“Keep the door open to those stories and new voices and building out whatever the new future is… bringing diversity in and understanding what diversity looks like to position my organisation into the future.” - Gavin Dufty, Executive Manager Policy and Research at St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria

“To maintain and build on the generosity that I’ve witnessed in the midst of a crisis, recognising that when we offer people a sense of safety and belonging as well as a sense of certainty, we create space for them to wholly participate in community life.”  - Aleem Ali, Chief Executive Officer, Welcoming Australia

To use the information that we generate to go and really recall the landscape of food distribution to people who need it,” also adding “we’re going to improve, we’re going to change, we’re going to innovate to make sure that these people are not going to be stuck in a position where they can’t put a meal on the table.” - Ian Laing, General Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Foodbank

“To persist with trying to solve this last mile problem with the government and to try to make it (Benefits Finder) available to all Australians.” - Ben Grauer, Head of Financial Wellbeing Strategy, Commonwealth Bank

“To ensure that our ethical actions align with our ethical intent. It’s easy to have an ethical intent, it’s hard to have your ethical actions align with your ethical intent.” - Bill Simpson Young, Chief Executive of the Gradient Institute

"To continue her battle to bring ethics to the centre of everyday life and to create that psychological safety for people to speak up and to be accountable for my actions.” - Cris Parker, Head of The Ethics Alliance 

"To continue to bring the community voice to the forefront of all design work that I do. Without the voice, there is no purpose.” Carolyn Ratnik, Community Action Coordinator at Australian Red Cross

"To continue to work on understanding 'our new context' and not to try to solve these new problems with old school thinking and old school solutions." Mae-Lin, Program Manager for Future of Work at Yarra Valley Water

"To be bold and be brave, change the way we work and make sure that it is flexible and works for everybody… and to challenge my assumptions and recognise my biases.” Natalie Collins, Partner at Thinkrum 

“Make the time, in short bursts, regularly and thoughtfully, to find that opportunity for collaboration.” Jess Perrin, Head of Social Innovation and Digital Inclusion at Infoxchange

"To learn from the lessons brought about during COVID and pledged “to continue harnessing technology to increase accessibility and flexibility.” Cailtin Mountford, National Communications and Marketing Manager, Fitted For Work

“Keep on challenging myself and my organisation and support those that challenge me… even at times when that can make me uncomfortable.”  Julie Kun, CEO of WIRE

“To continue to connect our organisations, service providers, good people that can make a difference and absolutely to continue the dignity for inmates in this space.” Peta Blood, Manager Services Development and Integrity at Corrective Services NSW, Department of Communities and Justice

“Enabling people in prison to keep more connected to life in the community...so it retains their humanity. The more we do that, the further we’ll go.” Charlotte Jones, General Manager, Mental Health Legal Centre

"No matter how much self-doubt I have, to feel the fear and do it anyway" - Rosie Batty, 2015 Australian of the Year and Family Violence and Gender Equality Campaigner

"We're certainly going to continue to amplify the work of others" - Laura Higgins, Senior Executive Leader at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)

"To continue to find and create those unlikely partnerships that will help us solve these problems" - Catherine Fitzpatrick, Director for Customer Vulnerability and Financial Resilience at Westpac

"You don't keep the good if you don't know what it is. We will sit down and have the conversation about what is good that we want to try and keep for the sector and what is good for our organisation" - Fiona Guthrie, CEO Financial Counselling Australia