Sector jargon gets shown the door by Navca 1

Governance | 19 May 2010

While most sector organisations are celebrating the death of the phrase ‘third sector’, local CVS umbrella body Navca has gone a step further and decided to throw out another piece of jargon that has haunted us all in recent years.

No longer will you hear Navca refer to the dreaded “local infrastructure organisations” – such bodies will now be called “local support and development organisations” in all Navca material.

“Infrastructure is generally regarded as an engineering term,” said Navca CEO Kevin Curley. “It conjures up images of bridges, roads and railways.

“Whereas ‘local support and development organisations’ is an accurate description – that is, after all, what they do,” he said.

However, he accepted the new terminology was not exactly catchy, and couldn’t sensibly be acronym-ised. “That would give us ‘Local SADO’,” Curley chuckled, “which doesn’t help us a lot.”

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Vanessa Augustus
Executive Officer
Social Solutions Academy
21 May 2010

We are pleased to hear the term 'third sector' will be not be promoted as it makes social leaders sound like poor relations to the public and private sectors.

Our organisation is indeed a local support and development agent set up to make it easy for leaders of social change to build relationships, develop innovation and act collectively to drive lasting social change through sharing knowledge, contacts, ideas and learning.

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