Ryan Fritz started The Advocate in 2014 to provide not-for-profits and charities with another media platform to tell their worthwhile hard news stories and opinion pieces effortlessly. In 2020, Ryan formed a team of volunteer journalists to help spread even more high-quality stories from the third sector. He also has over 10 years of experience as a media and communications professional for not-for-profits and charities.
We know charities will face a much tougher time over the next year and beyond. Fundraising revenue alone is set to drop over 20% (based on post Global Financial Crisis patterns of giving). The increased need will stretch far beyond the end…
A clean stimulus package could generate over 100,000 jobs and rebuild Australia’s economy post COVID-19, according to a new report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia and prepared by EY (formerly Ernst & Young). The “Australia renewable export COVID-19 recovery package” report says…
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) supports the World Oceans Day (8 June) global vision for 30% of our oceans to be safeguarded through a network of highly protected areas by 2030.…
The Leukaemia Foundation has welcomed news that a new novel combination therapy option will now be available to more myeloma patients through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).…
Here we were thinking pandemics were just material for movie scripts, when COVID-19 abruptly upended life as we knew it. Suddenly the decades-long, earnest focus of anxious epidemiologists was noticed, heard and believed by everyone - not just other scientists and Doomsday Preppers,…
The RSPCA says it is relieved by the Department of Agriculture’s decision to deny live exporter RETWA an exemption, which would have seen 56,000 Australian sheep sent into the dangerous heat and humidity of the Middle Eastern summer in contravention of current…
AUSTRALIA's Prime Minister Scott Morrison and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi are presiding over the degradation of one of the world's most holiest rivers - the Ganges - all to feed the Godda power station that will consume Adani’s coal from Australia. …
A new report launched yesterday by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) forecasts that more than 200,000 jobs in the charity sector could be lost as a result of the COVID-19 crisis if financial supports, such as…
The RSPCA says the horrific treatment and handling of cattle in the live export trade, which led to the 2011 suspension, must not be overlooked in today’s court decision.…
Young people participating in Scouts demonstrated higher levels of resilience, self-confidence, mental wellbeing and the emotional capacity to cope with difficult times such as the recent bushfire crisis or COVID-19 isolation.…
