Australian charities dominate awards for excellence

Media release – 6 April 2016

Nine organisations have been announced as finalists in the Social Impact Measurement Network of Australia (SIMNA) Awards 2016, including eight not-for-profit organisations.

Simon Faivel, Chair of SIMNA, said: ‘We received applications from the SIMNA Awards from different sectors, but the finalists are largely from not-for-profit organisations. This demonstrates the commitment of the sector to improving the wellbeing of people and communities in Australia and abroad, and sharing their success and failures from their impact measurement and reports. We encourage all sectors who want to improve their impact measurement practices to learn from the SIMNA Awards finalists.’

The SIMNA Awards recognise excellence in social impact measurement. Finalists have been announced across 3 categories:

Excellence in Social Impact Measurement:

• The Family Centre
• The Reach Foundation
• The Smith Family

Excellence in Collaboration:

• Souths Cares
• Australian Centre for Asian Business, University of South Australia
• Youth Action NSW

Best Newcomer to Social Impact Measurement:

• CentacareCQ
• Connections UnitingCare
• Vicsport

The winners will be announced on 12 April at the Think Outcomes conference in Melbourne. The conference is organised by SIMNA in association with the Centre for Social Impact and the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth.

A big thank you to Think Impact, sponsors of the Excellence in Social Impact Measurement award.

About SIMNA

SIMNA is Australia’s leading industry and practitioner network for social impact measurement. For more information visit www.simna.com.au or Twitter @SIMNA_AU.

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