Katie McDonald

High-profile butcher and philanthropist Vince Garreffa will launch a new book next week, as part of his ongoing commitment to raise funds for suicide prevention charity Lifeline. 

An empty block cum ecological oasis in East Perth is providing opportunities for Perth's unemployed by meeting the demand for fresh produce.

The Road Safety Commission has signed on with the Western Force to become the club’s naming rights partner for the 2017 Super Rugby season.

WA scientists hope a suite of new developments will advance the treatment of chronic pain conditions, which cost the Australian economy billions every year.

Netball WA has been scoring in the sponsorship arena, a result of both opportune timing and strategy.

Education services provider Navitas has secured its eighth partner in North America following today’s announcement that it has signed an agreement with the University of Idaho.

Local not-for-profit group Ausum Initiatives has teamed up with Kulbardi, a partly owned and managed Aboriginal office supplies company, to deliver an intensive entrepreneur program for young Aboriginal men and women.

With fewer exhibition opportunities or prospects of gallery representation, local artists have diversified their approach to the market. 

A new agriculture research centre at Curtin University plans to tackle the $1.5 billion economic impact of crop disease in Australia. 

Local disability services provider Kira has appointed not-for-profit executive Vik Jeyakumar to lead the organisation as its new chief executive from February 6. 

SPECIAL REPORT: More than 5 million jobs in Australia are at risk of digital disruption during the next 20 years, with a range of industries having already exchanged human capital for automated software and machinery. 

SPECIAL REPORT: Several high-profile schools have announced plans for restrained fee changes, including some freezes and reductions, in order to stay competitive after several years of weak economic performance in Western Australia. 

SPECIAL REPORT: As Australian businesses grapple with a rapidly evolving and increasingly digitised economy, educators are shifting focus to the skills required in an uncertain future. 

Former Silver Chain Group senior executive Dan Minchin will lead three community care providers into a new era when they merge into one organisation later this year.

Perth’s national netball team the West Coast Fever today announced the University of Western Australia as a new major partner. 

Despite a tough economic climate and an increasing number of people in need, charity Christmas appeals are still finding support.  

Perth could have a world-class integrated breast cancer treatment and research centre by 2020 if a local not-for-profit group is successful in raising more than $5 million. 

Not-for-profit executive Jenny Allen is set to leave her current position at the 500 Club after less than a year in the role to become director of the Western Australian Museum Foundation. 

A UWA research project could change the way fighfighters and farmers deal with the threat of bushfires.

Gage Roads Brewing Company will take to the Fringe World Festival stage in 2017 as the Perth event’s new major brewery partner. 

Shark detection technology developed by Perth-based environmental consultancy Astron and its partner, C4D Intel, has completed its first prototype field trials.

The owners of a new Northbridge eatery have placed a big emphasis on connecting with the community, and used crowdfunding to provide one element of that relationship.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service has been ranked the most trusted charity of the nation's top 40 largest and most recognisable charities for the sixth consecutive year, according to the recently published 2016 Charitable Reputation Index.

As a child, Cockram Construction project manager Crystal Jordan wanted to be a firefighter like her father. Instead, as she grew up, she gravitated towards the construction sector – and it’s a decision she has never regretted.

Perth charitable organisation PD Leading Enterprises, which provides support services to Western Australians dealing with mental health illness, has today announced it will cease its operations, following a lapse of funding from the Mental Health Commission last year.  

The Arcadia music festival and its giant scrap metal spider landed at Elizabeth Quay last weekend and lit up Perth’s dance scene, but there is more to the fire-breathing robot than meets the eye. 

The inaugural Food Rescue Week begins in Perth tomorrow to promote the Food Rescue initiative, with the State Buildings, The Trustee and Lalla Rookh among the venues promoting the cause.

A Singaporean businessman plans to advance the potential of WA’s $7 billion-plus agriculture export market.

Job creation and increased investment in the local industry are among the hoped-for outcomes of Screenwest’s move to new headquarters and planned change in corporate structure.

The state’s oldest medical research institute will change its name in recognition of the philanthropic contribution by one of the state’s most prominent families over many years.

Collective giving circle Impact100 WA has injected $230,000 worth of shared donations into the state’s not-for-profit sector this month.

A WA-based company could potentially shake up the $US96 billion global textile industry with a natural fibre originally sourced from wine.