Given massive cuts to the federal government’s aid budget, how can Australian nonprofits and charities deliver much-needed services despite reduced funding?
This is the question top leaders of Australian nongovernmental organizations tried to address at a national roundtable this week, following the release of a Community Council for Australia report highlighting their struggles.
“Charities and not-for-profits are facing more expenses now than in the past and need to find money to meet their project and contractual obligations,” CCA chief executive David Crosbie told Devex, noting how many nonprofits are now facing the dilemma of being underfunded for the work they are contractually required to complete. But because they believe in the work, these NGOs are searching for means to make ends meet.
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Lisa Cornish is a freelance data journalist based in Canberra, Australia. Lisa formerly worked with News Corp Australia as a data journalist for the national network and was published throughout Australia in major metropolitan and regional newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph in Melbourne, Herald Sun in Melbourne, Courier-Mail in Brisbane and online through news.com.au. Lisa has recently been awarded the 2014 Journalist of the Year by the New South Wales Institute of Surveyors.
