GRANTS MADE
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2009 | Projects suppported 01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009
THE AUSTRALIAN LITERACY & NUMERACY FOUNDATION | Tennant Creek, NT
The Caledonia Foundation has provided Literacy Packs to support the Community Action Support (CAS) program in Tennant Creek. CAS is an innovative program that has been created by the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF). The cross-generational literacy-tutoring program will provide educational institutions and volunteer bodies with a sustainable model of literacy support with the goal of improving educational and employment opportunities for young Indigenous Australians in rural and remote areas.
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DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA FOUNDATION
The Caledonia Foundation is a proud supporter of the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF), a private philanthropic initiative that recognizes the power of documentary as a catalyst for social change. Caledonia Foundation has provided capacity-building assistance to DAF, which acts as a resource to bring together philanthropic grantmakers, charities and filmmakers for community benefit.
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BEYOND EMPATHY | Bowraville
Beyond Empathy's use of art has two purposes: art as a medium enabling young people to consider their stories, explore issues, build skills and improve their social and economic opportunities within community; and art to facilitate community members working together to address community issues and young people's needs. With our support, Beyond Empathy will engage in a multi-year program to address inter-generational disadvantage in Bowraville, NSW.
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STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF NSW | Poetry Slam '09
The Australian Poetry Slam is an initiative of the State Library of NSW and Word Travels to unearth the best spoken word talent in the country. The program is designed to promote literacy by revitalising interest in the English language, making poetry more accessible, especially for younger people. In partnership with ABC radio, the Poetry Slam unearths amazing regional stories about contemporary Australian life and gives emerging writers and performers the opportunity to share these stories with a national audience.
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SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY EDUCATION | Burnt Tour & Education Resources
The objective of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Theatre Experience Program is to establish an introduction to live performance, exploration of theatre practice and access to behind-the-scenes at NSW performance venues for disadvantaged students. The Caledonia Foundation is a long-term supporter of the STC Access Program for Disadvantaged Students and its Educational Touring Program and is continuing to support STC’s educational programs through a 3-year grant (2007-2009).
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THE MIRABEL FOUNDATION | Funding for core services in NSW
The Mirabel Foundation supports children who have typically been abandoned by their parents or their parents have died (in both instances commonly as a result of drug/substance abuse). The Caledonia Foundation has, since its inception, provided support to Mirabel’s education programs and continues its support in 2009.
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CURE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION
The Cure for Life Foundation was founded in 2003 by Dr Charles Teo and seeks to advance the research and treatment of brain tumours within Australia, while increasing public awareness of the incidence of brain tumours. Brain tumours are the most common, life-treatening tumours in children. Behind Leukemia, they are the most common of all childhood cancers. The Caledonia Foundation contributed capacity funding to support this vital research.
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ST LUKES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
Sydney’s St. Luke's Hospital enhances individual and community health by providing compassionate, excellent and culturally sensitive care to the diverse patients it serves. It is a vital member of a not-for-profit community hospital system. The Caledonia Foundation’s support as part of a 4-year grant (2006-2009) will assist St Lukes to deliver specialist care to disadvantaged young children who have been affected by a serious illness.
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ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES | ARTside-in! AGNSW
The Caledonia Foundation is continuing its support for AGNSW’s ARTsidein! program, an educative outreach initiative designed by the Public Programs Department of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). The program targets Years 10, 11 and 12 secondary visual arts students – and their teachers - from secondary schools in NSW which are classified as geographically, socioeconomically or culturally disadvantaged. The project enables students, who would otherwise have limited opportunity to access the Gallery’s resources, to participate in structured engagement with the Gallery’s collection, exhibitions and programs.
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EXODUS FOUNDATION I Schoolwise Redfern Program
Schoolwise is an intensive literacy skills program for children in Years 1 to 6 who are at risk of dropping out of school due to childhood depression, violence, family disintegration, education disruption and learning disabilities. The Schoolwise program was designed by Macquarie University Special Education Centre (MUSEC) and uses the MULTILIT (Making Up Lost Time in Literacy) system and evaluation methodology. MULTILIT is characterized by individualised remedial literacy exercises using sounding out skills, sight word recognition, spelling and one-to-one tutoring. Caledonia Foundation’s contribution will be used towards the expansion of the Schoolwise program at Redfern. Since its inception in 2007, the Redfern Schoolwise program has achieved excellent outcomes for children with significant literacy challenges.
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DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA FOUNDATION | Tiwi Bombers – In a League of Their Own
Through The Documentary Australia Foundation, The Caledonia Foundation supported the production of the documentary ‘Tiwi Bombers – In a League of Their Own’. The Tiwi Bombers are the first all-Aboriginal team to play in a major Australian Rules football competition. The three-part series, slated for broadcast on the ABC from 22 March to 10 April 2009, follows the team through their first season in the highly competitive NTFL, revealing not just the players energetic and entertaining brand of footy, but the hopes and dreams of a disadvantaged island community striving to win. In partnership with the Fred Hollows Foundation, the documentary is accompanied by a NT health promotion program drawn from community role models featured in the film.
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COUNTRY EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AUSTRALIA | Seed funding
The Caledonia Foundation is seed funding the establishment of three new country education foundations in Australia over the next three years, as part of the national activities of the Country Education Foundation of Australia (CEFA).
Established in 1994, CEFA exists to improve the education and career prospects of young people in regional and rural Australia by providing financial assistance, encouragement and support to individual students, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, through facilitating the formation and operation of local, community-based education foundations.
With funding from The Caledonia Foundation, CEFA will support the establishment of three new education foundations in the Maranoa in QLD, West Wyalong in NSW and Lameroo in SA. These foundations will in turn provide grants to local youth who are leaving school and need assistance to make the transition into further education or their chosen vocation.
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THE SUNRISE FOUNDATION | General support
The Caledonia Foundation is supporting the work of The Sunrise Foundation, which was established in 2006 by former footballer Wayne Schwass to work with secondary-school children to stamp out the stigma of depression.
The Sunrise Foundation uses sportspeople as ‘Ambassadors’ to fulfil their mission to deliver purpose-built preventative education programs addressing depression for young people aged between 12-18 years. In addition to the Sunrise Ambassador program, the signature program of The Sunrise Foundation is HEADSMART. In partnership with Orygen Youth Health, this two-hour education program is designed to enable secondary students to recognise and seek help for depression.
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THE TOGETHER FOR HUMANITY FOUNDATION | General support
The Caledonia Foundation is supporting the work of The Together for Humanity Foundation (TFHF), which has been working in schools since 2002 to challenge racial, ethnic and religious misconceptions and stereotypes. The Together for Humanity Foundation aims to encourage young people to focus on common values across cultures and faith, thereby cultivating a more tolerant, empathetic society.
The primary mode of delivery of its work is through face-to-face workshops. Schools are visited by a team consisting of three or four role models from different faith backgrounds, typically a Christian, a Jew and a Muslim, and sometimes an Indigenous person. The members of the team work as a unit as they interact with students, encouraging lively debates that challenge thinking and assumptions about difference.
Over 40,000 Australian children have been exposed to the work of The Together for Humanity Foundation over the past six years.
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DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA FOUNDATION | Voices from the Cape
Through The Documentary Australia Foundation, The Caledonia Foundation is supporting completion of the production of the documentary ‘Aurukun: Voices from the Cape’ by Community Prophets. The documentary, slated for broadcast in February 2009, depicts the process and outcomes of a unique multi-media story-telling and training program delivered to indigenous children at the Aurukun CommunitySchool over a period of six weeks in 2007. The training program, delivered by David Vadiveloo and the Community Prophets team, was funded by The Telstra Foundation under their Social Innovation Grants program. The completed two-part series will be screened on ABC TV and on Teacher’s TV (UK) in early 2009. DVDs of the series with accompanying study notes will be distributed to the educational sector as a resource to educate, inform and inspire best practice for teachers working in remote and ‘at risk’ indigenous communities.
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BIG PICTURE COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA
The Caledonia Foundation is providing capacity building assistance for the Big Picture Education Australia (BPEA), a US-inspired initiative which aims to influence education policy nationally and catalyse vital changes in education by generating and sustaining innovative, individualised schooling. The BPEA model is a rigorous and highly personalised approach to education, combining academic work with ‘real world’ learning in schools which are small by design. It focuses on “educating one student at a time” and places the students and their interests at the heart of the learning process. A key to this is placing students in an internship with a mentor, in the world of work and community, every week of the school term.
Supported by the Caledonia Foundation in partnership with the SVA.
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STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | Fun Centres Version 2.0
Since 2003, The Caledonia Foundation has partnered with The Starlight Children’s Foundation to support the development and roll out of their Fun Centres, particularly to remote and regional hospitals. Since Fun Centres were first introduced in hospitals across Australia to brighten the lives of sick children, their central technology has become obsolete. Thus in 2009, The Caledonia Foundation has committed to investing in prototype development for the second avatar of the Fun Centres, as well as supporting the rollout of this technology to ten previously-funded areas.
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THE OASIS | Australia’s Homeless Youth initiative
In 2009, The Caledonia Foundation is continuing to support the education and outreach activities associated with THE OASIS initiative.
THE OASIS is a hard-hitting observational documentary exposing the tragedy of Australia's youth homelessness problem. Filmed over two years, it depicts the dedicated and often thankless work of the Oasis Youth Support Network, under the direction of Captain Paul Moulds, in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Over 1.1 million viewers tuned into the ABC’s screening of The Oasis on April 10, 2008.
As part of THE OASIS ‘Australia’s Homeless Youth’ initiative, The Caledonia Foundation supported an independent national inquiry into issues associated with youth homelessness (The National Youth Commission), the publication of its findings, and an education and outreach strategy for communicating the issues to key stakeholders in business, government and the education sectors. The Caledonia Foundation has also supported the donation of a copy of The Oasis DVD, accompanied by a Study Guide, to every secondary school in Australia.
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