NAB Schools First wins Australian Business Award

22 July 2011

NAB has today been announced the recipient of a 2011 Australian Business Award for its contribution to the community through NAB Schools First.

Now in its sixth year, the Australian Business Awards recognises the success, innovation and ethics of Australian companies and organisations across all industry sectors. This year’s awards initiative received 928 applications with NAB Schools First being recognised in the Community Contribution category. The Australian Business Award for Community Contribution recognises organisations which implement policies or execute projects that positively impact on the community and generate outcomes that have a long term benefit.

Head of NAB Schools First, Rebecca Sherwill, said the acknowledgment is a fantastic recognition of the bank’s commitment to doing the right thing, supporting the communities in which we operate and realising potential.

"NAB Schools First is the bank’s flagship education program. It is great that our significant investment into rewarding school-community partnerships is recognised however this is equal recognition of the great work these partnerships are doing to help students around the country."

“We are humbled by this accolade and consider it a great privilege to be recognised alongside Australian business luminaries. The award is true recognition of the impact that NAB Schools First is having on school-community partnerships and is further affirmation for all the schools around our country that are partnering with their communities and positively affecting students,” said Sherwill.

A recent assessment of the awards by the Australian Council for Educational Research, the First Interim Report of NAB Schools First: Evaluation of the 2009 awards, confirmed that the awards program had “contributed to a significant increase in strategic capacity for the enhancement and growth of partnerships beyond that envisioned before NAB Schools First”.