Be Connected – Good Things Foundation

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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Good Things grants bot

GTFcass — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:59:21 +0000

The Good Things Grants Bot has been designed to let you check important information about your grants with us, at any time of the day or night. We have worked with experts to design the AI powered bot, which will learn and improve over time. Video transcript What grants do I have? How do I see Digital Skills Checkers? When is my acquittal due?

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5 tips to create a digital device library

GTFcass — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:15:39 +0000

This short video shares Good Things’ top 5 tips to create a digital device library in your community organisation. It steps you through key things you need to consider when setting up a device loan library for people in your community so they can borrow phones, tablet and computers. Watch our video to learn some tips that help you to create a device loan library in your organisation.

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Digital Device Grant

GTFcass — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:52:27 +0000

$5,000 funding to loan digital devices to over 50’s so they can be connected. Apply for a grant on my.GoodThings Apply for a Digital Device Grant of $5,000. Open to organisations participating in the Be Connected program…

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The importance of online safety

Florencia Calderon — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:41:48 +0000

Catherine was scammed and had her identity stolen. Now, she is learning and supporting others in learning how to be safer online under the Be Connected program. "It’s so important that we all learn the online safety skills needed so we can feel safer and more confident online.”

Young Digital Mentor Capacity Builder Grant

Florencia Calderon — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:19:09 +0000

Train young digital mentors to help more people get online. This targeted Capacity building grant will fund 8 organisations with $52,500 to complete this training. Grants are open from 3 February to 7 March. Apply for this grant on my.

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