Centre for Social Impact

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The Centre for Social Impact is an Australian research and education body created in 2008. [1] [2] It assesses [3] and promotes [4] integrated social change across a range of issues [5] including health, children and young people, ageing and disability, [6] financial inclusion [7] and employment, population diversity and mobility, education and housing.

CSI was founded to meet the main recommendation of a Global Access Partners taskforce on philanthropy in higher education co-chaired by Peter Fritz AO and Professor Ian Young (academic) AO . Its inaugural CEO was Peter Shergold AC . As of 2022, the centre is headed by Arminé Nalbandian. [8] It is a collaboration of academics and researchers based at four universities: UNSW Sydney, New South Wales; Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Victoria; The University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia; and (since 2022) Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. [9]

CSI is funded by an Australian Government endowment of A$12.5 million and matching funds from private partners, including the Macquarie Group Foundation, AMP, National Australia Bank and PwC.[ citation needed ]

CSI has worked with government agencies, commercial firms and not-for-profit organisations on over 30 research projects [10] and has developed an extensive post-graduate program as part of its work in assessing the social impact of government and philanthropic activities. [11] Its projects include a map of Australia's "Social Pulse" to assess national progress on social issues. [12]

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  1. ↑ "Home | CSI". www.csi.edu.au. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "Centre For Social Impact". www.globalaccesspartners.org. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ↑ z3524969 (28 February 2020). "New index ranks Australian states and territories on social performance". UNSW Newsroom. Retrieved 15 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "CSI announces bold $12M project to catalyse social change on a national scale". Inside UNSW. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Centre for Social Impact". UNSW Newsroom. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  6. ↑ Soldatic, Karen; van Toorn, Georgia; Dowse, Leanne; Muir, Kristy (2 January 2014). "Intellectual Disability and Complex Intersections: Marginalisation under the National Disability Insurance Scheme". Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 1 (1): 6–16. doi:10.1080/23297018.2014.906050. ISSN   2329-7018.
  7. ↑ "Measuring Financial Exclusion in Australia 2013". www.csi.edu.au. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  8. ↑ "Social Purpose Sector Public policy leader Arminé Nalbandian named CEO of Centre for Social Impact | CSI". www.csi.edu.au. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "Centre for Social Impact arrives at Flinders – News". News. 20 February 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "Social Purpose Sector | CSI". www.csi.edu.au. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  11. ↑ "Charities struggle to measure outcomes". The University Of Western Australia. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  12. ↑ "Australia's Social Pulse". amplify.csi.edu.au. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

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