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UTS Shopfront Community Program

Locality: Ultimo, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9514 2900

Address: Level 17, UTS Building 1, 15 Broadway 2007 Ultimo, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.shopfront.uts.edu.au

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24.01.2022 One more important project completed - tick!

23.01.2022 We're looking for a new neighbour with this advertised role for an Internal Communication Project Advisor who will work to support the Respect Now Always campaign at UTS to address and prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment on our campus. Applications close 19 December. See: https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au//internal-communication-pro

23.01.2022 UTS is the first university in Australia to declare a climate emergency. By signing the declaration, UTS is committed to responding to the climate crisis through research, education and sustainability initiatives.

23.01.2022 June 5 is World Environment Day. At Shopfront we celebrate the work of community organisations who prioritise environmental concerns and activism. If your organisation has a similar project that requires support, please reach out. We'd love to see if our students can help. In the meantime check out the great work done by Indigigrow Native Bushfoods & Plants https://cfsites1.uts.edu.au//projects/completed/detail.cfm

22.01.2022 If social impact research and evaluation is your expertise, here's a role to work with the great teams at UTS Centre for Social Justice and UTS Institute For Sustainable Futures on the strategic development of UTS's Social Impact Framework and the rollout of the university's commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Closing date for applications: Friday, 18 October.

22.01.2022 If you're a community organisation looking for business and marketing support, UTS Shopfront is open for your business for the upcoming Autumn Session (March to June)! Could your non-profit organisation benefit from accessing business or marketing expertise to consider service diversification, strategies for volunteer engagement or membership expansion, social media plans or market and competitor analyses through student project work? Then submit your project idea by 31 Jan...uary at https://bit.ly/2wPE6GI. Or find out more about how UTS Shopfront worked with Great Community Transport in 2019 on ideas for service diversification at https://bit.ly/36YZVnA

21.01.2022 Find out how to boost your media coverage as a female changemaker and leader! Here are some tips from the UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion's recent media workshop held in partnership with ACOSS: https://www.uts.edu.au//women-media-how-get-your-story-cov

21.01.2022 Here at UTS, we're proud of our reputation as a sector leader for diversity and inclusion. The UTS Athena SWAN Bronze Action Plan consists of 68 projects for gendered workforce inclusion, supporting an overarching target of 40 per cent academic women in STEMM by 2022. Check out the slides below to see some of the highlights from 2019.

21.01.2022 Earlier this week, the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion were delighted to launch Samantha Donnellys design guide for refuge accommodation for women and children. UTS Scholarly Teaching Fellow Samantha Donnelly's research focuses on women's refuges and the provision of housing for women and children escaping domestic violence. This design guide offers a series of principles to address the specific issues around accommodation for women and children who have experienced violence. View the digital guide here: http://tiny.cc/c1i8kz

21.01.2022 This Friday, 4 October is Walk to UTS Day. Staff and students will be getting active and reducing their carbon footprint by walking to UTS. There will be free afternoon tea (from 4pm), and a chance to win some great prizes. More info here: http://tiny.cc/kfapdz

20.01.2022 This National Student Volunteer Week we're celebrating the students from Shopfront and the UTS: SOUL Award, congratulations and thank you for all your incredible work for the community sector!

19.01.2022 Earlier this month, a student team from UTS Business hosted an event to fundraise for the SEA LIFE Trust - in order to recruit participants for their Ocean Youth program. Congratulations to the student team: Tienna Bui, Caera Ebonia, Tianee Fong, Georgia Gale, Natalie Nand, Christine Nguyen, Rebecca Tran and Anita Webb. Academic supervision from Carmel Foley, Meg Hibbins and Ruth Friedman. Photos by Laura Martin.

19.01.2022 A recent study by UTS academics found men dominate Australian media's quoted sources, political opinion columns and bylines. How do you get your voice heard, your story published, your opinion represented in the media - if you're a woman? Women working for advocacy and for-purpose organisations are welcome to join peers to discuss answers and get real advice from the women at the coalface of the media in Australia at UTS: University of Technology Sydney on 30 October from 3....30pm. This event is jointly hosted by Australian Council of Social Service and UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion.

18.01.2022 With percentages of women entering the engineering and IT sectors still sitting stubbornly well below one third, it is time to 'build a bridge' for female students and 'get over it', says Verity Firth on new changes to the ATAR criteria for women studying Engineering at UTS: University of Technology Sydney. READ MORE at https://bit.ly/32lGT7X Photo: NiamhTalking90

17.01.2022 The Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion is inviting you to a free workshop on evaluation, climate change and communities in partnership. Join us for a lunchtime session of knowledge sharing and discussion. http://bitly.ws/9Fcu

17.01.2022 Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is the first UTS academic to be awarded the Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC). Professor Lu pioneers work in machine learning, fuzzy logic and its impact on data-driven decision making. More here: http://tiny.cc/5vnudz

16.01.2022 Thanks Project Didi Australia and the marvelous Clare Bertram for providing an inspirational brief for their UTS student design team. Great outcome and we love your work! And thanks to the teams academic design supervisor Robert O'Farrell - we love your work too!

15.01.2022 The Rental Affordability Index out today from the work of National Shelter and others is now showing there is now nothng affordable for those living on Newstart and that people living on Newstart are now spending 77% of that income on housing. If you think we all should have a place to call home, sign the Rental Affordability Index petition at www.everybodyshome.com.au

15.01.2022 Earlier this year, teams of students from the Management Consulting subject at the UTS Business School worked successfully with Great Community Transport Inc to provide fresh perspectives on service innovation. Read more about the project here: http://tiny.cc/blcvhz If you want UTS business students to generate ideas for your NDIS or Aged Care service, why not submit a project: http://tiny.cc/hrcvhz

12.01.2022 Last week, Socially Responsive Design students from UTS: Design, Architecture & Building presented their stunning design outcomes to their real-world community clients. Click through to see some of the action from the day! (Album 1 of 2)

12.01.2022 What makes an engaged university? What is community-based research? "At their heart, both have relationships as their starting point. Transcendent ones at that! While it may sound glib, that is our aspiration: to build and critically explore research relationships that transcend disciplinary silos, scholar-activist boundaries and theory-practice divides." More here: http://tiny.cc/jloudz

12.01.2022 The UTS Social Impact Toolbox is now live! Access free online training on how to measure project outcomes as well as an interactive tool for creating your own impact framework: www.socialimpacttoolbox.com

11.01.2022 Integrated Product Design students from UTS Design, Architecture and Building presented their project proposals to their community client - Food Faith and their B&B Highway initiative. Congratulations to all student teams on a fantastic effort! A big Thank You to the community clients, Judith Friedlander and Jessica Teo, the fantastic supervisors - Renee Jones, Alejandra Keitel and Susan Stewart, and of course the students who did a stellar job at presenting their concepts...... Alizee Garcin, Jono Stewart, Alexander Olivier, Ben Sterrett, May Xie, Anna Zhang, Sam Horton, Cherise Misquitta, Curtis Badman, Ben Thomas, Harry Vasey, Jasmin Mezzatesta, Esha Chowdary, Natalie Sarimento, Jasmin Clingan, Sarah Goddard, Chris Scope, Max Regner, Ryley Davar, Ellie Weirum, Jono Park, Davina Wijaya, Mindy, Lina Na, Cindy Deng, Hank Burcham, Jude Horsburgh, Charlotte McCarthy, Michela Bates, Jacqueline Chan, Tayyaba Shaikh, Daniel Prasad, Eric Koo, Joseph Hinrichsen, Wren Wilkes and Fecility Somerville.

11.01.2022 Last week, Shopfront delivered another round of very high quality projects with UTS Business student consulting teams. Students presented their business planning reports to community clients Engineers Without Borders, Inner West Tool Library, Ruff Sleepers, The Happy Hens, Women for Election Australia, and Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education and Training. Fantastic job everyone!

08.01.2022 Last week, UTS hosted the inaugural Sustainable Christmas Markets, held in the UTS Tower Building with UTS: Green. One of the stallholders was Manly Food Co-Operative (MFC) who, this semester, worked with a student design team from UTS: Design, Architecture & Building as part of the Socially Responsive Design subject. MFC didn't waste any time in putting the students' work into action on their tote bags, flyers and branding. The markets were a massive success and we're pleased to say that MFC love their new design deliverables.

08.01.2022 Undergraduate Management Consulting students from UTS Business presented their business planning reports to community clients Inner West Tool Library and Great Community Transport. A huge congratulations to all of the student teams on a fantastic effort! And always, a big Thank You to their academic supervisors - Marco Berti, Farhad Shafaghi and John English.

07.01.2022 Last week, students from UTS: Design, Architecture & Building taking the Socially Responsive Design class, presented their final projects to community clients at an action-packed day where 32 projects of a very high quality were handed over! Student teams have spent the past three months working alongside their real-world clients (small to medium sized not-for-profits) to produce some professional and beautiful design projects. Here are some lovely photos from the day. Photos by Rashmi Mahotti.

06.01.2022 The Need To GROW offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement: an 8-year-old girl challenges the ethics of a beloved organisation; a renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionises resource efficient agriculture; and an accomplished visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing technology. Available free online between 10-15 October. https://grow.foodrevolution.org/

05.01.2022 Integrated Product Design students from UTS: Design, Architecture & Building presented their impressive project proposals to their community client - FoodFaith and their incredible B&B Highway initiative. Congratulations to all student teams on a fantastic effort!

04.01.2022 UTS is hosting a modest festive market in the Tower Building on level 4 (CB01.04) on Friday 6 December from 11am to 2pm, in partnership with UTS: Green Ethical and Sustainable is the theme. Mark the date in your diary to nab a few thoughtful gifts for friends and family. Confirmed so far: LOVEbomb Jewellery, Manly Food Co-Operative, SurfSock and Foldie.co. More to follow...... There will also be an information stall with ideas for a 'gift-free' Christmas and 'plastic-free' gift ideas. www.foldie.co www.manlyfoodcoop.org www.surfsock.com.au www.lovebombjewellery.com.au

04.01.2022 Here's a selection of photos from Undergraduate Management Consulting students from the UTS Business faculty, presenting their final year presentations last week to real-world clients from the not-for-profit sector. Students worked with Great Community Transport Inc and Inner West Tool Library Sydney to produce some very impressive business reports. Congratulations to all of the students who did an amazing job.

03.01.2022 Celebrate UTS's staff and student carers this 16 October: Head to Building 2 to hear about their stories, as well as get a free massage from 3 Minute Angels, and advice about support from UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion, UTS Centre for Carers Research and Carers NSW. More information here: http://tiny.cc/bt2gez

03.01.2022 If you're a community organisation looking for free design, business or marketing support, UTS Shopfront may be able to link you to university expertise during the Spring Session (August to October)! Could your non-profit organisation benefit from a rebrand, campaign or publication design? Or would you benefit from accessing business or marketing expertise to consider service diversification, strategies for volunteer engagement or membership expansion, social media plans or m...arket and competitor analyses? Then submit your project idea now at https://cfsites1.uts.edu.au//shop/submitproject/index.html. Submissions close on 01 July but applications will be considered on a rolling basis. To find out more about how UTS students worked on campaign design with Project Didi in 2019 at https://www.uts.edu.au//students-design-global-campaign-ag

03.01.2022 Recently in London, the whole city went car-free for a full day, a trend which featured globally. Will we see Sydney do something similar? More here: http://tiny.cc/rpapdz

02.01.2022 Here are the post-presentation team pics (our favourite type of photos!) featuring the happy students, clients and tutors, taken just after the Socially Responsive Design final student presentations. Three months of fine-tuning some truly awesome designs for real-world clients. We hope you enjoy these photos from last week at UTS: Design, Architecture & Building. Click through to see some of the wonderful snaps (Album 2 of 2)

01.01.2022 A huge congratulations to the Event Creation lab student team from UTS Business who designed and managed a fundraising event for medical charity Smile for ME! The event raised almost $5000, to help out children in the Philippines born with cleft lip & cleft palate deformities.

01.01.2022 Produced in partnership between 2ser FM and the UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion, All Things Equal Podcast tells the raw stories of individuals and groups most affected by inequality in our society, with researchers and experts weighing in on the broader context. More here: http://tiny.cc/z7nudz