Ryan Fritz started The Advocate in 2014 to provide not-for-profits and charities with another media platform to tell their worthwhile hard news stories and opinion pieces effortlessly. In 2020, Ryan formed a team of volunteer journalists to help spread even more high-quality stories from the third sector. He also has over 10 years of experience as a media and communications professional for not-for-profits and charities.
CHILDREN in rural and remote areas will have better access to life-saving medical equipment. The Federal Government is providing $100,000 to The Humpty Dumpty Foundation in 2021-22 to support its work to improve the care of children in rural and remote Australia…
The Shepherd Centre has unveiled a first-of-its-kind virtual reality (VR) experience to allow others to find out what life is like with hearing loss. The unique experience is designed to prevent bullying of children with hearing loss at school by giving their…
IT is the miraculous survival story we all need to read right now. Pretzel, a green turtle hatchling, has already survived a flood disaster, and potentially fatal plastic consumption, all of which has just occurred in its first few weeks of life.…
HUMANITARIAN aid organisations and charities across Australia, such as World Vision, CARE, and UNICEF, have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and have begun launching appeals to help innocent Ukrainian civilians caught up in the deadly conflict. CARE Australia has launched a fundraising…
SEVENTY-seven per cent of Australians want single-use plastics to be banned as soon as possible. Over 20,000 people across 28 countries, including Australia, were surveyed for the Plastic Free Foundation on peoples’ thoughts on the global plastic pollution crisis. WWF Australia has…
A CHARITY that specialises in helping young people with hearing loss is launching a social media campaign – #undeafeated – to help teenagers feel confident enough to connect to vital mental health services. Hear for You’s national manager, Mr John Lui, says…
Join ReachOut’s Laps for Life that occurs throughout March: lapsforlife.com.au AUSTRALIAN swimming stars Ian Thorpe AM and Paralympic Games gold medallist Lakeisha Patterson OAM are calling on people across Australia to participate in Laps for Life this March in support of youth…
A wombat subspecies unique to Bass Strait’s lungtalanana Island, off Tasmania’s northern coast, could be the first native animal to be returned under an innovative vision to “rewild” a whole island. The Bass Strait Island wombat and at least six other species…
ONE in five Australian children are not meeting the international benchmark for reading, the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) has revealed. To combat this concerning statistic, BIG W, one of Australia’s most loved brands and has been part of families lives…
Hero Packaging will debut new mailers across Australia to help raise funds and awareness of Children’s Ground, a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is for all First Nations children and families to live with dignity, justice, and be free from economic poverty. The…
