SPECIAL REPORT: Charities are diversifying their approach to building revenue streams as a soft economy challenges their business-as-usual fundraising models.
State government gaming agency Lotterywest has beaten its revenue budget and grabbed its biggest share of spending per capita for three years, but it continues to watch the threat of online gambling and other web-based gaming products from outside Western Australia.
SPECIAL REPORT: Activ Foundation and the Royal Flying Doctor Service are Western Australia's two largest not-for-profit charities, yet they have very different approaches to philanthropy and fundraising.
Local vendors of The Big Issue showed prominent Perth business leaders and politicians what it's like to sell the street magazine today as part of a campaign to increase awareness of the everyday challenges facing the homeless and disadvantaged.
Anglicare WA chair John Barrington has heralded the arrival of two-high profile board members as key elements in the organisation's efforts to pursue growth in a competitive environment.
In an exclusive Business News survey, leaders of some of WA's top charities reveal they are more optimistic than last year, despite increasing competition for funds, challenging economic times and charity fatigue.
Western Australians donating household items for people affected by the bushfires in the South West have been so generous that St Vincent de Paul Society WA has been inundated with goods exceeding its capacity to deliver them.
Western Australia's top charities have reported an average 4.2 per cent increase in revenue this past financial year, with only two of the top 10 reporting less turnover this year than last.
The University of Western Australia has appointed John Barrington as the chair of the Perth International Arts Festival, following the retirement of Margaret Seares who served in the role since 2012.
More than 60 CEOs from WA provided Business News with detailed views on the year past, the next 12 months, their vision for the state, and what they expect from political leaders.
Christmas appeals have received a mixed response in their calls for donations, however all charities report a significant increase in requests for their services.
Groups working to reduce homelessness in Western Australia have criticised the imminent dissolution of a top-level government advisory board set up by Labor.
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.
FINANCIAL uncertainty may be making life busier for charity group Anglicare WA, but its bottom line has remained resilient, in part due to a significant bequest received during the financial year.
Perth's residential property market remains in the doldrums as sellers start to pull their properties off the market, the median house price continues to decline and an increasing number OF people
Diploma Group has won a $17.6 million contract to build a mixed-use residential, retail and office project in Oxford Street, Leederville, for a joint venture between Foundation Housing, Anglicare W
THE collection tins will come out during the lead-up to Christmas with almost every charity, benevolent institution and not-for-profit organisation asking the haves to donate to the have-nots.
THE Western Australian Wine Industry Association and Anglicare are two of the 21 organisations to receive State Government funding geared towards the promotion of growth and job prospects in regional WA.
