founding women event

• Is your philanthropic legacy and leadership important to you?
• Would you like to discuss this with other like-minded women?
• Want your donations to be more thoughtful, strategic or impactful?
• Keen to know what's involved in setting up your own fund?
• Want to hear about the 'journey of philanthropy' from a philanthropy expert ?

Women are setting up their own charitable funds, for or with their families, at a pace never seen before. But many women are often still left wondering how to get started, what other women are experiencing, and finding a safe space, and the right expert to talk things through.

This is the second in a series of luncheon events
Date/Venue
Tuesday 20th March, 2012
Alexandria on Lydiard, 30 Lydiard St Nth, Ballarat

Time
12 noon - 2.00pm. A light lunch will be served.

Cost
$25 per head. Tables of 10 are available, so bring your friends.

RSVP by
Due to strong interest the RSVP deadline has been extended to Friday 16th March 2012.

More Info:
Kizanne Davies, Founding Women - The Ballarat Foundation, Phone 0417 357 807

March 2012 Speaker

"Having belief, courage, and tenacity has enabled me to do my part in bringing rural and urban Australia a little closer. In doing so I have learned that, with the right support and encouragement, one person can make a real difference."

Our speaker for the second Founding Women's Luncheon shares her philanthropic experiences, being very different, but no less compelling, to those of our previous keynote speaker.

Deb Bain with her husband David and family of three are wool and lamb producers at Lake Goldsmith in Western Victoria.

Like many women, Deb was a city girl who became a rural woman by marrying a farmer. This put her in a position of understanding just how little contact or understanding urban people have about the source of their food and fibre.

As the founder of Farm Day, Deb's desire to reconnect urban and rural Australians instigated the idea of Farm Day. She set to changing this by creating an opportunity for a city family to visit a farm family through an event called Farm Day. The annual event, now entering its seventh year, has worked successfully to renew links between urban and rural Australia.

A pharmacist by trade, this Canadian born city woman has embraced her rural life and enjoys her various community commitments. As a result of Deb's vision and dedication to Farm Day, she was awarded the prestigious RIRDC Australian Rural Women's award in 2007. She sits on the Board of Australian Year of the Farmer 2012, Women in Primary Industry Advisory Panel to the Minister for Agriculture in Victoria, and is a member of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Council Advisory Panel. She also works for the Country Education Project managing the Teaching Farms program.

Deb Bain is a lady with a clear capacity to see what can be achieved and the ability to bring others on board, to share in and want to support her vision. She has the strength of character that ensures her goals and visions are achieved for the betterment of the world around her.

OAM BA Monash Dip.Soc.Stud
November 2011 Speaker

Marion was the founding Executive Director of Philanthropy Australia from 1989-1991and for the next five years she was National Manager - Charitable Trusts at ANZ Trustees. She was a founding Board member of the Melbourne Community Foundation (now Australian Communities Foundation) and Chair from 2005 - 2009. Marion is the co-founder and Chair of Fitted for Work, a service to assist long term unemployed and disadvantaged women obtain work and ultimately financial independence through the provision of work appropriate clothing and assistance with presentation and interview skills.

In 2003, after completing a contract as Locum Director of the peak Community Foundation Network in the UK, she was awarded and completed a Senior Fellowship with the City University of New York studying community foundation sustainability. In 2004 she was awarded an OAM for her services to philanthropy and the community. Marion is also Chair of Almalia Pty Ltd, Arts Access Ltd and Manukau Community Foundation (NZ) as well as a Committee Member of Changemakers Australia and Trustee for the Philip and Vivien Brass Foundation.

Throughout her career Marion has been committed to assisting work towards long term sustainable and positive change for people experiencing disadvantage.

Listen to what Marion had to say