Toast Power Aboriginal programs - Why 'Community'? PCL Explained

[Lockhart Road]

There is a new head at PCL: Andrew Hunter, previously the Premier's chief adviser on China. Andrew starts in a month.

POWER COMMUNITY LIMITED
Andrew Hunter General Manager - Community Programs
Nick Arundel Indigenous Employment Consultant
Melanie Dancer Community Programs Manager
Sasha de Kievit Community Development Coordinator
Russell Ebert Manager - Community Youth Program
Paul Vandenbergh Aboriginal Programs Manager
Ross Wait Youth Programs Manager
Lisa Kennedy Community Development Officer
Byron Pickett Community Development Officer
Peter Russo Bequest Officer

 

[Lockhart Road]

This link was posted by smithy7 last night on the 'PAFC International' thread, but as it's relevant to PCL, and in view of my earlier post re Andrew Hunter, I'm copying it here.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...strengthen-links/story-fnia6ojc-1227240526437

Port Adelaide steps up its Chinese ambitions and poaches State government adviser to strengthen links

PORT Adelaide is pushing harder into China with the Power aiming to be the first AFL team to play for premiership points in Asia as soon as 2017.
And the club’s campaign to win community and corporate partnerships in China has secured a major coup with the poaching of Premier Jay Weatherill’s senior international adviser, Andrew Hunter.
A former leading volleyball player with a strong understanding of the China market, Hunter will join Port Adelaide as the general manager of the Power Community Limited arm on March 23.

“We would like to be the AFL’s primary club of choice to carry Australian football to China,” Power chief executive Keith Thomas told The Advertiser.
“And we are going to the AFL with a compelling plan.
...Thomas’ presentation to the AFL is strengthened by highlighting the Power last year developed ties to Chinese students in Adelaide at UniSA, sponsored the Chinese team for the AFL’s International Cup and is now backing the South China AFL competition....

Hunter was Thomas’ prime candidate to manage the club’s China plans, but the Premier’s former speechwriter preferred to stay in government last year delivering on Weatherill’s ambitions in Asia.
Of his mission with the Power, Hunter told The Advertiser: “China could be anything, not just for the Port Adelaide Football Club but also the AFL and Australian football.
“It is a massive market — at the moment an uncontested market for Australian football. There is no limit to what can be achieved.”

Hunter’s job portfolio at Alberton is to build the Power’s much-lauded community programs that have focused on linking sport with Aboriginal education, youth development, the “End Hunger” campaign with Foodbank — and now China.

But Thomas emphasised the Power’s China strategy cannot be based solely on finding corporate partners for an AFL club needing new revenue streams.
“If we are going to have longstanding and meaningful corporate partnerships in China, we also have to show we are prepared to put in,” Thomas said. “You have to give before you take — and we have shown a commitment to invest in China and build real relationships.”

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...strengthen-links/story-fnia6ojc-1227240526437

I've included more than I should, by BF rules, in the above, mainly because the print version of the 'Advertiser' cut the bottom half of the article. Well done, yet again, Adelaide media.

Rucci's story concentrates too much on this idea of playing a game for points in China. Perhaps it's the only part of the story he can grasp.
He also mentions '500 Chinese' being at our function planned for 30 April in Hong Kong. My god.
Yes, we're planning for 500 bums on seats, but the majority will be Aussies and Kiwis as it's to be an ANZAC Centenary Luncheon.

 

[Willsy10]

Pretty exciting to read about our chinese ambitions.

 

[Rising Power]

Whatever happened to Melbourne's involvement with China? They played Brisbane there a few years ago.

 

[simba_]

This board is getting taken over more and more by this PC finger pointing self righteousness.

lol you should've clarified your weird statement instead of posting mystical follow ups though.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Another solid contribution today.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The boys have been out to the schools in the regions. The indigenous boys have been out Ceduna way and called into to Koonibba Football Club which is Gavin Wanganeen's great grandpa - Dick Davey's old club.

From a 2006 7.30 Report SA story about Dick Davey and Wangers around the time Wangers announced his retirement.

http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/sa/content/2006/s1682954.htm

MIKE SEXTON: But to understand the full legacy of Gavin Wanganeen's career, you have to go back almost a century to a small bush community called Koonibba, 40 km from Ceduna on the state's far west coast. At the turn of last century the Lutheran church opened a mission there and in addition to the school and the church they built a mighty football team.

JOHN GASCOYNE (WEST COAST FOOTBALL HISTORIAN): Without football you wouldn't have had the Koonibba mission station, I don't think, for too long. It sort of bound them together.

MIKE SEXTON: In 1910 Koonibba won its first premiership and among their best players was a 14 year old gun shearer named Dick Davey.

JOHN GASCOYNE: He is regarded by many people as the father of Aboriginal people. Not so much the father of Aboriginal football, certainly he was a good player, but whatever Dick Davey said went, you know, the people, his own people, listened to him and he is a legend.

MIKE SEXTON: Dick Davey played football all over the west coast and lived to be 91, old enough to see his great-grandson show promise at a junior at Port Adelaide.

GAVIN WANGANEEN: I remember him actually coming to stay with us. When he was probably about 70 years of age he stayed with us for about six months. Yeah, great memories of the old man, a very respected man.

http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/sa/content/2006/s1682954.htm

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[Lockhart Road]

Tom Richardson of 'In Daily' has produced a lengthy, detailed, and must-read article - having travelled with the group - which expands on REH's posts above.

http://indaily.com.au/sport/2015/07/10/the-space-between-life-death-and-football/

The piece includes countless gems; e.g. the time when Jay Weatherill tried to recruit Paul Vandenbergh to a senior post in the ALP.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

From that Indaily story comes this great photo

Then-Kangaroos star Byron Pickett with a young boy in the Northern Territory in the late 1990s. The boy, Jake Neade, now plays for Port Adelaide.

 

[Forzaport]

Looks like Neade was born in a Power guernsey!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Another terrific community effort from Port Adelaide in NAIDOC Week supporting children in out of home care.

Port support NAIDOC Week

Children and young people residing in residential care, kinship care and interim emergency accommodation were able to be coached by SANFL players at Residential Care’s inaugural NAIDOC Week celebrations earlier this month.
Port Adelaide Football Club players Chad Wingard, Nathan Krakouer and Karl Amon, and past player Wade Thompson were on hand to meet and pose for photos with young fans, with many fans getting their guernseys autographed by their sporting heroes.
SANFL players Bobby Raikiwasa from West Torrens Football Club and Aisea Raikiwasa from Glenelg Football Club coached the older teams, with the younger teams coached by some dedicated and football-mad staff members.

Port support NAIDOC Week

 

[Lockhart Road]

Port Adelaide to deliver resilience programs to students in need

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/ne...liver-resilience-programs-to-students-in-need

POWER Community Limited, the community arm of the Port Adelaide Football Club, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Wellbeing and Resilience Centre to deliver school programs in 2016 that develop wellbeing and resilience skills in students most at need.

In 2016, along with its Power to End Violence Against Women program, Power Community Limited will also introduce a Resilience program for students in years 4 to 8 in twenty schools across South Australia.

Power Community Limited will also deliver a remodelled Empowering Youth program to engage students in ten secondary schools across the State who are at risk of disengagement.

As part of the agreement the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute will coordinate training programs to educate Power Community Limited staff on the required skills to deliver resilience programs in schools.

Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas said it was important that we all played our part to ensure young people are leading fulfilled lives.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/ne...liver-resilience-programs-to-students-in-need

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[Jim Dixon]

Very glad to see our boys keeping up with this sort of stuff. I know the link between PCL and premierships isn't obvious but just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there.

 

[Steve Dore]

From that Indaily story comes this great photo

Then-Kangaroos star Byron Pickett with a young boy in the Northern Territory in the late 1990s. The boy, Jake Neade, now plays for Port Adelaide.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Why 'Community'?

That was an excellent speech by KT at the B&F Night.

He answers the question Why?
Why does the Club go the extra mile, make that miles, in the name of 'Community'?
Why pursue the China Strategy let alone start it when we're losing on the field?
It helps us 'stand out from the pack', he told the room. It provides us with 'depth', 'resilience' when things aren't going so well on-field. It builds our 'character' and our 'humility'...

He's put his heart right into this speech. Just back from the Great Wall, our CEO now qualifies as a China Hand. He's been there. It makes all the difference and legitimises his leadership 'down the China rabbit hole' as it was called by InDaily in a piece not long ago in which Fagan's views or, more accurately non-views, on China were recorded.

Casual Keith has got the Feel.

KT, now take a break. You deserve it.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Having gone back and checked my OP I decided to edit the thread title.
'Community' PAFC-style has progressed beyond borders.

 

[Portology]

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So many layers of Port Adelaide community in this photo. Love it!

Ex-Port, soon-to-be "Port-again" player with future-Port player already wearing Teal lol.

Please someone get these two photographed together again after Neade plays in a Port premiership.

 

[Lockhart Road]

A fellow member of the PAFC China Advisory Group just brought me back a package from Alberton, which included a signed Aboriginal Academy (SAASTA) tour guernsey and two copies of the 2015 Year Book.

The guernsey will be framed and hung on a wall at the Hong Kong Football Club, making a pair with the Team China 2014 guernsey that's already there, and making it a hat-trick of Power / Power-sponsored teams with guernseys on display. A Power guernsey has been in pride of place outside the Sportsman's Bar since 2013.

For more info on our recent history with HKFC check this thread:
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threa...p-hong-kong-football-club-auskick-hk.1034564/

Andrew Hunter, GM Community Progams, makes his first contribution to the Year Book with a two-page report (pages 14 and 15). Either Andrew has a latent fear of making decisions, or it's a typo:

The Community Youth Program continues to positively influence the lives of young people across South Australia. This year, the team engaged over 100,000 young Australians, delivering messages about the importance of active lifestyles, healthy eating, the dangers of smoking and decision-making.

Of course it's a typo!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Decision-making is replete with danger.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Decision-making is replete with danger.

Only if you keep repleting the same mistake.

 

[rogerjames]

Why 'Community'?

That was an excellent speech by KT at the B&F Night.

He answers the question Why?
Why does the Club go the extra mile, make that miles, in the name of 'Community'?
Why pursue the China Strategy let alone start it when we're losing on the field?
It helps us 'stand out from the pack', he told the room. It provides us with 'depth', 'resilience' when things aren't going so well on-field. It builds our 'character' and our 'humility'...

He's put his heart right into this speech. Just back from the Great Wall, our CEO now qualifies as a China Hand. He's been there. It makes all the difference and legitimises his leadership 'down the China rabbit hole' as it was called by InDaily in a piece not long ago in which Fagan's views or, more accurately non-views, on China were recorded.

Casual Keith has got the Feel.

KT, now take a break. You deserve it.

What a wonderful speech by Keith. He is an absolute gem. Port Adelaide is very lucky to have him leading the club. I'm extremely proud of the program's our club are involved in and very proud of our club because of this. What a wonderful transformation we've made in the last few years from a club that was on its knees. And it's all due to the hard work of key people at the club who have provided fantastic leadership.

Where I work Port Adelaide is admired for its Indigenous programs and it does change peoples perception of our club in a positive way.

Please never leave Keith.

 

[Jim Dixon]

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/ne...r-launches-new-initiative-at-government-house

And this year we'll be pumping $2,000,000 into getting jobs for our young indigenous people.

With a consistent completion rate of 90 percent for several years, the Aboriginal Power Cup has been kicking goals within remote indigenous communities and with those who live in and around Adelaide.

Empowering Youth is one of the Power’s perpetual community programs, with a particular focus on providing career opportunities and resilience-based programs to disengaged youth in Adelaide’s northern regions.

Powerful Futures will be an extension of both programs, and it is envisaged that successful Year 12 graduates will be able to apply for a position from the pool of 100 work opportunities provided by the extensive Port Adelaide partner base.

In before our media friends complain about Portz Powa wasting money again.....

 

[Jim Dixon]

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/ne...r-launches-new-initiative-at-government-house

And this year we'll be pumping $2,000,000 into getting jobs for our young indigenous people.



In before our media friends complain about Portz Powa wasting money again.....

And I'm as ignorant as * about aboriginal matters just like most whiteys but isn't a 90% success rate rather better then anything the government has come up with?