Good Things Foundation

How important are digital skills for newly-arrived immigrants?

Florencia Calderon — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:37:26 +0000

Kie Tanaka arrived in Australia needing digital skills to find jobs, learn the language and fully participate in society. The Digital Sisters program helped her.

Congratulations to our new grantees

GTFcass — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:16:08 +0000

Be Connected grants offered by Good Things empower community organisations to provide digital skills support to over 50s in their communities. Our Building Digital Skills grant is $3,000 – $20,500 funding to run a digital skills program supporting over 50’s to be connected. By providing the Be Connected program for free using this grant, recipients help older people to develop their digital…

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Creating device libraries in communities across Australia

GTFcass — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:13:09 +0000

Be Connected grants offered by Good Things empower community organisations to provide digital inclusion support to over 50s in their communities. Our Digital Devices Grant is $5,000 funding to loan digital devices to over 50’s. We’ve funded organisations across Australia with Digital Device Grants, supporting them to create a device library for older Australians in their community.

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Building Digital Skills of older Australians: Our new grantees

GTFcass — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:04:05 +0000

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Intergenerational digital mentor training initiative kicks off

GTFcass — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:51:26 +0000

Good Things has awarded 8 organisations grant funding through the Be Connected program to train young digital mentors in our first targeted intergenerational program. The Young Mentor Capacity Building program is a train-the-trainer initiative to support and develop digital mentors in local communities across Australia. Capacity Builders work with Good Things to inspire skilled…

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Using AI to empower our network

GTFcass — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:01:48 +0000

We know our network are busy people. We also know they are committed to delivering all of the requirements of their grant funded programs with us. The Good Things grants bot has been designed to let our network quickly check important information about their grants with us, at any time of the day or night. The grants bot will answer questions relating to any grants the organisation has with…

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Request a Good Things speaker

Florencia Calderon — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:24:41 +0000

At Good Things, we understand the importance of finding the perfect voice to inspire and engage your audience around digital inclusion. That’s why we’ve created an easy to use speaker request form to help you find the right expert for your upcoming event. You can invite our CEO, program impact manager, or program experts to speak on a variety of topics. Each of our speakers is highly skilled…

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Digital Sisters transforming lives through AI

GTFcass — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 04:10:26 +0000

Good Things Australia, in partnership with Microsoft, Telstra and community organisations around Australia, has been supporting refugee and migrant women with digital skills and AI skills so they can feel safer, connected and confident online and using new tech. Watch this video showing the impact our Digital Sisters: AI for Good program has had in just one community in Brisbane, QLD.

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Digital Sisters extended til June 2026!

Florencia Calderon — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:41:55 +0000

We are thrilled to announce the extension of the Digital Sisters program to continue supporting refugee and migrant women to feel safer and confident online.

AI art gallery

Florencia Calderon — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:38:29 +0000

People from all over the country have been enjoying and learning how to use AI and generative AI by creating a fun art gallery. It is a fun and interactive activity that allows people who are learning about AI to explore AI-generated art by using simple prompts and learning about it. This activity mixes creativity and technology and is an incredible and fun tool to introduce AI to people and…

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