Indigenous Community Volunteers

Useful Links & Recomended Reading

Capacity Building

Asset Based Community Development Asset And Resource Mapping
A systematic process for identifying and detailing resources (individual skills and organisational resources) and strengths in a community. Community Builders NSW
Building Your Community: an Asset Based Community Development Toolkit-The Toolkit provides a practical guide on how to build on a community’s strengths and assets through a range of community activities.

Community Builders NSW
Building Your Community: an Asset Based Community Development Toolkit-The Toolkit provides a practical guide on how to build on a community’s strengths and assets through a range of community activities.

Community Life
Community development is a process, which aims to support communities, by recognising their strengths and empowering them to find relevant solutions to community identified problems.

WA Department for Community Development
Contemporary literature on capacity building and the strengths perspective - This document explores contemporary literature on capacity building and the strengths perspective. The Framework draws upon the latest literature on working effectively to attain sustainable outcomes and build resilience in individuals, families and communities.

Global Philanthropy & Foundation Building
Asset-Based Community Development -- An Overview

www.ourcommunity.com.au - Australia's most useful website and publishing house, encompassing the nation's largest and most diverse membership base and 15 knowledge and service hubs - accelerating the impact of Australia's 700,000 community organisations

The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)
The ABCD Institute spreads its findings on capacity-building community development in two ways: (1) through extensive and substantial interactions with community builders, and (2) by producing practical resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighbourhood assets.

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Governance

Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Indigenous Community Governance: Understanding, Building and Sustaining Effective Governance in Rural, Remote and Urban Indigenous Communities

The language of governance in a cross-cultural cultural context
What can and can’t be translated

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Government Resources

Aboriginal Support Services
This directory provides access to information and services for art and culture, health, education, law, housing, ancestry, reconciliation, and more for the support of Aboriginal people.

Australia.gov.au
Your connection with government: Indigenous Peoples

Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Following the changes announced by the Prime Minister on 24 January 2006, the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC) became part of the new Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) portfolio, formerly the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS).

Indigenous.gov.au
Government services for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people

Indigenous Portal
The Indigenous Portal, your window to resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders.

Indigenous Business Australia
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) plays an important role in creating opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and communities to build assets and wealth. It does so as an integral partner within the Australian Government's overarching Indigenous Economic Development Strategy.

Employment Assistance for Indigenous Australians
These pages will give you an understanding of the programmes and services the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) uses to support Indigenous employment and economic development.

Indigenous Land Corporation
The ILC assists Indigenous Australians acquire land and manage Indigenous-held land in a sustainable way to provide cultural, social, economic or environmental benefits for themselves and future generations.

Indigenous Coordination Centres
Indigenous Coordination Centres or ICCs operate in 30 locations around Australia. They look after most of the Australian Government’s Indigenous programs and negotiate Shared Responsibility Agreements with local Indigenous people and communities. ICCs are managed by the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC) within the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

Shared responsibility agreements
Here you’ll get information about Shared Responsibility Agreements (SRAs) and Regional Partnership Agreements (RPAs): what they are, where they have been signed, and Australian Government investment.

Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination
Part of the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA), OIPC is coordinating a whole-of-government approach to programs and services for Indigenous Australians. It has a central role in the Australian Government's arrangements in Indigenous Affairs.

Qld Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Policy
The Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy (DATSIP) plays a key role in providing leadership and coordinating activities across Government to ensure Indigenous Queenslanders are well represented and effectively served.

The Community Portal
This website provides access to online services and information for Australian community organisations, communities and individuals. It links to information and services provided by all levels of government as well as the non-government sector.

Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations
The Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations is an independent statutory office holder who administers the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976.

Seniors Website
The Australian Government's premier source of information for Australians over 50. Seniors.gov.au provides you with a single point of access to Government and non-Government information and services for older Australians.

South Australia Central
South Australia Central is the Gateway to South Australian Information and Services. It is a directory containing over 9000 links to South Australian websites. SA Central will link you to South Australian Businesses, Schools, Accommodation, Attractions, National Parks, Health, Community and Government Services just to name a few.

WA Department for Community Development, Indigenous Resources Online
Linking communities to infromation.

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Non Government Indigenous Organisations

Reconciliation Australia
Reconciliation Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation established in 2000 by the former Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.

Wunan Foundation
The purpose of the Foundation is to build up capacity to sustain innovative and progressive programs for improving socio-economic outcomes for Indigenous people in the East Kimberley.

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Grants

A guide book for getting a grant
Download pdf BRMACC PDF

Community Builders
Funding & Awards: This module covers available funding sources and how to support your bid by writing a successful submission. We also look at alternative means of support and other ways to provide resources for your project or organisation.

Community Funding Centre
Australia's Premier Grants and Funding Resource: OurCommunity offers a wide variety of services and products on grants and fundraising, many of them free, so that you can become a healthier, more viable community group.

GrantsLINK - Grants from the Australian Government
GrantsLINK makes it easier to find suitable and relevant grants for indigenous community projects from the many Australian Government grants that are available by listing the grants available from Australian Government Departments.

The Grant Serach Register of Australian Funding
Grant Search is Australia's original and most comprehensive funding database.

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Housing

Eco-Villas Low Cost Housing
Sustainable, Steel Frame, Earthquake, Cyclone and Termite Proof, DIY, Kit Building Systems’ for Low Cost Housing.

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Language

Ngapartji Ngapartji
An online window in to world of Pitjantjatjara language and culture!

Aboriginal English in the Courts
This handbook is one part of the Aboriginal English in the Courts Project.

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Leadership

The Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre Ltd
Supporting and encouraging Indigenous leaders to develop the knowledge, skills, confidence and shared vision to lead communities, organisations and the nation in the 21st Century.

Glastonbury
Inspirational leadership is the heart of The Glastonbury Company. We believe that the success of your organisation begins and ends in your Boardroom - in the hearts and minds of your Directors.

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Media

CAAMA radio
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association. A Radio network (8 KIN FM) broadcasting Aboriginal radio to remote and Regional Australia. CAAMA covers 1/3 of Australia from the desert to the sea, the outback to the city.

City Park Radio
City Park Radio is Launceston's Community Radio Station, broadcasting on 103.7 fm.

Imparja Television
Imparja is a private, fully commercial television company registered in the Northern Territory. It is unique in Australia and the world, being totally owned and controlled by Northern Territory and South Australian Aboriginal shareholders, who have never requested nor received a dividend, preferring to invest any profit back into the development of the company.

Koori Mail - Australia's National Indigenous Newspaper
Through the work of our correspondents in every State and Territory, the Koori Mail is helping to document the contemporary experience of Indigenous Australia, as well as reinforcing and reminding all Australians that 'White Australia has a Black History'.

Ngapartji Ngapartji
We are now taking enrolments in the first ever online Pitjantjatjara language course! We invite Melbourne International Arts Festival audiences to enrol now.

National Indigenous Times
The National Indigenous Times first hit the streets on February 27, 2002. It was borne of a dream by Owen Carriage, the original founder of the Koori Mail, and a group of other Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media
Waru.org: The web portal for Anangu Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra peoples, communities and organisations.

Vibe Australia
Vibe Australia Pty Ltd (Vibe) is a dynamic Aboriginal media, communications and events management agency situated in Darlinghurst, Sydney with a staff of 12. We specialise in the implementation, production and dissemination of targeted, culturally sensitive communication products and services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

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Native Title

Native Title Representative Bodies
A website designed as a guide for NTRBs to provide information and news to assist them in the performance of their statutory functions. NTRB.net is also designed to provide information to native title clients and the general public in relation to information and developments of Australian native title issues.

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Recomended Reading

The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin

My Place - Sally Morgan

The Lonely Planet’s Guide to Indigenous Australia

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Research & General Information

Australia 's Aboriginal and  Torres Strait Islander peoples
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade resource

Australian Clearinghouse for Youth studies
An extensive listing of Indigenous Research sites

Aussie Educator
An educational resource about Australia

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Information and statistics relating to Indigenous Australians

Australian Indigenous Health Infonet
Our mission is to contribute to improving the health of Australia's Indigenous people by making relevant, high quality knowledge and information easily accessible

Face the Facts - questions & answers about Aboriginal & Torres strit Islander People, Migrants & Refugees
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's most requested publication.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is an independent Australian Government statutory authority devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. It is Australia's premier institution for information about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Straitup
A great resource for volunteers going to the Torres Strait

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Services

Australians creating rural online support systems.
Listing of Indigenous services  

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Skills Transfer

The Greypath Lyceum
The Greypath Lyceum offers a growing list of free on line courses which are of particular interest to seniors.  

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Small Business Development

Aboriginal Tourism Australia


A business development tool developed to assist the Indigenous tourism industry

First Australians Business
First Australians Business (FAB) is a national one to one mentoring program for Indigenous business people. FAB assists Indigenous people to initiate, develop and maintain economically viable and culturally appropriate businesses through the provision of knowledge, expertise and support from corporate Australia.

Indigenous Capital Assistance Scheme
Westpac is proud to be in partnership with the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations to offer eligible Indigenous businesses financial and advisory support.

Indigenous Stock Exchange
BAMA ISX is an effective national advocate and supporter of Indigenous business development. We are able to advocate and support Indigenous business development through our trading floors in which we match Indigenous business-ready entrepreneurs to investors.

Networking World
Empowering small business development in Australia and around the world

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Volunteering

Office for Volunteers

Australian Business Volunteers

Australian Volunteers International

Conservation Volunteers

Oxfam - Community Aid Abroad

Outback Links

Swan Volunteering

The Centre for Volunteering

Volunteering ACT

Volunteering Australia

Volunteering Queensland

Volunteering SA

Volunteering Western Australia

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