Insight Into Impact Dr. Marcus Curcija

Part 2 of 2 - Dr. Marcus Curcija continues the discussion with Jane Vadiveloo, Founding CEO and William Tilmouth, Founding Chair of Children’s Ground. Jane and William have worked together for over 15 years, culminating in the foundation and direction of Children’s Ground. Children’s Ground is an organisation led by Aboriginal communities, creating a new future for children filled with promise, justice, hope and empowerment. Children’s Ground works with children, families and communities that face the greatest exclusion and live with injustice and disadvantage every single day.  We unpack how Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility can empower First Nations people and ensure that the economic, cultural, and social justice first nations people is upheld and promoted.

William Tilmouth was born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and is an Arrernte man. A member of the stolen generations, William was taken to Croker Island where he lived and attended school with many other children sent there as a result of Government policy of that era.

Insight Into Impact connected with Children’s Ground after watching In My Blood it Runs. A documentary which arose from the work and families who lead Children’s Ground. The documentary follows the story of ten-year-old Dujuan, a child-healer, a good hunter and speaker of three languages. As Dujuan shares his wisdom of history and the complex world around him, the audience witness his spark and intelligence. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fights to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he becomes another statistic. His grandmothers lead Children’s Ground and key advisors to the film include the Chair, CEO and cultural leaders of Children’s Ground.

We encourage you to follow the link below and watch the documentary. We also encourage you to follow the work on Children’s Ground and learn how you can support both these organisations.

Childrens Ground: https://childrensground.org.au/

In My Blood It Runs: https://inmyblooditruns.com/

Insight Into Impact: https://insightintoimpact.com.au/

Insight Into Impact acknowledges and honours First Nations peoples, paying respect to Elder’s past and present as custodians of this land.

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Part 1 of 2 - We welcome Jane Vadiveloo, Founding CEO and William Tilmouth, Founding Chair of Children’s Ground. Jane and William have worked together for over 15 years, culminating in the foundation and direction of Children’s Ground. Children’s Ground is an organisation led by Aboriginal communities, creating a new future for children filled with promise, justice, hope and empowerment. Children’s Ground works with children, families and communities that face the greatest exclusion and live with injustice and disadvantage every single day.  We unpack how Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility can empower First Nations people and ensure that the economic, cultural, and social justice first nations people is upheld and promoted.

William Tilmouth was born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and is an Arrernte man. A member of the stolen generations, William was taken to Croker Island where he lived and attended school with many other children sent there as a result of Government policy of that era.

Insight Into Impact connected with Children’s Ground after watching In My Blood it Runs. A documentary which arose from the work and families who lead Children’s Ground. The documentary follows the story of ten-year-old Dujuan, a child-healer, a good hunter and speaker of three languages. As Dujuan shares his wisdom of history and the complex world around him, the audience witness his spark and intelligence. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fights to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he becomes another statistic. His grandmothers lead Children’s Ground and key advisors to the film include the Chair, CEO and cultural leaders of Children’s Ground.

We encourage you to follow the link below and watch the documentary. We also encourage you to follow the work on Children’s Ground and learn how you can support both these organisations.

Childrens Ground: https://childrensground.org.au/

In My Blood It Runs: https://inmyblooditruns.com/

Insight Into Impact acknowledges and honours First Nations peoples, paying respect to Elders past and present as custodians of this land.



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We are pleased to welcome Anne de Jong, Co-Founder at Good Tourism Institute on the show. Anne is a sustainable tourism consultant from The Netherlands. Anne initiated Good Tourism Institute to provide educational content to tourism industry practitioners from across the world utilising an online platform,  presence, and regular email updates. Anne covers a wide variety of tourism-based topics on her platform because of her desire to future-proof the tourism industry. Her content supports tour operators and destinations to become more resilient and sustainable because she abides by the ethos that making a positive impact on local communities and the environment will enable tourism to be more sustainable, accessible, and profitable.

Tune in to hear about how Anne's passion to assist communities across the world enabled her to quickly develop a loyal base, enhance her capacity, expand into new forms of media to build her brand and continue to drive positive impact in communities across the world.

As explored previously on the Insight Into Impact Podcast, waste management is a pressing concern facing communities across the globe. Although several locations are using technology and innovative techniques to tackle this challenges, unfortunately, there are many local councils and municipalities that are still seeking to better understand the problem and find scalable solutions that will improve land management and resource allocation. Enter Emma Avery, who has made it her personal mission to mitigate waste and save families money by educating and empowering caregivers to better understand the benefits of cloth nappies. Her mission does not stop there, as she also engages with public and private entities so they support and implement education and infrastructure that helps to reduce the volume of waste headed to landfills.

Emma Avery is a waste and sustainability professional with over 10 years experience in local and state government delivering community sustainability education programs. In 2019, she founded Cloth Baby | modern cloth nappies, filling an education gap to help parents avoid disposable nappy waste.

From this, she realised that there was more to be done in the field of waste education and established her consulting business EA Sustainability, working with community groups and government to communicate new changes in waste management.

Emma runs workshops for new parents to understand modern cloth nappies so that they start and continue to use reusable nappies for their baby in a supported environment.  She sees the bigger issue with disposable nappy waste and believes that the education for using reusables is only the beginning of what can be achieved to avoid disposable nappy waste to landfill.

In addition to waste management, this episode also reveals the power of innovation and stakeholder engagement when faced with a pressing challenge. Emma details how she looked inward to uncover the passion, motivation, and ingenuity needed diagnose a waste management solution that can be promoted and scaled nationally.



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For this episode, Angus talks about his experience promoting geotourism, which really overlays with so many of the underlaying fundamentals of this podcast – stakeholder engagement & management, understanding the perspectives of community members, measuring impact, and working with various stakeholder groups to achieve a desired outcome.

An exploration geologist by profession, Angus has conducted tourism marketing, business management, and lobbying services as founder (1993) of Leisure Solutions. He also serves as Coordinator, National Geotourism Strategy for the Australian Geoscience Council and as a member and inaugural chair of the Geotourism Forum of Ecotourism Australia.

After 25 years working in information and communication technology and manufacturing industry development roles in an executive capacity, he has been engaged in ecotourism activities in Queensland’s Scenic Rim as an eco-certified tour operator as well as developing geotourism in the Red Centre, Blue Mountains and Flinders Ranges national landscape areas.

Due to this experience, Angus has worked with all sorts of stakeholder groups in order to have lands recognised for their value. This includes going to community meetings, meetings with industry representatives to discuss how geotourism and heritage preservation can impact their business, and it also includes dealing with many mining businesses so they understand and appreciate the historical value of the ground they may be working on.

Throughout this episode, Angus discusses the barriers and challenges he has experienced and what he has done in response to bring positive impact to the community members located within the destinations he has evaluated.

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Cameron Price connects, informs, and inspires social entrepreneurs as the convenor of the Social Enterprise Community. Based in Melbourne, Australia, the Social Enterprise Community is a tribe of people who are passionate about using for-purpose businesses to drive social impact. It is made up of members from across the world who are change-makers and social entrepreneurs seeking to evaluate and increase the positive environmental and social impact of programs. The Community also supports members by teaching them how to establish or scale-up their social impact venture.

The Social Enterprise Community regularly offers a Masterclass – where leading social enterprise experts discuss their work and how they are assisting other social enterprises to be more innovative and market ready. The Community also features a Roundtable that invites all members receive mutual support, discuss shared experiences, and the exchange advice. In summary, members band together to learn from each other’s' mistakes, collectively troubleshoot challenges, and explore opportunities to collaborate.

For more information, please reach out to Cameron Price on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronpr1ce/

To join the Social Enterprise Community visit: https://www.socialenterprise.community/

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