Aim to make your meeting with an MP or Minister a positive and memorable experience. Spend less time on lengthy documents and more time on how you will create a unique impression, writes Neil.

Putting your best foot forward in a government or political meeting may be more complicated than you think. We step through the five categories of government stakeholders and reflect upon who is best, or worst placed to attend your upcoming meeting.

A government tender hits your desk, what do you do next? How do you best leverage relationships and engagements to help position for a competitive tender? Neil shares some advice.

The Age ran a story recently about Scott Morrison’s favourite charity getting $8.1 million in Federal funding. Neil dives into some key points from this article, and explains how you can secure funding in a similar way.

Neil tackles the charity overhead debate and asks if you want money from government, what percentage you should be investing to get it and keep it.

From networking to in-house experts, Neil outlines some of the options for-purpose organisations have when it comes to government engagement, and shares the pros and cons of each one.

Between the two major parties, managing your government engagement is already a large enough job. However, engaging with the crossbench is a next level, high wire act.

Neil explains what caretaker means for social purpose organisations and what opportunities exist during this time.

We are in the midst of a number of electoral redistributions - but why should you care, and what does it have to do with the social purpose sector?