2024 HFC Reconciliation Action Plan-LowRes - Flipbook - Page 8
Message from
RECONCILIATION AUSTRALIA
Reconciliation Australia commends Hawthorn
Football Club on the formal endorsement of its
inaugural Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan
(RAP).
Commencing an Innovate RAP is a crucial
and rewarding period in an organisation’s
reconciliation journey. It is a time to build
strong foundations and relationships, ensuring
sustainable, thoughtful, and impactful RAP
outcomes into the future.
By investigating and understanding the integral
role it plays across its sphere of influence,
Hawthorn Football Club will create dynamic
reconciliation outcomes, supported by and
aligned with its business objectives.
Since 2006, RAPs have provided a framework
for organisations to leverage their structures
and diverse spheres of influence to support the
national reconciliation movement.
An Innovate RAP is the time to strengthen
and develop the connections that form the
lifeblood of all RAP commitments. The RAP
program’s framework of relationships, respect,
and opportunities emphasises not only the
importance of fostering consultation and
collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples and communities, but also
empowering and enabling staff to contribute to
this process, as well.
This Innovate RAP is both an opportunity and an
invitation for Hawthorn Football Club to expand
its understanding of its core strengths and
deepen its relationship with its community, staff,
and stakeholders.
With close to 3 million people now either
working or studying in an organisation with
a RAP, the program’s potential for impact is
greater than ever. Hawthorn Football Club is
part of a strong network of more than 3,000
corporate, government, and not-for-profit
organisations that have taken goodwill and
intention, and transformed it into action.
Implementing an Innovate RAP signals
Hawthorn Football Club’s readiness to
develop and strengthen relationships, engage
staff and stakeholders in reconciliation, and
pilot innovative strategies to ensure effective
outcomes.
Getting these steps right will ensure the
sustainability of future RAPs and reconciliation
initiatives, and provide meaningful impact
toward Australia’s reconciliation journey.
Congratulations Hawthorn Football Club on your
Innovate RAP and I look forward to following
your ongoing reconciliation journey.
