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Our top 10 articles of 2025 Our website has a range of resources for people working in purpose-driven roles to help them to navigate policy development, advocacy, government relations, communications, management and more. Our most viewed article of 2025 is about Kingdon’s policy window theory, which unpacks how and why policy change happens. The best…

Our 2026 training calendar Is your new year resolution to learn new skills? We’ve launched our training calendar for January to June 2026. If you’re wanting to level up in policy and advocacy, communications or organisation – check out our upcoming workshops. Policy and advocacy Policy and advocacy intensive: Online flexible learning Times and dates…

Our 2025 Impact Throughout 2025, we’ve connected with people and organisations from across Australia who are working to drive positive change that increase fairness, health, wellbeing, connection and equity. We so this through our training, strategic support and coaching. We also provide resources on our website including guides, articles, tips and explainers. In 2025 we…

Planning an event at parliament  An FP Explainer The sitting calendar for the Australian Parliament for 2026 has now been confirmed, which means that we now know when politicians will be in Canberra. We’ve created this guide for people and organisations planning an event at Australian Parliament House (APH). It includes everything that you need…

Summer Reads  Are you looking for something to read over the Summer?  Is one of your new years resolutions to read more?  We’re here to help. We’ve pulled together a list of books that people in our community are reading and talking about.  The right hand – Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks Author Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks is the founder…

Meet Cohort #2 and #3 of our Policy Managers Intensive We’ve just wrapped up our final cohort of the Policy Managers Intensive for 2025. In developing this training, we considered the three key skills required for Policy Managers, as being: With each cohort, we want to celebrate the people who are part of the Intensive.…

Our approach to professional development Team FP In everything we do at For Purpose, our aim is to support people and organisations with their professional development. Whether it’s delivering training or coaching or facilitating strategy development or preparing information on our website – we always have a focus on learning and capacity building. The way…

Developing a tangible policy ask An FP Explainer Organisations working to advocate for change are very aware of the problems their communities face. These problems are often varied and far-reaching and include things like a lack of affordable housing, the access that corporations and lobbyists have to decision makers, the cost of dental care, or…