Change the Story
We bring different people, perspectives and voices together and amplify positive narratives for change.
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- 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.
- Maranguka, Philanthropy, Place Based Change, Youth Justice
Australian Philanthropy Awards
In July we were honoured to receive the Philanthropy Australia Award for the Best Large Grant 2019 alongside Maranguka Justice Reinvestment and Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation for Maranguka’s Justice Reinvestment Strategy.
- Vocational Education
Worldskills -sharing skills across the world
It was 1997 and Tjerk Dusseldorp was standing on the station in St Gallen Switzerland when he noticed a young man dressed in his Australian uniform, a medal around his neck. He was 22-year-old Grant Stewart, a plumber from Wollongong NSW and the day before he’d competed in the WorldSkills International competition.
- Philanthropy
Connecting our past and future
This year Dusseldorp Forum welcomed a new Board Member Charlee-Sue Frail. Charlee-Sue came to know the Forum through her mentor Cath Brokenborough, Executive Lead Indigenous Engagement at Lendlease and their work together on Lendlease’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).
- First Nations Voice
A response from the heart
Dusseldorp Forum is proud to endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart which asserts the sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that was never ceded, and we join the calls for voice, truth-telling and agreement-making.
- Governance, Maranguka, Philanthropy
Building stronger relationships
Once a much-maligned township, suffering from one of NSW’s highest Aboriginal youth conviction and incarceration rates, Bourke and its 2,500-strong population are now considered trailblazers, forging a new path towards community strength through a radical approach driven by the community itself.
- Governance, Maranguka, Place Based Change, Youth Justice
Major breakthrough for Bourke
For the past five years Bourke NSW has been modelling First Nations self-governance, empowering the community to coordinate the right mix and timing of services through an Aboriginal owned and led community hub.
- Education, Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, Nawarddeken Academy
Sustainable school, sustainable planet
Last year ended with the fantastic news from our partners at Warddeken Land Management that their school Nawarddeken Academy had received independent registration ensuring that the school, located in the remote community of Kabulwarnamyo in Arnhem Land is sustainably funded into the future.
- Education, Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, Nawarddeken Academy
School’s in at Nawarddeken Academy
Our partners at Warddeken Land Management have had amazing news this month. The school that sustains the Kabulwarnamyo community, Nawarddeken Academy, has been registered as an Independent School.
- Maranguka, Place Based Change, Youth Justice
Bourke – A beacon of hope
Maranguka Justice Reinvestment recently launched a report by KPMG that shows community led changes in Bourke generated $3 million of savings in 2017 by reducing violence, increasing school retention and reducing offences.
- Place Based Change
ChangeFest18
In November, ChangeFest18 brought together over 500 change-makers from across Australia.
- Education
Bangarra Rekindling Program
Dusseldorp Forum is supporting Bangarra’s Rekindling Program that inspires pride, kinship and a sense of strength in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary school aged students through a series of dance residencies.
- Youth Justice
#WorthASecondChance
Dusseldorp Forum is supporting Jesuit Social Services in their campaign to improve youth justice in Victoria.
- History
TRAC: Training Retail and Commerce
Australia was a harsh place for early school leavers in the late 1980s. Many young people were dropping out of high school – only 60% completed year 12 – and jobs were hard to find. Of all males aged 15 -19 years, a massive 19% per cent were unemployed.
- History
History: Youth Transitions
The success of TRAC paved the way for the Forum’s focus on “Youth Transitions” for the following 10 years – as it highlighted critical school-to-work transition challenges in Australia. In 1997, the Forum’s senior researcher Richard Sweet approached seven leading researchers with an invite to join a collaborative study on young Australians.
- History
History: Learning Choices
It was through the Forum’s work in “youth transitions” that the Learning Choices arena became increasingly apparent. Also known as alternative education or flexible learning, it was called “Learning Choices” by the Forum to emphasise that young people should have a say in deciding how they best learn, regardless of their interests, abilities, backgrounds and personal circumstances.
