Nation building requires infrastructure – roads, rail, ports, schools, hospitals, and community centres. The business case for expanding school based mentoring addresses an essential component of social infrastructure critical to enabling our young people to lead ful?lling and productive lives. A new report from the Youth Mentoring Network and DSF on the business case for expanding support for school based mentoring in Australia.
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.
Dusseldorp Forum has committed to tackling system reform as part of Stronger Places, Stronger People – a five-year commitment by community, federal, and state governments and philanthropy to work together.
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.
Dusseldorp Forum acknowledges the First Peoples of Australia and the Traditional Custodians of the Country on which we work and live. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, and to Elders past, present and future.
Building Critical Social Infrastructure (1013.48 kB)
