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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...

ABCN Foundation scholarship winner Billy is a proud Wonnarua Nation young man from the Hunter Valley in NSW. In his successful application for a three-year Accelerate scholarship, the Aboriginal student, now Brisbane-based, talked bravely about the discrimination he has faced all his life, citing the...

The Australian Business and Community Network’s CEO Allegra Spender is resigning to run as an independent candidate in the next Federal election. The Board wishes to thank Allegra for her outstanding leadership over the past...

Media Release: ABCN Foundation announces a record number of 41 Australian students who will receive life-changing mentoring and financial scholarship in 2022. 

Confidence in talking about the sensitive subject of money is a key objective of a new financial capability module that ABCN is starting to integrate in its innovative mentoring programs.  It was in the middle...

Media Release: The Australian Financial Review names ABCN as one of the top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Government, Education and Not-for-Profits.

First Nations students kick GOALS in pilot program; Top tips to become a mentoring master;  and how Vivien’s ABCN scholarship helped her entire family.

A project to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to consider a wide range of careers and pursue their goals uses a bespoke approach to create buzz. In a classroom at Northlakes High School on the NSW Central Coast earlier...