Who We Are

Raise Foundation received Business Achiever Awards –  Community Contribution of the Year and overall Best Community Service Non Profit Organisation.

Raise Foundation was chosen as a Finalist in the NSW Volunteer Awards, our Raise Team was nominated for a Pride of Australia Medal in the Community Spirit Category, and our CEO was chosen as a  NSW Finalist for the Pride of Australia Medal in the Inspiration category.

Raise Foundation won the Silver SWECO Award from the Australian Centre for the Leadership of Women for Sustaining Women’s Empowerment in Communities and Organisations, our long-time mentor Maureen Pollard won the NSW Mentor of the Year Award from the Australian Youth Mentoring Network, and our group of mentors from NAB were nominated for the NSW Corporate Volunteer Team of the Year Award.

David Gonski AC agreed to become our Patron, selected as one of four contractors to deliver the Youth Frontiers program for the NSW Government across whole of NSW, our VIC Program Director presented on Evaluation at the Australian Youth Mentoring Network annual conference, and our group of mentors from First Solar were nominated for NSW Corporate Volunteer Team of the Year Award.

Raise was a Finalist in the NSW Telstra Business Awards in the Charity category, we set up our Patron’s Advisory Committee, and our mentor, Chris Bond from Macquarie Group, won the NSW Corporate Volunteer of the Year Award for his work with Raise.

Raise corporate partners VM Ware and Pandora were selected as Finalists in the NSW Corporate Volunteer Team of the Year Awards.

Delivered almost 1,000 mentoring matches across 6 states in Australia.  Launched our Letters To My Mentor campaign.  Presented at the international Youth Mentoring conference in Amsterdam.  Launched our Raise Digital Village platform to onboard and train our volunteer mentors.  Delivered our optimisation phase as part of our 5 year Strategic Impact Plan.  Our CEO was awarded an AM of the Order of Australia and won the Marie Claire Glass Ceiling Award.