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ABV makes indigenous impact in Far North Queensland
Tuesday, 1 May, 2012
Local Indigenous organisations, Girudala Community Cooperative Society Ltd in Bowen, and the Gudjuda Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation in Ayr, are experiencing an increase in performance efficiency due to the involvement of Australian Business Volunteers (ABV), Optus and Townsville Indigenous Coordination ...
ABV ASSIST RAINBOW BAKERY ACHIEVE RECORD SALES IN TONGA
Sunday, 15 April, 2012
“‘Just an update on Rainbow Bakery... after 19 years of operating we have made a sales record on Christmas day with sales of over T$6000! The knowledge that (Australian volunteer) Martin Warnes has left behind has been used wisely and thanks to you all for the support in our ...
ABV Deputy CEO wins Endeavour Executive Award
Friday, 23 December, 2011
ABV, Deputy CEO (Services) Beth Sywulsky, has been selected as one of only 122 special selected individuals to receive a 2012 Endeavour Executive Award. The Endeavour Awards is the Australian Government's internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing opportunities for ...
ABV Partnership Team Visit Africa, UAE and Europe
Sunday, 18 December, 2011
ABV is building a solid reputation as a provider of excellent corporate social responsibility programs, training tomorrow’s leaders and creating win-win partnerships with organisations in developing and emerging countries as well as at home, working in indigenous communities. With high profile ...
Aid Review Highlights Importance of Volunteers and Business
Monday, 11 July, 2011
The Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness has shown the importance of volunteers in the development sector. The report states: 'Australia should integrate business engagement activities into existing AusAID programs, with a focus on leveraging business engagement as a form of aid. For example, the volunteer ...
Report on Africa from Federal Government recommends ABV
Thursday, 7 July, 2011
ABV is recommended as an important NGO within the Federal Government's 'Inquiry into Australia's Relationship with the Countries of Africa'. Specifically, recommendation six says: 'AusAID should increase funding for the Australian Business Volunteers program so that it can expand coverage to African ...
ABV and IBM Partnership Grows
Thursday, 7 July, 2011
The partnership between IBM and ABV continues to expand with work in more geographic regions and different levels of involvement. IBM's Corporate Service Corp (CSC) is still sending groups of IBM staff to developing countries to enhance both the community's growth and IBM's reputation through meaningful ...
AVID is Launched
Thursday, 16 June, 2011
The new Federal Government volunteer sending program – AVID – was launch by Foreign Minister Rudd at Parliament House. AVID (Australian Volunteers for International Development) consists of three major partners, Australian Volunteers International (AVI), the Australian Red Cross and a consortium ...
Healing Scars Within
Ba Futuru, Timor Leste
Tuesday, 12 April, 2011
Sierra James was a student at Columbia University in 2004 when she decided to look for conflict. “I wanted something in the middle, not Afghanistan or Iraq. I didn’t want a crazy place but I did want to study how people recovered from conflict,” Sierra said. Sierra chose Timor Leste and moved to ...
Profile of a Good Corporate Citizen
IBM’s Andrew Hocking explains what the vendor giant does to improve the disadvantaged world
Tuesday, 14 December, 2010
ARN recently ran a series of features on corporate social responsibility (online version can be read here) in its print magazine. We spoke to a number of ‘good’ businesses in the process of putting those features together, and in the interest of giving more detail about the philanthropic work of these ...