News, events & opportunities
- Public Lecture: An evening with Tim Costello, 21 August, 2008
- Keep Australia Beautiful Week: Save the World. Start at Home. 25-31 August, 2008
- Mindful Leadership
- Grants available, August-September 2008
- National Conference on Volunteering, 3-5 September, 2008
- National Volunteering Research Symposium - Call for Abstracts
- Students 4 Students National Leadership Conference, 27-30 September, 2008
- Sydney Leadership Program 2009 - Applications now open
- Intervarsity Summit on Australia's Role in Ending Extreme Poverty, 10-11 October, 2008
- Our Community Photo Bank Competition
- Show off your Community in the "My Street" competition!
Public Lecture: An evening with Rev Tim Costello, 21 August 2008
Burma, China & disaster relief: negotiating political sensitivities and upholding human rights in aid and development
Engineers Without Borders(EWB) presents an evening with Rev Tim Costello, CEO World Vision Australia. This event is supported by the Student Portal team.
Thursday 21 August 2008 @6.30pm-8.00pm
Prince Philip Theatre, Ground Floor, Architecture Building (bldg 133), Parkville
For enquiries contact Samantha Morgan on (03) 8344 6892 or slm@ unimelb.edu.au. For more information on EWB visit: http://www.ewb.org.au/main/
top of pageKeep Australia Beautiful Week: Save the World. Start at Home. 25-31 August, 2008
Keep Australia Beautiful Week was developed by the national Keep Australia Beautiful organisation to help focus and remind the public of what they can do in their daily lives to help improve and preserve their local environment. The aim of the campaign is to demonstrate the easy ways you can help the environment and also save money by making a few simple changes around the home and in your daily lives.
For more information, visit Keep Australia Beautiful at: www.kab.org.au
Mindful Leadership
Amanda Sinclair is Foundation Professor of Management (Diversity and Change) at the Melbourne Business School. Her latest book, Leadership for the Disillusioned: Beyond myths and heroes to leading that liberates suggests leadership should be directed towards new purposes of promoting freedom and well-being.
To hear more about Mindful Leadership with Amanda visit The University of Melbourne's Up Close Podcast at: http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/episode/103
Grants available, August-September 2008
Visions of Australia
The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts is offering grants to assist eligible organisations to develop and tour Exhibitions of Australian Cultural Material throughout Australia.
Applications close September 1.
For more information visit: http://www.arts.gov.au/arts/visions_of_australia
Community Inclusion for the Disabled in Victoria
This grant aims to support the inclusion and engagement in our community of children and adults with disabilities. Grants from $2,000 to $30,000 are available.
Applications close September 1.
For more information visit: ANZ Trustees Programs.
Youth Change Makers
To support individuals and small groups of young people who have identified an issue in their community and have developed an advocacy response which aims to take action that creates a positive impact and/or change in relation to that issue. Youth Change Makers grants will support projects up to $10,000 per applicant group.
Applications close: October 6.
For more information vist: The Foundation for Young Australians
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust
Aims to nurture the growth of excellence and diversity in cultural activities in Australia by making small grants to outstandingly talented people in the early stages of their careers. Grants of up to $7,000 are available.
Applications close: October 6.
For more information visit: http://culturaltrust.ianpotter.org.au/
Emergency Grant to Replace Essential Sports Equipment
To provide assistance to local sport and active recreation clubs and organisations to replace essential sports equipment that has been lost or destroyed as a consequence of fire, flood, significant storm event, theft or criminal damage. Up to $2,000 available.
Applications close: this is an ongoing grant.
For more information visit: Grants at the Department of Planning and Community Development.
For a comprehensive list of grants available nationally visit The LIVE Unit at Ground floor, 723 Swanston Street, Parkville Campus.
National Conference on Volunteering, 3-5 September, 2008
The 12th National Conference on Volunteering: Catch the New Waves, will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland on 3-5 September 2008, and will explore the current and emerging trends in volunteering. The Conference provides a timely opportunity to reflect and explore the role that volunteering will play in Australian society in the 21st century and discuss its relevance to the topical issues of social capital, community capacity building and corporate social responsibility.
For more information visit www.volunteeringaustralia.org/conference
National Volunteering Research Symposium - Call for Abstracts
Volunteering Australia will host the Second National Volunteering Research Symposium, in conjunction with the 12th National Conference on Volunteering, bringing together researchers with a strong and demonstrated research interest in the field of volunteering.
The event to be held on 2 September, 2008 presents a unique opportunity for researchers to share their work with fellow researchers and to discuss the practice, priorities and possibilities of research for the advancement of volunteering.
Volunteering Australia invites proposals on both completed and current research from both academics as well as postgraduate students (Honours, Masters and PhD students) currently pursuing research into volunteering related issues.
For further information visit National Volutneering Research Symposium, or if you are interested in attending this event, please email your name and contact details along with an indication of your main area of research interest to events@volunteeringaustralia.org
Students 4 Students National Leadership Conference, 27-30 September, 2008
Do you want to meet other tertiary students who want to make a positive impact on the world around them? Would you like an inspiring and empowering environment to explore issues relevant to leadership in theory and practice?
The S4S National Leadership Conference will offer a series of high profile guest speakers, reflection sessions, simulations, workshops, graduate employer displays and plenty of opportunities to network with tertiary students from across Australia.
When: September 27 -30
Where: University of Wollongong
For more information and to register go to: www.studentleaders.org.au
Sydney Leadership Program 2009 - Applications now open
The Sydney Leadership Program is a ten-month social leadership development program for decision makers who want to lead change in their own communities, organisations and spheres of influence. It is an opportunity for personal growth and a vehicle for creating a better society.
Applications close October 1. For more information visit The Benevolent Society.
Intervarsity Summit on Australia's Role in Ending Extreme Poverty, 10-11 October, 2008
An Intervarsity Summit on Australia's Role in Ending Extreme Poverty (ISAREEP) to be held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) on 10-11 October 2008, aims to create a unified national student voice about Australia's role in the eradication of poverty.
This initiative was devised by the 40K Home Foundation, an Australian based youth-focused NGO currently executing an eco-development project in India.
ISAREEP is inviting 300 student delegates from 47 universities across Australia and our neighbours in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands to attend. Additionally, there will be 100 specialist advisors from the Australian Government, the Australian NGO Community, and the Australian Corporate Sector.
Over the two days of summiting, the delegates will be exposed to four keynote addresses, focus sessions and small-group discussions. If you would like to partipate in the summit or would like more information visit ISAREEP '08. To register your interest contact Ali Kassem at akassem@unimelb.edu.au.
Our Community Photo Bank Competition
Our Community and Australia Post are working together to build up a gallery of photos that show the full extent of Australia's communities and the people who work with them. A total of $5000 in cash prizes is available for photographers who upload images to the Photo Bank, and their nominated community groups. There are two prizes - one for the most popular photo, and another for the photo that best exemplifies the work of Australian community.
The competition is open until October 22, but photos will remain on the Photo Bank
indefinitely.
Find out more and view existing photographs at
www.ourcommunity.com.au/photobank.
Show off your Community in the "My Street" competition!
ABC Radio National is holding a competition to unearth some great stories about Australian communities as part of its Street Stories program. People throughout Australia are being invited to tell the tale of their street using video, audio, images and/or text. The story can be recorded on a mobile phone, an MP3 player, a video or digital camera, or it could be a written description or a series of photos with captions.
Entries will be uploaded onto the Radio National website and the producer of the best story will have the opportunity to work with ABC Radio to have their story broadcast on Radio National's Street Stories program.
Entries close on November 7. For more information go to www.abc.net.au/rn/streetstories/features/mystreet/