Community Model

The Alannah and Madeline Foundation has developed a Community Model where volunteers from your school and wider community can be involved and assist with Better Buddies activities.

Working with local volunteers provides valuable opportunities to develop relationships and increase students' feelings of connectedness and belonging within the community. We have put together ideas and strategies on how to involve parent helpers, student teachers, grandparents or other volunteer groups in your community (see sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Better Buddies Framework).

Involving local community businesses, organisations and groups in the Better Buddies Key Events can provide schools with valuable resources to implement activities as well as a community-based source of volunteers who are willing and able to help.

NAB

National Australia Bank (NAB) is a proud partner of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation and the Better Buddies Framework. Through this partnership, NAB provides opportunities for staff across Australia to make connections with Better Buddies schools in their own community. These NAB staff members are known as NAB Buddies.

To find out more about the role of a NAB Buddy or how you can find a Buddy, see the 'NAB Buddies' page.

Richmond Football Club

In 2012 Richmond Football Club announced The Alannah and Madeline Foundation as its preferred charity partner, for the next three years.

The implementation of this partnership sits inside the Tigers in Community Foundation - the community arm of the Richmond Football Club. It is a partnership that fits neatly inside the TICF's charter of supporting young people and preventing harm.

A key component of the partnership is Richmond's support of the Foundation's Better Buddies Framework. The Tigers will raise funds to help support the Better Buddies Framework in primary schools in Melbourne.

Richmond players, including Jack Riewoldt, will become Foundation supporters to help promote the work of the Foundation.

Richmond Football Club has enlisted the help of Tigers players Shaun Grigg and Nathan Foley, to help schools participate in Better Buddies Games in 2012. View video of Shaun and Nathan demonstrating some simple games buddies can play together. Buddies can watch the AFL players demonstrate how it's done, and then go out and have a go themselves.