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Australia Day honours

Congratulations to our Members who were the recipients of Australia Day 2010 Honours, including:

• Neil Balnaves (Balnaves Foundation)
• Robert Maple-Brown
• Peter Hall (Hunter Hall International)
• Diane Kargas (Capital Region Community Foundation)
• Eda Ritchie (R.E. Ross Trust)

New Position Vacant

IWDA are seeking a person to assist part-time in the management of donors and benefactors:

•  Donor Liaison Officer, International Women’s Development Agency (Melbourne, Applications close 1 February)

For more information please see our Positions Vacant page.

New Events & Position Vacant

February is shaping up to be a busy month as we get back into the swing of things. We’ve added a couple more events to the Calendar:

• Swinburne Postgraduate City Session - Social Investment and Philanthropy (2 February, Melbourne)
• Performing Policy: The Everyday Experience of Social Policy (9 February, Brisbane)

And the Red Cross are seeking someone with a strong understanding of trusts and foundations to manage their partnerships:

• National Trusts & Foundations Manager, Australian Red Cross (Melbourne, Applications close 29 January)

For more information please see the Events Calendar and Positions Vacant page.

Resources to help victims of Haiti disaster

Here is a sample of organisations accepting donations for relief of the earthquake victims in Haiti.

Oxfam Australia

World Vision Haiti Earthquake Appeal

Save the Children Australia

Unicef Australia

Information and news on the Haiti earthquake can be found at the ABC’s website at http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/haiti-earthquake/

New Events & Positions Vacant

We hope you’ve had a great break over the festive season; 2010 looks to be another busy year with our Events Calendar filling up quickly.

• Towards Social Inclusion Conference (20-21 April, Canberra)
• 2nd Annual Global Family Forum (21-22 April, London, UK)
• International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference (3-6 May, Melbourne)
• Melbourne Art Foundation’s Melbourne Art Fair 2010 (4-8 August, Melbourne)
• 3rd National Access to Justice and Pro Bono Conference (27-28 August, Brisbane)
• Making Links 2010 Conference (15-17 November, Perth)

Two Sydney-based positions have become available within the NFP sector:

• Administrative Assistant (part-time), Royal Agricultural Society of NSW Foundation (Sydney, Applications close 25 January)
• Database and Communication Coordinator, Humane Society International (Sydney, Applications close 5 February)

For more information please see the Events Calendar and Positions Vacant page.

Australian Business register changes

The Australian Business Register’s ABN Lookup website now makes it much easier for ancillary funds (including Public Ancillary Funds, formerly PPFs) to identify whether a particular DGR is an item 1 DGR or an item 2 DGR. Ancillary funds, which are item 2 DGRs, are legally unable to donate to other ancillary funds.

Using the ABN Lookup, you will now see that each entry for a DGR entity lists whether it is an item 1, Item 2 or item 4 DGR.

• Item 1 refers to lists of funds, authorities and institutions such as public hospitals, overseas aid funds and public museums (including entities listed by name).
• Item 2 describes funds set up solely for providing money, property or benefits for item 1 DGRs. The funds that meet the requirements of item 2 are called ancillary funds.
• Item 4 describes the funds, authorities or institutions eligible to receive certain cultural gifts.

Item 1 DGRs, which are eligible recipients for donations from ancillary funds, are identified as follows: (Organisation) is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient from (date). It is covered by item 1 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

Ancillary funds are identified with the following descriptor: (Foundation) is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient from (date). It is covered by item 2 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.