Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres
August 4, 2009
Grassroots advocacy continues. Here is an invitation to parents, educators and policymakers – to attend one of two mid-August forums in Sydney and in Melbourne – to Explore Real Change in Schools/Education. Q: Can a parents’ movement transform our schools? […]
July 12, 2009
Melbourne’s Augustine Centre will run a retreat at Cloudmountain in the Grampians 7-10 August. It will focus on: “developing personal practices for sustaining the self and for deepening one’s capacity to be in a transformative relationship to life. It will […]
June 22, 2009
How are you feeling about HOW the financial stimulus money is being spent and even ‘forced’ on schools and communities? Ipsos Mackay research says as a nation we are divided as to whether or not the stimulus will be effective […]
June 11, 2009
Social Traders is a collaborative effort between the Victorian State Government, a private family trust and a consortium of community sector organisations with broad experience in social enterprise development. It aims to ‘facilitate, support and advocate for the development of […]
June 3, 2009
‘Freedom from Fear’ is the theme for Refugee Week 2009 – 14-20 June and the Fitzroy Learning Network (FLN) in inner Melbourne. FLN is inviting people to help celebrate their refugee clients’ lives here and our aspirations for freedom for […]
May 13, 2009
John Rimmer, EO of the Arts Industry Council of Victoria has requested all networks pass on info about the ‘whole of community sector’ (all not for profits) consultation about establishing a peak community-based body for the state. The Community Leadership […]
April 8, 2009
A reminder about the upcoming one day Workshop in Melbourne, 17 April, on preparing for a round of community wide study circles – facilitated by Dr Mark Brophy, Australian Study Circles Network (ASCN) and Sally Thompson, ACE (Adult Community Education) […]
February 1, 2009
After Friday’s ‘meltingly successful’ 45.1 degree training day for Community-Wide Study Circle facilitators at Melbourne’s Altona Meadows Library and Learning Centre, I was interested to read follow-up news of the diverse group that had travelled from country Victoria, Canberra and […]
December 23, 2008
The Australian Study Circles Network (ASCN), City of Hobsons Bay and Altona Meadows Library and Learning Centre is providing a one day workshop ‘Introduction to Community Wide Study Circle Program Facilitation’ run by Dr Mark Brophy and Mary Brennan – […]
November 25, 2008
Have you seen the reports that the ‘electric vehicle (EV) network company’ Better Place will soon enter the US market in partnership with three Californian mayors and that they are also setting up on the Australian east coast? What Will […]
November 16, 2008
We hear that due to highly saline conditions the short neck and long necked Murray Freshwater Turtles are dying in SA’s Lower Murray and Lakes region. These unnatural conditions are enabling marine worms to infest the turtles leaving them with […]
October 24, 2008
Bass Coast Shire Council – in Gippsland, Victoria – is encouraging mature-age workers to return to the workforce to meet current skills and labour shortages. The Age Is No Barrier Project aims to: identify the benefits of employing mature-age workers […]