Our impact
We work across four main areas to assert the rights, capacity and possibility of every Deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing Australians.
- Community Investment
- Advocacy, Policy and Research
- Sector Engagement
- Organisational Development
1. Community Investment
- Leading national community capacity building and empowerment initiatives.
- Actively investing in the Australian Deaf community and the Deaf ecosystem through grants and investments.
- Facilitating authentic and meaningful consultations with the community to inform future strategic direction.
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- Deaf leadership
- Deaf ecosystem
- Deaf heritage
- Deaf youth
- Grants and sponsorships
2. Advocacy, policy and research
- Creating policies and write writing submissions on issues relevant to our community.
- Providing advice to governments and other organisations based on these policies.
- Delivering a national advocacy platform – big ideas for our organisation and others focusing on key impact areas that will lead to systemic change benefiting our community.
- Creating and contributing to evidence-based research that leads to positive outcomes for our community.
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3. Sector engagement
- Developing a detailed plan to engage with a range of community, sector, industry, government and corporate partners.
- Ensuring deaf services and the deaf society has representation within sector, industry and government bodies at both the state/territory and federal levels to create influence and impact.
- Securing leadership roles at sector and industry roundtables and thinktanks on specific and relevant issues.
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- Our partners
4. Organisational Development
- Developing a business development and growth strategy across all our service lines.
- Proactively seeking new business and service development opportunities through tendering, proposals and submissions.
- Investigating organisational growth opportunities through collaboration and partnerships which align with our strategic goals.
- Fostering a culture within our organisation innovation to feed impact and growth.
See what we are working on:
- The tap
- Northern territory services
