas – we can learn from an example in the UK here: ACEVO