Financial Year: 2009-2010 - The Oaktree Foundation

GENERATE2010 HAS marked a new era for the Oaktree Foundation’s entrylevel volunteering program for tertiary students, Generate.For the first time, Generate managers worked closely with theNational Generate team and flew twice annually to Melbourneto design a universal curriculum.172 Generators were selected from over 500 applications inMarch. Generate management teams in Adelaide, Canberra,Melbourne, Perth and Sydney worked to consolidate and sharelearnings about the Generate experience nation-wide.KEY SUCCESSES 2009/10- ALL states smashed the fundraising target for the first half of2010.- The number of participants in the program grew significantlyacross 2009 and 2010.- Training workshops for managers in February and Juneenabled Oaktree to invest in volunteers, and ensure the qualityof the program across the country.- ‘Global Changers’, an adaptation of Generate able to beintegrated into a university’s curriculum, was developed andimplemented at Monash University.generate (cont.)LOOKING AHEADGENERATE will run simultaneously in 7 capital cities acrossAustralia in 2011. Over 250 young people will becomededicated and effective agents of change over a 7 monthperiod. The team implementing this will number 7 GenerateManagers, approximately 25 facilitators, and 10 core nationalteam members. In addition Global Changers will become the8th Generate program. The program will align Generate’sstrategic goals to enable active integration within Oaktree.We see this business model as the future of Generate expansionnation-wide.Generators will participate in grass-root campaigning and raiseover $100 000 for our projects overseas. They will be linkedonline to a wider Oaktree community of Generators andvolunteers alike. Perhaps most critically they will be connectedto our cause and sustain the organisation in assuming the rolesof facilitators and managers in future years.24 25