Does your organisation want to leave a lasting legacy in the destination you meet in?
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a commitment to contribute to the economic, environmental or social sustainability of a community.
CSR can take many forms, it may be fundraising, a donation or volunteering of time to complete a project. There are many community and charitable organisations throughout the Northern Territory that would appreciate your assistance. The following outlines suggested projects, to give you a starting point. Projects and needs are regularly changing, so please feel free to mold your ideas with the organisations involved.
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Akeyulerre Inc
Akeyulerre Inc is an Aboriginal healing centre that has been developed form the visions of the local Arrente people, so that they have a place to practice their traditions and pass down their knowledge to the next generation. The aim of the centre is to protect and stregthen the expertise and ability of Aboriginal pepole to address the many problems facing the community.
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Balunu Foundation
The Balunu Foundation (Balunu) is an indigenous owned and operated, not for profit, registered charity based in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Balunu's vision is to break the cycle of indigenous disadvantage by targeting the youth of this generation and reconnecting them to their true identity, dealing with the underlying issues they face and equipping them with the necessary tools to make strong choices. Balunu strives to increase the self-esteem, confidence and emotional and spiritual wellbeing of indigenous youth to assist the to become strong, balanced, individuals who will create strong families and positive pathways for future generations. www.balunu.org.au
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Conservation Volunteers Australia
Conservation Volunteers has built a network of people and organisations all of whom value our unique environment and recognise the increasingly important role that we all must play in responding to the challenges of species and habitat loss, environmental degradation, environmental skills shortages and the impact of a changing climate. Conservation Volunteers encourages volunteering, improving life skills and opportunities, connecting communities, enabling people to become more active in their local communities and providing ways for people to connect with the environment. www.conservationvolunteers.com.au |
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Conway Kids Trust Fund
Conway's Kids Fund is a not for profit organisation founded to provide educational opportunities for cultural Aboriginal children from remote homelands in the Kings Canyon area of the Northern Territory. Conway's Kids seek to empower young people to reach their full potential by providing placements in quality, innovative and responsive education establishments; raises awareness of disadvantages in education opportunities for remote youth and enables access to better education, support, health and independence in a caring and non-judgmental environment. Through education, the cultural Aboriginal children are experiencing opportunities unavailable to them at home and beginning to dream for their futures. www.conwayskids.org.au
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Exodus Foundation
The Exodus Foundation exists to meet the immediate material, emotional and spiritual needs of disadvantaged and marginalised people. We seek to empower young Australians through education and literacy and so protect them against the prospect of future unemployment and homelessness. The Exodus Foundation Literacy Tutorial Centres deliver a proven literacy program developed by MULTILT Pty Ltd; a research initiative of Macquarie University, NSW. The literacy program is specifically designed for children who have failed to learn to read by the usual methods in the first few years of school and who, as a result, need intensive systematic. www.exodusfoundation.net
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Fred Hollows Foundation
The Fred Hollows Foundation is inspired by the work of the late Professor Fred Hollows. Fred was committed to improving the health of Indigenous Australians and to reducing the cost of eye health care and treatment in developing countries. Our vision is for a world where no one is needlessly blind, and Indigenous Australia enjoy the same health and life expectancy as other Australians. Through reducing the cost of cataract operations to as little as $25 in some developing countries, we have helped to restore the sight of more than 1,000,000 people worldwide. www.hollows.org.au
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Legacy
Legacy is dedicated to caring for the families of deceased veterans. Today, Legacy's caring and compassionate service assists over 100,000 widows and 1900 children and dependants with a disabilitiy. Legacy is a voluntary organisation supported by veterans, servicemen and women, and volunteers drawn from all walks of life. Corporations can assist with financial donations, or volunteering time on a short-term or long-term basis as widow mentors, or legatees. www.legacy.com.au
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Medicine Tree NT
Medicine Tree NT is working with Purple House to provide alternative care to indigenous Territorians. It aims to work alongside existing health services and provides education for people in need.
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MJD Foundation
The MJD foudnation seeks to provide a better quality of life for Indigenous Australian sufferers of Machado Joseph Disease (MJD) and their families in Arnhem Land and beyond. The disease is an hereditary neuro degenerative condition. It occurs because of a fault in a chromosome that results in the production of an abnormal protein. This protein causes nerve cells to die prematurely in a part of the brain called the cerebellum. There is no known cure for MJD. The foundation provides practical solutions around education/training; research; equipment/support; advocacy and services. www.mjd.org.au
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Nyangatjatjara College
Nyangatjatjara College is a non-government Indigenous secondary school in the south-west of the Northern Territory. The College began in the late 90s by setting up a main campus including boarding facilities at Yulara (near Ayers Rock), and operating three small one teacher schools at the Pitjantjatjara speaking communities of Imanpa (180km east of Uluru), Mutitjulu (at the base of Uluru) and Docker River (230km west of Uluru). Nyangatjatjara College plays a vital role in providing students from remote Aboriginal communities with access to secondary education close to their homes. www.yirara.nt.edu.au |
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Red Cross
Australian Red Cross operates Australia wide with offices throughout the Northern Territory. It works to improve the life opportunity of disadvantaged communities in areas of health, disaster preparedness, food security, youth engagement and developing organisational capacity. www.redcross.org.au
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Tangentyere Council
Tangentyere Council is the major service delivery agency for the 18 Housing Associations known as 'town camps' in Alice Springs. Provision of services by Council, often in partnership with government and other non government organisations, means that residents have access to services which they would otherwise miss out on. Tangentyere Council also runs a range of family and youth services including patrols, a research hub, art centre, aged and community care program, community banking facility and five not for profit enterprises. It also provides services to remote area communities such as inhalant substance and youth initiatives, and the Return to Country program. www.tangentyere.org.au |
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Western Desert Dialysis (Purple House)
The Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Project was launched in 2000 to raise funds to support dialysis patients in and around Alice Springs, and to build a disalysis centre in Kintore, 530 kilometres to the west. The Kintore dialysis centre opened in 2004, eliminating the six hour drive to Alice Springs for all of the community's end stage kidney disease patients. The program gives patients and carers a chance to make short visits home to their remote communities between dialysis sessions, and provides a sense of hope for the future. www.wdnwpt.org.au
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