Mission Statement
The Charles Darwin University Foundation aims to enhance the relationship between the University and the wider Northern Territory community.
In particular, as trustee of the Charles Darwin University Foundation Trust, the Foundation encourages donations and other contributions, investing and accumulating the money raised for use in the promotion, advancement and development of the University, for the benefits of its students and the community.
Objectives
The objectives of the Foundation are:
To support and assist the University and the Council of the University to encourage and foster the interest and financial support of those persons and organisations interested in assisting and promoting the University and in particular and without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
- To extend invitations to those persons and organisations interested in assisting and promoting the Charles Darwin University to become Members of the Foundation and through such membership to participate more actively and effectively in supporting and assisting the Council to promote and carry out the activities of the University;
- To encourage the making of gifts and testamentary dispositions to the Foundation or generally for the benefit of the University or any of its funds or accounts or any trusts or funds established to benefit the University;
- To enlist the support including the financial support of those persons and organisations interested in assisting and promoting the University to improve the education provided by the University including the employment of teaching staff with special skills, the carrying out of research, the provision of funds for scholarships, bursaries and educational allowances, visits from distinguished scholars and others with qualifications which enable them to contribute to the education of the students and teaching staff of the University, the acquisition of books, works of art, plant and equipment, land and buildings and the construction and maintenance of buildings and facilities;
- To raise money for the purposes aforesaid by any method that seems desirable.
