This opportunity builds on over five years of community-led work and learnings in Berri and Mid Murray and provides new certainty and continuity to invest in deepening relationships, ideas, and local leadership and expertise in meaningful ways.
This work takes time, trust, and enduring commitment. The support Mid Murray Our Town will receive through this long term, exciting new funding partnership enables us to keep showing up for our communities and to continue supporting them as they work towards lasting, positive changes in community wellbeing. - Amie Johnson, Town Lead Mid Murray Our Town
Honourable Nat Cook, Minister for Human Services, shared;
This partnership reflects the growing and collaborative relationship between government and philanthropy, working together to support communities and build lasting wellbeing
The partnership is committed to embracing the opportunity to test, learn and share about what robust cross-funder and community collaboration can look like in practice when focussed on transparency, reciprocal accountability, imagination and humility for what can be learnt by supporting those living in place to lead.
We believe that real, systemic change happens when local communities have both the resources and authority to lead solutions, and we are committed to flexible, respectful partnerships that grow community capacity and create lasting impact. - Paul Ramsay Foundation
We invite you to stay connected with the journey of Berri and Mid Murray, and the impact of the Our Town Network as we move into the second half of this ten-year initiative where community are strengthening local capability, nurturing leadership and driving culture change at their own pace, in their own ways.
We are now resourced longer term to work as social innovators in our community. Building the capabilities of our people to lead the changes we want to see to improve positive wellbeing, is key to our work. We are grateful to the funding partners who have come to the table in a respectful and flexible way, centering the wisdom of our people. - Julie Ahrens, Representative of Our Town Berri