Updates on the Word Investment court case, the legal definition of charity, the nonprofit standard chart of accounts, book review on investment strategies.

Recent research about formal partnerships or compacts between government and NP sector; cautions about investing in collateralised debt obligations; and defining constitutional corporations.

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Commissioner Susan Pascoe speaks on Not-For-Profit Regulation Inquiry, plus Tim Longwill talks to us on the Sestili v Triton underwriting insurance case and Heather Watson will talk to us about Sim Aust v Simaid case.

Ted Flack, CPNS Doctoral Student and Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Director of The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, give their opinions on the role annual reporting plays for public fundraising charities.

Reflections on the future of volunteering, and the impact of recent legal reforms on philanthropy.

Concerns that business people express regarding philanthropy and implications for the nonprofit sector. Plus: What is the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council and what do they do in terms of the nonprofit sector?

Volunteering Queensland CEO, Diane Morgan, on New Models for Voluntary Action; Leonie Bryen on how volunteers are changing and what organisations can do to incorporate episodic volunteers. Update on Australian tax deductible giving statistics for 2004-2005 by Myles McGregor-Lowndes.

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How the sector operates: Dividing itself into silos or subsectors or working together as a whole?