Much has been written about the business case and the social case for corporate volunteering. Typically, these cases have been defined using the survey results of CSR managers and NGO leaders. Rarely, had the perspectives of corporate volunteers been explored. The experience for the corporate volunteers is key for United Way in starting a volunteering …read more
As a prelude to National Volunteering Week, United Way Australia, with the support of AMP Foundation, successfully launched our Partners for Impact Program last Wednesday. Partners for Impact is a year-long peer development program. We pair up corporate and community leaders, who work on initiatives to develop the capacity of the community organisations so that …read more
It’s hard to think of an Academic as a rock star, but that’s how Mark Kramer, Co-Founder and Managing Director of FSG, was received at the Global Conference for United Way Worldwide in Nashville last month. Perhaps it was because we were in the US Country Music capital (Dolly Parton made an appearance as well, …read more
Our Community Impact work in Melbourne is focused on improving the lives of young people in the outer south-eastern region of the city. This is a region where statistics show high levels of concentrated disadvantage and social exclusion that carries over through the generations. In a series of community conversations and a ‘Search for Solutions Seminar’ …read more
On Wednesday 18 April we held our forum on ‘Collaboration for Social Innovation’ at the Weave Arts Centre as part of the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX) Social Changemaker’s Festival. It was a great event and the all the more memorable in torrential rain in a facility with a tin roof! We had fantastic input …read more
Do Your Best Awards “It is not about being the best, it’s about doing your best.” These are the words that Reg Corney, Acting Principal, at Claymore Public School, told the infants and primary students at their Term 1 Celebration Assembly, as he wheeled out five bikes to award to those students teachers had agreed …read more
Three years ago Victoria experienced one of the worst natural disasters in its history – Black Saturday. This disaster impacted significantly on individuals, family and community members in many and varying ways. At the time of this third anniversary of the disaster, people are in very different places when reflecting on the events that took …read more
On February 22, United Way Australia, in conjunction with United Way Worldwide, will participate in a revolutionary eight-day global giving campaign spanning more than 60 countries around the world. “Everyone Gives” expects to be the most extensive and inclusive global giving event ever attempted, benefiting more than 200 non-profits around the globe. What do you …read more
Normally I would say that it only seems like yesterday that it was January 2011, however this time around January 2011 seems like a long time ago. If I were sitting where I am now, this time last year, then I would literally be over my head in brown water and so would thousands of …read more