ruMAD?

Supporters

Major Funding Partners

Teamcor™ is the Amcor Australasia community engagement program for all community activity supported by the company. The teamcor™ program is important to Amcor because it aligns closely with Amcor’s core values of teamwork, community engagement and environmental responsibility.

Dennoch Foundation

The Dennoch Foundation is a new Foundation established in 2000 as a sub-fund within the Melbourne Community Foundation to encourage life-long learning and lead to systemic improvement in communities.

The Fouress Foundation is a young, philanthropic foundation. Their mission is simple:
The Family Foundation supports indigenous people, education, children and the environment. We seek grassroots initiatives that create change in innovative ways.

The John T Reid Charitable Trust supports a broad range of initiatives that aid community well-being and advancement. This includes financial support to programs concerned with social welfare, medical research, the environment and education.

Program Partners:

ActNow, an initiative of the Inspire Foundation, is driven by young people. ActNow makes complex issues simple, provides practical advice and opportunities for young people to share their stories on how they are taking action. ActNow responds to the things young people care about, by developing content and features as suggested by young people.

The Bank of I.D.E.A.S. operates from the basic assumption that communities do not develop from the ’top down’ or from ’the outside in’. It believes that communities need to build from ’the inside out’, and for their residents to invest themselves, ideas, assets, capabilities and resources in the process. Bank of I.D.E.A.S endorses, promotes and delivers ruMAD? in the state of Western Australia on behalf of the Education Foundation.

Outward Bound offers exhilarating personal development courses that take people into new territories, giving them the opportunity to test themselves, inspire each other and come back with a new outlook on life and the world. Outward Bound aims to build stronger communities by inspiring Australians to discover, develop and achieve their potential.

Portable Content is an Australian based digital studio that designs and manages innovative web projects for a range of clients in the online space. In 2006 the company successfully launched portablefilmfestival.com, a user generated video site that distributes video to users through portable video platforms including iPods, mobile phones and laptops. Portable Content is proud to have developed and built the rumad.org.au website alongside the Education Foundation team and is currently creating a range of other web projects for leading education providers, directed by Portable's lead developer Nikkho Shandhittha.

Defining disadvantage as a lack of access to human rights and opportunity, SpeakOut create and support opportunities for individuals and communities to realise their needs, rights and potential. We also recognise the centrality of children and young people to these issues both as sufferers of disadvantage and positive change agents.
SpeakOut endorses and promotes ruMAD? in the state of Queensland on behalf of the Education Foundation, and will soon be delivering the program in Queensland.

Provides real learning experiences that demonstrate ways of contributing to positive change, locally and globally. Brings together individuals and organisations in raising awareness of global issues. Aims to be Tasmania’s leading independent centre for the promotion of education for social justice and human rights. The Tasmanian Centre for Global Learning endorses, promotes and delivers ruMAD? in the state of Tasmania on behalf of the Education Foundation.

Aims are to bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to promote and strengthen an understanding of Indigenous culture and identity, and provide an opportunity for Australian’s to recognise and celebrate the important role we can all play in uniting our community.

We Are What We Do is a movement. They’d like to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. We’ve created 50 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities, making our planet and the people on it much happier. We started by putting these actions in a book called “Change the World for Ten Bucks“, but the whole movement is getting bigger. And bigger!