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ABCN Foundation scholarship winner Jweel arrived in Australia from Syria five years ago with her family and none could speak English. In her successful application for a three-year Accelerate scholarship, the Fairfield High School student said...

ABCN welcomed 36 of the 42 Year 11 Accelerate Scholars and their mentors from all over Australia face-to-face in Sydney in late April. Our thanks to the scholars and their mentors, schools, parents, ABCN member...

The Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Phil Gardner to the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Phil will succeed Interim CEO Greg George, and before him Allegra...

Read our 2021 Annual Report; a return to face-to-face programs; broadening our reach to the regions; and an alumna story.

‘Meeting with intelligent, successful people showed me I had options.’ Kim Quinones, 24, still vividly remembers the Aspirations program she participated in at Lalor Secondary College, Victoria, almost a decade ago.    ‘We learnt so...

Thanks to a collaboration with Lendlease which funded ABCN’s Regional, Rural and Remote program, Australia’s cotton capital Wee Waa is now home to one of ABCN’s first regional partner schools.  Wee Waa High School has...

ABCN’s New South Wales team kickstarted 2022 with the return of a series of Full STEAM Ahead programs after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.    Full STEAM Ahead engages Years 7-8 students with Science, Technology, Engineering,...

The Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN) is seeking to appoint an outstanding leader as its next Chief Executive Officer. The CEO will be responsible for the overall leadership and the reputational, operational, financial and...

Help us reconnect a student with her mentor; a First Nations scholar’s inspiring journey; and farewell ABCN CEO, Allegra Spender.

‘My name is Lisa, and I was a mentee in the ABCN GOALS program in 2014. I would like to reconnect with my mentor to thank her again for all her valuable advice back in...