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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 ...
Phone Alert
Tuesday, 20 December, 2011
Please note that the new main Canberra number is (02) 6151-9999. We have been having problems with the call forward from the old number and if you have been calling this number it will just ring out. We apologise for this and are in the process of having it rectified. The new office ...
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 ...
AGM
Monday, 15 November, 2010
Monday 15 November – The ABV Annual General Meeting was held today in the Canberra office. The meeting was attended by 12 individuals representing incoming and outgoing Non-Executive Directors, as well as Board secretary and CEO Michael Lynch. Formalities included David Bailey retaining his position as ...