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Maggie Coggan is a journalist at Pro Bono News covering the social sector.

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Love thy neighbour (and donate to them as well)

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Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 5th June 2019 -  A community fund in western Sydney is aiming to tap into philanthropic funds normally funneled into more affluent areas of the city, and harness local knowledge to help communities in need.

Cross-sectors unite to make Melbourne greener

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Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 5th June 2019 -  Melbourne has become the first city in Australia to launch a comprehensive strategy to increase and protect green urban spaces in a bid to dull the effects of climate change and protect the city’s most vulnerable.  

Brewing coffee with impact

Spotlight

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 5th June 2019 -  Matt and Whitney Teluk are self-confessed coffee snobs. They are also passionate about breaking down education barriers for primary school kids in Tanzania, so they started selling coffee to fund their impact work, writes Maggie Coggan in this month’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise.   

Mobile finance program to reunite Indigenous owners with lost super

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Maggie Coggan, Monday, 3rd June 2019 -  A finance program will tour through the Northern Territory and Western Australia to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders reunite with superannuation they might have never known they had.

Switching off in schools could be the key to success

Changemaker

Maggie Coggan, Monday, 3rd June 2019 -  Nicola Bone is leading a silent revolution in schools across Queensland, setting young people up for a more focused and anxiety-free school day through meditation and mindfulness training. She’s this week’s Changemaker.

Employment-focused social enterprise proves itself… with little support

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Maggie Coggan, Friday, 31st May 2019 -  Providing jobs with extra career support can improve the health, wellbeing and finance of people living with mental illness and help the nation’s social services, new research has found.

Indigeous impact investment fund to provide the best of both finance and social worlds

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Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 29th May 2019 -  A multi-million dollar social impact fund has launched, promising to invest in infrastructure that will benefit both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and provide a return to investors.  

Just ask the question: Barriers to disability employment

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Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 29th May 2019 -  When Kelly Schulz, who has been legally blind since birth, was offered her first job at the end of an interview, she was thrilled.

Community housing group pave way for reconciliation

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Maggie Coggan, Monday, 27th May 2019 -  A leading community housing group has launched a Reconciliation Action Plan in a bid to strengthen relationships and cultural understanding between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities the organisation works with.

Philanthropy powerhouses go public with donation to save WA reefs

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Maggie Coggan, Monday, 27th May 2019 -  Andrew and Nicola Forrest have revealed they were behind an anonymous multi-million dollar pledge, in a bid to raise awareness of a project aiming to restore the country’s most threatened marine ecosystems in Western Australia.   
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