Ryan Fritz started The Advocate in 2014 to provide not-for-profits and charities 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 experience as a media and communications professional for not-for-profits and charities and currently works at Redkite, a childhood cancer charity.
This week’s The Advocate Podcast, with host Carla Wijaya, interviews Fitted For Work general manager Amanda Carlile on the launch of RED, a new Retail Experience Development program designed to assist women experiencing employment barriers. Carla also provides a summary of this…
THE CEO of the Immunisation Coalition has insisted tech giants must take responsibility for COVID extremism taking root on their platforms.…
AN interactive web-based map allows women and gender diverse people to record experiences of discomfort in public spaces. The YourGround map, designed by CrowdSpot and in collaboration with Monash University’s XYX Lab, geographically pinpoints location-based incidents. Isabel, a 20-year-old female from Camberwell…
WHEN former paramedic John Griffiths suffered a catastrophic brain haemorrhage after a fall, his teenage children were left with a daunting choice. Do they honour his organ donor registration and donate his organs after his death? Phoebe, now eighteen and in her…
NEW funding announced by the New South Wales Government could save Australia’s grain belt from fatal mice infestations. Professor of Biomedicine at University of Adelaide Dr Paul Thomas will lead a team, in collaboration with the CSIRO and the Centre for Invasive…
CAMPAIGNERS for the nation’s most vulnerable have told Canberra to suspend punitive and ineffective mutual obligation requirements, which are causing stress and mental health illness for unemployed and underemployed people struggling through COVID.…
Aussie charity SolarBuddy wants to give six million solar lights to children living in energy poverty by 2030. The bold initiative aligns with 17 Sustainable development goals curated by the United Nations, in particular, “affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”…
MORE than fifty percent of people living with chronic pain feel stigmatised because of their condition, according to new data released today by Chronic Pain Australia. For Rachel O’Dowd, a slight twist of the ankle led to 18 months of chronic pain.…
THE World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia recently announced grants of $1.32 million for nine projects which will escalate its Regeneration Australia campaign designed to help wildlife survive and recover from the 2019-2020 bushfires. The injection of funding will support the ongoing development…
Diabetes is a serious and complex condition which is often misunderstood. Negative community attitudes and stereotypes affect most people who live with diabetes – having a very real impact on their self-care, physical health, mental health and quality of life. Diabetes Victoria…
