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Menzies Foundation is delighted to release the first Impact & Evaluation Report and ACER Background Literature Review of the Menzies School Leader Fellowship Program. The Menzies Foundation is focused on raising the profile and importance of ‘outstanding’ leadership for Australia. We do this by identifying leadership challenges and supporting catalytic initiatives to build leadership capability. […]

Hi, I’m Dr Melony Sellars, CEO of Genics Pty Ltd. I have been a scientist at the CSIRO for 20 years and have now started a company that is transforming global food production through smart pathogen detection using some of the Tech (Shrimp MultiPath) I developed during my science career. Our team are passionate about

Featured on ABC National RN – Drive with Patricia Karvelas  There’s no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic has brought into focus the hard work that teachers across Australia put in for our children. It’s also highlighted the remote learning capacity of Australia’s education system, and put into perspective how different school principals throughout Australia approached home

Phoenix P-12 Community College principal Karen Snibson is one of five Victorian school leaders taking part in a unique program to help reform leadership of schools. The two-year Menzies School Leader Fellowship Program helps build the capabilities and skills of school leaders through intensive coaching, research and projects. At its core is the notion that

Sarah Davies AM, CEO Philanthropy Australia shares her views on the current situation and what it means to Philanthropy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ We are confronting a rare conjunction of circumstances that pose challenges for philanthropy – and we need to think about how we respond. It brings to mind my favourite Victor Frankl quote: “Between stimulus and

The Sir Robert Menzies Indigenous Mentoring Fellowship is a partnership between the Menzies Foundation and the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS), a residential transition school for Indigenous students from remote and regional communities. Edwina Green was awarded the 2019 Sir Robert Menzies Indigenous Mentoring Fellowship, to spend 12 months as a mentor to Year 7

Balance was the key for Dimboola Memorial Secondary College (DMSC) student Caitlyn Glover, who has received the 2019 Menzies Centenary Prize. Each year the Menzies Foundation awards the $10,000 prize to an exceptional graduate from DMSC, a small school in country Victoria, to contribute to the cost of their first and second years of tertiary

Methodology of the Philanthropy Impact Pioneers Programme   The Philanthropic Impact Pioneers Program builds on the work done by the Asia Pacific Social Impact Centre in the Philanthropy: Towards a Better Practice Model from 2011-2014. We’re using a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods to get the insights we need. What we’re doing now

The findings of the Philanthropy: Towards a Better Practice Model will have two types of impact: one direct impact on the organisations in the philanthropy sector, and the other a potential knock-on impact not only on the beneficiaries but on social science research in Australia. Giving better means what? The first impact is obvious. Not

Applications for the inaugural Menzies School Leader Fellowship Program supporting leadership capability in schools close on 21 December. The new program, a partnership between the Menzies Foundation and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, represents an investment of $1.5 million over the next three years. “This Fellowship will support outstanding school