My Choices Foundation was born from the desire to see families become the focus of prevention and transformation of the most pervasive and intractable forms of injustice against women and girls - domestic violence and human trafficking. Elca Grobler, an AGSM MBA graduate, established this Foundation and was featured at the 40th year celebration of the AGSM last week. www.mychoicesfoundation.org
Three ideas were selected from Idea Spies at the Ashurst Boardroom Lunch and the idea that received the most votes was no. 3- sand from recycled beer bottles. This idea now goes to the final at the December Boardroom Lunch to select the top idea for the year.
Woolworths in Randwick has trays offering free fruit for kids at their entrance. This clever idea is great for parents (keeps their kids quiet while they're shopping) and great for the kids as well ( healthy food).
On International Women's Day 2017 State Street Global Advisors issued a strong statement about gender equality and installed a statue of a little girl, fists on hips, in front of the famous charging bull of Wall Street. The money manager, with roughly $2.5 trillion under management, announced it would pressure 3,500 companies worth $30 trillion in market cap to aim for gender parity on their boards. http://fortune.com/2017/03/08/international-womens-day-girl-wall-street-bull/
GenerationOne, an initiative of the Minderoo Founation, aims to break down indigenous stereotypes and negative opinions by promoting stories of success and opportunity. It promotes other organisations that are doing good work in the fields of education and employment. Its flagship initiative is the Australian Employment Covenant which aims to build the demand for an Indigenous workforce by securing 50,000 sustainable jobs for Indigenous Australians, to break their vicious cycle of unemployment and poverty.. http://generationone.org.au/about
