Tas Generate has had a remarkable journey in the last two years. It was first run in Tas in 2011, with four of the brightest from that year going on to run it in 2012, along with a rookie on the Generate scene, yours truly, on board as the fourth facilitator. I can’t compare this [...]
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Blog Action Day 2012: The Power of We
This blog post was written by Sionnie Kelly, a SA Generator as part of Blog Action Day 2012. Find out more about Blog Action Day or jump on Twitter using the hashtag #BAD12 or #PowerofWe. “Come on, Come on, Leave me breathless!” my phone sang at me breaking me from the intense focus I had placed on [...]
What has ACT Generate been up to?
Generate so far in the ACT has been super fun and super exciting! We’ve already had our first event, held on the 17th of August. It was called the Oaktree Foundation Gala and raised a WHOPPING $3020. It was seriously an awesome, awesome night filled with young and old alike. Everyone was getting into the whole [...]
Generate Fanfiction by WA Generator Chris
“Generate WA vs. the Agent of Injustice: Part I” We were about halfway through a typical Tuesday evening Generate session when she appeared. Awkward timing, really. In their passion for unconventional motivational techniques, our four facilitators were literally rolling on the floor while belting out some superficially altered lyrics to Flo Rida’s “Whistle.” It was [...]
QLD Generate – August update
Generate – Picnic style After all having a relaxing and fun break, Generate is back! It is a bit hard to believe that we are already half way through! We kicked off the first session of Generate phase 2 outside of the office. With Oaktree Queensland in the process of moving offices our usual space [...]
Generate Profiles: Liz and Annie!
How well do you know your Generate? Over the next few weeks we’re going to be unveiling the profiles of some of our wonderful Generators, so stay tuned for more soon! INTRODUCING Liz Rhodes, National Generate Director and Annie MacDonald, National Assistant Generate Director! Liz has been involved in Oaktree since 2010, when she started [...]
Back above the line
by Gilda Sorella, Tasmania Generator It’s all over, well, it is for us at least. Luckily, we get to return to ‘normal’ lifestyles, to feed our bellies and return to our everyday ways. Hopefully we have gained from this experience a very tiny snapshot into what a person living on $2 a day experiences. Of [...]
Get a jumpstart – how to raise $700 in 7 days!
Gilda Sorella from Tasmania is our official 2012 Generate-Live Below the Line blogger! She’ll be sharing her experiences of Generate and Live Below the Line and some of her tips for getting through the challenge. Here’s her first blog, with some advice for those of you hoping to do some big fundraising this week before [...]
Team Rocket lives below the line – for a month!
by Generate WA Amanda, Chris and Daniel - or Team Rocket as they call themselves – are Generators from WA who are doing Live Below the Line for a whole month. Amanda writes about their experience so far: So Chris decided that it be a great idea to do Live Below the Line for a [...]
Meet Emilie – one of our Tasmanian Generators!
by Emilie McDonnell, TAS Generator My Generate experience began with a leap of faith into something that I really did not know that much about. All I knew is that I wanted to be a young person involved in ending extreme poverty. In March I turned up, bags packed and thinking cap on, to the Generate retreat and I [...]
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