Winners 2007
Winners of the 2007 Equity Trustees CEO Awards include;
2007 Equity Trustees’ Not For Profit CEO of the Year
Jillian Weekes, CEO
Starlight Children’s Foundation
Jill Weekes is the Equity Trustees’ 2007 CEO of the Year. She heads the Starlight Children’s Foundation, which delivers innovative programs that brighten the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children and their families. more
2007 Significant Innovation Award
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director
Museum of Contemporary Art
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), is the winner of the 2007 Equity Trustees’ Not For Profit CEO Award for Significant Innovation. more
2007 First Year Achiever Award
David Terrance (Terry) Houghuet-Pincham, CEO
depressioNet
David Terrance (Terry) Houghuet-Pincham, CEO of depressioNet is the winner of the Equity Trustees’ 2007 First Year Achiever Award. more
2007 Long Term Achiever Award Winner
Doug Paling, CEO
Foodbank of Western Australia
Doug Paling, CEO of Foodbank of Western Australia Inc, is the winner of the 2007 Equity Trustees’ Long Term Achiever Award. more
2007 Judges’ Award
Jo-anne Boland, General Manager
Animal Aid
Jo-anne (Jo) Boland, General Manager of the Victorian Animal Aid Trust (Animal Aid) has won a judges’ special award for leading a Not For Profit (NFP) organisation. more
2007 Equity Trustees’ Not For Profit CEO of the Year
Jillian Weekes, CEO
Starlight Children’s Foundation
Jill Weekes is the Equity Trustees’ 2007 CEO of the Year. She heads the Starlight Children’s Foundation, which delivers innovative programs that brighten the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children and their families.
Jill has won this year for her efforts in building outstanding brand awareness in a crowded Not For Profit (NFP) space, for achieving an average annual revenue growth of 20%, and developing exceptionally strong partnerships within the healthcare system and with the private sector.
Starting as CEO in 1997, Jill has grown Starlight and its services. Through her passion for Starlight’s work, she is an inspiration to the 170-odd staff and more than 4000 volunteers, who are often dealing with extremely difficult and emotionally charged situations. She has kept the Starlight team and stakeholders focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for the children and their families, at the same time raising sufficient funds to carry out the organisation’s work.
Jill has built an organisational culture that has formed a solid platform for Starlight values and set up the Starlight Academy to train and develop the Starlight team to ensure they are the best they can be.
Over the past seven years, she has developed an extremely successfully NFP-corporate partnership with Caltex Australia. Together, Starlight and Caltex have worked on numerous awareness-raising activities and events and raised a substantial amount of money.
Jill also has amazing vision. In 2005, Starlight’s programs were reaching one in three seriously ill and hospitalised children. She set Starlight the goal of reaching ‘three out of three’ children and their families by 2010. As part of achieving this ambitious goal, Jill won Board support and secured government funding to design and build a new online community for seriously ill and disabled young people – a needy but not well supported age group.
2007 Significant Innovation Award
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director
Museum of Contemporary Art
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), is the winner of the 2007 Equity Trustees’ Not For Profit CEO Award for Significant Innovation.
After eight years as MCA Director, Elizabeth Ann has vastly increased visitor numbers, improved the general perception of the museum and turned it into one of Sydney’s favourite museums.
The MCA is Australia’s leading contemporary art museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art and engaging in discussion and debate on contemporary visual cultural issues.
Elizabeth Ann has an unfailing enthusiasm for educating a broad audience in the appreciation and understanding of contemporary art by devising entertaining exhibition programs, creative learning and stimulating public events, lectures and debates.
Elizabeth Ann moved from Scotland to take up the position as Director in 1999 at a time when the MCA was struggling to secure enough sponsorship to keep its doors open and was in the midst of financial uncertainty. She quickly took charge and has turned the museum around, achieving long-term security and viability.
In 2000, she introduced free entry to the MCA through a sponsorship arrangement with Telstra, which has led to four times the number of visitors. This partnership is widely viewed as an excellent example of the mutual benefits available in creative sponsorship arrangements.
Elizabeth Ann steered the MCA through delicate negotiations between the City of Sydney, the NSW State Government and the University of Sydney to secure recurrent triennial funding from the Government. She has also been highly successful at attracting private philanthropic support.
2007 First Year Achiever Award
David Terrance (Terry) Houghuet-Pincham, CEO
depressioNet
David Terrance (Terry) Houghuet-Pincham, CEO of depressioNet is the winner of the Equity Trustees’ 2007 First Year Achiever Award.
Starting as CEO in 2006, Terry has introduced numerous management and environmental changes which have significantly improved depressionNet. It now has rigorous business and management systems in place, vastly improved staff morale and capabilities, and more secure funding.
depressioNet is a comprehensive resource of information, help and support for those living with depression, their families and friends. It provides an online peer-to-peer support model which seeks to inform, empower and support individuals impacted by depression.
The small NFP organisation was in a precarious financial position when Terry commenced as CEO. His unique passion, energy and commitment combined with effective management has removed this instability and put depressioNet in a good position to provide valuable support to people in need.
He has re-established depressioNet.com.au as a ‘round the clock’ operation with increased service capacities through a radical upgrade of information technology infrastructure. Terry successfully rebuilt finances and re-established funding agreements with government.
New quality assurance methods and systems have made the organisation more professional and accountable. Terry has also increased support to staff through training and further education and professional development. The changes and improvements Terry has made have led to a higher profile for depressioNet, which has meant increased support to people affected by depression.
2007 Long Term Achiever Award Winner
Doug Paling, CEO
Foodbank of Western Australia
Doug Paling, CEO of Foodbank of Western Australia Inc, is the winner of the 2007 Equity Trustees’ Long Term Achiever Award.
Doug has dedicated the past 13 years to helping those in need through his tireless efforts in establishing Western Australia’s leading food distribution organisation – Foodbank WA. They are a non-denominational, charitable organisation that sources donated and surplus food from the food and grocery industry to distribute to welfare and community agencies that, in turn, help families in crisis. It is the source of more than 70% of the food needs for Western Australia’s community welfare agencies.
Doug had the dream to create a single, dedicated organisation with appropriate food handling skills and distribution networks to effectively tackle hunger in the community. Research indicated that about $20 million worth of Western Australian produced food was being dumped or going into animal feed every year.
In 1994, Doug gave up his job in the corporate sector to start Foodbank WA. It now receives regular donations from more than 400 food manufacturers and retailers, including small local companies and multinationals, with partner merchants donating truckloads of fresh fruit and vegetables each week. Foodbank supplies around 450 charitable agencies in WA and has established regional branches in Albany, Geraldton, Mandurah and Bunbury.
In its first year of operation, Foodbank WA rescued 500,000 kilograms of food that was to be dumped. Now the organisation saves around 1.6 million kilograms a year.
2007 Judges’ Award
Jo-anne Boland, General Manager
Animal Aid
Jo-anne (Jo) Boland, General Manager of the Victorian Animal Aid Trust (Animal Aid) has won a judges’ special award for leading a Not For Profit (NFP) organisation. more
Animal Aid is an animal welfare organisation dedicated to the care of lost, unwanted and abused animals. With an average of 250 dogs and 100 cats arriving at the shelter each month, Animal Aid relies on the support of many volunteers to provide animal welfare services to the outer eastern areas of Melbourne.
Jo-anne Boland started with Animal Aid in 1989 as an animal assistant and in 2001 became General Manager. She successfully managed the relocation of Animal Aid in 2000 to a new property in Coldstream that was previously a boarding kennel and cattery. New facilities were built incorporating a welfare cattery, fully equipped veterinary clinic and office, with some of the existing kennels adapted to provide housing for dogs.
The move and new premises has allowed Animal Aid to help more animals, and have a greater impact on animal welfare issues and community attitudes toward pet ownership. At the time of the move, Animal Aid’s finances were in the red, but seven years later it has a healthy $2.5 million per year turnover. The organisation has broadened its operations beyond caring for animals needing new homes, including operating local council pounds, dog training classes and accommodation service for pets of domestic violence victims.
Jo has built up a talented and committed team who are as passionate about driving Animal Aid into the future and helping companion animals as she is.
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