Lockdown, connection, anxiety, singing, spring, Dept of Education, events, walking tribes, advocacy, a food cart and fathers day 30 August – 5 September The weeks are jam packed and somehow this one disappeared before I could grasp it. As lockdown in regional Australia moves into it’s fourth week I am starting to notice my home […]
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What really matters most to you? And what are you doing about that today? I’ve been asking people these questions since 2012. Why? Because it’s too easy to get carried away with the small stuff. The small stuff? Our problems, our neighbours problems, the problems we see on social media, the never ceasing list of
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When my child got her first job in fast food I was delighted. The world around me said that it was a ‘good start’, ‘it would set her up for her future’. Those things I must agree are very true. However, perhaps it’s not only the training program that has prepped this girl for her
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In my region right now housing has reached an all time crisis. This isn’t just housing as in a roof over one’s head (which of course should be a basic human right), it’s also housing in the case of an ever increasing un-affordability and shortage of housing stock. I’ve no doubt the case is similar
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I first learned of the social enterprise movement in Australia around 2008. It was a time of experimentation in the way Government and business viewed (and funded) the not for profit sector beating a new drum “find a way to be sustainable”. For many of my not for profit colleagues this was a nightmare on
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International Women’s Day was this week (or, as the NSW Government declared, NSW Women’s Week) and as this week comes to a close I want to pose an important question… Ladies, are we getting in our own way? This week has been an emotionally charged one for me. It’s been a week of standing in
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Way back when a student could actually afford to live in Sydney, I ‘escaped’ my small regional town neatly packing my big dreams into lofty goals and vowing never to return. For almost a decade I lived in share houses starting out in the Northern Beaches gradually making the daring journey across the big bridge
Kerry Grace delivered two workshops for Coffs Harbour City Council during Small Business Week 2020. The workshops can be accessed via the following links: Grant writing Business Planning
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There’s a lot of good to be gained via giving your time and resources in your community. Some people give because it’s how they are built – they are compelled to. You’ll find these people sharing from their garden, lending a hand to neighbours, giving frontline workers coffees and selling raffle tickets. You won’t usually
Are you really doing good? Lessons from a reformed do-gooder. Read More
If this was my last day on earth, would I be happy with it? Before I start this post may I please take a moment to acknowledge those of you who may be triggered by such a statement having lost someone, or considered losing yourself in this year. This post is by no means intended
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