Charities strengthen the fabric and functioning of Australia’s society and economy with wide-spread benefits to education, health care, sports and recreation, aged care, religion, arts and culture, animal protection, and environmental protection.

As a community, we especially rely on charities during crisis.

Stronger charities will be well positioned to support the community, accelerating our collective recovery. But weakened charities, forced to cut jobs and services, will compound the collective challenges we face.

In a report produced in partnership with Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) we forecast that more than 200,000 jobs in the charity sector could be lost as a result of the COVID-19 crisis if financial supports, such as JobKeeper and lease and loan deferrals, come to an end in October.

The report, Will Australian charities be COVID-19 casualties or partners in recovery? A Financial Health Check, models the potential impact on the financial health of Australia’s 16,000 registered charities with employees (excluding those run purely by volunteers) to better understand the effects and identify systemic solutions.

Join us for this impact2020 webinar for an in-depth analysis with report authors, CSI CEO Professor Kristy Muir and SVA CEO Suzie Riddell, with special guests. An extended Q&A will also feature as part of this free webinar.

Please note: This webinar starts at 12:30pm (AEST) and registrations will close an hour before the webinar starts.

The webinar will be recorded and made available after the webinar. Please register to receive the first release of the recording.

This impact2020 webinar is a free event presented by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) and Social Ventures Australia (SVA).

About impact2020

These are unprecedented times and the upheaval to our society requires an extraordinary response from our leaders, our thinkers and our do-ers.

Our first series of impact2020 offered free daily webinars for the Australian for-purpose sector during April, May and June 2020, covering a range of social impact topic areas with CSI's innovative researchers, educators and thought leaders. We're now continuing the series with monthly impact2020 webinars. Please join us.

Sign up for more info as we progressively announce our program and presenters.