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Resources for Groups
The Arbour Project " grassroots education around
refugees "
The Arbour Project began as a Queensland based grassroots
education project, auspiced by Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, to generate new
and deeper understandings about the issues surrounding refugees and asylum
seekers in Australia. It is about creating a space for community dialogue
and learning where different views can be aired in dialogue rather than
adversarial debate. Through dialogue - in workshops in Queensland and in
Refugee Learning Circles throughout the country- the Arbour Project aims
to develop community understanding, networks and trust by focussing on and
finding common ground. The Arbour Project Refugee Learning Circle Kit is
available from OCAA state offices through the Community Campaigners, on CD
in PDF or in a print version with permission to photocopy. Read The Arbour
Project flyer (in Adobe Acrobat format)
Contact: Angela Ballard
Email: angelab@caa.org.au
Tel: 3637 4610
Free online donations facility in use
Three Brisbane organisations that work with refugees
and/or asylum seekers have taken advantage of the free online donations
facility offered via Brisbane City Council. Congratulations to Gateway
Community Group, Anglicare
Refugee and Migrant Services, and Austcare
for taking action. No doubt, they are already reaping the rewards. (If you
want to donate, just click on one of the organisations). To be honest, I
can't understand why more groups haven't taken up this opportunity. It is
free. Yes! Free! It's easy. And Gina at BCC will help you through the
setup process. It looks after itself and even issues receipts for you! You
don't need a website. Your appeal will be promoted through the National
Giving Centre at ourcommunity.com.au and through Brisbane's
ourbrisbane.com website as well as through BARC! (of course). For more
information, go to http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/bris_gives/donations/index.jsp
Funding opportunities from the Department of Families
The attached document contains a list of available funding
opportunities for community organisations provided by the Department of
Families.
Contact: Deb Sanderson (Regional Executive Officer Community
Learning and Skilling, Brisbane North Region, Dept of Employment &
Training)
Tel: 3872 0539
Download: Funding
Calendar (you need the free Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view this file)
Free website
Grassroot community organisations, special
interest groups and individuals in Queensland now have the opportunity to
develop and maintain websites hosted free of charge through Connecting
Queensland, the State Library of Queensland's newest online resource.
Connecting Queensland is sponsored by Telstra Country Wide, which will
provide the hosting arrangements for two years free of charge. Funded by
the State Government, Connecting Queensland offers communities many
benefits including easy-to-design templates, the ability to run forums,
and the ability to limit access to members if desired. The website
includes help pages and an online bulletin board for web author support.
Community groups or individuals who are interested in creating a website
can visit www.connectqld.org.au
for further information.
Learn how to get the resources that your group needs
A 15 contact hour accredited course
designed to assist you and your organisation apply for funding and obtain
other resources to meet learning needs in your community.
Each course will have a maximum of 12 participants and run at:
Stafford: Tuesday 4/11, 11/11 & 18/11/2003, 9.00am - 2.45pm
Caboolture: Weds - 5/11 & 19/11/ 2003, 9.00am - 5.30pm
Redcliffe: Thurs - 6/11 & 20/11/2003, 9.00am - 5.30pm
Cost: $12 (no GST)
Contact: Kim Harrington on 3398 1656
Email: k_harrington@bigpond.com
How to find the cheapest phone card
Refugees and asylum seekers keen to phone
loved ones at the cheapest price may find this website useful - www.phonecardselector.com.au
This website finds the cheapest phone cards in Australia, and phone card
rates are almost always cheaper than using your home phone. You can also
buy a phone card from the site online.
Media Guidelines
The Ecumenical Migration Centre (EMC) has developed a set of guidelines
(in Word format) for consideration when working with people in refugee and asylum related
situations who are speaking with the media.
Legal Research volunteer available
A legal research volunteer is available for legal and
policy research for projects regarding refugees and asylum seekers.
Contact: Heather
Email: heatherdh@uccentre.ucaqld.com.au
Subverting Racism kits for Social Justice Sunday
Subverting Racism kits containing resources for Social
Justice Sunday (Sunday 28 September 2003) are available from the
Queensland Synod Office. The kits contain material prepared by
representatives from the Anglican, Catholic and Uniting Churches. Included
are programs for four weeks of reflective study, together with liturgical
and theological resources for the day.
Contact: Kristine (07) 3377 9825 or Heather (07) 3377 9805
Download kits at: http://nat.uca.org.au/unitingjustice/resources/socialjusticesunday/2003/index.htm
Free online donations facility
Supplement your community group's fundraising activities
with an online donations appeal through the Brisbane Gives Donations
Centre. Get one off donations or regular, monthly donors. Receipts can
be automatically created and sent out for you. This is a secure,
commission-free transaction service managed by Brisbane City Council and
ourcommunity.com.au.
Go to http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/bris_gives/donations/receive.jsp
Video - "Refugees in Australia"
This video is a partnership between Pine Rivers Asylum
Seeker Support (PRASS), Blue Gum Media, Red Hill Paddington Community
Centre and the Department of Employment and Training. The Impossible
Angels is a group of six girls fighting for the rights of refugees across
the nation. They enlist the help of their friends from Bray Park High
School to answer some very important questions such as, who are refugees,
what are the different visas refugees have in Australia, what processes to
refugee claimants have to go through to stay in Australia and how can we,
as regular people, can help refugees. Videos are available free (donation
to cover postage) and target a high school aged audience.
Contact: Deb Emery, PO Box 306, Kallangur 4503
Email: refugeesarewelcomehere@yahoo.com
or prass@barc.org.au
Fax: 32046718
Pro Bono Australia
Pro Bono Australia is Australia's portal for the Not for
Profit sector. It is unique in this country and has been established since
November 1999. Pro Bono Australia's aim is twofold: to facilitate and
increase the level of Philanthropy in Australia and to give Not for Profit
organisations the resources they need to run effectively.
For more information go to http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/new/default.htm
Report on Microfinance in Australia
This report looks at some of the innovative projects and
programs which are happening in community organisations working to address
financial exclusion around the country. It's available to be downloaded at
the following site: http://www.social.uq.edu.au/research/finance/
Nonprofit Good Practice Guide
Published by The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for
Philanthropy, this online directory and capacity-building tool details
resources, trends, websites, and preferred practices and pitfalls related
to managing nonprofits. Topics include financial sustainability;
governance; staff development and organisational capacity; accountability
and evaluation; volunteer management; communications and marketing;
management and leadership; advocacy; technology; and foundations and
grantmaking. Although this site has been developed for a North American
audience, much of the content is of value to nonprofit organisations
anywhere. Go to http://www.nonprofitbasics.org/
Multicultural Assistance Grants
Funds (maximum of $10 000) are available from MAQ for
Multicultural festivals, and projects. Copies of the Multicultural
Assistance Grants Guidelines and Application Form are available at http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/about/maq/maq.htm.
Paul Cullen Humanitarian Awards 2003
The AUSTCARE Humanitarian Paul Cullen Awards serve to:
Honour the outstanding contributions that individuals and community groups
have made to advance the interests and well-being of refugees overseas.
Raise public awareness of the issues facing refugees overseas. Recognise
the commitment to refugees by Austcare's founding President, Major-General
Paul Cullen. Nominations close 29 August 2003. For more details go to www.austcare.org.au
Queensland Multicultural Service Awards 2003
Categories include: school, individual, organisation. The
Qld Multicultural Service Awards (QMSA) are an initiative of the
Queensland Government, administered by MAQ. For more details phone 3224
5690 or 1800 102 225.
Video Holiday Camp
"Holiday Camp" is a 45 min. documentary, which
investigates the current Australian immigration policies in the context of
200 years of colonization. "Holiday Camp" connects the issues of
indigenous dispossession, genocide, and the incarceration of refugees. It
explores the implications of the mandatory detention system and the
construction of national borders. You can order the movie online ($30.00 +
$5.00 shipping) - and as with all of their products, quantity discounts
apply. Please allow 1-2 weeks for processing and shipping. Visit the page
here: http://www.westnet.com.au/jackhsmit/holidaycamp.htm
Refugee Learning Circle Kit
The new Refugee Learning Circle Kit is now available to
people wishing to convene or facilitate a refugee learning circle in their
community.(amongst friends, colleagues or in community groups open to the
wider public) Contact Angela Ballard at the Arbour Project. angelab@caa.org.au
or ph 3637 4610
Get paid a full salary to volunteer for a year
Vodaphone is running a competition, the winners of which
will have their salary paid for a year (by Vodaphone) to work with the
charity of their choice. This is your chance to work for your favourite
refugee group around Brisbane! Applications close at 5pm on Thursday 31
July 2003. To find out more and apply online, go to http://www.vodafone.com.au/wod
Capitalising on Diversity
People who have had a refugee experience are a diverse
bunch. Is your organisation capitalising on this diversity? You can now
access a wide range of resources materials and business tools on the
Diversity website: www.diversityaustralia.gov.au
E-Give
E-give is a non-profit service managed by the Earth Share
Australia Foundation. It provides on-line donation and e-commerce
facilities to non-profit organisations at cost and similar, competitively
priced, services to small businesses allowing the public to support those
organisations simply and easily over the internet.
http://www.egive.org.au/
 Lonely Planet From Nothing to Zero
Lonely Planet has recently published From Nothing to
Zero: Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention Centres. Lonely Planet
offers a discount of 40 percent off the retail price for groups purchasing
the book for their members. All profits are being donated to the Refugee
and Immigration Legal Centre (Melbourne) and the Asylum Seeker Resource
Centre, Footscray. For more information
about the book, visit
http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/product_detail.cfm?productID=2145&
Free Website Offer to Community Groups
The Communities Online Initiative of Brisbane City Council
is offering 150 community groups an opportunity to have their own web site
using ourbrisbane.com's ourweb starter - an online web site-building tool.
This program will be fully subsidised by Brisbane City Council for a
period of 12 months. For more information on the offer or to apply, go to http://www.ourbrisbane.com/community/building
Red Cross Tracing and Message Service
Aims to assist in re-establishing contact between family
members separated by war, conflict or disaster, by offering a free Tracing
and Message Service. As part of this assistance and the present situation
with Iraq, they have developed a family links website (www.familylinks.icrc.org).
Information about this site can be found in English and Arabic. This site
could assist community members to search for names of family members and
also register name and addresses so that relatives can contact them.
Contact: Jyoti Ramsey, Manager Refugee and Multicultural Services
Australian Red Cross: jramsey@qld.redcross.org.au
"How to set up a refugee support group" kit
A "How to set up a refugee support group" kit
has been produced by Red Hill/Paddington Refugee Support Group and Gateway
Refugee Support Group. For a copy of this simple guide to establishing a
group please ring Mandy Cox on 33667836 or download
the kit here
Safe Places
Safe Places A community Cultural Development Workers'
Guide to working with young people from a refugee background. This is a
valuable resource for all who work with and for young refugees, developed
in partnership by QPASTT and Contact Inc. The Safe Places kit
contains two parts: a video created with and by young people from a
refugee background, and a research publication that is the result of
interviews with young people, cultural development workers, refugee
counsellors, youth workers, teachers, policy makers, artists and
academics.
Cost: $30.00 (+ GST).
Contact: Youth Arts Queensland on 07 3252 5115 or email info@yaq.org.au
Free Microsoft Software
Via its Community Assistance Initiative, Microsoft
provides free software to nonprofit organisations around Australia. For
more information, including guidelines and application forms, visit the Microsoft
website.
Free Website Domain Hosting
Acenet Global offers domain hosting free of hosting and
setup charges to charities and other non profit organisations in
Queensland. Each non profit organisation receives a Discovery account with
20Meg of space. This hosting account is featured with ADO database access,
CGI-bin, ASP etc. For more information, visit http://www.acenetglobal.com/csignup.asp
GreenPC - Cheap Computer Equipment
If your group can't afford to get onto the Internet then
this might help. GreenPC provides recycled computers and associated
hardware (with a warranty) to community groups and low income people at a
fraction of their new price. GreenPC is a social enterprise of the
InfoXchange, a nonprofit organisation working to bridge the digital
divide. View their current price list at http://www.greenpc.com.au/
Volunteer Small Equipment Grants 2003
On International Volunteer Day, 5 December 2002, Senator
Vanstone announced the $3 million Volunteer Small Equipment Grants 2003 to
help Australia's volunteers to carry on with their vital work. Grants of
up to $5000 each are available and are particularly accessible to small
low funded or non-funded groups. An application form for the grants will be
available early 2003. Most grant funding will be available from July 2003.
Applicants should call 1800 018 312 and provide their name, address, phone
and fax numbers and an email address if applicable, so an application
package can be sent when available.
http://www.facs.gov.au/sfcs/funding/sml_equip_grants.htm
Free Webpage for Refugee Groups
To help promote online collaboration and resource sharing, BARC!
is happy to be able to offer to host a web page for any group that does not have
its own site. Simply email your page content as a Microsoft Word document. Find
out more about getting a free webpage...
Free Website Hosting and Development
If the free webpage offered by BARC! is not enough, how
about a whole site! Don't know how to make a site? No worries! A web
design volunteer can do it for you. The Community Web Publishing Project
of the Queensland State Library offers free web hosting (up to 10MB) and
website design to non-profit organisations.
http://cwpp.slq.qld.gov.au/index.htm
Free Content for your Website
BARC! is also offering the content of its webpages for any
website to post as content within its own site. For example, you could include
the calendar, the listings of organisations or any other page in your site. Find
out more about including BARC! content in your
website...
Tertiary Preparation Program (TPP) scholarships
AUSTCARE has been offered Tertiary Preparation Program (TPP)
scholarships, through the University of Southern Queensland, for first and
second Semesters in 2003. All organizations associated with refugees are
invited to nominate suitable people. The basic requirements for these
scholarships are that the applicant should be a refugee, have permanent
residency status and a reasonable grasp of written and spoken English.
There is no minimum educational entrance standard but all applicants must
be at least 18 years of age. Download the scholarship
information and application form (in MS Word format).
We are all Boat People, media kit and fact sheets
The Boat People Tactical Media Group (TMG) provides fact sheets and media kits
to assist you to build your own resistance group.
www.boat-people.org
Refugee Sunday materials
Held on August 25 2002. A
range of materials were developed for the event and are now available on
the web
http://www.ncca.org.au/rdp/refugee-sunday/index.asp
Refugee and Asylum Seekers & Mass Media Project (RAM)
This project provides information to community groups, refugees and asylum
seekers about how to engage with the press. The project also promotes best
practice in media representation of refugee and asylum issues. You can
subscribe to the RAM mailing list to receive their monthly bulletin.
Provides training to people in the community on engaging with the media.
www.ramproject.org.uk
Fundraiser for your Group - Award Winning Asylum Seeker CD Seeks Partners
The Refugee Claimants Support Centre’s (RCSC) are seeking
organisations interested in selling their award winning ‘Scattered
People’ CD. Wholesale price in Australia is $18 (inc GST) and groups are
encouraged to sell the CD for between $25 and $30.
The RCSC produced and developed the CD, which contains songs written
and performed by asylum seekers and friends of the Centre. The CD is a
musical journey from the peace of one’s hometown through the upheaval
that leads to flight and the process of seeking protection. The CD was awarded ‘Best Producer’ at the 2001 Sunnie Awards by the
Queensland Recording Association and is highly recommended by New
Internationalist Australia. One of the songs, 'Labarik Sira Hotu', was
used by the UN in East Timor to encourage people to vote in the 2001
elections.
To find out more, go to the Scattered
People fundraiser page.
Refugee Art Display
The Multicultural Development Association has developed
an art display to increase community awareness about refugee issues. A
community artist was employed to develop an engaging and informative
display of images and questions that provoke people to consider what it is
to be a refugee.
 To add an item or correct an item on this page,
please email Chris Gibbings admin@barc.org.au
Page content provided by BARC! the Brisbane Actionweb for Refugee
Collaboration as a free service. Find out how to use this content in your
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