The Graduate-Makers
The people behind our success
Our Scholarship providers
It is a great demonstration of the strength and value of the Scholarship Program that we have been able to attract donors and supporters like these. We thank each and every one of them.
The best way we can reward our supporters is by continuing to celebrate graduates who have reached their potential with our help.
WeThank
- - Medicines Australia (2 scholarships)
- - Adolph Basser Trust
- - Alan Joffe and Friends Consortium
- - Baker & McKenzie and Friends
- - Bernard Hendel Memorial Scholarship – private donor, Melbourne
- - Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO)
- - Gonski Foundation
- - Judge Bob Bellear Memorial Scholarship – UNSW Law Alumni Syndicate
- - Otti Windt Scholarship
- - Private donor, Sydney
- - Reuben Pelerman Benevolent Foundation
- - JCA, V & I Newman Scholarship Fund
- - All-In Family Giving Circle Scholarship
- - Wolper Jewish Hospital Health Foundation
- - Operation Kids Foundation
- - Ilona Lee AM Scholarship
- - Alan Joffe Scholarship
A difference worth making
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“Only education can deliver the outcomes needed for an equitable society. Here we have a strategy which is making a real impact. Shalom Gamarada is showing what Indigenous students and graduates can achieve when they are given the chance.”
– David Gonski. The Gonski Foundation
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“We are proud to be associated with such a remarkable program. It provides accommodation on campus with the support, the tuition, the “family” and the everyday essentials that make life at university possible and so rewarding. The success of the Shalom Gamarada Scholarship recipients must inspire their family and friends to pursue higher education which, over time, will help reduce Indigenous disadvantage.”
– Alan Joffe and Friends Consortium
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“Not many scholarships work so effectively at so many levels. Apart from rewarding the hard-working student, this program benefits the university, the Indigenous community and society as a whole. It also brings great pride and satisfaction to the scholarship providers.”
– Ralph Pliner, Baker & McKenzie and Friends
Shalom Gamarada Indigenous Residential Scholarship Program
OurPartners


OurPeople
PATRON
Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO – former Governor of New South Wales.
TRUSTEES
Ilona Lee AM – Co-Founder of Shalom Gamarada. Chair of Trustees. Former President of The Shalom Institute and Deputy of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.
Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver AM – Co-Founder of Shalom Gamarada. Pro Vice-Chancellor Engagement & Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Leadership, Western Sydney University.
Penny Hurst OAM - Life Governor and immediate past chairman of UIA NSW and Federal President of UIA Women’s Division.
Jonathan Leib - President, The Shalom Institute; Director of Development, Platino Properties.
Alan Joffe - Retired businessman and consultant.
Dr Josef McDonald - Shalom Gamarada Scholarship recipient; graduate of Medicine and Public Health, University of NSW. Psychiatry Registrar, Hunter New England Local Health District in Newcastle.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dr Hilton Immerman OAM - Honorary Fellow, University of NSW; 2014 recipient Ron Castan Humanitarian Award. Phone 0417 220 052
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
David Spears - Retired Business Executive. Phone 0407 279 924