Karma Currency Foundation CEO Ash Rosshandler cannot speak highly enough of Leadership Victoria Alumni Denis O’Hara (EBLP ’08). Without Denis, the newly minted not-for-profit would probably not be around today. “I don’t think we would have survived, to be honest,” he says. To date over $1,000,000 has been donated to not-for-profit groups through Karma Currency, [...]
The rates of recidivism for young offenders in Victoria are high. In 2005, 66% of young people released from prison went on to reoffend, increasing the likelihood that they would enter the adult prison system. Of the young people involved in the mentoring and employment initiative The Bridge Project, only 3% have gone on [...]
The Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance (VYMA) isn’t the most glamorous part of the mentoring process. They don’t forge long-lasting relationships with young people, match them with their perfect mentor, or get reminded of the great work they do in the form of a flourishing adolescent. But they are the ones who keep them safe. In [...]
Photo by Leah Robertson, used courtesy Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Based in an unassuming building on the edge of the CBD, it would be difficult to guess at the hive of activity that lies behind the doors of Melbourne’s Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC). It’s an atmosphere of controlled chaos as 25 paid staff, and [...]
The ‘Focus on Food’ leadership program is an exciting new initiative that has been developed between Leadership Victoria and Foodbank Victoria. Specifically tailored to the food sector and its stakeholders, ‘Focus on Food’ is based on LV’s successful Igniting Leadership Program and is designed to develop high-potential leaders through a concentrated learning experience. The program will [...]
In 2010, Helen Kennedy was one of five individuals supported by an Office of the Community Sector scholarship to participate in Igniting Leadership, LV’s program for emerging leaders. She came to the program facing considerable leadership-related challenges in her own professional role managing the Family Counseling Service of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS). Helen supervises [...]
LV has created four new documentary style video clips to highlight some of the work undertaken by our Alumni leading projects to drive change. We hope you enjoy the following four clips: Create Networks: profiles the important work undertaken by The Bridge Project, run in partnership with the YMCA to create mentoring, training and employment [...]
Russell Deal from Innovative Resources, the Bendigo based publishing arm of St Luke’s Anglicare, reflects on the organisation’s 14-year relationship with Williamson graduate, Nigel McGuckian (WCLP’95). St Luke’s stumbled into publishing in 1995. We didn’t know anything about that world but were producing materials for our family workers at St Luke’s Anglicare. These were incredibly [...]
Last week, 30 members of Victoria’s African community graduated from the inaugural African Leadership Development Program. The Program, which ran over five months, paired mentors from business, not-for-profit and government sectors with emerging African Australian leaders to develop their skills in areas such as planning, governance and sustainability. The mentors are all Alumni of LV’s [...]
Mick Malthouse, Justin Madden and some of the Bridge mentoring participants As a proud partner of YMCA’s The Bridge Project, LV congratulates The Bridge in achieving five years of providing essential support and mentoring to Victorian youth. 2010′s The Bridge Project breakfast was held on Thursday 12 August 2010, to bring together sponsors and partners, as well [...]
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