Human Ventures and SpeakOut to form alliance

Human Ventures limited (Human) and Speak Out limited (SpeakOut) have announced the formation of an alliance, which will bring together an impressive range of capabilities in the arts, business, creative, community, and youth sectors.

Human also announced the appointment of Aleem Ali, a respected community leader and social entrepreneur, as Managing Director of the combined organisation effective immediately.

Human will bring its strengths in creative enterprise, capacity building, social business development and community engagement together with SpeakOut’s proven track record in the development and piloting of leading programs such as Creative Pathways in the Central West and Stylin’ UP Regional.

The combined organisation will focus its capabilities towards identifying, developing and mobilising people and solutions that enrich humanity.

Key service offerings will include: community engagement, arts and cultural development, design solutions, and enterprise development.

Commenting on his key role in the merged entity, Aleem said, “This is both an exciting and challenging time for our organisations and the third sector. Our imperative is to create opportunities for the poor and disadvantaged to build better lives. The way we will do this however is through our expertise in creative industries, philanthropy and social enterprise.

Human and SpeakOut aim to formalise the alliance and begin operating as one organisation from the beginning of August 2009. In the interim all existing activities will continue to operate as normal. More information on Human can be found at www.human.org.au and SpeakOut at www.speakout.com.au.

For further information please contact:

Aleem Ali, Managing Director
aleem (at) human (dot) org (dot) au // 07 3229 8055 // 0400 91 77 56