Latest Grants & Funding Opportunities For Communities

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• 2019 Commonwealth Bank Not-for-Profit Treasurers' Awards: 26 July
• Writing NSW Grants: 28 July
• Australian Chinese Charity Foundation Inc (ACCF) Community Project Funding Program: 31 July
• Heart Foundation Active Australia Innovation Challenge: 31 July
• Westpac Scholars Social Change Fellowship: 2 August
• Australia Post Community Grants: 4 August
• NSW Community Preschools Start Strong Capital Works Grants: 4 August
• National Palliative Care Projects: 8 August
• Bennelong Foundation Grants EOI [DGR Status Required]: 9 August
• 2020 NSW Seniors Festival Grants Program: 9 August
• The Honda Foundation Grants [DGR Status Required]: 9 August
• Creative Partnerships Australia Matched Funding Programs: 14 August
• Tucker Foundation Grants: 16 August
• Myer Innovation Fellowships EOI: 18 August

NSW Government - Upgrade Open Spaces For Sydney Communities

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Community Care Regional Forum ' Sydney/ Nepean' - Western Sydney Community Forum

WSCF is inviting all leaders, managers and coordinators of aged care and disability services in Western Sydney and Nepean, as well as all relevant stakeholders who may be in other sectors. Wednesday 20 March 2019 1:00pm to 3:00pm Nepean Room, Penrith City Council The session will be focusing on: Strategic planning for the future of the Western Sydney/Nepean Regional Managers' Community Care Forum being facilitated by Tom Nance   A presentation from guest speaker, Beatriz Cardona from The Multicultural Network, on aged care reforms and an update on new information available in this space For more information please contact Nadiana Albistur at nadiana.albistur@wscf.org.au or 02 9687 9669. Register Here Western Sydney Community Forum members access a wide range of benefits and offers throughout the year, including special rates for tickets to events such as the Annual ZEST Awards. Not a WSCF Member? Join Now

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Community To Clean Local Area - Clean Up Australia Day - Blacktown City Council Twitter

Show your community pride and help the environment. Take part in Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday 3 March to help rid our suburbs, parks, creeks and lakes of litter. To register a clean up site or to join an existing site visit the Clean Up Australia Day website.

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Now Available: Communities Of Change Report - Western Sydney Community Forum

We are very happy to promote the 'Communities of Change Report' from Western Sydney Community Forum, as provided below: o r you can Click here for further details

Communities of Change: Western Sydney Now and into the Future. Insights for Shaping the Delivery of Services. Report Now Available and Roadshow Dates Announced Western Sydney Community Forum and St Vincent de Paul Society NSW, with host partner PwC, were delighted to launch their report to a full house of regional leaders from community, business and government. The launch generated over 6,000 social media impressions on the day and activated robust conversations about the future landscape of Western Sydney. The Communities of Change report contains essential information for service providers and policy makers to assist in making strategic decisions for investment and delivery of services across the region. Western Sydney Community Forum will be working directly with you to unpack the Communities of Change report and to explore the implications at the local level. See below for Roadshow session dates in your local government area.

Communities of Change: Western Sydney Now and into the Future. Insights for Shaping the Delivery of Services. Report Now Available and Roadshow Dates Announced Western Sydney Community Forum and St Vincent de Paul Society NSW, with host partner PwC, were delighted to launch their report to a full house of regional leaders from community, business and government. The launch generated over 6,000 social media impressions on the day and activated robust conversations about the future landscape of Western Sydney. The Communities of Change report contains essential information for service providers and policy makers to assist in making strategic decisions for investment and delivery of services across the region. Western Sydney Community Forum will be working directly with you to unpack the Communities of Change report and to explore the implications at the local level. See below for Roadshow session dates in your local government area. Takeaways from the Launch The Hon Natasha Maclaren-Jones, Government Whip, NSW Legislative Council, representing The Hon. Ray Williams NSW Minister, stated: "This (initiative) has produced an important resource for government at all levels to consult, in building the future of Western Sydney. This report points us all in the right direction." Social Commissioner Heather Nesbitt from the Greater Sydney Commission's reaffirmed a commitment to equitable distribution of resource, referencing the report's insights and implications for future planning and development that benefits people and communities. St Vincent de Paul CEO, Jack de Groot highlighted the importance of the report, "to anticipate where resilience will fail, where fragility will be, so that we are able to plan for the future - not just today but in the next 20 years.” Western Sydney Community Forum CEO, Billie Sankovicunpacked the report and illustrated its benefit for regional planning and investment, describing how it begins to unlock the complex service system web in a quantifiable way. Susan Goldie, Western Sydney Executive Officer, St Vincent de Paul Society NSW noted that the initiative represented a different approach for the organisation, presenting new opportunities for strategic thinking and planning. Peter Prants, Manager, Department of Community Services drew attention to vital information contained in the report and the value it would bring to agencies across the region in determining priorities for supporting local communities. Nafiye Mind, Executive Officer, Blacktown Area Community Centres insisted that not-for-profit organisations should push for a "seat at the table" to shape the future of the region and that the report was a key resource in supporting agencies to pro-actively contribute to the regional debate. Dr Eddie Jackson from Liverpool City Council stressed that regional growth needed to be a key factor when considering the delivery of services that ensure the wellbeing of residents and communities in newly developed areas across Western Sydney.    WSCF Manager Tom Nance cast light on the report's methodological approach, highlighting the unprecedented breadth of the data that was captured and collated as part of this report.  What does this mean for you? Western Sydney Community Forum will be working directly with you to unpack the Communities of Change report and to explore the implications at the local level. In the coming months, we will be holding sessions in each Western Sydney local government area, as part of a roadshow to present the Report. The Communities of Change Roadshow sessions will deliver key findings and offer insights specifically related to current and future service delivery in your local government area. Our mailing address is: Western Sydney Community Forum Level 9, 100 George Street Parramatta, NSW 2150 Australia

Purchasing Power Then And Now......

What is so interesting in my life span so far, is seeing physical changes around myself and within myself. Every day our community changes, people from our community move in, move around and move out.

Remember, people within our community are the ones that make our cimmunity so great. We with ourse lves grow from children to adulthood and it is what we do in alll stages that determines the lives we need.

As we live in our community and grow older, we tend to look at how the world around us changes: our environment, our neighborhood, our lanes turn into streets and our streets turn into highways. Then what we tend to forget is the value  and comparison of what we could buy 50 years ago compared to income received now to current expenditure.

We have to turn to our clocks back beyong the year of my birth, where the income received then gave you much more buying power. There were the times when women were housewives tendering to keep the house clean and nurtueung the children. Generally, the one income earnt by the husband was  the only household income, enough to support a reasonably sized family.

What I am leading to is our purchasing power over decades and years, has dimminished. Inflation has overtaken. It costs more to live more and the icome is also more.

To give you an example, from my personal experience, I can remember in my younger years when my parents took to me to have haircuts in Bondi Junction, the barber went too would give me 5 cents after the haircut to buy a 'paddle pop stick ice cream'. Today what could you buy for 5 cents?

Now, I don't think today's barbers buy icecreams for young chjildren and do good deads The Paddle Pop  icecream is  approximately  $7.00 if you purchase in a pack of 10.