ASF Congratulates 290 NFP Directors and Chairmen

Australian Scholarships Foundation (ASF) and its partners – Perpetual and the Australian Institute of Company Directors – are proud to congratulate 290 directors and chairs of NFP organisations who are now recipients of a 100% scholarship to attend the Governance for Not-for-Profit Directors course or The Not-for-Profit Chairman course, run by the AICD in early 2014.

The courses, generously funded by Perpetual (in partnership with the JS Love Trust), will give scholarship recipients an opportunity to upskill and increase their capabilities in directorship and governance, with a focus on financial and performance issues relating to NFP organisations.

This year, ASF received over 1,000 applications, making scholarship places especially competitive. 

ASF's CEO Amy Lyden says, “Director development training continues to be a priority for many not-for-profit organisations. This particular scholarship program is in its third year and ASF is thrilled that as a result of Perpetual’s help we have been able to put 1,100 NFP Directors through these courses.”

ASF, the AICD and Perpetual would like to thank all applicants for taking the time apply, and commend their continued commitment and dedication to the NFP sector.

Congratulations to all ASF-AICD scholarship recipients!

ASF's End of Year Celebration

ASF scholars and advocates, scholarship providers and NFP sector leaders attended ASF’s Christmas event last week in celebration of our fifth year of growth and development. The event was generously hosted by Corrs Chambers Westgarth at their brand new headquarters in Sydney’s CBD.

We were delighted to hear from Corey Payne on the night. Corey is an ASF Scholar, former NRL footballer, 2013 NSW Young Australian of the Year and Founding Executive Chairman of the Future Direction Network (FDN), which aims to raise the level of university participation rates amongst students from low SES backgrounds.

In 2012, Corey was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship that enabled him to travel to Brazil, Spain, the UK and South Africa this year to research programs that help disadvantaged kids further their education. His experiences gave him an informed understanding of culturally diverse ambition and aspiration building programs that could be employed in Australia upon his return.

Corey shared with us his insights about the future of the not-for-profit sector and the importance of measuring the work of NFP organisations in order to better sustain and increase their impact on the community going forward.

ASF would like to offer our thanks to Corey for sharing his experiences, and to everyone who showed their support of ASF and the NFP sector at the event. We look forward to another year working to support and develop the not-for-profit sector with scholarship and training opportunities.

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