ammado was a particpant earlier this year at the inaugural Asia Pacific Forum in Perth. Staged by the Fundraising Insititute of Australia, on the eve of its NEWFrontiers: 31st International Fundraising Conference, the event brought together leading fundraisers in the nonprofit sector from all over the world to Perth to address issues facing nonprofits in the Asia Pacific region. These included:

• trends in philanthropy in Australia, where in 2007 there were AUD$11 billion in gifts made to over 600 philanthropic trusts.
• boosting investment in capacity building, knowledge and information management of nonprofits
• need for a better evidence base and better metrics for measuring the social impact of the nonprofit sector

The FIA has now released the resolutions to come out of the forum, including the call that a common information portal be developed for the benefit of the regional fundraising community, which ammado proposed and supported at the forum.