Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban The Society looks to have a deep, and deeply thought through, conversation in 2024 about its path into the future, including at the General Assembly set for May 2024. To such ends, the project has propagated many conversations through 2023,…
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A few questions on vocations
Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban The project is having some quiet conversations with other congregations about current trends relating to vocations and formation. A modest number of other missionary societies and like institutions are kindly assisting by participating in a questionnaire about such matters. That…
Conversations about choices
Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban As the Society looks to have a deep, and deeply thought through, conversations in 2024 about its path into the future, an initial report from the project is being circulated to all Columbans in September 2023. This summary report highlights…
Conversations
Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban The Missionary Society of St Columban includes ordained priests and lay missionaries and is currently present in 16 countries around the world. The Society works across boundaries of culture and religion – with poor and exploited people, seeking justice and…
COVID: no longer everything-everywhere-all-the-time
Client:Chief Executive Officer, ACPSEM As the world finds into a new gear that is not (at least not entirely) all-about-COVID-all-of-the-time, staff changes are an important opportunity to take that deep breath and think about some of the gaps that may have emerged in the rough and tumble of just surviving COVID-19. Lending a hand with…
Basics – the gift that keeps on giving
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd Our confidential logistics project -involving a significant series of detailed functional reviews and the associated labour standards – has motored on to a new series of activities in the first half of 2022. Even as the world is trying to “learn to live with COVID”, keeping a keen eye…
Women in Community: sunset or sunrise?
Client: Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, NSW Region This project responded to a felt need for a fresh look at a long-standing initiative of the Sisters, to answer the question of what options there may be for this initiative to continue to serve an evolving community. The project team has now reviewed…
Can’t see the wood for the trees?
Internal projects naturally drive additional business activity and costs but our experience at ThinkEvans indicates they do not always result in an appropriate return on investment. So what is going wrong? Here we look at some of the classic issues we see in businesses and suggest a few actions to start successfully delivering the projects…
Assessing professional development needs
Client: Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local As part of a collaboration with CCCGPTraining, ThinkEvans has launched a survey of primary health care providers in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven area, to gather evidence for assessing professional development needs of those working in primary health care.
Future Balance
Client: Victoria Province of the Brigidine Sisters Planning the care and support of Brigidine Sisters in the Victoria Province to 2020 and beyond, including using demographic modelling. A report to the Province Leadership Team, Victoria Province of the Brigidine Sisters.
Sustainability: shaping the future as well as the now
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph The final report on a review of the sustainability of six not for profit enterprise operated under the auspices of the Congregation, including the application of a bespoke analytical framework and assessment methodology as the basis for advising on how to take these entities into the future….
Briefing on sustainable nonprofit enterprise
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Culminating a year of study and review of not for profit enterprise operating under the auspices of the Congregation, this presentation provided the analytical framework and assessment methodology for advising on how to take these entities into the future.
Coffee on the “road” … in Timor!
We really aren’t kidding about our whole coffee thing! This time around Managing Director Carolyn Evans and Creative Consultant Roslyn Hull have been experiencing the roads all around Timor Leste – no longer the most recent member of the United Nations but still awaiting their 10th anniversary of membership. Discovering “cafe Timor”, the local brew,…
Board challenges in nonprofit enterprise
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart A seminar was presented for over 70 board members from various not-for-profit enterprises working under the auspices of the Congregation. A variety of issues in good governance, board performance and succession planning will be addressed, in particular re-examining the purpose of the enterprise,…
Coffee on the road … somewhere in Peru!
When we say we are multi-lingual in coffee, we really mean it! The latest item in our repertoire came from two weeks in Peru for Managing Director Carolyn Evans and Principal Consultant Tanya van der Wall, on the road for one of our not-for-profit clients. Putting their bodies on the line for the team, they…
Sustaining projects in evolving circumstances
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Following on from series of papers developed for the NSW, SA, New Zealand, Queensland and Victoria Provinces to address issues of sustainability in institutional ministries, this work will now be extended to the works under the auspices of the Congregation.
Sustainability in nonprofit enterprise
Client: Provinces of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart A series of papers have been developed for the NSW, SA, New Zealand and Victoria Provinces, with Queensland now also under way, to address issues of sustainability in institutional ministries. These organisations are not-for-profit enterprises that work in education, aged care, community services…
Final report: ‘Shaping the Direction’
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia The results of the survey administered to the full membership body of all Congregations that are members of the Institute was encapsulated in this report to the national leadership body of the Institute. With a participation rate above 80%, this survey has achieved an almost unmatchable…
Draft report: ‘Shaping the Direction’
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia Based on the results of the survey administered to the full membership body of all Congregations that are members of the Institute, this draft report brought to the Reconfiguring Committee the detailed data that supported the report of the Task Group which had been charged to…
Josephites: 2020 & beyond
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart This discussion paper was prepared to assist the national leadership group of the Sisters of St Joseph (the order founded by Mother Mary MacKillop and Father Julian Tenison Woods) in their consideration of governance models which are likely to be sustainable over the…