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Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Also, supporting a lot of that social infrastructure is what's important now." Health and safety - particularly mental health - is of immediate concern. "Where we're having conversations with clients around areas of concern is much more in terms ...

Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... disability built. However, those metrics didn't provide enough to accurately capture concepts like improving impact on mental health, reliance on welfare, sustainable work/life, Oppes said. For QBE Insurance, which manages the Premiums4Good program ...

Governance Institute hires new national director of education and training

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... training at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry. During this time the Institute of Psychiatry transitioned to become the mental health portfolio of the Health Education and Training Institute (HETI), under the direction of the Mental Health Commission of ...

Social Ventures Australia launches $7 million Resolve Social Benefit Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Ventures Australia (SVA) has gathered $7 million in capital to fund a social benefit bond to fund a program addressing mental health services. Elyse Sainty, SVA director impact investing The Resolve Social Benefit Bond (Resolve SBB) will fund the Resolve ...

Impact Investing Australia surveys $1.2bn impact investment universe

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... 60,000 beneficiaries, including 126 school supported, 319 jobs created, 1072 people with disabilities supported, 669 mental health sessions delivered and 11501 MWh of renewable energy generated. Respondents also reported that since inception, ï¬nancial ...

ACSI calls for better ASX disclosure of mental health and safety

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... More than 90% of ASX200 financial companies and 75% of mining and utilities companies have commitments to workplace mental health and safety, but barely one third publicly disclose information on the effectiveness of those programs, according to research ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Haven in Caboolture, Qld to fund the purchase of crisis accommodation; and to Central Coast ARAFMI in NSW to support mental health carers and people living with mental illness. SEFA has allocated "over AU$500,000" to each of the three projects, said ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... superannuation fund and their insurers more than AU$200 million between 2007-2011,according to SuperFriend, a not-for-profit mental health foundation. Shane Fielding, principal of group risk at IFS Insurance Solutions Improving support for mental health ...

Cbus Super to target suicide prevention initiatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... track the incidence of suicide," Lockwood said. "We will also work with providers in the industry that roll out mental health intervention programs to help them better direct the programs they provide, because the research showed there's a clear demonstration ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... "some form of treatment" for HIV/AIDS, he said. Marshall spoke of a partnership with beyondblue, a not-for-profit mental health organisation. Abigroup wanted to target mental health as it related to the construction industry, and Marshall noted that ...