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| Subject: RE: Corporate Giving - must do better |
Author: Trevor Clarke
Date: 11/6/2001 12:03 am WEDT
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Take a look at the following extract, with a weblink for more details. If you really care about improving community services, please take a look. A worthwhile debate here with radical new ideas. There is more to what can be done than only calling councillors to account. Who is going to step forward and say "I am going to make us more efficient, honest and transparent. We will be radical and imaginative in seeking new sources of funding that are purely for public benefit. There will be no more selling off of land and property assets. Schools, social services, community care and our environment will all gain from new funding, with no strings attached.
Anyone?
Thursday November 1, 2001
The charity sector should be scrapped and replaced by "public benefit" organisations focused on providing services to the community, according to one of the sector's most senior and respected figures.
Chief executive of Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), Michael Brophy, will next week call for an expanded non-profit sector "capable of delivering health, education, transport or cultural services on the same scale as the state".
Such a move would lead to a shakeup of existing charity law, ending charitable status for potentially thousands of organisations that cannot demonstrate that they operate in the public interest.
Mr Brophy's proposed new sector would include social enterprise schemes, cooperatives and mutuals, which would benefit from the favourable tax regime currently available to charities.
He will tell delegates at the annual CAF conference next week: "If a cranky church or a public school, donkey sanctuary or playing field doesn't satisfy the general test of public benefit, then it is out."
Quiz Mr Brophy on his ideas when he is online at 3.30pm on Wednesday November 7, ahead of his keynote speech at the CAF conference the following day.
For a preview of Michael Brophy's speech:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/conferences/caf/story/0,10589,584377,00.html
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