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ASX companies report shared value strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... identify the social issues they focused on. Respondents cited employment, education, homelessness, disability, health and indigenous disadvantage, but there was no clear relationship between the sector that the company belonged to and the social focus ...

HESTA creates first Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... an interesting exercise for us with our own HESTA staff. I do think there are issues around retirement outcomes for indigenous Australians, and I think that as super funds, we have a loud voice if we stand together and speak about those issues, and we ...

Queensland commits $3m to social benefit bond pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... terms of the fact that we'll have new abilities to engage with complex social issues like homelessness, recidivism and indigenous issue, but also in terms of what it signals more broadly about this government's preparedness to enter into the social benefit ...

Australian, NZ social enterprises top B Corp list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... company's impact. Three Sista's, a Queensland social enterprise that will provide accommodation to people in Cairns and Indigenous people from Cape York who travel to Cairns for health services, and Australian Ethical Investment, achieved the highest ...

Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... annually for the next decade. Siobhan Toohill, Westpac The banking group signed a 10 year contract with CareerTrackers Indigenous Internship Program, an initiative linked to the banking group's commitment to creating "meaningful career opportunities" ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental issues facing Australia, including affordable housing, extreme poverty, land use, food security, gender equality, Indigenous health, efficient mass transit, social justice and human rights, corruption energy, clean drinking water and youth ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... based on Australian equities that are screened to eliminate fossil fuel exposures. SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company Social Ventures Australia (SVA) has made a AU$800,000 impact investment financing deal with an Indigenous cleaning ...

ARENA, NT government fund $55m PV project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... the project, which will be managed by Power and Water Corporation (PWC). "ARENA is very pleased to be partnering with Indigenous Essential Services - a subsidiary of PWC - to deliver this exciting project, which will see a total of 10 MW of solar PV ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... total loan book up to AU$7.5 million. Ben Gales, SEFA CEO The three loans were made to MiHaven Property Fund to support Indigenous employment and training in Cairns; to King St Haven in Caboolture, Qld to fund the purchase of crisis accommodation; and ...

Carbon co-benefits valued as additional $664 per tonne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... attract higher prices. This could potentially impact the price generated from carbon offsetting projects conducted by Indigenous groups in Australia, for example. "Significantly, buyers also indicated a willingness to pay up to 33% more per tonne of ...