The Find Foundation, a Not-For-Profit, was established in 2021 to support Not-For-Profits and other community groups and organisations throughout Victoria. It was established by Warren Strybosch who wanted to make a difference in his local community. Warren used to write articles for the Warrandyte Community paper and was on a committee to help with fundraising. However, Warren wanted to help more than just one organisation with their fundraising needs and so began the journey of finding a way to support as many NFPs, schools, and sporting clubs in his local community. He also has a passion for education and wanted to continue to write articles related to his own business of accounting and financial planning to help educate the local public about tax and financial planning matters.
Warren had seen first-hand someone scam people in his community and does not want this to happen again. As such, the Find Maroondah community paper was born. Since establishing the Find Foundation, the organisation has been invited to set up community papers in other regions across Victoria.The Find Foundation governance board was set up to manage the future direction of the community papers. The Find Foundation is not a newspaper as such, but a community paper that supports all things local, with the aim to bring communities together in one place and facilitate participation from various groups in the local community to work towards supporting one another. It is an initiative that meets a need that does not currently exist. Yes, each organisation has its own way of sharing their information to their own members, but the Find Foundation wants to help them reach the whole community in one centralised place – the Find community papers.
Our Mission Motivation and Values
The Find Foundation has three key mission objectives:
Our Motivation
Find Foundation is committed to community. Not-For-Profits, schools, sporting clubs and other similar organisations, provide a lot of support to the community and in turn we want to support as many of those organisations as possible so they can continue to thrive and provide their necessary services and support to the community. We work with peoples of all cultures, faiths and genders to achieve this outcome.
Our Values
The values of people, stewardship and partnering are at the core of all that we, as an organisation, do. Our commitment to applying the values to the way we work makes us unique amongst other, similar, organisations.
We are Committed to supporting all NFP groups, Schools, Sporting Clubs, and other similar organisations.
We will help all organisations; especially in the area of fundraising and to help them tell their story. We want to help them promote their services and offerings in the areas in which they operate; to help them reach the people they themselves can help the most; to relieve a need, suffering, or provide a service that benefits others and improves someone’s condition of life.
We stand in solidarity in a common search for wellbeing. We seek to understand the situation of each individual; those who are suffering or just in need of more; be it physically, mentally or spiritually, and to work alongside them all towards fullness of life.
We seek to facilitate an engagement between all; those people from whom others may learn and receive, as well as give, to bring about local transformation. Together we share a quest for justice, peace, reconciliation, and healing in our local communities.
We Value People
We regard all people as created and loved. We give priority to people before money, structure, systems and other institutional machinery.
We act in ways that respect the dignity, uniqueness and intrinsic worth of every person; to celebrate the richness of diversity in human personality, culture and contribution.
We practice a participative, open, enabling style in working relationships. We encourage the professional, personal and spiritual development of all
We are Stewards
The resources at our disposal are not our own. They are provided to us in trust from our sponsors, business owners and the general public. We are faithful to the purpose for which those resources are given and manage them in a manner that brings maximum benefit to all.
We are stewards of creation. We care for the earth and act in ways that will restore and protect the environment. We ensure that our development activities are ecologically sound.
We Are Partners
We accept the obligations of joint participation, shared goals and mutual accountability that true partnership requires. We affirm our inter-dependence and our willingness to yield autonomy as necessary for the common good. We commit ourselves to know, understand and love each other.
We are partners with all in a shared collective effort to make lasting change. We pursue relationship with all peoples and desire mutual participation.
We maintain a co-operative stance and a spirit of openness towards other humanitarian organisations. We are willing to receive and consider honest opinions from others about our work.
Our Board
Our Board meets regularly and is supported by standing committees. Its work underpins Find Foundations commitment to operating with accountability, transparency and integrity. The Board oversees a range of policies and processes that reflect good corporate governance. And this directs us towards achieving our mission – empowering people like you to create meaningful change in the world.
Warren Strybosch
Jodie Moore
Sally Higoe
Craig Anderson
Lesley-Anne Banton
