Page 2554 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 6 August 2013
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the classroom as readers, who work in the school canteen, who help in school gardens, or who make cakes for special morning teas and other fundraising activities.
Every Saturday morning, in every Canberra shopping centre, you will see a stall of some form or another, raising funds for a local worthwhile cause. We have knitters who make beanies for babies in neonatal wards, we have people who collect used stamps to raise funds for church groups and we have others who work in Vinnies or Salvation Army stores each week, for no more than friendship and a feeling of giving something back to their community. I know we have volunteers who give their time on a regular basis to walk a dog at the RSPCA shelter, or to clean a kennel.
We have people who participate in the Cancer Council Relay for Life, as Jeremy Hanson has done for the past two years. There are those who participate in the CEO sleepout or doorknock for St Vincent de Paul, as Zed Seselja has done, and there are those who volunteer to work at 1RPH by utilising their skills as volunteer readers. Hundreds of volunteers during the week do this. As well as reading there are hosts, producers and other volunteering works that are associated with 1RPH. These readings are done on week days, every week day, and on the weekends. Major newspapers are read and they provide information to the many people in our community who are print handicapped. I know many of us here from the Legislative Assembly who have done so over the past four years, and some who still continue to do so.
When it comes to more formal philanthropic organisations, there are several unique to Canberra, founded by Canberrans and doing outstanding work that makes a difference to thousands of people. The Capital Region Community Foundation—GreaterGood—is Canberra and the region’s only public charitable foundation, established with the support of the Public Trustee for the ACT. Through GreaterGood, you can start your own named charitable fund, with ease and at low cost, to produce perpetual income for your charitable causes. GreaterGood are not a charity; they are a charitable fund. Their aim is to link good people with good causes. They currently have over $11 million in 63 individual funds and they distribute approximately $1.9 million each year.
Among our private benefactors, the Snow Foundation does endless amounts of good work. The Snow Foundation is the creation of two brothers, Terry and George, who established their foundation in 1991 to benefit the disadvantaged community in Canberra and the surrounding district. Its aim is to help those individuals and organisations that freely give their time to help the less fortunate to live fulfilling lives.
Over the years the foundation has assisted in a wide range of areas, such as the purchase of equipment and supplies for people with disabilities—kitchen utensils for the blind, wigs for the Cancer Council, breakfasts and educational scholarships for disadvantaged youth, and art supplies for the painting with Parkinsons programs. In 21 years the Snow Foundation has assisted more than 190 different organisations and provided over $4.3 million in funding.
Earlier this year Mr Terry Snow decided he wanted to give back to his old school, where he and his brothers were educated and where their children and grandchildren
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