The Good Governance Program is a NSW state wide learning and development program aimed at voluntary board members of small to medium not-for-profit boards and management committees of organisations that provide services funded by NSW Ageing Disability and Home Care (ADHC) to develop and embed good governance to build the systems's capacity and accountability. The program aims to coordinate the development of a learning and development strategy to support the implementation of ADHC's "Its Your Business" governance resource manual. The program and manual are one of several capacity building initiatives reflecting the Department’s ongoing commitment to developing a sustainable support system for people with a disability, older people and their carers.

The 'Developing Your Board Project', conducted by the Australian Centre For Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (CPNS) at Queensland University of Technology, is developing both qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools for use in evaluating and benchmarking performance of nonprofit boards. These instruments are being framed for the Australian context and will be made available free of charge to nonprofit organisations. Nonprofit boards / management committees will be able to use them to assess and re-assess their performance over time and benchmark against similar nonprofit boards.

Not enough not‐for‐profit boards have a commitment to effective performance measures, nor take appropriate action when they don’t meet their own performance measures, according to a new survey of Australian and New Zealand organisations.

The survey – Organisation Performance: A Board Perspective – was compiled by Board Benchmarking and InSync Surveys and drew on the views of 625 directors from 79 Australian and New Zealand boards. Fifty‐three percent (or more than 325) of the directors involved in the survey came from not‐for‐profit groups.