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Central Coast

• Central Coast Community Congress 2008 - Power, Passion and People - 12 August 2008 
  - Conversations and Stories for Pro-Active Communties.
• Life education - Healthy Harold - 19 August 2008 
  - Pre-school program for 3-5 year old children. Session lasts for 40 minutes. Bookings essential. No cost.
• COASTFEST '08 - The community celebration of our diversity, Family, Unity & Community - 05 September 2008 
  - The primary theme for CoastFest is Unity, Community, Family & Diversity, it demonstrates that we can all come together to celebrate our differences. As individuals, families, or community groups, with different skills, ideas and beliefs we can come together and learn from each other, while having a great time and create something special and unique for the people of the Central Coast.
• Peninsula Village 4th Annual Art & Craft Exhibition - "Bridging the Gaps" - 26 September 2008 
  - Peninsula Village Retirement Centre Annual Fundraising Event. A community run not for profit organisation.

Coastal Sydney

• ABCD for Inclusion Workshop - Sydney - 21 July 2008 
  - Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a powerful approach to community development that will focus your effort on discovering and mobilising the resources that are already present in a community.
• Basic Survey Design - Training course, Sydney - 23 July 2008 
  - The aim of this course is to give a broad overview of all facets of survey development. The course covers developing survey objectives, advantages and disadvantages of various collection methodologies, questionnaire development, data processing and reporting of results.
• Board Development - workshop, Sydney - 30 July 2008 
  - Are you a non-profit leader, or a current or potential board member? This afternoon workshop turns the spotlight on what’s required to make your non-profit board deliver. You’ll look at best practice, performance expectations and what it takes to make non-profit leaders and board members work effectively together.
• Organisation Building and Growth - Workshop, Sydney - 30 July 2008 
  - This is a 1 day workshop for those who want to grow their organisations. Focus on your organisation’s challenges with regard to growth, assess the best way to go about building what you do, and look at the relationships and processes you’ll need to achieve growth.
• Financial Management - Workshop, Sydney - 31 July 2008 
  - A 1 day workshop that gives you the resources you need to understand and prudently manage the financial operations of your organisation. Perfect for leaders who don’t have a background in accounting.
• Through My Eyes For Your Eyes – Snapshots of Life by Senior Italian Australians 2008 - 01 August 2008 
  - Join us to celebrate the richness of the Italian-Australian Heritage
• SMSA August Conversations Series: Shaping Future Scientists - 06 August 2008 
  - How do teachers excite the interest of students in science and contribute to the creation of a healthy culture of science in Australia?
• August Conversations Series: Designing Future Sydney - 13 August 2008 
  - What ideas and innovations are emerging in urban design to ensure a "green, global and connected" Sydney?
• 2008 Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies Conference - 18 August 2008 
  - The Association of Childrens Welfare Agencies invites you to attend the 2008 ACWA conference. This conference has become the most important event for the children, youth and family industry.
• Networking Event for Graduate Women, All Welcome - 22 August 2008 
  - Come and meet other graduate women to establish valuable networks.
• August Conversations Series: Geek Girls & Women - 27 August 2008 
  - How do structural and social factors and cultural stereotypes affect the career progress and choices of women scientists?
• Planning and Evaluation Workshop - Sydney - 15 September 2008 
  - A 2 day intensive workshop which will overhaul the way you look at your organisation and the techniques you have for making decisions. You’ll unpack your program logic, review organisational capacity, and look at how to make strategy planning and evaluation really deliver benefits.
• Board Development - Workshop, Sydney - 17 September 2008 
  - Are you a non-profit leader, or a current or potential board member? This afternoon workshop turns the spotlight on what’s required to make your non-profit board deliver. You’ll look at best practice, performance expectations and what it takes to make non-profit leaders and board members work effectively together.
• Organisation Building and Growth - Workshop, Sydney - 17 September 2008 
  - This is a 1 day workshop for those who want to grow their organisations. Focus on your organisation’s challenges with regard to growth, assess the best way to go about building what you do, and look at the relationships and processes you’ll need to achieve growth.
• Financial Management - Workshop, Sydney - 18 September 2008 
  - A 1 day workshop that gives you the resources you need to understand and prudently manage the financial operations of your organisation. Perfect for leaders who don’t have a background in accounting.
• Principles of Questionnaire Design - Training Course - 24 September 2008 
  - A well designed questionnaire is vital for collecting high quality data. The aim of this two day course is to provide participants with an awareness and understanding of questionnaire design principles.
• Intro to Permaculture course - Sydney - 15 November 2008 
  - A two-day, weekend course held in central Sydney. The basics of Permaculture design and a bunch of practical skills that will help activate you towards living sustainably and responsibly, wherever you may live...
• Making Quality Informed Decisions - Training Course in Sydney - 20 November 2008 
  - This course is intended to assist people to effectively use a quality framework to systematically understand quality issues associated with using data sources. This course will also equip participants with the necessary skills to apply that understanding when making a decision (eg, on policy), and is designed to take participants through the key fundamentals of data quality assessment. There is also a strong emphasis on the importance of using good quality data to promote informed decision-making.

Hunter

• ABCD for Inclusion Workshop - Newcastle - 31 July 2008 
  - Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a powerful approach to community development that will focus your effort on discovering and mobilising the resources that are already present in a community.
• Jonathon Welch & The Carrie's Place Choir Of No More Knocks - 23 August 2008 
  - Enjoy a night of magical multi cultural entertainment, and help the choir raise funds for their trip to Melbourne to sing with the choir of hard knocks. This choir is made up of women who have experienced domestic violence and have found empowerment through performance. Others on stage include Bollywood dancers, African drumming, Samoan music, and indigenous music.

International

• Amnesty International Report 2007 - 19 June 2007 
  - This report documents human rights issues of concern to Amnesty International during 2006.
• Adult Learners' Week - 01 September 2008 
  - A celebration of adult learning in our community.
• From Margins to Mainstream: 5th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders - 10 September 2008 
  - The conference will highlight activities that contribute to promoting individual and community mental health and wellbeing. The conference also aims to show the mental health and wider community that the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness is no longer on the margins of the health debate. Instead, it is integrated into mainstream areas of research, policy and practice, across many diverse sectors, such as the arts, sports, housing, justice, education, employment, health and others.
• Clean Up The World - 19 September 2008 
  - Join 35 million people around the world and help Clean Up for climate change in 2008
• The 4 Rs - Rights, Respect, Reconciliation, Responsibility International Conference - 30 September 2008 
  - The 4Rs Organising Committee invites submissions for papers, panels , presentations, performances and other forms of participation - Closing date 15 April 2008.
• Mental Health Week NSW 2008 - 05 October 2008 
  - Mental Health Week NSW 2008 is coordinated by the Mental Health Association NSW. The launch of Mental Health Week will be held in Martin Place on Wednesday 8th October 2008.

National

• communityNet Resources & Publications Yearbook - 01 December 2007 
  - A compilation of resources and publications for the community sector.
• Southern Cross Cultural Exchange are looking for host families for the 2nd half of the year - 02 July 2008 
  - Expand your family’s horizons and make a friend for life. Southern Cross Cultural Exchange currently has over 100 students from Europe, Canada, USA, Japan, Brazil and Colombia, who will arrive in July 2008 for a few months.
• Planning & Evaluation Workshop - 04 August 2008 
  - A 2 day intensive workshop which will overhaul the way you look at your organisation and the techniques you have for making decisions. You’ll unpack your program logic, review organisational capacity, and look at how to make strategy planning and evaluation really deliver benefits.
• 12th National Conference on Volunteering - 03 September 2008 
  - Volunteering Australia invites you to attend the 12th National Conference on Volunteering, 3-5 September 2008, an event exploring the issues that affect the 5.4 million Australians who volunteer.
• SDN Children's Services Conference 2008,. Sydney - 12 September 2008 
  - From one stop shops to places of encounter: Rethinking early childhood services.
• Changing Communities & Organisations - One Meeting at a Time - 22 October 2008 
  - Based on a transformational approach to community development and organisational change called Future Search - described by City of Sydney staff as "extraordinary", a UN Coordinator as "exceptional", a Northern Ireland Permanent Secretary as "powerful" and the Kings Cross Business Chair as "brilliant".
• Adult Learning Australia 48th Annual National Conference - 30 October 2008 
  - SOCIAL INCLUSION: Engaging the Disengaged Through Lifewide Learning
• Making Links 2008 - The Conference Where Social Action and Technology Converge - 11 November 2008 
  - The Making Links conference is the leading forum for the not-for-profit and community sectors to showcase work and to explore current and emerging new media and information and communications technology (ICT).
• NatStats08 Conference - 19 November 2008 
  - NatStats Conference 08 will help connect users and producers of statistics from across government, the public sector and academia and provide an opportunity to discuss strategies for measuring progress in Australian society and improving statistics for the nation.
• 29th Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation - 17 February 2009 
  - Creating – Community – Collaboration: The symposium will explore themes such as building communication and networking at local, regional, and global scales. It aims to create linkages between communities and to connect policy-makers and managers at all levels with the latest information coming out of sea turtle research and conservation programs.

New England/North West

• Harmony on the Plains Moree Multicultural Festival - 03 October 2008 
  - This year, the Harmony on the Plains Multicultural Festival will be held over the October long weekend in various locations in Moree. The theme is 'Song and Dance'.

no geographical context

• Reelife Short Film Festival 2008 - Call for Entries - 15 June 2008 
  - If you are 25 or younger tell us your story in a short film.
• Spice it up! free live music on Sunday afternoons by the river – the same venue that held The Great Escape Festival. - 06 July 2008 
  - SPICE UP YOUR WINTER AFTERNOONS
• Christmas in July - Meet and greet your neighbours - 24 July 2008 
  - The Cynthia Street Neighbourhood Centre is organising a Christmas in July lunch for the community.
• National Tree Day - 27 July 2008 
  - Join in with thousands of volunteers across the country to help 'Green Up' Australia by planting native trees in your community.
• Open Day at Historic Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital (Rivendell) - 27 July 2008 
  - Guided tours through the main building and some outbuildings
• Social Inclusion and Exclusion of Culturally Diverse Communities: Strategies and Experiences - 01 August 2008 
  - This conference will bring together migrant and refugee communities, service providers, State and Federal Government agencies, community groups, education providers, employers, unions, and academics to identify: - The reasons for and nature of social exclusion of migrant and refugee communities - Policies and practices that lead to the social inclusion of migrant and refugee communities.
• Funding Strategy - 01 August 2008 
  - This high energy 1 day workshop will deliver a boost to your fund-raising confidence, skills and strategy. Packed with personal stories, case studies and tools the workshop will make sure that your approach to raising money is competitive and effective.
• Leadership with a Difference - 4 day Short Program - 19 August 2008 
  - Are you interested in developing your leadership skills? Apply for our Introduction to Adaptive Leadership Program and learn about a different approach to leadership!
• Business and Human Rights workshop, Sydney - 29 August 2008 
  - Due to its increasing expansion, the corporate sector is arguably one of, if not, the most important international influence on human rights. The positive response by the international business community to a recent report by the UN’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights is indicative of the increasing awareness in the business community of the importance of human rights.
• Social Accounting and Audit Training - 01 September 2008 
  - The Social Audit Network (SAN) is a UK-based organisation with a mission “to promote and support social accounting as the preferred means whereby organisations operating in the community, social economy and public sectors report on their social, environmental and economic performance and impact”.
• 2nd International Conference on Alcohol & Other Drug Related Brain Injury & the Brain Injury Australia National Conference - 01 September 2008 
  - The combined conference recognises the need for innovative approaches and improved practice in the field of acquired brain injury and this will feature throughout the conference program.
• Exploring Social and Sacred Ecology - 05 September 2008 
  - The emphasis of this workshop is on using the experience of being in wilderness and in community to bring alive the meaning of social and sacred ecology.
• Funding Strategy - 19 September 2008 
  - This high energy 1 day workshop will deliver a boost to your fund-raising confidence, skills and strategy. Packed with personal stories, case studies and tools the workshop will make sure that your approach to raising money is competitive and effective.
• Understanding Mental Illness - 29 September 2008 
  - A free one day seminar to assist staff from Government and non government organisations in the provision of services to people with menal health problems.
• Understanding Mental Illness - 27 October 2008 
  - A free one day seminar to assist staff from Government and non government organisations in the provision of services to people with menal health problems.
• Understanding Mental Illness - 17 November 2008 
  - A free one day seminar to assist staff from Government and non government organisations in the provision of services to people with menal health problems.
• ABCD Asia Pacific Conference - 03 December 2008 
  - The Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle presents: ABCD ASIA PACIFIC CONFERENCE - A CRITICAL TOOL FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION

North Coast

• Have your say about how Australian democracy should change in the future, Coffs Harbour - 31 July 2008 
  - If you are between 18 and 25 we want to hear your views on how you participate as a citizen and what you would like democracy to look like in the future.
• 2008 NSW North Coast Weeds Forum: Caring for Our Country - 14 August 2008 
  - This Forum is aimed at community members, volunteers, landowners, CMA, Council and Agency staff. Sessions include The Big Picture, Regional Issues, Emerging Weeds and On-ground projects.

NSW

• NSW Premier's Council for Active Living (PCAL) - July Bulletin - 01 July 2008 
  - The July 2008 edition of the NSW PCAL Bulletin is now out. Items include cylcing to work in Sydney, choose a lifestyle work option, streets turning into recreational spaces, and Increase active living for greatest health gain.
• Youth Health Forum - Keeping young people safe - 13 August 2008 
• Small Business September 2008 - Call for Event Partners - 01 September 2008 
  - connect. innovate. create. deliver. Get on board for Small Business September ‘08
• Child Health Network Conference, Sydney - 02 September 2008 
  - Participation in this conference is invited from health professionals involved in delivering, planning, or managing children’s health services or those who are undertaking projects or research to improve health outcomes for children.
• NSW Pitch '08 - "Where the ideas meet the money" - 06 September 2008 
  - NSW Pitch ‘08 is a pitching competition for NSW-based projects and businesses to communicate their investment opportunity before a panel drawn from a variety of financial and business backgrounds.
• Accounting for an organisation’s triple bottom line, carbon and ecological footprint (Sydney) - 12 September 2008 
  - Two day learning program that will provide you with the tools and the know-how to construct your TBL and Footprint accounts.

Riverina/Murray

• Culcairn Festival - 05 October 2008 
  - The Culcairn Festival will incorporate the 125th birthday celebrations of the town. A Street Parade of vintage vehicles will commence at 11 am followed by an afternoon of family fun at the local Sportsground. Culminating with a Supper Dance in the local Memorial Hall.

South Western Sydney

• Human Rights in Mental Health: A Community Consultation for Consumers - 29 July 2008 
  - A consultation between workers from the Mental Health Legal Services Project and consumers on how to sort out complaints with service providers.

Western Sydney

• Come and have your say: Young Muslim people and volunteering - 24 July 2008 
  - A Forum with the NSW Youth Advisory Council on young Muslim people and volunteering.
• Strictly Samoan - 23 August 2008 
  - Strictly Samoan is a program of visual art and social history exhibitions, schools education programs and a public program of craft workshops, sport, music, information sessions and special cultural events.