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Overview

This webinar series aims to enable funders and grantmakers with tools and approaches to provide deeper organisational support for their charity partners.

Co-hosted by Philanthropy Australia, Beyond the Grant webinar series is an exploration of new innovative practices with capacity building intermediary Benefolk.

Event Schedule

Webinar 1 - Supporting charities and social enterprises and their organisational effectiveness

Wednesday 29 October 2025 | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM AEDT

Webinar 2 - Supporting charities and social enterprises through crisis and turnaround

Tuesday 25 November 2025 | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM AEDT

To create space for open, honest, and confidential dialogue, these sessions will not be recorded.

Location

Virtual event - Zoom details to be provided after registration.

Audience

This event is for funders only. Affiliation with Philanthropy Australia and Benefolk are not required. If you are not yet a member of Philanthropy Australia or want to find out more about the philanthropic work in this area, please reach out to membership@philanthropy.org.au.

Hosts

Philanthropy Australia

Philanthropy Australia is the national peak body for philanthropy. Our members include trusts, foundations, families, individual donors, professional advisors, companies, intermediaries and not-for-profit organisations. Learn more here: philanthropy.org.au

Benefolk

Benefolk is a capacity building intermediary that specialises in the NFP sector. Benefolk partners with philanthropic foundations to boost the capacity, sustainability and wellbeing of the charity partners. Visit benefolk.org.au.

Learn more about Philanthropy Australia membership.

Find out more about Benefolk.

Supporting charities and social enterprises and their organisational effectiveness

Wednesday 29 October | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

As charities navigate increasing complexity and demand, many philanthropic trusts and foundations are exploring meaningful ways to strengthen organisational capability and resilience.

In this first session, Benefolk CEO/Founder Julia Keady and Benefolk Foundation Manager Annette Herschtal will share insights from their work partnering with philanthropic foundations to deliver tailored, wrap-around support to their charity partners. This approach places each charity’s needs at the centre, and supports them through both challenges and opportunities.

The conversation will also include perspectives from a charity leader who has received this support, a Benefolk independent consultant who has provided the services, and a philanthropic funding partner who has provided the funding for the services.

The session will also outline international philanthropic trends in Organisational Effectiveness, and share Benefolk program outcomes including the organisational wellbeing uplift achieved by working in this joined-up way.

Note: To create space for open, honest, and confidential dialogue, this session will not be recorded.

Moderator/Facilitator: Dr Liz Branigan, Director Knowledge and Practice - Philanthropy Australia

Speakers:

Julia Keady, CEO/Founder - Benefolk
Annette Herschtal, Foundation Manager - Benefolk
Linda Garnet, Charity/Corporate Partnerships Consultant - Benefolk
Jane Vadiveloo, Founding CEO - Children’s Ground
Penny Yewers, Executive Officer - William Angliss Charitable Fund

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Supporting charities and social enterprises through crisis and turnaround

Date: Nov 25, 2025 Time: 1230 - 1330

Tuesday 25 November | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Increasingly, philanthropic foundations are seeing their charity partners in distress and seeking urgent financial support or business turnaround support. But when is a business turnaround possible, and what are the steps for grantmakers, and then charities, to undergo such an undertaking.

In this next session, the Benefolk team will share insights into their business turnaround partnerships with philanthropic foundations, and how the right-sized turnaround advice can provide stronger bottom lines, improved governance and business practices, and a much-needed uplift in staff and organisational wellbeing.

Benefolk CEO/Founder Julia Keady Benefolk Foundation Manager Annette Herschtal will share key insights into this emergent practice.

They will also facilitate a conversation that will feature perspectives and experience from a social enterprise leader who has received this support, a philanthropic funding partner, and a turnaround specialist consultant.

Participants will each receive a Business Health Check list and a Conversation Starter Tool to help guide early-stage discussions with charities and social enterprises around their business turnaround potential.