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Older Women’s Housing Program Tackles Growing Crisis

Jeanette Large, Thursday, 24th May 2018 - A new housing program hopes to help the increasing number of older women who find themselves living in unstable, highly overpriced or grossly inadequate housing, writes Jeanette…

Creating Supportive Communities Around People Doing it Tough

Contributor, Tuesday, 3rd April 2018 - How Gather My Crew, a new online rostering tool, is encouraging a digital community revolution. At some point in our lives, we will all face an overwhelming challenge that will test…

Community Infrastructure That Delivers Social Outcomes

Contributor, Tuesday, 27th March 2018 - Brimbank City Council’s new infrastructure project in St Albans, in Melbourne’s West, will use the development of a leisure and community centre as a way to deliver population-level…

Empowering Children to Lead Positive Social Change

Andrea Lemon, Tuesday, 23rd May 2017 - Children have great capacity to affect the lives of those around them, writes Dr Andrea Lemon, CEO and founding co-director of Kids Thrive. “Before Kids as Catalyst I was just an …

Australia Helping the World Turn Outward

Wendy Williams, Friday, 24th March 2017 - Australia can help lead the world towards better community engagement by demonstrating what new and innovative place-based strategies could look like, according to the president…

Does your organisation support the wellbeing of Australian youth?

Staff Reporter, Monday, 20th February 2017 - Since 1917 Commonwealth Bank staff have been supporting young people to thrive through their workplace giving program the Staff Community Fund. In their 100th year, they are awarding…

Handbook on Community Investment in Co-Operatives

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 2nd November 2016 - The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) has produced a self-help manual to assist communities around Australia to use the co-operative model to raise capital.…

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Placing A Community ‘Lens’ Closer to Home

Julia Keady, Tuesday, 25th October 2016 - We all need to start getting our heads around what are incredibly sacred, yet vulnerable and overlooked parts of people’s lives and their collective wellbeing, writes social impact…

New Grants Unite Communities to Sing With One Voice

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 13th October 2016 - New grants have been launched to help communities across Australia come together through the power of song. Creativity Australia is calling on local communities to apply for seed…

Cohesion Begins At a Community Level

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 20th September 2016 - Communities are the heart and soul of our nation, according to a new discussion paper which argues social cohesion begins at a community level. The Scanlon Foundation released a discussion…

Canon Announces Grants to Help the Environment

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 14th June 2016 - Canon Oceania is helping put Not for Profit organisations and local schools who are passionate about the environment behind the lens. To mark World Environment Day, the world’s…

Prominent Australians Urge PM Not to Cut Taxes

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 13th April 2016 - Community leaders and top economists have signed an open letter calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull not to cut taxes in the upcoming Budget – especially not on company profits.…

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