Author: ABCN Team

It’s been a particularly special year for ABCN as we celebrated 10 years of partnering business with education. In doing so we also celebrated and acknowledged not only the hundreds of students and schools who...

A recent collaboration between ABCN and American Express resulted in an exciting new two-day, leadership mentoring program – Leaders of Tomorrow. Designed to inspire Year 11 students from high-needs schools who demonstrate leadership potential, the program...

By taking part in our new one-day girls and women in leadership program, 50 female student leaders from six different ABCN partner schools were given the opportunity to learn from 25 senior business women at our biggest mentoring...

We were delighted to run our first CAREERx recently – a new one-day program designed for school career advisors. An ABCN initiative, it was borne from current global research that indicates a shift in the range of...

Our second annual Leadership Summit was held recently with 14 excited new scholars and their mentors arriving in Sydney – many flying in especially from interstate for the two-day national event. For most of the...

Based in Queensland, Denise was one of our inaugural scholarship winners in 2013. Her mentor, Angela O’Sullivan is from Navitas.  The positive relationship they’ve developed is a wonderful example of how powerful the mentoring relationship can...

There was much excitement in the air recently as Year 11 Focus students from Sarah Redfern and Sir Joseph Banks high schools took part in a special session with the team from Dress for Success. Dress for Success is...

As a Year 9 student at Auburn Girls High School, Michelle (Htet) faced many challenges – some of these stemmed from financial difficulties, but looking back, she also remembers an overwhelming belief that she and...

ABCN is celebrating its 10th year of providing high impact mentoring programs to disadvantaged students across Australia. So to celebrate, we are launching our first ever fundraising campaign #10for10 for the ABCN Scholarship Foundation. We will be...

It’s a busy year for the ABCN Scholarship Foundation’s inaugural scholars. As well as embarking on Year 11, they will be working with their mentors on their goals, attending a Leadership Summit in Sydney and...