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September 17, 2009
 Deidre Willmott, WA Premier, the Honourable Colin Barnett and Peter Shergold. Photo courtesy of IPAA |
The University of Western Australia (UWA) has become the fourth university to partner with CSI in its aim to educate tomorrow's social entrepreneurs and strengthen today's social enterprises.
The partnership will lead to the establishment of the Centre for Social Impact (WA) in the business school at UWA, providing a genuinely national focus for CSI activities and bringing UWA's expertise in the areas of business ethics and sustainability to the Centre, Macquarie Group Foundation Professor Peter Shergold said.
In welcoming CSI to UWA, Premier Colin Barnett said, "The community sector is an essential and vital part of our community. My colleagues and I in the State Government, believe that we should place more trust in the community sector, that we should progressively and carefully increase the share of services and care in our community delivered by that sector. A clear direction of greater reliance, greater faith, greater trust in our community organisations is needed."
The Graduate Certificate in Social Impact, to be offered for the first time next year at UNSW, Melbourne Business School and Swinburne University of Technology, will also be offered at UWA in 2011.
Download the media release. Download Peter Shergold's speech at the launch.