Past Events

Venue and speaker to be advised

Monday 26th October 2009 12.30pm – 2.00pm

Speaker: CATHERINE BALDWIN

Research Fellow,Centre for Social Impact, University of NSWChairman Transfield Foundation

Kimberley Gardens, 441 Inkerman Street, East St. Kilda.
 “Aligning our Giving to the Needs of the Community”

This very important topic will provide you, our members, with an overview of the needs of the community, what is happening and who is doing what, where the gaps are, the good news and the needs we must address. Please click link for full invitation details

This meeting will be held in Sydney and will also be a lunchtime meeting. 
Speaker will be Laurence Joseph, Executive Director, Gandel Charitable Trust.
Further details please contact Helen Imber on helen@ajf.org.au

AJF May meeting was generously hosted by Arnold Bloch Leibler with Carrillo Gantner AO, President of the Myer Foundation and Chairman of the Sidney Myer Fund, as the guest speaker. Carrillo’s topic was:

“If philanthropy is to be effective in producing good outcomes, it must work in a manner that is innovative, respectful, articulate and professional all at the same time”.

Leveraged Philanthropy: the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and Department of Planning and Community Development - Youth Mentoring In Victoria In April 2007, the Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust (HMST) signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the partners to help build the capacity of communities and develop innovative ways of helping young people.  The partnership afforded an opportunity to support the delivery of youth mentoring and help young people reconnect with their communities as well as with education, employment or training.

We had a very successful February meeting where we heard from three of our members telling us how their foundations would be managing in this time of economic meltdown. What would they change, if anything? It was very informative and as always there is so much to learn and we learn best by sharing our practice. Thank you to those members that presented and to all who attended to make the meeting so worthwhile. We always learn from each other. This year we are having our meetings at lunchtime responding to our members needs. Sharing a meal and discussing the intricices of these very important issues works well.

The Women Donors network has two objectives. The first is to encourage all funders, public and private, to apply a gender lens to their funding and the second is to direct a more equal share of philanthropic funds to projects, which invest in women and girls.

Our guest was Elena Mogilevski, Program Manager for the G4 of the Myer Foundation.
The important theme of intergenerational transfer bought together a packed meeting to hear how The Myer Family tackled this issue. Elena first gave some background on the Myer family, its philanthropy and structure and then on to the G4, the fourth generation of the family and how the family passed on their skills from one generation to the next.

We are delighted to announce that Australian Jewish Funders was launched in Sydney in September. Meeting face to fact with senior members of the Jewish Community in Sydney was extremely valuable.

On the 22nd May this year the AJF had its annual Retreat. A one day opportunity for our members and friends to come together to hear papers and discuss a topic of community interest. This year our topic was 'Effective Funding for Jewish Education'.

The Jewish Funders Network held its annual conference in Jerusalem for 2008 and several members of the AJF attended this informative and enjoyable event.