Denni S.

Experience

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  SmartArts_CCD

  Jan 1996 - now

  Creative Director/Founder

  Merging arts and technology, creative and critical thinking, SmartsArts brings together socially engaged professional practitioners who share their knowledge, experience, tools, resources and skills, in order to mentor, inspire, and equip communities to work together, take the initiative, and come up with new ideas that increase their capacity to effect positive social change. SmartArts is a community cultural development organisation with broad experience and in-depth knowledge of the many diverse regional, rural and remote communities in Australia and South East Asia. nb. nee Slippry Sirkus Show less

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  SmartArts

  Dec 2002 - Dec 2004

  NSW Drug Misuse Prevention Strategy - Principal Community Cultural Development & Project Lead

  THE Drugs Misuse Community Cultural Development Initiative with Arts North West and Outback Arts working with the Premier’s Department’s Drugs and Community Action Strategy. involved people from areas as diverse as the police, Juvenile Justice, Community Services, Corrective Services, youth centres, youth refuges, health, education and drug action groups — not to mention the targeted kids themselves, the project coordinators and the artists.The project, which had a budget of $388 000 — a grant from the Police Department’s Confiscated Funds Program —employed the well-established BIG hART model, which brings people together from across a range of key agencies to formulate appropriate local strategies before embarking on programs and workshops with stakeholders and participants Show less

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  BigHart

  Jan 2003 - Nov 2005

  Australia Council funded Mentoring Program with Artistic Director & Founder Scott Rankin. Worked in community development & artist support 'Stepping Stones', a Young Mothers Health Project in Bourke... and as part of the 'Knot@ Home' project production team in communities and on the Multi Media Performance @ Sydney Opera House, Parliament House Canberra & Melbourne . Produced and delivered BigHart Legacy Project across sixteen NSW communities thrugh two year Drug Misuse Presentation Strategy... Directed 'Knot@ Home' @ National ACOSS conference in Alice Springs. Show less

  • Community Cultural Development Project Coordinator and Producer

    Jan 2002 - Nov 2005

  • Project Producer /Production & Community Cultural Development

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005
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  Mubali - Aboriginal Health Initiative

  Mar 2003 - Nov 2005

  Project Development/Delivery Coordinator/ Creative Producer

  A Health Initiative, in collaboration with the NSW Health Aboriginal Maternal and Infancy Strategy, in partnership with Kamileroi Midwifery team. The initiative across two years engaged with pregnant women through cultural and creative pathways that strengthened links to maternity health and was awarded the 2005 NSW Baxter Health award for consumer participation

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  University of Sydney

  Sept 2004 - Aug 2008

  Mentorship

  Mentor...Emeritus Professor Tony Vinson, Australian academic, regarded as "one of Australia's leading social scientists and outspoken public intellectuals". who lead Social Reform, through the disciplines of social work, social policy, psychology, education, public administration and social research

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  Beyond Empathy

  Jan 2005 - Mar 2009

  National Community Programs Management

  Co-founded Beyond Empathy, together with Phillip Crawford & Kim McConville. As Creative Producer / Project Development & Management ensured the successful delivery and artistic outcomes of its national program, working on both policy and strategy and at the grassroots of community, mentoring artists and young people, delivering strategies and projects focusing on young Aboriginal mothers, early childhood, young Australian Muslims, families in public housing, young people and alcohol education / prevention, young people and mental health, family violence prevention, the award winning young Aboriginal mothers project ‘Mubali’ and ‘PostCodes from the Edge’ which worked with young people identified as 'at risk' and was based on Emeritus Professor Tony Vinson’s research on compounding disadvantage in Australia.Presented at National Jobs Australia Conference, National ACOSS Symposium, Regional Arts Australia Conference, National Aboriginal Health & Well Being Conference Show less

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  ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image

  Feb 2006 - Feb 2006

  Digital Storytelling Producer

  International Digital Storytelling Conference, Masterclass Digital Storytelling with Joe Lambert, Founder StoryTellingCentre,Berkeley, CA

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  Westpac Foundation

  Mar 2006 - Mar 2006

  Community Aid Abroad Logic Frame Matrix Training

  The logicframe matrix is a participatory planning,monitoring and evaluation tool whose power depends on the degree to which it incorporates the full range of views of intended beneficiaries and others who have a stake in the programme design. It is a tool for summarizing the key features of a programme and is best used to help programme designers and stakeholders

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  Collaboration for Collective Impact

  Mar 2007 - Jun 2007

  Strategic Development & Delivery. = Health Bodies Healthy Minds

  Media ReleaseHEALTHY BODIES/HEALTHY MINDS WEEKTennant Creek, Northern Territory Monday, May 21 – Friday, May 25 Take three charities that work with children and young people, add the corporate foundation that supports them and indigenous sports stars including Rugby League’s John Doyle and basketball player Michelle Musselwhite, and you have a unique new partnership which is taking a program of healthy eating, physical activity, literacy and the arts to a remote community in Central Australia in May.Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds Week is a week-long program to be held in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory from May 21 to May 25 and the first week of a three-year joint initiative project.The partners in the project are The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF), The Bluearth Institute and Beyond Empathy which are all supported by the Coca-Cola Australia Foundation; Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) and the National Aboriginal Sports Corporation Australia (NASCA Show less

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  Social Ventures Australia

  Oct 2007 - Oct 2009

  Leadership Mentoring program

  Social Venture Australia Corporate Mentoring Program... Mentor: Paul Heath Managing Director Goldman Sachs/JBGoldman Sachs JBWere Level 43 | Governor Phillip Tower | 1 Farrer Place | Sydney NSW 2000 Tel: 02 9321 8726 | Fax: 02 9561 2227To whom it may concern: It gives me great pleasure in offering this personal reference for Denni Scott Davis.I have known Denni for over two years. Our relationship began with my role as a corporate mentor to Denni and the organisation she co-founded, Beyond Empathy Ltd. Beyond Empathy is an organisation that works in partnership with Federal Government and corporations such as Goldman Sachs JBWere to influence change in communities experiencing recurring hardship.In the time I have worked with Denni, I have found her to be a mature, reliable and professional executive who represents her organisation at some of the most influential and demanding forums in political, corporate and philanthropic Australia. As well as a proven track record in working with, and delivering positive outcomes in the community, Denni has demonstrated a solid grasp of the economic, administrative and social fundamentals of running and growing a business, and has proven capable of the demands of leadership in a highly challenging environment. Denni is intelligent, hardworking and passionate about both her chosen career and her family. I have found her to be a person of great honesty and integrity and I am delighted to be available to act as a referee for Denni.Kind RegardsPaul Heath Managing Director Private Wealth Management ________________________________________________________ Show less

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  Central Arnhem Communities,

  Jul 2009 - Jul 2013

  Community Cultural Development

  Consulting and collaborating with Northern Territory Government, education dept, Katherine based small and remote schools group, regional stakeholders, health and service providers and communities to deliver cultural & creative pathways to strengthen educational and enterprise outcomes

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  Krousar Thmey Foundation, Marion Institure, Cambodian Living Arts, Phare Ponleu Selpak,

  Jun 2010 - Jun 2018

  Volunteer
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  TAFE NSW

  Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

  Creative Art Program...

  Designed and delivered innovative arts based pathways program incorporating curriculum in order for young people at risk to achieve their Certificate 11 in skills for work and training (equivalent to Year 10 )

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  Alcohol and Drug Foundation

  Mar 2014 - Feb 2023

  Senior Community Development Officer/Stakeholder Relationships Manager

  Celebrating more than 50 years of service to the community, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation is one of Australia's leading bodies committed to preventing and reducing harm in communities around the nation.The Foundation reaches millions of Australians in local communities through working alongside communities and stakeholders to capacity build and support delivery of evidence based programs ..https://www.moreechampion.com.au/story/5865750/promoting-healthy-lifestyles-at-junior-touch-football-clinic-photos/ Show less

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  Tortuga inc

  Oct 2024 - Dec 2024

  Director