Community & Arts

Progressive CEOs and a more receptive workforce are helping shape a new phenomenon within Western Australian business, according to the state’s peak body for volunteering.

Variety WA has attributed a record fund-raising result last financial year to its constructive engagement with the business community.

Two not-for-profit organisations, The McCusker Foundation for Alzheimer’s Research and Alzheimer’s Australia WA, have teamed up to launch a campaign to assist Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers.

Red Cross Western Australia has become one of the few WA not-forprofit organisations to raise funds through a charity auction home, with a new home completed and ready to be auctioned next month in Tapping.

The aged and community services sector in Western Australian has established an taskforce with private sector participants to develop strategies to deal with labour and building issues.

The state government addressed a long-running issue early this month when it announced plans to spend $500 million developing a new museum at the East Perth power station site.

A new study of one of the state’s first not-for-profit institutions, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals WA (RSPCA), may provide a valuable link to the past for historians and ideas for creating a successful structure for other not-

Almost 10 years have passed since the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research was founded with just a handful of staff and some foundation funding.

It's hard to believe that, just five or six years ago, the Perth International Arts Festival was in a rebuilding phase after a multi-million dollar loss had shaken the morale of the festival team.