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SkillsBank Overview |
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Case Studies |
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SkillsbankOverview
What is SkillsBank SkillsBank provides Williamson Fellows with the opportunity to actively give back to the community whilst offering not for profit and community organisations the skills and expertise of the Fellows pro bono. The emphasis is on advice and support. Fellows all have work, family and community commitments; therefore the purpose of their voluntary contribution to an organisation is to support and strengthen the capacities of its staff or members, rather than to undertake significant hands-on work themselves. Ideally Fellows will work on an immediate problem within the organisation but in the process transfers skills, knowledge and contacts from Fellows to the organisation. Over 60% of Williamson Fellows contributed to the community via Leadership Victoria’s SkillsBank, assisting more than 120 non profit organisations. SkillsBank runs a number of programs including:
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"I will forever be grateful to SkillsBank for the advice and practical help that came my way when I had the vision to establish a national network for women with breast cancer. I could see a need and had the passion, but not much idea of how best to progress.
With the help of my SkillsBank 'angels', we managed to lay a solid foundation upon which to build a thriving organisation which, six years later, empowers, informs, represents and links together more than 11,000 individuals across Australia."
Lyn Swinburne CEO Breast Cancer Network Australia |
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Can SkillsBank Help You? Requests to SkillsBank for assistance come from organisations with a wide variety of purposes: providing welfare services; protecting the environment or restoring a heritage building; presenting arts performances; promoting the needs of people with a particular disability or health condition, to give a few examples. Often the organisation has reached a particular stage or impasse in its development and needs the perspective of outsiders, or a new set of professional skills, to help it to continue to grow. This contribution is made when a Fellow joins their Board or a team of Fellows work with the organisation on a particular project. SkillsBank can provide:
SkillsBank gives preference to requests for assistance which:
SkillsBank DOES NOT help with projects seeking:
Organisations assisted by SkillsBank in in the past:
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SkillsBank 2004 Urban Camp is based in Royal Park Melbourne and offers a city camp experience for rural children and community groups. SkillsBank assisted in updating their business and strategic plan. For more case studies, click on left menu. |
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