Description

"Every Alcoa location in Australia celebrated the Alcoa Foundation's 50th Anniversary by hosting an event to recognise the partnerships Alcoa has formed with the community, through the employees who have volunteered to help non-profit organisations through the ACTION and Bravo! programs in 2002. Events nationwide focused on celebrating the partnerships Alcoa has developed in creating stronger communities."

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Commercial Organisation - Alcoa

Description

Launched in July 2003, the Centre was established as a research initiative of Curtin University of Technology and Alcoa World Alumina Australia.
The Centre is committed to increasing resiliency and community capacity through multi-disciplinary research partnerships.
The Centre has been established with the support of Alcoa World Alumina Australia and BankWest. It is auspiced by the Division of Humanities with additional support from the Curtin Business School.

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Educational Institution - Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities

Description

ACCORD was established to help research and develop the co-operative, mutual and social enterprises in Australia. It offers a range of services to individual co-operatives, representative co-operative organisations and governments involved in developing and regulating co-operatives.

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Educational Institutions - University of Technology, Sydney and Charles Sturt University

Description

The new association will provide an ongoing venue for cross-institutional learning on key aspects of community engagement endeavours such as community-based research, service-learning, partnerships, academic staff development and other organisational issues.

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Educational Institution - University of Western Sydney

Description

Information on community collaboration including case studies.

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Individual - C.R. Pete Petersen M.Ed.

Description

The Cape York partnership is an outgrowth of the Cape York Regional Development Plan and aims to give residents of the area the ability to have a stronger influence in the development of their region.

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Community Organisation - Cape York Partnerships

Description

"Bringing together expertise in social sciences, accounting, management studies, marketing and information technology, this research team focuses on collaboration and alliances with knowledge based organisations, both in the private, public and community sectors. The focus of our research has been strategically mapped around the following themes:
- collaboration in innovation in information technology;
- collaborating for sustainability;
- collaboration in social enterprise, entrepreneurship and social capital; and
- collaborating through market transactions."

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Community Organisation - Centre for Innovative Collaborations, Alliances and Networks, NSW

Description

The Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities is an active community development and partnership agent that develops and supports partnership projects with communities.

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Educational Organisation - Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University

Description

Citizenscape provides a wealth of information on citizenship-related organizations, activities, resources and projects including: issues relating to citizenship, governance, human rights and democracy;
advice and techniques for organising and facilitating meetings, getting funded, working with the media and writing grant applications;
information on how Local, State and Commonwealth Governments work;
tips for community engagement practitioners
ConsultWA a catalogue of State Government consultations;
publications on effective consultation.

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State Government - Western Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet

Description

Searchable e-library of publications relating to communities and community building.

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State Government - Department for Victorian Communities

Description

The Community Foundation for Tumut Region aims to make it easier for people to give during their lifetime, see the results of their donations and give the communities within our region the opportunity to plan for their diverse needs and aspirations.
 
Community Foundations were first established in Cleveland in 1914. Today the Community Foundation for Tumut Region is a leader in Australia with the development of Community Foundations. The Community Foundation for Tumut Region is a means for people to engage in large scale philanthropy by pooling their contributions.

Description

The resources listed here cover a range of areas and aspects of community and consumer participation.

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Statutory Authority - Australian Institute of Family Studies

Description

Our mission is to research and develop innovative corporate citizenship solutions that assist in the sustainability of business and society. Strong corporate responsibility develops through effective communication interaction between business, community and government.

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Educational Institution - Deakin University

Description

Diverse Australia Program is an Australian Government initiative. It is about dealing with cultural, racial and religious intolerance.

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Australian Government - Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Description

EPA exists to enable the safe, clean and sustainable environment that all Victorians seek. Achieving the best possible environmental outcomes depends on more than simply complying with environmental laws.
The protection and management of the water environment is a shared responsibility. Victoria has in place many effective processes for protecting its waters. These involve a variety of stakeholders, each having different but complementary roles and responsibilities.

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State Government - Environment Protection Authority Victoria

Description

goodcompany exists to help put young professionals in
contact with community organisations seeking assistance with specific one-off needs and projects.
We know that many young professionals are 'time poor', so we focus on making you aware of individual short-term
projects you can help community groups complete.

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Community Organisation - goodcompany Foundation

Description

Grassroots Networking develops and implements direct action strategies to address such issues as affordable access to information tools, economic development of communities through community enterprise initiatives and increasing skills, provision of content that is relevant to and produced by communities, and a society devoted to lifelong learning.

Description

The Helen & Geoff Handbury Fellowship Program is a community-university partnership scholarship fund that provides financial support to the Western Victoria community region in partnership with RMIT University staff or students to undertake projects that provide a direct and tangible benefit towards the sustainability of the region and surrounds.

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Educational Institution - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Description

The main Lead On activities revolve around practical projects in partnerships with businesses and the community. Teams of young people partner with a business and, facilitated by Lead On, work as part of the business or organisation on an outcome. The young people are exposed to the business, the decision making, input into their own outcomes, provide solutions and are encouraged to participate into the success of the outcomes.

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Community Organisation - Lead on Australia

Description

Mornington Peninsula Community Connections is an independent, non-profit, and free management consultancy for small, non-profit community services and groups on the Mornington Peninsula.

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Community Organisation - Mornington Peninsula Community Connections

Description

Neighbourhood Watch is a successful community-based crime prevention program aimed at the protection of property and personal safety. In particular, the program is aimed at reducing burglaries. The ultimate success of Neighbourhood Watch depends on a partnership approach between residents and the police.

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State Government - Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services

Description

Aims to see corporate and private Australasia rise to the challenge of generously supporting all worthwhile community not-for-profit organisations. This company engages in marketing, sponsorship, Cause-Related Marketing, corporate citizenship and development services.

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Commercial Organisation - O'Keefe and Partners

Description

One Umbrella is a unique organisation. They collect food that cannot be used and turn it into nutritious meals for the homeless and hungry of Melbourne.
In 2004, One Umbrella provided 183,000 meals at no cost to agencies working with the homeless and hungry. Their goal in 2005/2006 to exceed 200, 000 meals.

Author

One Umbrella Australia Inc.

Description

This easy-to-use, web-based Tool gives partnerships an exciting new way to assess how well their collaborative process is working and to identify specific areas they can focus on to make the process work better. The Tool is being provided to partnerships at no charge by the Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at The New York Academy of Medicine with funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. They welcome responses from all countries.

Author

Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health

Country

USA

Description

The book contains step-by-step advice and case studies about how small community groups can form productive longer-term relationships with business groups. The authors, all qualified social workers, have worked extensively in the business and community sectors and reveal in a down-to-earth way what they have learned about successful partnerships between community and business groups. (Order form in pdf format)

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Individuals - Barrie Thomas, Director The Body Shop NZ; Mark Glazebrook, Corporate Citizenship Adviser BP Australia; John Murphy, Manager Mornington Peninsula Community Connections

Description

RAPlink (Regional Action Partnership Link) is a self-funded voluntary organisation that links communities with information or resources they need for community development projects.

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Community Organisation - Regional Action Partnership Link

Description

Business organisations keen to contribute to community well being as part of a social responsibility strategy should give consideration to involvement with Community Capacity Building. Paper by
Dr John Murphy and Barrie Thomas.

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State Government - communitybuilders.nsw

Description

The Scanlon (formerly Brencorp) Foundation was established in June 2001. Its mission is:
'to support the creation of a larger cohesive Australian society'. 
The Foundation is a Member of Philanthropy Australia , the national membership organisation for grant making trusts and foundations.

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Community Organisation - Scanlon Foundation

Description

Social Ventures Australia (SVA) aims to source innovative solutions to many of Australian society's entrenched community problems. They aspire to becoming the focal point for the mentoring, nurturing and financing of Australian-based social ventures. Established in 2002, SVA is the result of the pooled resources of The AMP Foundation, The Benevolent Society, The Smith Family and WorkVentures. If you are seeking SVA assistance please go to their website where you will be asked to submit your venture
proposal and details.

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Community Organisation - Social Ventures Australia

Description

The Malian Foundation's aim is to help non-profit organisations around the world aid their clients in sharing their hopes and living their dreams. We work towards this aim by providing products and services to aid non-profit organisations in improving their management and operational efficiency.