News - Insights
Observations from FRRR staff.
Supporter Spotlight: Ian Rollo Currie Estate Foundation
Insights: 5 June 2024
We are pleased to bring you a Q&A featuring John Etherington, Chartered Accountant, co-trustee of the Ian Rollo Currie Estate Foundation together with Perpetual. The Ian Rollo Currie Trust Foundation is dedicated to providing relief to aged persons in necessitous circumstances in Victoria.
Celebrating flexible, trusting partnerships
Insights: 29 May 2024
Jillian Kirwan-Lee, Head of Partnerships, celebrates the different ways FRRR has partnered with the Origin Energy Foundation since 2013.
Supporter Spotlight: Helen Macpherson Smith Trust
Insights: 13 March 2024
We are pleased to bring you a Q&A featuring Debra Morgan, CEO of Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. The partnership between the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust (HMST) highlights the value of grassroots-focused capacity building in community development.
Supporter Spotlight: Hand Heart Pocket
Insights: 13 December 2023
Jillian Kirwan-Lee, FRRR Partnerships Specialist, recently chatted with Sara Parrott, CEO Hand Heart Pocket, to talk about their partnership and driving climate solutions at a community level.
Targeted small grants creating a better place
Insights: 12 December 2023
FRRR's In a Good Place Program Coordinator, Jeanice Henderson, shares key insights from the rural mental health and wellbeing grants program.
Insights from the bush
Insights: 15 September 2023
The FRRR team share their insights and the key themes observed while working with communities in remote, rutal and regional Australia during Q4 of 2022/23.
Strengthening community resilience to reduce risk and disaster impact
Insights Thought leadership: 29 August 2023
FRRR's Disaster Resilience and Recovery Lead, Nina O'Brien, shares key insights from this year's Australian Disaster Resilience Conference.
Connected communities are more capable of enduring future droughts
Insights: 17 July 2023
If agriculture-dependent communities are to be sustainable in the long-term, we must also ensure local people are ready to withstand the pressures that come with extended dry periods.
Disaster resilience across the Burnett Inland region
Insights: 6 July 2023
Disaster Resilient: Future Ready Program Manager Caroline Larcher has penned some thoughts on the DR:FR program's extension to the QLD Burnett Inland region.
On-country gatherings are a chance to deepen understanding and strengthen relationships
Insights: 5 July 2023
Program Manager for VIC/TAS/SA, Karly Whelan, reflects on their experience at Woor-Dungin's on-country gathering, held this year on Gunditjmara country.
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