Working to enable Australian communities to sponsor refugee settlement
The Sidney Myer Fund has agreed to provide significant anchor funding over the next three years to support the work of the Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) in its mission of establishing a Canadian-style community refugee sponsorship scheme in Australia. Lisa Button has led CRSI since its launch in […]
Today the Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) launched a new vision for an expanded and improved community sponsorship scheme at a community summit in Melbourne. The CRSI vision will allow ordinary Australians and community groups to sponsor and welcome refugees to Australian communities at minimal additional cost to the taxpayer. […]
15 January 2019 SUBMISSION: AUSTRALIA SHOULD FOLLOW IN FOOTSTEPS OF CANADIAN COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP MODEL The Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) is urging the Australian Government to consider its community sponsorship model as an innovative way to compliment Australia’s current refugee and humanitarian program – inspired by the leading Canadian example. […]
The Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative celebrates the commitment to 5000 community sponsored refugee places announced by Federal Labor Leader, Bill Shorten in Adelaide.
Community sponsorship was highlighted on Tom Ballard’s (satirical) Tonightly Show on the ABC! The segment highlights the amazing success of the Canadian program and asks why we in Australia are lagging behind?
On July 16, Ministers from Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Argentina, Spain and New Zealand underlined their support for community-based refugee sponsorship in advance of the 2018 United Nations General Assembly and agreement on the Global Compact on Refugees by issuing a joint statement. Each of these countries has a […]