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Palms Australia: Opening Our Hands to the World

http://www.palms.org.au
Palms Australia is a Global Volunteering organisation, with an established network of over 220 partner organisations in Australia, Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Since 1961 our 'people-to-people' approach has been a successful methodology in bringing people together to exchange skills, build capabilities and promote international understanding. For 50 years we have engaged more than 1,400 Australian individuals and organisations to assist developing communities become self-sufficient and resilient, thereby nurturing a model of sustained development that exists long after our Global Volunteers return home. We are pleased to be part of the Pacific Calling Partnership.

The Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary SMSM

http://www.smsmsisters.org
The Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary began with a lone French woman going as a missionary to Wallis in the Central Pacific in 1845.  Since the very beginning, women from Pacific nations have become members of the congregation and now include Sisters from Wallis, Futuna, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Kiribati.  Sisters from New Zealand, Australia, USA and many other countries have also worked alongside these Sisters in education, health care, women’s development, catechetics and Christian formation.

Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes in New South Wales CLRI (NSW)

http://www.clrinsw.org

The Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes in New South Wales is a membership organization representing leaders of institutes of women and men religious (Catholic sisters, brothers and priests) in New South Wales.
CLRI(NSW) supports the Pacific Calling Partnership as it connects to the peoples of the low-lying Pacific islands. Catholic religious have worked in the Pacific islands for many decades and CLRI(NSW) continues the history of support for the peoples of the Pacific nations who are now facing dire challenges in the wake of the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions of the industrialized world.

Institute for Advancing Community Engagement, Australian Catholic University

http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/community_engagement/iace/

Australian Catholic University (ACU) inspiration, within 2,000 years of Catholic intellectual tradition, summons it to attend to all that is of concern to human beings. ACU shares with universities world-wide a commitment to quality in teaching, research, and service. It aspires to be a community characterised by free inquiry and academic integrity. ACU’s Institute for Advancing Community Engagement (IACE) is proud to be a member of the Pacific Calling Partnership. One of the key themes for IACE’s community engagement work is Beyond Borders – participating in action for change beyond our national boundaries. Staff and students alike are active in supporting our Pacific neighbours. Coni Forcey, a social science student at ACU’s Melbourne Campus, was awarded the 2007 Outstanding Community Engagement Award for students for her Climate Change work. Coni, with her community group, the Bayside Climate Change Action Group, created a human sign on Victoria’s Sandringham Beach earlier in 2007 with the help of 2,500 people, who spelt out their demand via the media to a waiting world. Coni’s “HALT CLIMATE CHANGE NOW!” message included a sinking “T”, representing concerns for the people of Tuvalu whose Pacific home is disappearing as sea levels rise. Contact IACE on: iace@acu.edu.au

The Franciscan Friars

http://www.franciscans.org.au/
In the Holy Spirit Province, the Franciscan Friars are involved in a variety of works - some traditional, some new - all of which try to respond to the changing needs in the church and society. Friars can be found as parish priests, they care for the lonely and refugees and are involved, are involved with agencies which protect our environment and give support to disadvantaged youth on the streets. They are represented in every state of Australia, in New Zealand, East Malaysia, Singapore and beyond. Some Australian Franciscans are working as missionaries in Papua New Guinea and in the Holy Land. The Franciscan way of life is not primarily about what we do but rather how we do our work, how we live together as brothers in community and how we share generously, simply and practically the Good News of Jesus with others. Thus a commitment to Justice, Peace and the Integrity of creation is essential to the spirituality, life and work of St Francis and about those who follow him today.

Catholic Religious Australia

The Edmund Rice Centre

http://www.erc.org.au
The Edmund Rice Centre was established by the Christian Brothers in 1996 and has been committed to the promotion of human dignity and social justice in multi-faceted ways locally and internationally ever since. The centre has four areas of focus: research, community education, advocacy and networking. With a prime concern for the most needy and marginalized, the centre plays a key role in developing partnerships with Indigenous people, refugees and asylum seekers and other religious groups and social justice agencies. The ERC is a signatory to the Earth Charter which acknowledges the links between ecological integrity, universal human rights, peace and social and economic justice, and which underpins the ERC Eco-justice program. As part of its Eco-Justice program, the Edmund Rice Centre coordinates the Pacific Calling Partnership.

The Catholic Education Office (Wollongong)

http://www.ceo.woll.catholic.edu.au/
The Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Wollongong is responsible for the delivery of its strategic intent: high quality Catholic Learning and Teaching in Diocesan schools from Kindergarten to Year 12. In doing so the Catholic Education Office, through its schools, meets the needs of children and young people in the acquisition of school education and post compulsory education including vocational training, together with the provision of high standards of pastoral care and education in faith. This commitment includes the provision of services in schools to children with special learning needs.

Good Samaritan Sisters

http://www.goodsams.org.au/html/home/home.htm
The Good Samaritan Sisters are an Australian Congregation founded in 1857 by Archbishop Polding, an English Benedictine monk and the first Bishop of Australia.We work in a variety of ministries. Some may be called to serve in the Congregation’s original ministries of education and social work. Others find themselves more at the cutting edge. The Sisters can be found working in parishes, in prisons, in respite and residential care. They may work in collaboration with other religious congregations or Christian churches or even in non-church situations where an alternative gospel vision of human dignity is needed.

Catholics in Coalition for Justice and Peace

http://www.ccjpoz.org/

Christian Brothers

http://www.christianbrothers.com.au/index.html

The Christian Brothers are an international group of Catholic religious Brothers, living and working in 28 countries, on five continents, with a focus on disadvantaged youth. They run schools and caring agencies for them, and, lately, have been working to bring about a more just world where both human rights (especailly the Rights of the Child and the universal Right to Education) and Earth rights are respected and protected. Through their social justice centre in Sydney (Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education), they are happy to be part of the Pacific Calling partnership. They have recently committed themselves to responding to "the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth". Pacific Calling is one group where this is happening.

Friends of the Earth

 http://www.foe.org.au

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia is a federation of independent local groups working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future.

FoE Australia was founded in 1974 at a meeting on French Island in Westernport Bay, Victoria, which was then the site for a proposed nuclear reactor. Over the last 32 years, FoE has evolved into a diverse and vibrant network of groups that are working at the local, regional, national and international level.

The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC)

www.arrcc.org.au
The religions of Australia have a shared sense of moral purpose on climate change. The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) is is a multi-faith network committed to taking the action on this most pressing issue of our time. In the face of ecological damage and social injustices, we affirm our love for this planet and its inhabitants and our deep reverence for life. We seek transformation of a world tottering on the brink of disaster, equipping each other to be the change we wish to see.

CuriousWorks

www.curiousworks.com.au

CuriousWorks believes the arts and digital media can bring the stories of those in the margins of society into the centre.However, we believe this must be done through a best-practice model that brings real, positive change to the people and communities that are involved in this process.We do not document the stories of marginalised communities or engage in short-term programs with them. We work to empower their local cultural leaders to use digital media to represent their own people in their own ways, for the long-term. In doing so, we hope to slowly build empathy and social inclusion within and between these communities and those in the ‘mainstream’ of Australian society.Through extensive, respectful collaboration, we develop innovative creative works for the stage and screen that give prominence to Australia’s untold stories.

Based in Sydney, Australia, our work will always possess the characteristics of the country that inspires it: intercultural, interdisciplinary and clearly challenging its status quo.