Change the Story
We bring different people, perspectives and voices together and amplify positive narratives for change.
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- Governance, Maranguka, Philanthropy, Place Based Change, Youth Justice
Maranguka Cross Sector Leadership Group
The Maranguka Cross-Sector Leadership Group case study shares the blueprint for how government and non-government organisations can work together in wholly new ways to be accountable to communities leading positive change.
- Philanthropy, Place Based Change, Storytelling for Change
Storytelling for Systems Change
We've partnered with the Centre for Public Impact and Hands Up Mallee to explore how stories can be used to more effectively communicate the impact of community-led systems change work.
- Governance, Maranguka, Philanthropy, Place Based Change
Stronger Places, Stronger People
Dusseldorp Forum has committed to tackling system reform as part of Stronger Places, Stronger People - a five-year commitment by community, philanthropy, federal and state governments to develop, implement and measure community-led approaches that address the root causes of disadvantage in Australian communities.
- Governance, Our Place, Place Based Change
Our Place – Driving Policy Innovation
Philanthropy has the potential to provide long-term capital that can drive innovation in government policy. In 2010, philanthropist Julius Colman entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Victorian Government to trial a new place-based approach at Doveton College in Melbourne.
- Governance, Philanthropy
Philanthropy, Systems and Change
COVID-19 has further exposed how policy and power structures hold problems in place. It has also provided a unique, timely opportunity to address the structural reform required to strengthen our communities.
- COVID, Place Based Change
Place-Based Resilience during COVID-19: Greater Shepparton Lighthouse
Greater Shepparton Lighthouse is a collective impact, place-based initiative in Shepparton in northern Victoria. Created in 2014, the initiative involves 50 local leaders in decision-making and has the support of more than 450 volunteers and 100 plus partnerships.
- Place Based Change
Logan loves kindy
Family-owned Logan business, Clarks Logan City Bus Service renamed their bus the ‘Kindy Express’ and donned hats and badges to give Logan kids the chance to learn more about their local kindies by jumping onboard a free community bus tour.
- COVID, Education, Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, Nawarddeken Academy
Learning continues on Country
Nawarddeken Academy students, teachers, rangers and elders came together to reconnect with Country and connect Bininj (Indigenous) science and balanda (non-Indigenous) science on their annual camp – this year to Barradji.
- Education, Our Place
Early Years Toolbox
Dusseldorp Forum partnered with Our Place and Early Start (University of Wollongong) to develop tools for Early Learning educators to measure children’s cognitive, self-regulatory, language, numeracy and social development.
- COVID, Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, Nawarddeken Academy, Place Based Change
Place-Based Resilience during COVID-19: Warddeken Land Management
The arrival of COVID-19 in Australia posed a serious risk for families in West Arnhem Land. Within a short period of time, all West Arnhem communities became closed to all non-essential travel.
- COVID, Maranguka, Place Based Change
Place-Based Resilience during COVID-19: Maranguka
Maranguka is a key gateway, both for community members and for service providers. Maranguka was identified by the Local Emergency Management Committee as the key communication pathway to the Bourke Aboriginal community and have been invited to all key NSW Health meetings.
- COVID, Place Based Change
Place-Based Resilience during COVID-19: Logan Together
With the arrival of COVID-19, it quickly became apparent to Logan Together that there were urgent needs to be met in the community and that new partnerships and responses would be required.
- COVID, Place Based Change
Place-Based Resilience during COVID-19: Hands Up Mallee
When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and Australia began to implement health measures such as social distancing and the closure of schools, the HUM team asked themselves whether their current work was the most important thing their community needed right now.
- COVID
NACCHO leading pandemic response alongside First Nations communities
Dusseldorp Forum is one of a group of foundations pooling resources to assist First Nations organisations to respond to the current pandemic.
- COVID, Maranguka
Bourke’s COVID-19 response excels
During the COVID-19 crisis Maranguka’s infrastructure, capable of bringing together community, government, and local services to quickly and effectively reach the most vulnerable has wrapped around elders, families, and young people to keep them safe, informed, and connected.
- COVID, Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, Nawarddeken Academy
Protecting lives and culture in Kabulwarnamyo
Warddeken Land Management and the Kabulwarnamyo community’s proactive response to the pandemic has protecting elders while learning for children at Nawarddeken Academy and essential fire and land management work of the Warddeken Rangers continues to provide stability for families.
- Dick Dusseldorp, Maranguka, Philanthropy
30th anniversary interviews
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we have commissioned a series of interviews which feature the diversity of people and projects the Forum has engaged with and the impact of the Forum’s work over the past 30 years.
- Place Based Change
ChangeFest 2019
ChangeFest 2019 was held over four days in November at the Kimberwalli Centre in the community of Mt Druitt in Western Sydney. This is the second year that over 600 people and organisations working in collaborative initiatives from across the Australia gathered.
- Place Based Change
Platform C launches to tackle challenging social issues across Australian communities
Platform C is launched by Collaboration for Impact in partnership with the Australian Government Department of Social Services, the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Dusseldorp Forum, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation and Clear Horizon.
- History
Tjerk (Jack) Dusseldorp
Tjerk Dusseldorp’s early experiences as a young man in the United States drew him to his life’s work in the not-for-profit sector. Tjerk, also known as Jack, worked as a documentary filmmaker in America in the 1960s against the political backdrop of the Vietnam War. Imbued with a desire to address social injustice, Tjerk returned to Sydney with his young family taking up the role of the first Executive Director of the Evatt Foundation.
- Festival of Change, Philanthropy, Place Based Change
Festival of Change 2019
In May 2017 Dusseldorp Forum began a collaborative, three-year process called the ‘Festival of Change’. It started with four community-based initiatives coming together to distil what works and why, share evidence and resources.
