Our Shareholders

Our vision is to create a community where the people we support are seen, heard, respected, valued and connected. We reach out to people living with multiple disabilities, helping them achieve a quality of life that anyone in the community might expect and a feeling of worth, belonging and self-fulfillment.

The organisation provides services in Victoria and Tasmania and is actively seeking to expand into other states and territories. Able Australia receives funding from both the Government and from the private and corporate sectors through various fundraising and sponsorship opportunities.

Able Australia began 40 years ago following an outbreak of rubella that caused children to be born with multi-sensory disabilities.

Our people are enthusiastic and passionate about achieving excellent results and making a difference to the lives of the people in the community who need it the most. 

Website: www.ableaustralia.org.au

ACG has a strong history of delivering specialist individualised support services, case management services, participation and engagement programs, skills development courses, career advice support, employment supports and training to the most disengaged or disadvantaged groups in the community. We deliver programs such as Youth Connections, Disability Employment Services, National Green Jobs Corps, Australian Apprenticeship Access Program, Post Release Support Programs and are a Registered Training Organisation.

Website www.acg.com.au

We aim to treat every person, their situation and their choices with respect. Our services are diverse; they include emergency relief, youth mentoring, early education, accommodation services, and counseling. We offer support for older Tasmanians, people with a disability and those recovering from mental illness.  Our Social Action and Research Centre carries out research and advocacy on issues relating to poverty and social exclusion. 

Website: www.anglicare-tas.org.au

Established in 1956, ACOSS aims to reduce poverty and inequality by:

• Developing and promoting socially, economically and environmentally responsible public policy and action by government, community and private sectors.
• Supporting the role of non-government organisations in providing assistance to vulnerable Australians and contributing to national policy making.

Website: www.acoss.org.au

• children and families in the early years, both at home and in school;
• young people in the years through school to work and further education;
• adults seeking employment and training; and
• older people facing the challenges of retirement and ageing.

Within this broad framework, we pay particular attention to issues relating to refugees and settlement and money matters. 

We undertake research, service development and delivery, and advocacy, with the objective of addressing unmet needs and translating our learning into new policies, programs and practices for implementation by government and others. Through Brotherhood businesses, we provide employment opportunities and raise funds for our other programs. 

We aim to have a national voice on poverty and disadvantage. We believe that tackling poverty effectively requires the integration of social and economic policy, so that all Australians have the capacity and the resources to lead rewarding lives. 

We want to demonstrate how economic efficiency and social fairness can reinforce each other and lay the foundations for a new social safety net based on economic participation and opportunities. Our current areas of policy focus include social inclusion, equity and climate change, a fairer tax system and financial inclusion.

Website: www.bsl.org.au

CAF Australia structures individual and corporate community giving programs and provides ongoing management to achieve effective giving.

Website: www.cafaustralia.org.au

ETC is a Job Services Australia Provider (JSA), Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and a provider of the Mid North Coast Business Advisory Service (BAS). As a not-for-profit company, any surplus from ETC’s operations is reinvested back into the company and the community.

Website: www.etcltd.com.au

Foresters has been delivering community finance and social investment in Australia for more than 150 years.
The central purpose of Foresters is to respond to financial and social exclusion that results from the inability of traditional financial and capital markets to effectively respond to the needs of these individuals and organisations. 

Website: www.foresters.org.au

We are proud to be fully funded by and accountable to our members. 

Our industrial relations services (CSIR) helps employers meet their obligations and work to find timely and effective solutions to any industrial relations or human resource problems that might arise. 

Jobs Australia is committed to promoting better understanding of the needs and interests of disadvantaged unemployed people. 

Website: www.ja.com.au

NCOSS provides independent and responsive advice and information to the sector, Government, academics, professional groups, the public and other relevant agencies. NCOSS convenes forums and advocacy groups, to coordinate responses to issues of concern and significance to the sector and to inform the sector of emerging issues and concerns. These include:

• FONGA (the Forum of Non Government Agencies)
• NCOSS Regional Forum (representing peak groups from regional NSW
• NSW HACC Issues Forum
• NCOSS Sector Development Forum
• NCOSS ICT Policy Advice Group
• NSW Children’s Services Forum
• NSW Aged Care Alliance
• NCOSS Health Policy Advice Group
• NCOSS Transport Policy Advice Group
• NSW Homelessness Community Alliance

NCOSS also provides secretariat support to the NSW Aboriginal Community Care Gathering Committee, the NSW Chronic Illness Alliance and the NSW Oral Health Alliance.

Website: www.ncoss.org.au

We believe a holistic approach to service delivery is central to NewTrain’s philosophy and a critical factor to our success. We work with the clients to individually tailor our service delivery to meet their needs and conditions of each individual’s circumstance. 

This is something we cannot do alone, we need the support of the communities and continue to build strong alliances and partnerships with other community organisations, businesses and government agencies to ensure clients are receiving the best service available to meet their needs. 

This approach is what enables those we serve to receive the best support we can provide. 

NewTrain’s service delivery is in four key areas: 

1. Learning, Development & Employment
2. Disability Services
3. Children & Youth Services
4. Social Services

Website: www.newtrain.org.au

There are 30 housing associations in NSW, all of which are members of the Federation. 

Housing associations manage an estimated 29,000 properties in NSW. This is around 20% of social and affordable housing in NSW. 

The Federation supports and resources members to manage at the highest standards and provides a cutting-edge staff training program; in demand nationally in the community housing sector and public housing.

Website: www.communityhousing.org.au

The group also manages around 400 volunteers through Business Mentor Services Tasmania and Gran’s Van.

More recently O group has been regarded as strong leaders and collaborators in the areas of social change for Tasmanians.  We have actively developed three social enterprise businesses to enhance the training and employment opportunities for Tasmanians with special needs. 

Furthermore, our support to key clients such as ANZ and CBA in their efforts to extend National Reconciliation Action Plans and create new jobs, education and training outcomes for young indigenous Tasmanians has also displayed our organisational strength in managing diverse needs.

Website: www.ogroup.org.au

OEC Employment is a premier provider with the Australian Government’s Job Services Australia network throughout western NSW. It has five permanent offices and nine outreach sites to meet the employment needs of regional communities.

OEC owns and operates historic Carlton House in Dubbo as a function and training centre. It also provides hospitality training and employment opportunities through The Monkey Bar, a social enterprise undertaking that operates as a café, bar and restaurant in the heart of Dubbo’s CBD. 

The Board of OEC is committed to effectively engaging with and supporting local communities, particularly where employment is concerned, because it can see many flow-on effects in rural and remote Australia when people are meaningfully employed.

Its community-based undertakings include a community garden, sporting sponsorships and the Licensed to Drive program, which helps disadvantaged youth to gain their driver’s licence and be in a better position to gain meaningful employment. Using its Gift Fund, OEC also provides support to disadvantaged members of the community through three scholarship programs. One program provides music tuition for a local primary school student while the others offer support to students at Dubbo’s Senior College and Charles Sturt University in Dubbo.

Website: www.oec.org.au

Our vision is of a just world without poverty.  We aim to increase the number of people who have a sustainable livelihood, access to social services, an effective voice in decisions, equal rights and status, and safety from conflict and disaster. 

Our work is a partnership through which Australians enable poor and marginalised people to control their own development, achieve equitable treatment, exercise their basic rights, and ensure the environment is healthy and sustainable.

Website: www.oxfam.org.au

We work to increase children’s access to the rights defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to ensure that their developmental stages are optimised, regardless of past circumstances, to provide them with the best possible lifetimes.  This is achieved through our extensive programs which enable healthy child development by providing: 

• alternative care through Foster Care and Kinship Care;
• Disability Services, including permanent and respite care;
• support for families, including practical support in times of stress, counseling and in home therapeutic support;
• education and early intervention programs;
• youth pathways and training for independence and careers.

Website: www.ozchild.org.au

Scope supports people with a disability to achieve their potential in welcoming and inclusive communities. Starting in 1948 as the Spastic Children's Society of Victoria, today Scope's services are diverse supporting 7036 people with a disability and their families.

Central to our service offering is the direct support offered through our Client Services, Disability Employment through Employment Futures, Packaging & Assembly, Communication Resource Centre and Research.

Historically, people with a disability have had little say as to the organisation that services them. This environment is changing. Individualised funding is now empowering clients to make better choices and Scope will offer them the service they need.

Website: www.scopevic.org.au

More than 350 people are employed by St Luke’s who between them, work with more than 1,000 people on any given day.
We work within rural and regional communities to assist people to make positive changes to be connected and to contribute to their communities.  Our practices promote respect, hope and fairness and we challenge any actions that devalue, disadvantage and discriminate.

Website: www.stlukes.org.au

We achieve this by helping  people gain new skills, improving their self-esteem and enabling them to make a contribution to their community. Everything we do supports our core business of getting people back to work.

Website: www.skillcentred.com.au

Yfoundations works closely with the youth homelessness sector, young people and the community, NGO and peak organisations such as  the Women’s Refuge Movement, the Youth Action Policy Association, NCOSS, ACWA, Oasis, Mission Australia, Burnside Anglicare, Marist Youth Care, Homelessness NSW, relevant government agencies, corporate partners and operates at a national level through the National Youth Coalition of Housing, Homelessness Australia and the annual Youth Homelessness Matters Day campaign

Website: www.yfoundations.org.au