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it Suit Your Needs?
The community organisations approaching Leadership Skillsbank with
requests for assistance encompass a range of purposes. For example
there are groups who provide welfare services, protect the natural
or built environment, present arts performances or promote the needs
of people with a particular disability or health condition. Often
the organisation has reached a particular stage or impasse in its
development and needs the perspective of experienced outsiders,
or a new set of professional skills, to help it to continue to grow.
The ideal project is one that works on an immediate problem for
the organisation but in the process transfers skills, knowledge
and contacts from Fellows to the organisation so that it is in a
stronger position to tackle similar projects or problems by itself
in the future.
Leadership Skillsbank gives preference to requests that:
- demonstrably add value to an organisation and to the WA community;
- require Fellows to give advice and support to an organisation’s
staff or members;
- offer opportunities for the continuing learning and leadership
development of Fellows.
A pro bono contribution can take many forms, including the following:
- guidance with organisational development issues and strategic
reviews;
- advice/mentoring on public profile, marketing and sponsorship;
- ideas sessions, to help clarify plans or projects;
- guest speakers on a variety of topics;
- advice and support for ‘one-off’ events;
- membership of boards, councils or committees of management;
- specific advice relating to Fellows’ particular professional
skills (e.g. the law, accounting, urban planning, creative arts);
- a half-day workshop on leadership for secondary school students
in disadvantaged communities.
Leadership Skillsbank does not help with projects seeking:
- to lobby governments;
- to provide direct financial assistance;
- to provide direct benefits outside Australia;
- work that is clearly part of the day-to-day activities of an
organisation;
- pro bono assistance if the organisation has a capacity to pay
for consultancy advice.
The emphasis is on advice and support. Fellows all have work, family
and community commitments. The purpose of their voluntary contribution
to an organisation is to support and strengthen the capacities of
its staff or members, rather than to undertake significant hands-on
work themselves.
Click here to download the Skillsbank Application Form
Click here to download an application for a Board Vacancy through Skillsbank
Skillsbank - Our Gift to the Community
How to Develop a Pro-bono Partnership
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