• Sharing Financial Administration: A Feasibility Study of Potential Models for Small Non-Government Organisations
• Insurance: What's it all about? A Guide for Not for Profit Organisations
• Shifting Ground: Competition and tendering in community services
• Incorporation: An explanation of the Associations Incorporation Act

While it is widely recognised that small NGOs excel at delivering services to communities, many such organisations struggle with their back office functions and particularly the financial administration and financial management aspects of supporting the delivery of their core services.

For this reason Matrix on Board and Zurich Insurance have partnered to undertake research examining the feasibility of small NGOs sharing their financial administration and financial management functions.

Potential models, with the aim of finding means to ensure these functions are fulfilled in a way that maximises efficiency and allows small NGOs to focus on service delivery, have been developed and are detailed in this publication

$25.00 ($16.00 for members)

Struggling to understand your insurance? Not sure which insurances you need? Don't know what your insurance covers your organisation for?

Insurance: What's it all about? demystifies insurance by providing simple, easy to understand information on:

• The players: brokers, underwriters, unauthorised foreign insurers, etc
• Selecting an insurance provider
• Filling out proposal forms
• Understanding your policy
• Reducing your premium
• Claims
• 15 different types of insurance: what they are, when you need them, what they cover and other issues.

Plus a whole host of practical information to assist you to better understand your insurance policies.

$19.00 ($16.00 for members)

Graham Wheeler This book was written to help community groups understand more about the Associations Incorporation Act 1984. This Act was designed to provide community groups with a simple and inexpensive form of incorporation. Although incorporation is not compulsory, it is an option which community groups should know about. It is hoped that Incorporation will be of assistance to those who wish to make an informed decision on whether or not to incorporate, and to successfully register and run an incorporated association.
Revised sixth edition (November 2002)

$22.50 (NCOSS members $19.00)

In the second half of the 1990's, micro economic reforms are reshaping most of our public and social services. They are finding their way into human services via the introduction of a competitive contracting funding regime. Community organisations cannot avoid the impact of these reforms.
It has been evident for some time that community organisations require assistance in dealing with the impact of microeconomic reform in general and the application of competition policy in particular. Shifting Ground will assist community organisations to:

• negotiate the process of change;
• contribute meaningfully to the development policy and to the design and management of programs and services
• formulate tenders and enter contracts.

$25.30 ($21.45 for members)
Discounts available for multiple copies