Philanthropy
McKeon is Chairman of Business for Millennium Development which encourages business to engage with the developing world. He is also on the board of World Vision’s Vision Fund. He is Chairman of the Global Poverty Project Australia. McKeon is a director of Red Dust Role Models, which works with remote indigenous communities. He is on the advisory board of the Melbourne magazine “The Big Issue” which seeks to create awareness about the issues relating to Homelessness. He is also a member of; the Australian Federal Government's Human Rights Grants Scheme Advisory Panel, the National Disability Insurance Scheme Implementation Taskforce and the Federal Government's Charities and Non-for-Profit Taskforce.
McKeon was a director of World Vision for 15 years and volunteered as a counsellor for heroin addicts at the First Step Clinic in St Kilda. He was also Chairman of the Association of Independent Schools Victoria, the Point Nepean Trust and MS Research Australia.
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)