scholarly journals Leadership and the voluntary and community sector

2012 ◽  
pp. 96-118
Keyword(s):  
Community Sector

scholarly journals The lure of the local: ‘News’ definitions in community broadcasting

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Forde
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Media Report ◽  
The Us ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Community Sector ◽  
Close Investigation

Journalists and media researchers globally are increasingly expressing concern about trends in the news media industry which would appear to suggest a dire future for quality journalism, and thus democracy, in many developed democratic nations. The US State of the News Media report, now produced annually, regularly reports concerns by journalists and editors—and those who study them—about decreasing investment by news corporations in quality journalism (Pew Centre, 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008). The Australian Press Council has presented its own study to mirror that of the Pew Centre in an effort to report on the Australian context (APC, 2006; 2007). The author has, with colleagues from Griffith University, conducted research into the Australian community broadcasting sector for the past nine years. The research conducted since 1999 has been broad but this article will focus on one element of the research—the news and information services of community broadcasting. The community broadcasting sector is worthy of close investigation, because it is one of the few areas of the Australian media landscape that continues to grow. Importantly, quantitative research into the community sector indicates that 57 percent of the Australian population tune in at least monthly to a community radio station—and more than one in four listen at least weekly (McNair Ingenuity, 2008, p. 4). This article investigates the nature of community news offered by the Australian community radio sector through the perspectives of journalists and producers who deliver the news, and the audiences who access it.

Lessons from a voluntary sector organisation working to address loneliness and isolation among older people during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Naughton-Doe ◽  
Andrea Wigfield ◽  
Charlene Martin
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Sector Organisation ◽  
Community Sector ◽  
Learning Points

The COVID-19 pandemic and physical distancing policies have created a range of challenges for voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations addressing isolation and loneliness among older people. This paper explores four learning points from one VCS organisation, Time to Shine, which is working to reduce loneliness among older people in a COVID-19 world, using technology, finding the ‘hard to reach’, tackling ageism and managing anxiety following isolation.

Policy capacity in the community sector

2017 ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Susan Goodwin ◽  
Ruth Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Community Sector

Austerity and the Irish Non-Profit Voluntary and Community Sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Pauric O’Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
New Public ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Community Sector

This chapter evaluates whether austerity can be interpreted as a continuation of an established neoliberal ideology or as a not-to-be-wasted opportunity that is unique to a particular era in time. Using the case of the Irish Non-Profit Voluntary and Community Sector (NPVCS), it draws on a qualitative-based empirical study within the sub-sector of Physical and Sensory Disabilities, built around two principal service providers. The chapter argues that government funding and service-level agreements created the conduit for New Public Management (NPM)-orientated thinking and practices to enter the sector and exert downward pressures on how it manages people and work. Coincidentally, this conveniently aligned with austerity ideology and gave new impetus to NPM. The findings show strong evidence of NPM-orientated changes in work and human resources management, propelled by strong isomorphic pressures that had accelerated and intensified during the era of austerity. The study uses the explanatory lens of institutional theory and labour-process theory to explicate how the state–NPVCS relationship became institutionalized through the isomorphism of NPM and how austerity reinforced and expedited this process.

scholarly journals Playing in the Sandpit Together Alone.

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-51
Author(s):  
Jonathon Main
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Competitive Tendering ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Program Funding ◽  
Community Sector

The community services sector is the largest provider of non-profit human services in Australia. This sector has experienced considerable growth as a consequence of public policy and sector reforms introduced by successive governments over the past two decades. These reforms have seen the introduction of private sector managerialist agendas, outsourcing of government services and competitive tendering processes. As the community sector has grown governments have sought to consolidate program funding mechanisms, simplify contracting out arrangements and encourage collaboration and formal partnerships through national tender processes. In recent years there has been significant evidence of governments actively encouraging formal intrasectoral partnerships and consortia in program tenders. While there is a considerable body of overseas and national literature on partnerships and collaboration, the predominant focus is on intersectoral relationships such as public-private partnerships between government and the business sector or government contracted services to the community sector. This research responds to a call for more local research on partnerships and collaboration in the Australian community service sector. A case study approach was used to examine the key drivers of intrasectoral partnership and collaborative practice in the context of the literature within business, government and community sectors. The study found prior interactions between organisations significantly influenced whether these drivers were viewed as strong, weak or ambiguous. The findings contribute to the understanding of intrasectoral partnerships and collaboration in the community sector in that prior relationships understood as parallel (i.e. disengaged) or cooperative in nature, can be predictive of potential partnership relationships and outcomes.

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