Month: March 2018

Zonta District 22 is an Alliance Partner supporting the Mother’s Day Classic.

Visit http://www.mothersdayclassic.com.au/ to find out how you can join us in support of this event, and this worthy cause.

On Friday the 6th of April 2018, we will welcome our guest speaker Anastasia Magriplis, State Manager Volunteering, UnitingCare Queensland.

Anastasia has been working with volunteers throughout her career.  Firstly with Greenpeace Australia as the Queensland Community Activist Coordinator where she coordinated a team of thirty volunteers until today where she is responsible for over 6,000 volunteers in forty programs across the state at UnitingCare Queensland.

Anastasia has managed volunteer programs including telephone Crisis Supporters, events, business and operations volunteers as well as employment initiatives including Work for the Dole, Rehabilitation Employment Schemes and Federal and State Government Employment Programs. She has also managed volunteers for the Lifeline Brisbane Bookfest, an event that has been rated the largest second hand book sale in the world. The Bookfest, which in 1999 had a team of seventy volunteers and raised around $150,000 has been expanded to now having up to six hundred volunteers and raising around $1,000,000 per event.

Anastasia understands volunteers and their management from both an operational and strategic perspective.  Through her experience, passion for innovation has seen the expansion of volunteer involvement in all aspects of the UnitingCare Community’s operations across Queensland. She is passionate about the contributions volunteers make to the community and regard volunteers as the heart of the Not for Profit sector.

For more inspiration, have a look at this article on Volunteering Queensland’s website:

https://www.volunteeringqld.org.au/145-nvw/nvw-media-general-releases-2/1416-managing-1-5-million-hours-of-volunteering-anastasia-magriplis