Third Sector, in partnership with Centre for Social Impact, has announced the finalists of the Third Sector Awards.
The awards are a chance to highlight those doing great things in the NFP sector.
Categories include CEO of the Year, Board Director of the Year, Campaign Manager of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Young Leader of the Year and Emerging Leader of the Year.
General Manager of Third Sector, Ori Danieli, said he is very excited to bring this event to the sector.
“This is the first awards of its kind and we can’t wait to celebrate the amazing work done by community leaders,” he said.
“We were overwhelmed with nominations and our judges did a great job at selecting the finalists.”
See below for a full list of the finalists.
| CEO of the Year | |
| Annabelle Daniel | Women’s Community Shelters |
| Brendan Lonergan | Beehive Industries Co-operative Limited |
| Lisa Cotton | The Funding Network Australia |
| Matthew Lambelle | WISE |
| Paul Tavatigs | Lambrook Hampton Abensberg-Traun |
| Zena Burgess | RACGP |
| Board Director of the Year | |
| Andrea Lemon | Kids Thrive |
| David N (Nick) Ridehalgh | Camp Quality |
| Nicholas Ridis | Australian Marketing Institute |
| Bruno Yvanovich | The Heart Foundation |
| Dr Marcus Ilton | The Heart Foundation |
| Campaign Manager of the Year | |
| Cheryl Johns | Good 360 |
| Hollie Bone | Crime Stoppers Victoria |
| Olena Sydorenko | MemberBoat |
| Susan Williams | Heart Foundation |
| Volunteer of the Year | |
| Barbara Biggins | Australian council on children and the media |
| Norman Wong | Northside |
| Ros Moriarty | The Nangala Project |
| Sally Hetherington | Human and Hope Association Inc. |
| Simone O’Brien | White Ribbon Advocate |
| Walter Villagonzalo | Councillor, City of Wyndham |
| Social Entrepreneur of the Year | |
| Angie Paskevicius | Holyoake |
| Ido Leffler and Lance Kalish | Yoobi |
| Jim Dinuccio | Clean Force |
| Josh Ross & Adam McCurdie | Humanitix |
| Nick Pearce | HoMie |
| Young Leader of the Year | |
| Amani Zayegh | Happy Brain Education |
| Freeda Thong | Ecopads Australia |
| Lucas Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi | Orange Sky Laundry |
| Madaleine Buchner | Little dreamers AU |
| Taj Pabari | Fiftysix Creations |
| Emerging Leader of the Year | |
| Alexandra Iljadica | Youth Food Movement Australia |
| Hunter Johnson | HeadQuarters Australia |
| Madeleine Buchner | Little Dreamers Australia |
| Megan Hannan | Crime Stoppers Victoria |
| Peter McNamara | Good Shepherd Microfinance |
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Sponsors include: Spark Strategy – main partner and CEO of the year, Category sponsor, Woolworths – Gold partner and Young leader of the year category sponsor, CSI, Strategic Grants – Social Entrepreneur of the year category sponsor, CSnet – Emerging leader of the year category sponsor.