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

[Andre]

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?

Yep. Let Port take over the education department (well the state government in general) and this wouldn't be such a pissant 'don't change anything' state and we'd get results.

 

[Steve Dore]

 

[OneGreatClub]

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Keep kicking those goals Port

 

[Andre]

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I love this club. Others talk, Port acts.

 

[xflamedancer]

How much would it have upset Jester having to write something positive about us?

Edit: I just noticed my typo but will leave it for accuracy.

 

[Steve Dore]

Aboriginal Power Cup fires up for ninth year



Alberton looks a lot like Murray Bridge

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The Pope is endorsing Port's community programs - well, indirectly - both indigenous and non indigenous specific programs.

Pope Francis sees sports as a world changer
The leader of the Catholic Church is putting his faith in the power of sports to bring about social change. Pope Francis will make sports a focus of his papacy’s third global initiative on education, following his efforts to highlight income disparity and climate change.

With the help of two North American sports sponsorship and marketing companies, the Vatican is launching a multifaith sports conference in October called “Sports at the Service of Humanity.” The three-day event will examine the role sports can play in society, from establishing relationships to helping promote health and wellness.

The Vatican will focus on three educational areas to help people grow: school, sports and jobs. The inclusion of sports represents the first time such a high-profile global institution has focused on the topic as a driver of social change. It also marks the first time that the Vatican has marshalled its wide reach on such a topic.

The Vatican retained Canadian-based Lang Marketing to develop and operate the October event. In turn, Lang Marketing subcontracted to Atlanta-based The Aspire Group, which will organize and sell it.........
Pope Francis sees sports as a world changer

and you have to love how the vatican knows how to engage modern marketing techniques

The Aspire Group is in the process of selling three sponsorships at about $1.8 million (1 million euros) each to cover the event’s costs. One presenting sponsorship is close to being finalized with a global brand that is active in sports, and another supporting sponsorship is close to committing. Mullin also has started talk with a third potential sponsor on an apparel sponsorship. An Aspire Group executive would not say which companies are considering the sponsorships. The plan is to limit the commercial support of the event to the three brands. While the sponsorships will help underwrite the event, delegates will pay their own way to attend it....................

 

[Lockhart Road]

Uncle Pauly climbing up the corporate ladder:

POWER COMMUNITY LIMITED
Andrew Hunter General Manager - Community Programs
Paul Vandenbergh Aboriginal Programs Manager
Ross Wait Senior Youth Programs Manager
Jake Battifuoco Senior Programs Coordinator - Youth
Sasha de Kievit Community Development Coordinator
Russell Ebert Manager - Community Youth Program
Lisa Kennedy Community Development Coordinator
Byron Pickett Community Development Officer
Peter Russo Bequest Program Manager
Wade Thompson Engagement Officer, Power Generation Program
Jayne Whibley Community Operations/ Volunteer Coordinator
Nuo Xu (Promise) China Engagement Officer

 

[Lockhart Road]

Newsflash:

ANDREW HUNTER - General Manager, China & Government Relations

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

From page 1 of this thread from February last year

This week, Byron Pickett, Wade Thompson, national beach volleyballer Taliqua Clancy and our Power Community team will travel to Uluru and head south into the APY Lands to begin our first year of the WillPOWER program and we do so knowing our club community and the wider footy world is right behind us.

Well Taliqua Clancy is in Rio at Rio Grand Slam, trying to turn an almost certain Olympic appearance into a guaranteed one. diegodcg you might have to go down and check it out at Copacabana Beach. I assume this is a Test Event that you get free admission into. From the AOC's Road to Rio website.

http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/news/volleyball-women-looking-to-impress-on-copa-beach
Volleyball women looking to impress on Copa Beach
Published 8 March 2016 (AEDT)
BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Two Australian teams will step out on the sands of Copacabana Beach this week for the Rio Grand Slam, with both hoping they’ll be back there in August at the 2016 Olympic Games.

For one of the teams, Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy, their ticket to the Olympics is almost guaranteed. Something would have to go badly wrong for the pair not to get to Bawden’s third Olympics and Clancy’s first. But for Australia’s other pair, Manly’s Nikki Laird and Mariafe Artacho del Solar, the task will be much greater. The current world U23 champions will need to win their way through the Asian Continental qualifiers in June to earn nomination to the Australian Olympic Committee..
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For Bawden and Clancy, this weekend will be another valuable chance to test the conditions on the beach where they should return as genuine medal prospects in August. Currently Bawden and Clancy are ranked fifth in the world in terms of Olympic qualification. As long as they remain in the top 15 as at June 13, Australia will have at least one team in Brazil. Bawden went to her first Olympics as a 19-year-old indoor volleyballer in Sydney in 2000, and then returned as a beach volleyballer with Becchara Palmer at the 2012 Olympics..........Laird and del Solar will need to win their way through qualifying, starting Wednesday, to make the Rio Grand Slam main draw, while Bawden and Clancy will be the event sixth seeds.

and in today's Oz they have a picture of Taliqua on the back page referencing this story on the inside backpage.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...l/news-story/04b65925986baab85d6b635598a395c6
Taliqua Clancy wants to be a role model for her people. She also wants to win a gold medal for Australia. Achieving both would fit the bill nicely. “I am extremely proud of my culture and my people,” said Clancy, who will become the first indigenous woman to represent Australia in beach volleyball at the Olympics should she and teammate Louise Bawden maintain their current form. “It is a privilege that I get to travel the world and not just represent my country but also my people. It’s pretty special because I am the first (indigenous) volleyballer to represent Australia and have the chance to go to the Olympics. “I would love to inspire and show my people what they can do and how great they can be.”

Clancy and Bawden will step up their Olympic quest today when they play in the Rio Grand Slam on the famous Copacabana Beach. The duo will start the event in sixth place on the Olympic qualification rankings, with the top 15 in the world gaining automatic entry. The pair joined forces at the end of 2012 when Bawden’s former partner decided to take an indefinite break from the sport. At the time, Clancy was an emerging star. “Taliqua had been performing extremely well and it was clear that she was a great talent in the sport and a determined athlete,” said Bawden, who represented Australia in 2000 as an indoor volleyballer and again in 2012 on the beach. “From our training base in Adelaide we were able to get together with the coaches and start talking about what possibilities lie ahead for us and what we might be able to do as a team.
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And the world’s best await in Rio. The pair have spent recent days catching the cable car up Sugarloaf mountain, visiting the Lapa steps and training on Ipanema Beach. The sands of Copacabana beckon. “An important part of acclimatising to the conditions here in Rio de Janiero is preparing for the Brazilian crowd,” Bawden said. “They will be very vocal. We’re expecting drums and lots of cheers and lots of green and gold in the crowd. Taliqua and I are preparing to turn that green and gold into Australia support and lap it all up.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...l/news-story/04b65925986baab85d6b635598a395c6

Australian beach volleyballers Louise Bawden, right, and Taliqua Clancy in Rio. Picture: Instagram

 

[Doctor Feel]

Just signed up to umpire the under 9's at the aboriginal power cup in may.

 

[raman]

Just signed up to umpire the under 9's at the aboriginal power cup in may.

**** you in your stupid ass you blind maggot scum.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

And fast forwarding to 2016 ...

The whole pre-match presentation coinciding with the Aboriginal Power Cup was brilliant and thought-provoking. From the student traditional cultural dance to Archie Roach's haunting song about the Stolen Generations with interpretive dance it was superbly done. Congratulations Paul Vandenbergh and staff.

 

[Far Kern]

Here's the Pitjantjatjara version of the theme song again:



Or here http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-05-05/pitjantjatjara-translation-for-port-club-song

 

[Nemisis]

I was at the SA Museum before the game along with the 400 odd indigenous kids! They were so well behaved and so PROUD!
Made my day.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Belatedly some description of the 2016 Aboriginal Power Cup

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-05-19/ninth-aboriginal-power-cup-gets-underway

For the first time in 2016, the Aboriginal Power Cup is aligned with Power Community Ltd’s school-to-work transition program Powerful Futures, and has used the theme Your Future, Yours for the Taking, to motivate and encourage participants in their final school years.

With continued support from Santos, the Government of South Australia, the South Australian Aboriginal Sports Training Academy and the University of South Australia, the Aboriginal Power Cup is built around an early intervention strategy that uses football as a tool to engage young Aboriginal secondary school students in their education and provide pathways to workforce participation through Powerful Futures.

Completion of the academic units associated with the program are required to participate in this week’s football carnival. 96% of 2015’s participants completed the academic component of the Aboriginal Power Cup program.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2016-05-19/ninth-aboriginal-power-cup-gets-underway

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

And fast forwarding to 2016 ...

The whole pre-match presentation coinciding with the Aboriginal Power Cup was brilliant and thought-provoking. From the student traditional cultural dance to Archie Roach's haunting song about the Stolen Generations with interpretive dance it was superbly done. Congratulations Paul Vandenbergh and staff.

Archie Roach was brilliant last weekend - 8 days ago. His - Took The Children Away song is still powerful, so much, that from my vantage point on level 3 in the eastern stand, I saw him wiping away the tears when he finished and stood up and turned away from the camera and towards the crowd to walk off next to the eastern boundary line. His late wife Ruby Hunter was a SA girl from Murray Bridge/Coorong area.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/video/2016-05-25/ptv-adelaide-oval-cultural-dance

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/video/2016-05-25/ptv-archie-roach-performs-took-the-children-away

 

[RangaInTeal]

I hope Dom Forbes from Fedrals football club in Darwin, also with NT Thunder, gets a crack in the big time

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

A few posts up I wrote about Taliqua Clancy the Australian beach volleyballer, who works in our Aboriginal programs who was in line to go to Rio. Well she officially qualified a couple of weeks ago. Another Port Adelaide related Aussie athlete you have to watch out for in Rio diegodcg. She is a Queenslander who moved down to SA to join the Australian volleyball program. This is her page of the AOC's Rio website

http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/taliqua-clancy
Taliqua Clancy will team up with dual Olympian and volleyball veteran Louise Bawden when she makes her Olympic debut on Copacabana Beach in Rio 2016. Clancy grew up in the rural Queensland town of Kingaroy, over 200km away from the nearest beach. She tried her hand in almost every sport available to her growing up, before finding indoor volleyball in high school.

At 15 years of age, she was scouted for beach volleyball and moved to Brisbane on a scholarship to the Queensland Academy of Sport. She moved to Adelaide as a 17-year-old to join the Australian Volleyball program. The Queenslander won bronze with Eliza Hynes at the U19s Beach Volleyball World Championships in Portugal, 2010. She teamed up with Bawden in late 2012 and the duo, despite the 11-year age gap, won their first national tour event.

In 2014 the pair peaked at world number five and won the Asian Championships. They secured their Olympic quota spot after finishing at world number seven at the end of the world ranking qualification period in June 2016. Clancy is the first indigenous beach volleyball Olympian.
http://rio2016.olympics.com.au/athlete/taliqua-clancy

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Power community employee Taliqua Clancy starts her Olympic campaign in a few days. I turn on the TV this morning and turn it over to see stuff from Rio on Sunrise and see a promo with Kochie tacking on the beach volleyball girls - of course hamming it up like a bit of a dork. I expected him to be challenging Taliqua and partner Louise Bawden, they are ranked no.5 in the world but he is with the other pair Mariafe Artacho and Nicole Laird. Here are a couple of videos of Taliqua. Port has put up on it you tube channel, one from them interviewing her before she left to go overseas and prepare before the Games and the other one is an AOC story. I notice that the You Tube info says Port Adelaide Ambassador. That would make 5 Port ambassadors at the Olympics, Taliqua, Anna Meares, Erin Phillips, Kyle Chalmers and Thanasi Kokkinakis. Taliqua and Anna have done heaps of stuff with the community programs but the other 3 have done bits and pieces over the last couple of years, Erin a bit longer but she has spent a long time O's each year.

diegodcg are you sneaking into the beach volleyball on Copacabana beach. I know you don't have tickets and I know live near the Maracana, but how far are you to the beach?

 

[Full Credit]

Great thread, I did a teaching placement up at Ernabella in June and it was clear to see the important, regular and lasting work the PAFC does up at the Lands, everything from organising the Willpower Cup at Alice Springs and having the students design their own guernseys which they were still proudly wearing when I went, to preparing a mini-curriculum and workbooks teaching the kids everything from literacy and numeracy to healthy eating and life choices. So proud of our club and a marked difference from the fly-in fly-out 'let's put on a cricket clinic for two hours and then drive home again we're the second best comp in the land none of the teachers even know we're coming today see you in a year' approach to community work I got to see firsthand.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Power community employee Taliqua Clancy starts her Olympic campaign in a few days. I turn on the TV this morning and turn it over to see stuff from Rio on Sunrise and see a promo with Kochie tacking on the beach volleyball girls - of course hamming it up like a bit of a dork. I expected him to be challenging Taliqua and partner Louise Bawden, they are ranked no.5 in the world but he is with the other pair Mariafe Artacho and Nicole Laird. Here are a couple of videos of Taliqua. Port has put up on it you tube channel, one from them interviewing her before she left to go overseas and prepare before the Games and the other one is an AOC story. I notice that the You Tube info says Port Adelaide Ambassador. That would make 5 Port ambassadors at the Olympics, Taliqua, Anna Meares, Erin Phillips, Kyle Chalmers and Thanasi Kokkinakis. Taliqua and Anna have done heaps of stuff with the community programs but the other 3 have done bits and pieces over the last couple of years, Erin a bit longer but she has spent a long time O's each year.

diegodcg are you sneaking into the beach volleyball on Copacabana beach. I know you don't have tickets and I know live near the Maracana, but how far are you to the beach?

Great, will take special note of our Ambassadors at Rio. Thanks for info.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Great thread, I did a teaching placement up at Ernabella in June and it was clear to see the important, regular and lasting work the PAFC does up at the Lands, everything from organising the Willpower Cup at Alice Springs and having the students design their own guernseys which they were still proudly wearing when I went, to preparing a mini-curriculum and workbooks teaching the kids everything from literacy and numeracy to healthy eating and life choices. So proud of our club and a marked difference from the fly-in fly-out 'let's put on a cricket clinic for two hours and then drive home again we're the second best comp in the land none of the teachers even know we're coming today see you in a year' approach to community work I got to see firsthand.

Great to hear first hand experiences such as this.