PhilanthropyWiki:About
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The PhilanthropyWiki provides a first-port-of-call to the philanthropy and not-for-profit sectors, nationally and internationally, on philanthropy, grantseeking and charitable organisations in Australia.
It forms a comprehensive bank of knowledge, securing a deeper understanding and a research base for the philanthropy sector.
With the PhilanthropyWiki we aim to harness, access and manage the wealth of information and knowledge our staff, trustees and Members possess, encouraging its dissemination and effective sector-wide knowledge management.
The information the PhilanthropyWiki incorporates includes:
- Philanthropedia - documenting historically significant people, organisations, issues and events that have occured in Australian Philanthropy (the Who, Where & How Much of philanthropy section)
- Structures & Models - categorising information on specific types of philanthropic body (the What of philanthropy)
- Practices - covering the practical information relevant to those in the sector (How)
- Theories & Debates - encompassing relevant information that is more analytical and theoretical (Why)
- Program Areas - collating information relevant to funders on different areas of funding, such as Health, Arts or Environment.
Selected sensitive documents may be only available to download by Members with a username and password, protecting their security while still fostering the sharing of information. Such documents are marked with a key icon: 
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PhilanthropyWiki Administrators
The PhilanthropyWiki is Administrated by the Philanthropy Australia Knowledge Centre team:
- Louise Arkles - Manager, Communications & Knowledge
- Vanessa Meachen - Research and Training Manager
- Emily Turner - Web & Communications Administrator
The Administrators fill the following roles on the wiki:
- Monitoring contributions to ensure relevance and accuracy of information is maintained
- Providing support to contributors (Philanthropy Australia Members) to ensure their autonomy and control over their own information is maintained
- Building on the information contained within the PhilanthropyWiki by monitoring, gathering & contributing the research from the nonprofit & philanthropic field
- Providing support to users of the PhilanthropyWiki and ensuring the support pages consistently reflect the needs of the user to ensure their autonomy also.
PhilanthropyWiki Supporters
PhilanthropyWiki has been made possible with the generous support of Macquarie Bank Foundation. In 2007 the Foundation awarded Philanthropy Australia a grant to enable us to undertake our KnowledgeBank project, of which PhilanthropyWiki is the most prominent output.
The KnowledgeBank project is being undertaken in three stages which together will create the first dedicated and extensive online public information service on Australian philanthropy, designed to build the capacity of the philanthropy sector, and by implication the wider nonprofit sector which philanthropic organisations exist to support.
Editors & Contributors
Members of Philanthropy Australia have the ability to edit and create pages in the PhilanthropyWiki, making it possible for them to share information they have gathered or created, as well as to document their own history.
Selected sensitive documents may be only available to download by Members with a username and password, protecting their security while still fostering the sharing of information. Such documents are marked with a key icon:
PhilanthropyWiki Copyright
PhilanthropyWiki is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical 3.0. This means that information published within PhilanthropyWiki is provided in good faith and may be copied, distributed or reproduced as long as two conditions are adhered to:
- The source is acknowledged as follows. Source: Philanthropy Australia, PhilanthropyWiki http://www.philanthropywiki.org.au
- The information is used for non-commercial purposes only.
If you wish to vary either of these conditions please contact us to request permission.
The copyright for individual resources referred to in, or downloadable from, the PhilanthropyWiki may be owned by the resource's author or publisher - please refer to the copyright statement on each resource.
Please note that all contributions to PhilanthropyWiki may be edited, altered or removed by other contributors. While Philanthropy Australia staff manage the content of the PhilanthropyWiki, Members are encouraged to contribute to the development of the Wiki by editing existing pages and adding new resources.
In editing the PhilanthropyWiki, contributors are promising that they wrote, copied from a public domain or similar free resource, or have obtained permission from copyright owners to reproduce material on the PhilanthropyWiki. Copyrighted Work must not be submitted without permission from the copyright owners.
Development History
PhilanthropyWiki is part of Philanthropy Australia's KnowledgeBank project, a model developed inhouse to make our information services as useful, extensive and accessible as possible.
In 2007 Philanthropy Australia received a grant from the Macquarie Group Foundation that allowed us to begin work on the PhilanthropyWiki.
In September 2007 we wound up our beta testing phase with a group of Members. At the end of October/start of November we made the PhilanthropyWiki live, and have plans to launch it official in December.