TY - BOOK
T1 - “It’s an important part of keeping small towns alive"
T2 - The social and economic value of country-based community service organisations
AU - Mackenzie, Catherine
AU - Louth, Jonathan
AU - Goodwin-Smith, Ian
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - One of the most distinctive features of contemporaryregional, rural and remote social and economicdevelopment Australia is change (Connell and Dufty-Jones 2014, Campbell and Burgess 2018, Dean andSpoehr 2018). Associated with recent regionalindustrial and workforce change is precarity(Campbell and Burgess 2018, Han 2018, Kasmir 2018).One way of addressing regional precarity is by the establishment and support of anchor institutions;organisations that are considered to be stable and enduring, embedded in the communities they are located and contributing to those communities both economically and socially (Elliott 2018). We explore the extent to which locally established non-government community service organisations maybe considered as anchor institutions. The social and economic value that Australian country-based community service non-government organisations (NGOs) contributes to their local communities, beyond service provision, has largely been neglected by researchers and policy makers. Using methods adapted from the New Economics Foundation in the UK, and methods used to measure the effects of volunteering and civic participation, we conducted a pilot study with two country-based NGOs located in the north of South Australia (Ward and Lewis 2002, Mayer 2003).
AB - One of the most distinctive features of contemporaryregional, rural and remote social and economicdevelopment Australia is change (Connell and Dufty-Jones 2014, Campbell and Burgess 2018, Dean andSpoehr 2018). Associated with recent regionalindustrial and workforce change is precarity(Campbell and Burgess 2018, Han 2018, Kasmir 2018).One way of addressing regional precarity is by the establishment and support of anchor institutions;organisations that are considered to be stable and enduring, embedded in the communities they are located and contributing to those communities both economically and socially (Elliott 2018). We explore the extent to which locally established non-government community service organisations maybe considered as anchor institutions. The social and economic value that Australian country-based community service non-government organisations (NGOs) contributes to their local communities, beyond service provision, has largely been neglected by researchers and policy makers. Using methods adapted from the New Economics Foundation in the UK, and methods used to measure the effects of volunteering and civic participation, we conducted a pilot study with two country-based NGOs located in the north of South Australia (Ward and Lewis 2002, Mayer 2003).
KW - community service organisations
KW - country based
KW - regional Australia
KW - rural Australia
KW - social development
KW - economic development
KW - anchor institutions
KW - NGOs
UR - http://www.savolunteeringstrategy.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/FINAL-22-07-19-Report-Value-of-Country-based-NGO.pdf
M3 - Commissioned report
T3 - TAASE Report
BT - “It’s an important part of keeping small towns alive"
PB - University of South Australia
CY - Adelaide, South Australia
ER -