Community Building, Partnerships and Social Enterprise
 

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIPS LTD  

 
 

DAY ONE - Thursday, 8 September 2005

8.30am REGISTRATION
9.00am Welcome and Opening Remarks  - Robyn Allcock, Pro Populi
9.10am Community Building, Partnerships and Social Enterprise - The Story So Far  Vern Hughes, Executive Director, Social Enterprise Partnerships
9.30am Where is the Community Building agenda heading? Panel discussion

  • Belinda Drew, CEO Foresters ANA Mutual Society.

  • Daniel Donohoo, Fellow, OzProspect.

  • Barry Smith, Secretary Community Branch, Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services

  • Emma Frost, Ranui Action Project, Waitakere City, New Zealand.
10.30am Responses in Table Groups 
10.45am MORNING TEA
11.15 am Where is the Partnerships agenda heading? Panel discussion

  • Diane Jennings, Waitakere Wellbeing Collaboration, Waitakere City Council, NZ.

  • Maxine Griffiths, Volunteering Tasmania

  • Suzette Gallagher, Families in Partnership

  • Liddy Clark MP, Member for Clayfield, Queensland Parliament

  • Robyn Allcock, Pro Populi 
12.15am Responses in Table Groups 
12.30pm LUNCH 
1.30pm

 Workshops: Session One

  • Session 1A Community Building, Partnerships and Government - Maxine Griffiths, Volunteering Tasmania; Daniel Donahoo, OzProspect; Graem Kelly, Robinvale District Health Services

  • Session 1B  Community Building, Families and Partnerships - Suzette Gallagher, Families in Partnership; Kam Benton, Hesse Rural Health Service
                  

  • Session 1C  Social Capital and Partnerships in Rural and Regional Communities - Jenny Grosvenor, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health; Rollo Manning, Social and economic development in remote Aboriginal communities; Trevor Barker, Yarrawonga District Health Services
             

  • Session 1D  Community Building and Money - Belinda Drew, Foresters ANA Mutual Society; Di Ford, Berry Street Victoria, ANZ and Brotherhood of St Laurence
             

  • Session 1E Workshop with David Rendall  Creating a Social Enterprise Culture within a NonProfit Organisation

2.45 pm AFTERNOON TEA
3.15pm

Key Issues Forums: Session One

  • The Role of Government in Community Building: Initiator, Facilitator or Barracker ?
              

  • Big Agencies: Facilitators of Community Empowerment or Service Delivery Empires ? 
            

  • Philanthropy and Fashion: Can Private Funders and Investors Back Unfashionable Causes ?

4.30 pm   Responses - The discussion so far 
5.00 pm CLOSE
7.00 pm DINNER  

DAY TWO - Friday, 9 September 2005

8.30 am REGISTRATION
9.00am    


Workshops: Session Two

  • Session 2A Community Building and Local Government - Leanne Malcolm, City of Greater Dandenong; David Williamson, City of Darebin; John Martin, Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities 
                  

  • Session 2B   Learning Communities and Partnerships - Margaret Hunter, NSW Department of Education and Training; Robert Hyland, Shire of Melton; Crina Virgona, Four Partnerships Case Studies in Vocational Education and Training, Workplace Learning Initiatives
                 

  • Session 2C  Community Building and Community Arts - Martin Mulligan, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Robyn Morgan, Crime Prevention Victoria
               

  • Session 2D  Community Building and Mutuality - Vern Hughes, Creating a Social and Financial Mutual in the Western Region of Melbourne; Bob James, Australian Unity
             

  • Session 2E Workshop with David Rendall  Creating a Social Enterprise Culture within a NonProfit Organisation

        
10.15am MORNING TEA
10.45am Presentation of Social Enterprise Awards

  • Enterprising Community Award

  • Social Business Award

  • Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award
11.15am Workshops: Sesssion Three 

  • Session 3A Communities, Partnerships and Institutions - Danny Schwarz; Ardoch Youth Foundation, Communities and Schools; Jason Cubit, StepsTas, Community Housing; Rollo Manning, Tiwi Island Health Board, Community control in health care  
                  

  • Session 3B  Community Partnerships and Employment and Training - Roger Tweedy, The NEWARK Centre, Wellington NZ; Alison Anlezark, National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Communities and Training Providers; Bruce Baehnsch, Community-based models for post-compulsory education and training in regional towns
             

  • Session 3C  Partnerships and Corporates - Tony Cooke, Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities; Robyn Allock, Pro Populi - Negotiating Partnerships 
                  

  • Session 3D  Workshop with Daniel Murphy - Local Government - Striving towards sustainability through social enterprise (ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability)
             

  • Session 3E Workshop with David Rendall  How to select, train and motivate social enterprise leaders

 

12.30 pm LUNCH
1.30 pm
Workshop One: Thinking and Working by Sector

Community Building, Partnerships and Social Enterprise by Sector – Where do we want to be in three years time?  

  • Housing and accommodation 

  • Employment and training

  • Aged care and seniors 

  • Disability ventures

  • Health care

  • Schools

  • Community-based banking and finance

  • Reuse and recycling

  • Arts ventures

  • Environmental ventures

  • Mental health 
2.15 pm Workshop Two: Thinking and Working by Place

Community Building, Partnerships and Social Enterprise by Place –  Where do we want to be in three years time?  

  • New estates in outer metropolitan areas

  • Established blue collar communities

  • Inner city metropolitan areas

  • Affluent middle class metropolitan areas

  • Regional service centres 

  • Rural communities

  • Seachange communities

  • Remote communities
3.00 pm AFTERNOON TEA
3.30 pm  
Plenary – Where to now? Panel of three presenters
4.30 pm CLOSE

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