Stories of Giving and Receiving

Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation
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Stories of Giving and Receiving

Stories of Giving and Receiving is a podcast from the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation – a thriving family foundation with more than sixty years of grant-making experience.  Host Emilia Kefford speaks directly to changemakers supported through the Foundation’s Backing Young People strategy. These conversations shine a light on their challenges, achievements, and what it takes to truly effect change. 

Episodes

  1. 04/12/2024

    Bevis Masson-Leach: Empowering Youth Through Music 🎶

    In this episode, we chat with Bevis Masson-Leach, a music producer and youth workshop facilitator who used a Backing the Future grant to run transformative music workshops for young people in regional New South Wales.Bevis’s mission wasn’t to just create music, but to use song writing as a vehicle for the participants to express themselves in a safe space. Collaborating with local artists in Armidale, Moree, Nambucca Valley, and Newcastle, Bevis ran four three-day workshops where young people...

    35 min

  2. 04/12/2024

    Callum Champagne: Cultivating Change🌱

    In this episode, we chat with Cal Champagne, founder of Grow the Future Bega, a social enterprise on a mission to create meaningful opportunities for young people through regenerative farming.Cal received his Backing the Future grant in November 2022 after moving back home to the Bega Valley, and chats with Emilia about his early beginnings in the Illawarra and how the BTF grant was a seed starter for more funding which has enabled the enterprise to work with 176 young people over the past 12...

    37 min

  3. 04/12/2024

    Rizina Yadav: Amplifying Young Women's Voices Through Research and Advocacy 📢

    In this episode, we chat with Rizina Yadav, founder of Young Women’s Alliance about her experience receiving a Backing the Future grant. Rizina shares her remarkable journey from growing up in regional Australia to studying at Stanford University, and her deep passion for creating social impact. With the grant, Rizina created a nationally representative research study on young women aged 18-28 through 300 long-form interviews, a national gender survey with 3000 respondents, 77 exper...

    41 min

  4. 04/12/2024

    Jameson Harvey: Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Innovators 🤖

    In this episode we chat with Jameson Harvey, who founded Red Dirt Robotics after graduating high school in 2021. Jameson is on a mission to inspire young people across Australia with STEM.With the help of a Backing the Future grant, Jameson ran robotics workshops across 35 schools, working with 910 kids and 100 staff all across Queensland, starting in the Darling Downs and zig-zagging up to Cape York touching as many regional schools as he could.Jameson shares his journey through the challeng...

    30 min

  5. 04/12/2024

    Sarah Chapman: Paving the Way for Girls in STEM💡

    In this episode, we chat with Sarah Chapman, founder of STEM Changemakers, who dedicated a year to creating life-changing STEM programs for disadvantaged girls in regional North Queensland with her Backing the Future grant.Passionate about increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, Sarah explains how the grant enabled her to create a program that not only empowered girls to pursue STEM careers but also intercepted with community and industry invol...

    46 min

  6. 04/12/2024

    Hayden Tonazzi: Mentoring Young Regional Artists 🎭

    In this pilot episode, you’ll meet Hayden Tonazzi, theatre director and creative producer, as he shares how a Backing the Future grant enabled him to mentor regional artists in New South Wales. With the grant, Hayden created a program that provides mentorship and resources to local artists, empowering them to develop and sustain community-based drama programs for young people. Hayden also chats about working as a producer on Saplings at the Sydney Festival, which explored youth expe...

    31 min

  7. SEASON 1, EPISODE 1 TRAILER

    Stories of Giving and Receiving - Trailer

    Stories of Giving and Receiving is a podcast from the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation – a thriving family foundation with more than sixty years of grant-making experience. Host Emilia Kefford speaks directly to change makers supported through the Foundation’s Backing Young People strategy. These conversations shine a light on their challenges, achievements, and what it takes to truly effect change. Stories of Giving and Receiving showcases the impact of VFFF’s grant-making, as wel...

    2 min

  8. SEASON 1, EPISODE 2 TRAILER

    Stories of Giving and Receiving - Series 1 Trailer

    Stories of Giving and Receiving is a podcast from the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation – a thriving family foundation with more than sixty years of grant-making experience. Host Emilia Kefford speaks directly to change makers supported through the Foundation’s Backing Young People strategy. These conversations shine a light on their challenges, achievements, and what it takes to truly effect change. In this first series, Emilia speaks with grant recipients Hayden Tonazzi, Sarah Cha...

    3 min

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Stories of Giving and Receiving is a podcast from the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation – a thriving family foundation with more than sixty years of grant-making experience.  Host Emilia Kefford speaks directly to changemakers supported through the Foundation’s Backing Young People strategy. These conversations shine a light on their challenges, achievements, and what it takes to truly effect change. 

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  • Creator
    Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Stories of Giving and Receiving
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