The Heart Foundation has launched a government-funded scheme designed to help Western Australian businesses promote healthy lifestyles among their employees.
The Chamber of Arts and Culture WA has appointed its inaugural executive director, with the recruitment of experienced arts administrator Henry Boston.
Low-income earners' prospects of finding affordable housing in Western Australia continue to decline, with Perth's median rent price up 16 per cent from 2012.
The Heart Foundation has launched a government-funded scheme designed to help Western Australian businesses promote healthy lifestyles among their employees.
Mixing sport and fundraising has proved a winner for not-for-profit groups but the Peter Hughes Burn Foundation has taken the formula past the post to also inspire and motivate beneficiaries of its
The state government has kicked off an international search for a project director to head up content and operations at Western Australia’s new $428 million museum.
From major rides that take over freeways, to smaller, more intimate groups keeping to selected cycle routes, it seems more people are getting on to their bikes to support health-related charities.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has shown how you do philanthropy at the big end of town: put a million bucks on the table and challenge everyone in the room to match it.
THE combination of healthy, sports-based pursuits and worthy causes has proved to be a winning formula for the community sector and not for profits in terms of publicity and fund raising.
One of Western Australia’s most prolific residential builders, Dale Alcock, is the latest high-profile CEO to help tackle the issue of homelessness by committing to the St Vincent de Paul Society’s
THOUSANDS of children and parents have helped Western Australians living with multiple sclerosis by participating in the Premier's Summer Reading Challenge.
The Australian Red Cross wants to engage businesses and corporations across Western Australia as the organisation changes its operating platform to support vulnerable communities across the state m
NINE out of 10 not-for-profit organisations are concerned they will be worse off if the federal government replaced the sector's income tax exemptions with grants.
WESFARMERS and the University of Western Australia are joining forces in a new multi-million dollar project to boost the study of Australian history at both tertiary and secondary levels.
The West Australian Ballet and Black Swan State Theatre Company are among six arts companies across Australia to win extra funding in the federal government’s new cultural policy.
Music charity Strike A Chord has lost its operating license after regulators found a lack of seperation between its charitable activities and profit making companies supplying services.
SCULPTURE by the Sea has opened for its ninth year at Cottesloe Beach this week, and for the first time visitors will be asked to donate a gold coin to keep the free event viable.
OF all the issues likely to feature prominently in the lead-up to the March 9 state election, it’s perhaps no surprise the arts is a long way down the list.
REPRESENTATIVES from a number of Perth-based insurance companies donned their aprons and took up their tongs last week for the second annual Willis On Fire charity barbecue cooking competition.
PHILANTHROPY organisation The Funding Network will introduce an innovative fundraising format to Perth next week, aimed at encouraging a broader range of people to contribute to charitable projects
Experienced Aboriginal contracting group Eastern Guruma has teamed up with a new entrant to the sector, Wirlu-murra Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, to win a $200 million contract in the Pilbar
