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Hope Scholars

Hope Scholars

 The Hope Scholars program is an initiative that supports the education of young leaders from disadvantaged backgrounds in a number of developing countries, including India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Many have faced significant social and economic hardships, but continue this important work. Meet our amazing Hope Scholars

Nexus Network

Nexus Network

 

The Nexus Network is a network of individuals from diverse cultural, vocational and educational backgrounds focused on supporting positive social change and creating social capital. Members assist with a number of Nexus’ consultations and collaborations. Members of the network are placed with a number of charitable partner organisations as teams. Join Now

 

 

Nexus News

Nexus News

A Nexus 'Hope Scholar' has been awarded the University medal. Sanjaya has graduated suma cum laude at one of the top universities in Sri Lanka. His is a remarkable story given a number of personal hardships that he has endured prior to commencing tertiary studies. We at Nexus would like to congratulate Sanjaya.

Nexus Consulting

Nexus Consulting

 The Nexus consulting group affords support to NPOs, Charities, community organisations and individuals that have a desire to seek positive change in their communities and require assistance in achieving their desired change. The assistance afforded may be research, training, project facilitation, stakeholder engagement, innovation strategy, partner identification, monetary or in kind assistance, or merely championing their change effort.

BCLP

The Business & Community Leadership Program

  The Business and Community leadership program is an innovative leadership development program that seeks to expose candidates to contemporary leadership practices. Candidates are exposed to thought leaders from a number of different spheres. The program affords candidates the opportunity to work with and contribute to a number of different community projects and charitable organisations. Enrol for 2010
Cultural Acumen Training

Description: The Cultural Acumen Training program seeks to provide young Australians with a deeper understanding of minority cultures. The program has a pertinent focus of affording young people with a deeper understanding of the people groups from South Asia, East Asia and Africa. The program is being developed for several charitable organisations. A further variant of the program is being developed of a general audience.

Program Manager:

Prabath Wickramanayake

Project Consultants:

Mariana Lopez
Bhavesh Modi
Mark Pandya

Contact:
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Featured Network Members

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Mukund Narayanamurti

Mukund is a Senior Manager in KPMG Australia’s dedicated Asia Markets Group and specializes in market entry advisory services focused on corporate investment activity between Australia and Asia with a particular emphasis on China and India.  Mukund has advised on various significant cross border mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and corporate reorganizations in the infrastructure, energy and natural resources, consumer foods and financial services sectors. Mukund graduated from Deakin University in ...

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Carlene D'Rosario

Carlene is truly passionate about community development, with a recent trip to the Mekong region of Vietnam serving to catalyse this passion. Having spent time at Hoi Thien Thieu, one of Nexus' partner entities Carlene has a genuine understanding of the problem. Carlene spent time working and playing with the adolescents at the centre. She organised several trips and excursions for the children of the centre. She is passionate about ...

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Brian D'Rosario

Brian is truly passionate about community engagement and the growth of others. Born in Madras, India Brian understands the nature of poverty, and sees Nexus as a vehicle for positive and sustainable change. After spending his adolescence serving as a naval officer, Brian gave this career away to spend more time with his new family. Upon immigrating to Australia, Brian found himself working in the emerging area of Information technology, ...

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John Persico

John has three years experience with KPMG's Corporate Finance practice in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity team. During this time, John has worked on a wide range of transactions alongside many of Australia's leading mid-market Private Equity funds. He has origination and executional experience in providing strategic analysis and financial modelling to small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across Australia.Prior to joining KPMG, John studied a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and Laws (Hons) at Deakin University, Melbourne. He was awarded the Badden Wuttenburg Scholarship (Germany) and Ronald Henderson ...

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Prabath Wickramanayake

Prabath Wickramanayake was born in Colombo Sri Lanka in December 1982. He commenced his primary education at Nalanda College, Colombo in 1988 and continued up until he migrated to New Zealand in 1995 with his parents. At Newlands College in Wellington he completed his secondary education and in December 2000 he migrated to Australia. In 2006, Prabath graduated from Deakin University in Melbourne having successfully completed the degree of Bachelor ...

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John Sukkar

John completed a double degree in Law and Commerce at Deakin University in 2007, graduating with Honours and Distinction respectively, and majoring in Finance and Economics. Since graduating, John has acquired over 12 months experience working with KPMG as a consultant within the Corporate Tax division, where he advised a range of corporate groups in the financial services sector on all areas of Australian taxation law. John is dedicated to ...

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Michael D'Rosario

Michael is a Lecturer in Finance & Ethics at Deakin University. Michael has also undertaken a Masters in Arts (International Justice) at the University of Melbourne, Michael's research focuses on morality, patriotism, and sovereignty. Michael's other research focuses on diaspora communities, game theory and development economics. In particular it is orientated around the individuals' moral assessment framework. He is currently undertaking his PhD in Econometrics. In addition Michael has completed ...

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Nexus Quick Facts

The team

Nexus is managed by a multi-disciplinary team of individuals who share a passion for social entrepreneurship and sustainable development. Nexus is an endorsed tax concession charity (TCC) limited by guarantee. Nexus ...

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Governance

Nexus operates a member based model, with members duly appointing directors of the entity. Nexus is guided by a board of directors. The board appoints all key operational team...

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Hope Scholars

The Hope scholarship program provides funds to some of the poorest children in the developing world. It makes a university education or education at a vocational training centre possible. Many ...

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Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is essentially a reference to the actions of an agent of positive social change. A social entrepreneur is an individual who identifies a social problem and utilises what ...

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The Nexus Model

We recognise that many solutions while being theoretically sound do not necessary translate well in all situations. As such our programs are driven by the needs communities, and are motivated ...

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Vision & Mission

Our vision is for a world without poverty and free of conflict, where individuals live without fear of hunger and persecution. A world where compassion is not limited by contrived ...

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Our logo

Our logo symbolises our missions and our vision. It represents the coming together of disparate communities; each arrow represents a disparate segregated community. The central dithered X represents the conduit, ...

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Anchor Social Housing Project

Description: The Anchor Social Housing Project (AHP) is a venture of Anchor Inc. a foster care and community care agency based in the outer East of Melbourne. The project seeks ...

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