Education

Education and financial literacy help people build and support economically sustainable communities. We work with organisations that have on-the-ground knowledge to ensure our programs are relevant and practical.

Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement

The Commonwealth Bank supports ALRM - the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement through the Financial Counselling Outreach Program. The program has been developed and aims to provide consumer advocacy services, address cases of immediate financial hardship and provides money management skills to help clients succeed now and in the future. This program services Aboriginal peoples who reside in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands) and Port Augusta communities.

Caritas Australia

The Commonwealth Bank Foundation has partnered with Caritas Australia since 2008. Caritas Australia is the Catholic agency for international aid and development, which are committed to empowering local organisations and enabling the world's most vulnerable communities to be the architects of their own future. Through our partnership with Caritas, we support the Manage Your Income, Mange Your Life Program (MYI), facilitated by Centacare Wilcannia Forbes. MYI Program aims to provide training and mentoring in financial management and support enterprise development to Aboriginal communities in western NSW.

Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience

Commonwealth Bank have recently formed our newest partnership with AIME - Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. AIME is a unique program that partners university student volunteers in a one-on-one mentoring relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school students. Through our partnership, we are able to support AIME in their goal of improving Year 10 and Year 12 completion rates and university admission rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

Australian Indigenous Education Foundation

The Commonwealth Bank is the founding partner of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation focused on empowering Indigenous children to build a future through education. In 2008 we committed $1 million over the next five years to support scholarships through the Foundation.

St Joseph’s College Indigenous Fund

The St Joseph's College Indigenous Fund provides a comprehensive high school education to boys from more than 39 rural and regional communities. We’ve been a Corporate Partner of the Fund since 2006.

One Laptop per Child Australia

One Laptop per Child Australia is a not-for-profit organisation which provides students living in outer regional and remote Australia with purpose-built, educational XO laptops – giving them access to similar resources and information available to children in metropolitan areas. We raise funds to purchase the XO laptops, help with on-the-ground deployments and provide business advice, technical expertise and project management support.

Money management skills for life

We work closely with the Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN) to deliver the Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship Program, which supports Indigenous Australians wanting to study towards a Diploma in Community Services, Financial Counselling. Through the program, participants are mentored by ICAN to gain practical industry work experience.