Asia Pacific Centre for

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Asia Pacific Centre for Social Investment
Philanthropy
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Australian Context

• Active community sector since European
  settlement (tyranny of distance)
• Currently many thousands of community
  organisations (widely varying
  estimates)
• Multiple data sources providing snapshots of
  aspects of community sector
  (ATO,
  ABS, State Governments, Peak Bodies etc)

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Average Donations Gifts of Persons who
donated...2006-7 (ATO)
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Australian Context social financing

• No uniform / centralised data capture
  (data fragmentation)
• Exchanges tend to be cast as single transaction

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APCSIP

• Launched Research Centre (CSI Partner)
• Three Projects
• Mapping Australias Social Investment Landscape
  (AIM dynamic modelling)
• Federated Data Repository (e-social science)
• Financing for Social Innovation (untried by
  the inexperienced)

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• APCSIP Financing for Social Impact