Your chance to contribute to YANQ’s 2012 policy process
I’d like to pass this on from YANQ (Youth Affairs Network Queensland). As the peak youth body in Queensland, YANQ is interested in knowing about the experience of young people in your region. This information will be used by YANQ to inform its policy processes. YANQ’s policies are developed in consultation with its members and approved by its Management Committee. Attached is a short survey which we encourage you to complete and sent back to us by June 1. (send to...
Read MoreAYAD Youth Community Forum 2012
If any of you are in Melbourne on the 17th, this might be worth checking out. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear YWB, Please join us for Youth to Community, the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) Forum 2012. Part of National Youth Week, The AYAD Forum is an annual event which provides a platform for discussion around a topical development issue. The Forum is held to recognise the continued need to...
Read MoreSurviving and Resilience
Forwarded from Griffith Review [one of the more respectable arms of Griffiths ;P] In an ever more populous, urbanised and media-saturated world, it can feel as if the rate and scale of disasters is straight out of a doomsday movie. It’s easy to lapse into compassion fatigue and short-term ‘fixes.’ Yet behind the headlines there are complex stories of renewal and new thinking on how to rebuild our lives and communities. Join contributors to Griffith REVIEW 35: Surviving, including author...
Read MoreChange.org
Change.org is a nonprofit organisation seeking to enable individuals and groups to mobilize people to support and fight for ideas that have the potential to make the world a better place. For a nice post about the organisation, follow this link.
Read MoreBookquest – The Movie
Hi all Rebecca just sent us an email thanking for the publicity re. her bookquest. Apparently it resulted in a few donations! Good work guys! FYI, here is a bit of a doco on what exactly the program is about. It’s long (24 minutes), but it looks worthwhile (albeit I have only seen a bit). Click here to go to the original bookquest...
Read MoreWitty Tees that Save Lives
Imagine wearing a T-Shirt knowing that it’s cost went, not to some clever entrepreneur, but to those in need. It wouldn’t be too bad a feeling would it? Well now this is possible. See below! Courtesy of Get Milkshake – follow them on facebook ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Let’s face it: we all strive to be the Good Guy in life (most of the time, anyway!) But sometimes, good deeds or random...
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