Alcoa Foundation
Outstanding Community Worker Award

The Alcoa Foundation Outstanding Community Worker Award has been designed by Alcoa Foundation and Our Community to recognise the contribution to the nation's life made by the women and men working in community groups.

In the community sector people work because they're committed to a vision - not so much for money and position. They are not complaining - there are other satisfactions in doing the work that they love, for causes that they believe will make the world a better place - but their work is largely unsung and unrecognised.

The Alcoa Foundation Outstanding Community Worker Award has been created to help redress the balance.

The 2009 winner is Mathew Bul, a case worker at the New Hope Foundation in Footscray, Melbourne.

• Read about Mathew's award
• Read about all the 2009 nominees (PDF 1Mb)