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Format: audio
Producer: Elizabeth Cham and Wendy Brooks
Series: McCaughey Centre Seminar Series
Synopsis:
During this seminar, Elizabeth Cham will speak about the history of Philanthropy in Melbourne and Wendy Brooks will discuss philanthropic relationships and the art of giving and receiving over the past 15 years. The session will then be opened up for questions.
Elizabeth Cham was the National Director of Philanthropy Australia for ten years and during that time there washistorically unprecedented growth in philanthropy. Elizabeth was a founding member of the Prime Minister’s Business Community Partnershipand of WINGS (International Association of Grantmakers). Elizabeth has worked as an academic at the ANU and University of Canberra. She hasbeen a researcher in history, has worked for Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and was the speech writer for Premier John Cain. She was Manager of Research at ANZ Trustees where she worked for a number of prominent Australian Foundations. Currently Elizabeth is the Chair of the Advisory Council of the National Nonprofit Roundtable, and the Senior Research Fellow in Philanthropy at University of Melbourne researching the history of charitable law in Australia.
Wendy Brooks’ career in marketing, fundraising and management has spanned the welfare, arts and health sectors over the past fifteen years. Previous positions include Executive Director ofthe Royal Women's Hospital Foundation, Marketing Manager of Orchestra Victoria and Director of the Cabrini Hospital Foundation. A graduate of the Faculty of Music, Wendy has performed in Melbourne orchestras and chamber music groups, run youth orchestral programs and taught violin and viola. Wendy has a strong interest in social justice, humanitarian and equity issues and currently serves on the Boards of The Royal Women's Hospital Foundation, University High School and the Women's Disability Network. She was previously Board Director on The Light Foundation and The Victorian Parenting Centre.
Philanthropy: perspectives, reflections and signposts for the future by Elizabeth Cham and Wendy Brooks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at the Knowledge Transfer Group.
Context: Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, McCaughey Centre for, Public health epidemiology and health services,