My husband died suddenly and without a will. We’d agreed on the basics – leaving everything to each other – but we avoided the tough conversation about who would care for our kids if something happened to both of us. That sat firmly in the ‘too hard basket’. Then the unimaginable happened, and he died intestate.

A quick Google search about Australia in 1986 reveals that the average capital city median house price was just over $80,000, people were still renting VHS tapes for movie nights, and salary-sacrificing options for Not-For-Profits were introduced as a fantastic tool for attracting top talent.

The humble BandAid is much maligned. BandAid solutions have become synonymous with flimsy, short-term responses. But anyone who’s ever had a hang nail or a paper cut will know how painful life can be without one. You don’t need a bandage or a visit to the doctor: the BandAid is the perfect solution.

Wellbeing can be thought of as the state of being healthy and content, it is the combination of physical, mental, emotional and social aspects that determine a person's level of happiness and satisfaction.

Employers are often keen to offer a salary packaging program to staff. How they provide it, though, is big decision in itself!

The difference between surviving and thriving is massive but has less to do with life circumstances and everything to do with how you choose to think about them.

Ever wondered why corporates are badgering you for team-building activities and staff participation opportunities? It’s not that they don’t have enough work to fill the day.

Good Governance is at the core of our duty to any organisation – not-for-profit or otherwise – with which we have taken on a Board or a Management Committee role.

Salary packaging offers great benefits to employees of many not-for-profit organisations. The ability to salary package a maximum of $15,900 pre-tax to everyday expenses (such as rent, mortgage, school fees and more) delivers incredible tax savings. And there’s also the ‘extra’ $2,650 available to salary package towards holiday accommodation and dining expenses!

Feeling overwhelmed is common in any field of human endeavour, and particularly for those of us who work in the NFP sector which is often underfunded and under resourced.

We can be so determined to make a difference that it leads to a situation where we experience being overwhelmed.