Tessa Boyd-Caine and Andrew Tyndale: On Location in the US

In 2013, ASF had the privilege of awarding a Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Non-Profit Leadership to Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine of ACOSS and Mr Andrew Tyndale of Grace Mutual. Tessa and Andrew were the inaugural winners of the prestigious scholarship, which has continued to run in 2014 and 2015.

With their scholarships, Tessa and Andrew have travelled to New York City and Washington DC to research issues around how non-profit organisations can strengthen and lead the trust and confidence in which this sector is held. They aim to identify processes in the US that could be adapted to better support the Australian NFP sector.

During her four-month stint in the US, Tessa will be sharing her experiences in blog form via Probono Australia’s website. This week she explored how American charities engage in transparency and accountability, and how Australian charities can utilise these techniques.

Click here to read about Tessa’s experiences.

Andrew has started his own blog where he will be sharing his own personal experiences in the US, the sights he sees and the people he meets along the way. Andrew intends to develop ways to attract commercial funding (primarily pension savings funds) into this sector during his time at The Milken Institute.

Click here to read about Andrew's experiences.

ASF Welcomes New Partnership with Swinburne University

The Australian Scholarships Foundation is delighted to announce a brand new partnership with the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment & Philanthropy (ACSIP), Faculty of Business and Enterprise at Swinburne University of Technology. Swinburne is a national leader in education and research in relation to philanthropy. As a university they are strongly committed to transformative education and have demonstrated a strong commitment to social change.

“Philanthropy offers new ways for approaching old problems and smart solutions for new ones – and thought leadership is critical for its success,” says John Fitzgerald, Director of Asia-Pacific Research Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy. “At Swinburne, our students learn solutions as well as problems, what works and what doesn’t, from practitioners and experts. With the help of ASF scholarships even more students will have the opportunity to learn and to lead.”

Swinburne gladly supports the ASF initiative to enhance the management and accountability of not-for-profit organisations by offering up to two (2x) places for study in their Master of Social Investment and Philanthropy (apply now!).