MIDY Trial – using mobile phones to reduce youth drinking
MIDY is a mobile-phone based system that is designed to help reduce alcohol consumption by young people. MIDY (Mobile Intervention for Drinking in Young people), provides personalised feedback by way of sending tailored SMS messages to youth while they are drinking alcohol.
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016 offers invaluable support to artists
The Melbourne Fringe Festival, Victoria’s most vibrant independent arts showcase, announces new support programs – Compass and Ralph Mclean Microgrants – as it invites artists from all disciplines to apply to be a part of Melbourne Fringe 2016.
New School Bus Brings Joy
Yarra Ranges Special Developmental School is a school for students with intellectual, multiple and sensory disabilities including autism spectrum disorder. Safe, reliable and viable transport options for large groups of their students proved a barrier and Yarra Ranges called on the community to help out.
Tuned in For Life in Hume
The Song Room is a national not-for-profit organisation that provides opportunities for enhanced learning and development for disadvantaged children through music and the arts.
Gandel Foundation provided funding support to The Song Room in the past. Most recently, they received a two-year grant to deliver the Tuned in For Life program to reach primary school students in up to 12 disadvantaged and culturally diverse primary schools in the Hume region of Victoria.
Ready2Go – responding to heatwaves
Ready2Go is a community-led Heatwave relocation program which operates from Cockatoo in Victoria and was born out of a recognized need within the community to assist vulnerable people during heatwaves or other emergencies.
Jewish Holocaust Centre receives award for an innovative education program
The Jewish Holocaust Centre is the proud recipient of the ‘Education and Early Childhood Award’ in Victoria’s Multicultural Awards for Excellence 2015 for its outstanding achievements in promoting the cultural diversity of Victoria’s community.
Monash University and Gandel family launch transformational new scholarship
Through Gandel Foundation, the Gandel family has committed A$1 million to the establishment of a transformational scholarship fund to support high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study a degree of their choice at Monash University. The Gandel Scholars fund will award two scholarships each year – the John Gandel Scholarship to a male recipient and the Pauline Gandel Scholarship to a female recipient, with selection based on academic achievement, social, personal or financial need and leadership potential.
Atherton Gardens – Visionary Images
The Atherton Gardens estate in Fitzroy has been transformed by its resident children as a result of XSite, a Visionary Images’ pioneering creative project. The project is aimed at middle-year children who are increasingly experiencing difficulties.
Our HOUSE is now Your HOUSE
Big West Festival is the leading community-based, contemporary arts festival in Melbourne’s West. A biennial festival, in 2015 the nine-day program ran from 20-28 November. In 2015, to celebrate its tenth anniversary, Big West Festival brought together 70 multicultural, multi-artform events.