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Our Next 10 Years

Weekend Workshop 30-31 October 2022

We originally created the June Canavan Foundation with the vision of June’s spirit living on as a catalyst for change. Our intention was to make the best possible use of June’s estate spread out over 20 years. Way back in September 2011, we made our very first two donations. We went on to provide a further 146 donations totalling $2,381.422 by March 2021. So it was timely for us to reflect on what we had learned over the first 10 years of our life – so that we could increase our impact over the next 10 years. You can look at a presentation on our first 10 years here

So we planned a workshop for October 2021 to review the past 10 years and plan for the next 10 years. We called the workshop “Our Next 10 Years”. We are grateful for so many people giving up their weekend to help us do this. Facilitated by the wonderful Julia Keady, we heard from five of our existing beneficiary organisations representing our five cause areas:

Confident Girls Foundation – Sport
Wantaim PNG – Health
The School of St Jude – Education
Reefcheck Australia – Conservation
Into our Hands – Growing Giving

We also greatly benefited from the input provided by 21 members of June’s community who joined us via Zoom on the Saturday of the workshop.

Then it was down to work for the Board on the Sunday to consider all that we had heard. A few months (and drafts) later and voila! – we had our new Impact Framework: 2021-2031

July 2021 Newsletter

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all as healthy and happy as possible wherever you are. And that you are managing to live comfortably under whatever restrictions COVID-19 is causing at the moment. For Australian readers, that’s likely to mean quite severe lockdowns for many of you this week.

Optimistically, we have re-scheduled our gathering of June’s community to talk about Our Next 10 Years from November last year to Saturday 30 October this year. The details are included in the Newsletter. This is likely to be a “hybrid” event, with some people in the room and others connecting in via videoconference. If you are interested in being part of this gathering, please contact me for more details, or to let me know of your interest. The more voices the better, so please feel very welcome regardless of what role you played in June’s life, in my life or in the first 10 years of the Foundation.

2021 July – JCF Newsletter

Stay safe and bye for now,

Anne

June 2020 Newsletter

Dear Friends,

I hope you have all either endured or enjoyed the last few months of being at home. And most importantly that you and your families are healthy.

For those of you here in Australia, we have two events coming up later this year to which you are warmly invited:

A walk along the Sunshine Coast’s Coastal Pathway in September
A community workshop to consider the next 10 years of the Foundation in November.

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in either of these events, or if you have comments or suggestions about the Foundation.

2020 June – JCF Newsletter

Bye for now, Anne

May 2019 Newsletter

Dear Friends,

The latest edition of the June Canavan Foundation newsletter is available.

Details of our 10 year anniversary trip to Papua New Guinea are included. If you would like to visit some of the projects the Foundation has supported over the last few years in Papua New Guinea and participate in a commemoration service at the Australian High Commission for those who lost their lives in the Kokoda air crash in August 2009, please contact met for the details. 2019 April – JCF Newsletter

Invitation – 2018 JCF Community Event

SUNCORP SUPER NETBALL MATCH Sunshine Coast Lightning vs Melbourne Vixens

Following the success of last year’s event we are doing it again! Join us for a home match of the Sunshine Coast’s very own netball team to celebrate June’s love of netball and our partnerships with The Confident Girls Foundation and the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Many of you will know how much June loved her netball. After playing for Wangaratta, she travelled to NZ to play in the regional competition there, before going on to represent Queensland and win a University Blue for netball. Imagine how excited she would be to know that the Sunshine Coast is now home to one of the 8 professional teams in the brand new Super Netball Competition. Where the players get paid!

So join members of the Board at our next JCF Friends gathering, to celebrate our partnership with the Netball Foundation and the University of Sunshine Coast.

We have a limited number of premium courtside seats with pre-match hospitality and a chance to meet some of the Lightning players and their wonderful coach Noeline Taurua. Saturday June 2nd, 3.00pm, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sports Stadium 90 Sippy Downs Road, Sippy Downs

Campus map and parking details: http://www.usc.edu.au/media/19138422/all-maps-a4-2017.pdf

Please RSVP by 21st May by going to the Trybooking event page (the link is in your May 2018 JCF newsletter) or contacting Anne Gripper on 0409 813 260.

Newsletter May 2018

Dear Friends,

The latest edition of the June Canavan Foundation newsletter is available

For those in Queensland, or travelling to Queensland, you may wish to join us at either or both of the following events:

Thursday 31^st May – 5.30pm – The Funding Network event – Brisbane
Saturday 2^nd June – 3.00pm – Sunshine Coast Lightning vs Melbourne Vixens – Uni of Sunshine Coast Sports Stadium

And wherever you are in the world, you may wish to consider a 10 year anniversary trip to Papua New Guinea in August 2019.

More details of these events are included in the newsletter.

Bye for now,

Anne

Download May 2018 JCF Newsletter

Empowering PNG Women to Develop Sustainable Projects

The June Canavan Foundation recently funded ‘the Nature Conservatory to bring nine women from Papua New Guinea to Brisbane for the 3 day workshop ‘Nature’s ‘Leading Women’, The workshop brought together women from Indigenous Australia and the Pacific Islands to build skills, knowledge and networks, facilitate cross-cultural learning and to develop entrepreneurship and a sustainable business project for their region. Kerry Meehan, Brisbane based JCF Director shared her experience of attending the workshop.

Keery Meehan with the PNG women

“I have just spent the most wonderful few days with these extraordinary women from PNG. It was so exciting spending time with them at Ivory’s Rock (a nature reserve Conference Centre) as they devised ways of economically fishing their mangroves while ensuring their preservation. During that time they developed the shell of a business plan including Vision and Mission Statements, Logos etc. I sat with them during this process. They called themselves the Mangoro Maket Meri and their slogan was from Mangrove to Menu. Their presentation on Thursday night at the State Library was excellent. 250 people attended the presentation with representatives from Universities, the ANZ bank, Conservation Bodies, The American Consul from Sydney and the PNG Consul, the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane. All in all I believe our funding was well spent. They thanked me many many times for making it possible for them to attend.”
Kerry Meehan, JCF Director

Newsletter April 2017

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the June Canavan Foundation newsletter. This edition will cover the following topics:

Invitation – Sunshine Coast Lightning Netball Game
The Magic Million – we reach $1m in donations!
The AiSTS Canavan Cup
The Netball Foundation
Our first impact investment – The Old Beechworth Gaol
Meet our Para-Athlete Scholarship holders

Download the April 2017 – JCF Newsletter here

Invitation – JCF Community Event

SUNCORP SUPER NETBALL MATCH Sunshine Coast Lightning vs Sydney Swifts

Imagine how excited she would be to know that the Sunshine Coast is now home to one of the 8 professional teams in the brand new Super Netball Competition. Where the players get paid!

So join members of the Board at our next JCF Friends gathering, to celebrate our partnership with the Netball Foundation and the University of Sunshine Coast.

We have a limited number of premium courtside seats with pre-match hospitality and a chance to meet some of the Lightning players and their wonderful coach Noeline Taurua. Saturday 20th May 2017 6.30pm University of the Sunshine Coast, Sports Stadium 90 Sippy Downs Road, Sippy Downs

Campus map and parking details: http://www.usc.edu.au/media/19138422/all-maps-a4-2017.pdf

Please RSVP by 10th May by going to the Trybooking event page (the link is in your April JCF newsletter) or contacting Anne Gripper on 0409 813 260.

Catch Up With Gemma

The June Canavan Foundation board members were thrilled to catch up with Gemma Sisa, founder of the School of St Jude, during her recent trip to the Sunshine Coast. Gemma gave us an update on the school’s tertiary scholarship program, and we had the pleasure of meeting Winnie, one of the most recent year 12 graduates. Winnie , currently undertaking her community service year at St Jude, generously shared with us her life and educational challenges, as well as her achievements and her pride at being granted a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in the USA. We wish Winnie well in this daunting but exciting adventure, and look forward to hearing more about the students who have been able to undertake tertiary studies thanks to the amazing work of Gemma and the School of St Jude.