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🎉 Food Ladder has been named one of Australia’s Most Innovative Companies by The Australian Financial Review for the second year in a row! 🌿 We’re beyond thrilled to be recognised again in the 2025 AFR BOSS Awards — and to celebrate this milestone with our incredible team and the partners who make our impact possible. Last night we toasted with some of our long-standing champions and collaborators: 🤝 Jon Collinge and Alex Ayscough from Morrison, 🏡 Pete Lirantzis and Katie Browne from Resimac, 🎤 Jasmine Turvey from Reverb, our brilliant PR guru, 💡 Gabrielle Hong from IBM, architect of our AI Food Ladder Lesson Planner, and ❤️ Jane and Andrew Clifford, who have backed Food Ladder from day one. At Food Ladder, we’ve always innovated out of necessity — because solving food security means breaking new ground and pushing boundaries every single day. It’s an honour to be recognised among the best of the best and to share this moment with the extraordinary network of people and organisations driving this mission forward with us. Here’s to reaching new heights together 🚀 #Innovation #AFR #FoodSecurity #SocialImpact #AIforGood #Leadership #Partnerships #FoodLadder Samantha Shepherd

I’m honoured to be a finalist in the Australian of the Year Awards and finalist in the Northern Territory alongside Dr Felix Ho ASM, Adam Drake and Jonah Ryan. The award ceremony and announcement will take place in Darwin on November 3 at 6:00pm (NT time). If you’d like to tune in online, you can watch the live stream here: https://lnkd.in/gmFiy5PP #tomorrowmaker #northernterritory #remoteaustralia

👉 Brodie Germaine Fitness Aboriginal Corporation has received $280,000 from the Queensland Government to deliver an 18-month Kickstarter program, targeting at-risk youth showing early signs of disengagement, anti-social or criminal behavior. 👉 The program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth through camping trips, group sessions, mentoring, and family engagement - led by Elders, cultural leaders, and trained mentors. 💬 Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support, Laura Gerber, said the funding is part of the government’s broader push to invest in crime prevention. “Western Queensland has suffered with the youth crime crisis, and we know that the best way to turn young lives around is to intervene early and give them the support they need to make better choices early on,” she said. 💬 Mount Isa Mayor Peta MacRae said it’s important programs are tailored for the local community. “Providing support and guidance to at-risk youth showing early signs of disengagement, anti-social or criminal behaviour is crucial to breaking the cycle of crime and ensuring they stay on the right track,” she said. 📻 Listen to ABC North West QLD: https://ab.co/3mRJWAn 📝 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here by selecting ABC North West Queensland: https://ab.co/3LuMEr3 AMP Foundation Lucy Watson Tom Allen Benjamin Knight Nicholas Marchesi OAM (Him/He) Joe Kwon ConFit Pathways Queensland Government Queensland Department of Education Department of Justice QLD Dean Widders Mia Pegoraro Mayah Cvetic Orange Sky Australia Patrick Johnson OLY Remote OpShop Project Tanya Egerton Quentin Merckle Tasha Ritchie Nathan Appo Nathaniel Diong 🚀 Future Minds Network Queensland Police Service PCYC Queensland Tom Dawkins Tom Hearn Ernie Dingo National Indigenous Television (NITV) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia Mayor Peta M MacRae Mount Isa City Council Joyce McCulloch GAICD ‘CF’ Megan Crowther Travis Crowther

COURAGEOUS HEARTS 💙 CHARITY DINNER - Helping raise awareness for RUN DIPG Last night guests came together to raise awareness and much needed funds for RUN DIPG (Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma). DIPG is a brain tumour that impacts around 25 children each year in Australia, with no treatment, no cure and average survival rates of only 11 months once diagnosed. The event was beautifully hosted at www.lambertestate.com.au in the Barossa Valley and proudly sponsored by Rhonda Mansell AFP® of Mansell Financial Services, Christopher Saunders and Ash Bidhendi of Precision Legal Thank you Shannon Garrett for sharing your own journey with DIPG and your inspirational story of having recently completed the Tour du Mont Blanc, raising much needed funds and awareness. A special thank you to North and Shane Oliver, AMP Chief Economist for donating your time and to the AMP Foundation for dollar matching all funds raised for this event. Amazing what can be achieved when great people have a great idea for a little wine community on a Tuesday night. Enjoy every day, take nothing for granted and please consider making a difference by donating to this valuable cause. RUN DIPG Sadie Habgood Shane Oliver Rhonda Mansell AFP® Precision Legal RUN DIPG Ash Bidhendi Christopher Saunders

🔔 On Episode 606 of Impact Boom, Melissa Abu-Gazaleh of Top Blokes Foundation discusses addressing Australia’s youth mental health crisis by creating safe spaces for young men to build resilience, how mentoring in schools and workplaces reduces social risk factors, and why scaling patiently is critical for long-term systemic change. 💥 https://bit.ly/3IMFhzk Melissa is proudly supported by the AMP Foundation Tomorrow Makers program. ✅ If you are a changemaker wanting to learn actionable steps to grow your organisations or level up your impact, don't miss out on this episode! If you enjoyed this episode, then check out Episode 512 with Phil Smith and Luke Wright on fusing men's sheds and social enterprise to empower remote Indigenous communities ➡️ bit.ly/3KSXETE #ImpactBoomPodcast #socentau #SocEnt #socialenterprise #BusinessForGood #youngmen #mentalhealth #wellbeing #education #CultureShift #systemschange #changemakers