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Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... said. "He brings both sides together." SEFA is one of three fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was ...

Community Sector Banking to extend microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... access to products and services that are going to improve their lives. Community Sector Banking works with Kimberley Employment Services, based in Broome and providing services into the western Kimberley region and also with Nahri in southeast Queensland ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... participants in our Leadership Pathway development programs." The bank also said that since it had introduced a disability employment program in 2008, 131 people with a self-disclosed disability had been employed, with a 74% retention rate. The bank ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... and the Australian government is further encouraging the sector's development through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEEWR) AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was established to ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... investments, fund managers in Australia are also working on establishing their processes. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEEWR) allocated AU$10m to Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA), and SEFA brought another ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... those employees remains a national problem to be solved, as Woolworths' own figures attest: of 378 who commenced pre-employment training, 334 started, and 232 remained by year end. As with most of corporate Australia and New Zealand, regulation and better ...

Oliver Yates named CEO of Clean Energy Finance Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... began his job this week, will be responsible for day-to-day operations with the CEFC and will be responsible for the employment of other senior executives, in cooperation with the board. The CEO and the senior executive team will advise and support the ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... go through school all the way through year twelve, then move on to further education and training and straight into employment, and maybe start a family in the late 20s or when their career is established, that is not the pathway often traveled by Aboriginal ...

Wesfarmers publishes 2012 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... pointed to the company's reconciliation action plan (RAP), which was started in 2009 with commitments aimed at increasing employment for Aboriginal people. The number of self-identified aboriginal employees rose from a total of 1,012 people in 2011 to ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... in the door when it's supposed to be." SEFA is one of three fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was ...