Our Supporters

Government Funders

Stride would not be able to provide the services we do without the essential support of our Government funders.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

Department of Education
Employment and Workplace Relations
Department of Health and Ageing
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Department of Immigration and Citizenship

STATE GOVERNMENT

Department of Education and Early Childhoold Development, Victoria
Office of Crime Prevention, Western Australia
Queensland Department of Communities, Sport and Recreations
Transport Accident Commission, Victoria

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

City of Boroondara
City of Greater Geelong
City of Melbourne
Tropical Population Health Service - Queensland
City of Yarra

Corporate Partners

We are pleased to be working in partnership with the following organisations who are helping us to develop and deliver our programs.

We're delighted to be working with Xstrata, delivering our Sport for Life program in Mount Isa, Queensland, for 2011-2012. The program provides unique opportunities for the young people of Mount Isa to learn about healthy lifestyles and essential life skills, while providing them with the incentive to remain in longer term education for a better future.

SHELL DEVELOPMENT (Australia)

Online Dreaming, Perth. This is an exciting partnership which enables Online Dreaming to be delivered in Perth for the first time in Stride's history. Working with Shell, we will be able to support young people at risk of disengaging from their school and community with a long term film production program. The young people involved will be producing their own films from concept idea, to storyboard, to script-writing to filming and editing, whilst working with mentors and being encouraged to remain in education for longer.

We are delighted to confirm a partnership with DECA which has been kicked off through the very kind pro-bono donation of four wheel drive skills courses for our operational team members. Many of our programs are run in very remote regions across Australia and this generous donation contributes enormously to our organisational health and safety policy and commitments. It also supports DECA in delivering on its mission to make a meaningful contribution to the safety of Australian Drivers. We are now looking forward to developing this partnership further with regards to opportunities for young people within the transport and logistics industry.

Stride is pleased to be working with corporates who have a responsibility agenda to help young people reach their potential. For more information contact our Director of Development, Jill Gustave Marston, on 03 9489 1611 or email jmarston@stride.org.au

Community Fundraisers

Thank you to the community groups, businesses and individuals who put on events and activities to raise funds for Stride. The creativity and community spirit is wonderful and it's doubly great to hear that the organisers and participants have had such good fun while raising funds for us.

Stride CEO Jane Hill receives a nicely sized cheque from Anna Alexander, Young Lawyer's Section Manager

A big thanks to the Law Institute Victoria Young Lawyers for raising $740 for Stride at their annual trivia night.

The Young Lawyers Trivia Night is one of the most popular annual events on the Young Lawyers' calendar- a night of fun, entertainment and sharpened minds and pencils! This year the Young Lawyers chose Stride to benefit from their trivia night raffle.

If you have a good idea for a fun event to raise funds for Stride, or would like to know more about how to become a community fundraiser for Stride, download our community fundraising kit for hints, tips and guidelines here.

In-Kind and Pro-Bono Supporters

In-kind and pro-bono support is incredibly important to Stride and releases funds that can be re-directed straight to program support.

Cobalt Blu
Donortec
Group WanAus
Minter Ellison Lawyers
The Nous Group
BP Australia

If you would like to discuss how your business may become a supporter of Stride with a donation of time, goods or skills, please contact Jill Gustave Marston.

Philanthropic Funders

Thank you to the following Trusts and Foundations who are generously supporting many of our programs and workshops.

William Buckland Foundation (ANZ Trustees)
We were delighted to receive significant funding from the William Buckland Foundation for a major early intervention pilot program, "Supportive Schools". The program will run over three years and is in partnership with four local schools. The program sees us delivering a tailored program of our school workshops and community programs, reaching nearly 2,000 students. Major outcomes for the program will be based on increasing the personal, social and community connectedness of young people in disadvantaged regions of Gippsland.

We are also most grateful to the following Trusts and Foundations who are providing essential funding to our programs:
BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd
Bunnings
Catholic Churches Insurances Ltd
Centacare Mount Isa
Clifton Hill/North Fitzroy Community Bank - Bendigo Bank
Coca-Cola Australia Foundation
Foster's Community Grants
Harcourts Foundation
Ian Potter Foundation
Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation
Morialta Trust Incorporated
NAB Schools First
Percy Baxter Charitable Trust (Perpetual Trustees)
RE Ross Trust
St George Foundation
The E Robert Hayles and Alison L Hayles Charitable Trust (Perpetual Trustees)
United Way Geelong Region
Wightons Lawyers
William Angliss Charitable Fund
William Buckland Foundation (ANZ Trustees)