The Airport and the Community
Canberra Airport directs the majority of its support for the community by focusing on the less fortunate and disadvantaged through the Snow Foundation.
The Snow Foundation is a charitable organisation set up by Terry and George Snow in 1990 and it focuses on supporting and developing programs which can change people's lives for the long term, whether that be through early intervention with troubled or abused children and adolescents or assisting the mentally ill or brain injured to recover and rehabilitate.
In 2009/10 the Snow Foundation is supporting 24 programs through grants totalling $534,000 (see attached). These include two new programs which we are bringing to Canberra for the first time:- the ACT Social Enterprises Hub, which aims to boost employment for people who are marginalised from society; and secondly, the NewPin (New Parent and Infant Network) Program which works intensely with vulnerable families with young children to break the cycle of destructive family behaviour. These programs have had very positive results elsewhere. Of course our biggest commitment is the support of Home in Queanbeyan.
In 2010/11 The Snow Foundation has announced grants to 48 organisations and individuals totalling $856,000. These grants include 18 to new programs and 22 are existing programs continuing on from previous years.
Grants have been divided up into three key areas of interest:
i) social welfare;
ii) health; and
iii) education, employment & life-skills.