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Tier Three: Capacity building grants to help strengthen the not for profit sector as a whole

AGSM
AGSM developed in partnership with the Aurora Project, a program for executives of Native Title Representative Bodies (NTRB) across Australia. The program incorporates business management training specifically tailored to management and leadership in an Indigenous context which in turn will build the capacity of NTRB and other Indigenous organisations.

Artsupport Australia
Artsupport Australia works with over 350 arts organisations that deliver arts based projects for communities experiencing specific social problems including youth, mental health, unemployment, cultural displacement, substance abuse and family breakdown. The Westpac Foundation provided support for the establishment of a web based resource for Artsupport Australia which provides: information for new and existing arts clients; research and best practice resources for art organisations developing their potential for philanthropic support; details on specific workshops and events and improved management, administration and communication.

The Centre for Volunteering
This project seeks to identify core critical factors that make employee volunteering programs successful for corporate and not-for-profit organisations. At present, there is no research that identifies such critical factors as they apply to a New South Wales context. Once these factors are identified, findings will be used to create resources and training packages to better assist the not-for-profit sector to engage in and further develop these partnerships.

The Salvation Army (Café Horizons)
Café Horizons addresses the lack of vocational training and employment opportunities for young people at risk, particularly those recovering from drug dependence or suffering homelessness. Doubling as an accredited hospitality training program and a real operating café open to the public four days a week, it enables the program to partly self fund while also providing participants with valuable real life work experience. The Westpac Foundation provided support to help develop and expand this worthwhile social enterprise

University of Western Sydney
With support from the Westpac Foundation, The University of Western Sydney developed a research and capacity building project which aimed to enhance the co-operation between community organisations and their corporate funders. The project aimed to develop a clearer understanding of the relationships between small, local community based organisations and their corporate funders, and to produce tools and other resources for corporate organisations and small community organisations to employ in establishing and developing relationships.