Our Community is an Australian social entrepreneurship body set up to build capacity in Australia's 600,000 community groups and grantmaking bodies.
The Our Community Group comprises a number of different enterprises.
In 2009, Our Community launched a cloud-based grants management administration software tool that is used by local, state and federal government, philanthropic and corporate grantmakers to receive applications and manage their funding programs.[citation needed]
The company was founded in 2000 by Denis Moriarty, its current managing director, who received a Centenary Medal in recognition for establishing Our Community. It is chaired by prominent social investor and Reserve Bank of Australia member Carol Schwartz AO.[1] In the past, it had Rhonda Galbally AO as its CEO.
In 2007, Our Community was named the winner of the "Cool Company" Social Capitalist Award,[2] where the organisation was described as a "deeply noble enterprise."
There are over 55,000 community and not-for-profit groups involved with Our Community ranging from large organisations such as Oxfam Australia, to small ones such as Partners in Aid.
References edit
- ^ "Carol Judith Schwartz AM". Carol Judith Schwartz AM. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ Cool Company Awards, 2007, Social Capitalist Award - anthillonline.com