From Brave to SEED: ‘Our country needs healthy families’
Dee Rudebeck
Fri, 8 Sep 2023
As origin stories go, Bernadette Black’s is highly compelling. Her drive to establish Brave Foundation as its first CEO – an organisation supporting young parents into education or work – was grounded in her own experience as a pregnant 16-year-old trying to navigate Centrelink. She found the experience profoundly unwelcoming and unhelpful, and it created a deep determination to one day change the system. Thirty years on, she’s doing that with SEED.
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How bequests underpin positive change in our communities
Fri, 8 Sep 2023
As a major sponsor of the Fundraising Institute of Australia’s Include a Charity Week 2023 campaign, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation held an event at the Melbourne Town Hall this week. ‘Will wonders never cease’ was aimed at encouraging more people to consider leaving a legacy gift to create a positive impact in their community after they’ve gone.
Philanthropy Australia conference heading to Adelaide
Fri, 1 Sep 2023
Philanthropy Australia today announced that its 2024 national conference will take place at the Adelaide Convention Centre. This will be the first time the conference has been held outside Melbourne and Sydney.
Results are in! Philanthropy Australia membership survey
Fri, 1 Sep 2023
The results of the recent survey of Philanthropy Australia members have been collated and analysed, with some great results.
Rona Glynn-McDonald: ‘We want to rewrite the story of wealth and funding’
Fri, 1 Sep 2023
An innovative funding platform, First Nations Futures, has been launched that gives everyone in Australia the opportunity to provide unrestricted funds for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-driven initiatives. As efforts towards truth-telling and justice gain momentum, the platform hopes to help allocate funding into spaces that are under-resourced and create intergenerational impact for community and Country.
‘Sharing knowledge will create generational change’
Fri, 25 Aug 2023
Kayla Baker-Peris is a proud Yolngu, Yawurru and Kidja woman born and raised in Darwin. She is an alumnus of the Yalari Indigenous scholarship program, which supported her until graduating from Kambala Girls School in Rose Bay, Sydney, in 2018. Below, she shares her experiences of being one of the first Indigenous students at Kambala and how the scholarship changed her life.
Brave voices: key takeaways from the NEXUS Global Summit
Lucy Steggles
Fri, 25 Aug 2023
Lucy Steggles, a member of Philanthropy Australia’s New Gen Network, and Chair and Regional Director of NEXUS Australia, reflects on the highlights of the summit that followed our New York Study Tour earlier in 2023. Storytelling and the voices of lived experience were an integral part of the summit, and left a lasting impression about the impact that’s possible with the power of collaboration.
