Alexandra Williamson

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

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The Telemetry All the news the headlines missed in 2025.

The news didn't tell you what happened in the world in 2025.

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How charitable are Australians? 3 charts show how much we give Evidence shows giving to others is associated with better mental health.

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Small grants are key to a successful next generation of conservationists (commentary) In a meeting room in a head office in London, a handful of early-career conservationists from around the world sat in a circle on the floor to share their challenges of working in conservation. The…

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Many early-career conservationists and fledgling organizations are poised to implement solutions to the biodiversity crisis, but the prevailing funding logic isn’t adapting fast enough to support them.

Small grants can make a huge difference.

** The views expressed are the author's.

An Examination of Tax-Deductible Donations Made by Individual Australian Taxpayers in 2022-23: ACPNS Working Paper No. 79 | QUT ePrints Mcgregor-Lowndes, Myles, Balczun, Marie, & Williamson, Alexandra (2025) An Examination of Tax-Deductible Donations Made by Individual Australian Taxpayers in 2022-23: ACPNS Working Paper No. 79. The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS), QUT, Brisbane, Qld. [Working Paper]

📢 New fascinating research from the Australian Centre for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS)!
eprints.qut.edu.au/258919/

The Working Paper explores #giving by gender, age, state, income & occupation – invaluable data for understanding #Australian #philanthropy! 🇦🇺

#Donations #generosity

Two new short reports from the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane analyse the most recent 2022-23 data from the Australian Taxation Office on giving:

ttps://eprints.qut.edu.au/258641/

eprints.qut.edu.au/258637/

#givingdata

Brilliant - both the idea and the authors!

Big congratulations to Rose and her supervisors! Such a joyful time…

Sign that reads: The amount is of no importance. My parents have and gave and gave, not only to us, but to other people. I’d like to make giving contagious.

I snapped a photo of this sign earlier in the year at the wonderful Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre in northern NSW, and saw it again this morning while scrolling through my photo library looking for something else.
Makes me smile every time.
#philanthropy #giving #generosity

I have struggled a bit to get going with Bluesky - but @rikkitweets.bluesky.social will probably help!

Hey there! Great idea, and surely there’s a starter pack for how to crest a starter pack somewhere out there in the ether? 💛

Thanks to my wonderful co-author Prof. Belinda Luke for her focus and commitment in getting our new article in Nonprofit Management & Leadership across the publication line!

You can read it here https://buff.ly/3X7KcxP and it's Open Access 👍

#Nonprofitsky #philanthropy

Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips (eds.): Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organiza...

A few moments of joy to read the thoughtful review by Prof. Dennis Young, one of the great nonprofit scholars, of the book I co-edited with the inimitable Diana Leat and Susan Phillips.

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

#nonprofit #philanthropy #disasterpreparedness

Logo of the ISTR conference, a drawn outline of a cityscape with the ISTR initials and the words Antwerp 2024 underneath.

Closing in one week!
500-word Abstracts for the ISTR Conference at the University of Antwerp, July 2024.
There will be no deadline extension, so add this to today's to-do list.
Call for Contributions here:
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New here and trying to figure it all out! #nonprofitsky
But nice to 'see' some familiar names and faces....