Special Report: Picking up the pieces

By most people’s reckoning, 89 kilograms of paperwork is a lot; yet that’s how much a recent tender put together by community services agency, Anglicare, weighed.

Skills shortages may have beset the corporate sector in Western Australia for several years, but not-for-profit organisations, some argue, have had to cope with added pressures.

There are several ways to define the organisations whose primary objectives do not include making a profit – ‘third’ sector, non-government, community profit, and public benefit are among these descriptions.

Charities in Western Australia are taking advantage of strong growth in retail sales, with many expanding their retail outlets or ‘op shops’.