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  • 1 April 2013: SMEAA’s 2013 charity partner: CEO Sleepout charity event for homless services

    Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 2:09pm

    The SME Association of Australia is once again a National Supporting Sponsor of the Vinnies CEO Sleepout 2013 charity event, which aims to raise awareness of and funds for homless services.

  • Australia’s iconic house gets behind people without a home

    Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:45pm

    The Sydney Opera House will get behind the 2013 Vinnies CEO Sleepout as it plays host to the national launch of the event on Wednesday 10 April 2013. Participating in the launch will be Sydney Opera House CEO, Louise Herron and Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, who will both be sleeping out for the first…

  • Leading hospitality and tourism industry CEOs will Sleepout on longest night of the year – Travel eBoard 15 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 5:11pm

    With just over a week to go until the 2012 Vinnies CEO Sleepout almost 1000 business leaders from various industries including construction, property, advertising, finance, education, tourism, engineering and legal have already registered, with total fundraising nearing the $2 million mark. The event calls on CEOs to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness while…

  • Ray White online news – 13 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 5:04pm

    Sam White, Deputy Chairman of Ray White, Australia’s largest home seller will sleep on the streets on Thursday 21 June along with over 1,000 CEOs nationwide to raise awareness and funds for the homeless. “The core of our business is to provide people with homes and with over 100,000 people homeless every night , as…

  • Cattle Council CEO set for another sleepless night – 14th June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 5:00pm

    Like many cattle industry leaders Cattle Council of Australia chief executive officer David Inall has experienced plenty of sleepless nights in the past 12 months, particularly during the media storm that erupted during last year’s month-long Indonesian export ban. In just seven days’ time he is set to have another, but this time at his…

  • ISS Australia News – 11 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 3:54pm

    Vinnies CEO Sleepout is an annual event, which raises money through the sponsorship of participants – the funding goes directly towards the provision of Vinnies’ homeless services across Australia. The about 700 CEOs including ISS’ Australian Country Manager, Dane Hudson, will be handed a beanie, piece of cardboard, cup of soup and some cold concrete…

  • SME Online News – 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 3:50pm

    21 June 2012: 2012 CEO Sleepout
CEO Caroline Hong will join hundreds of CEOs and business leaders from across Australia to rise to the challenge of sleeping out rough for one night to raise funds for homeless services and to raise awareness of this social issue.
It is not too late to support our CEO to rise…

  • Australian Financial Review 8 June 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:44am

    Sleeping Rough

  • Sleeping in the cold to raise homelessness awareness – Cordelta Online 7 June 2012

    Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:36pm

    Cordelta’s Managing Director, Ken Gutterson, is always one of the first to put  his hand up to help support the company’s many community endeavours. This year, Ken will be participating in his third Vinnie’s CEO Sleepout. The event  will take place on Thursday 21 June in capital cities across Australia. Rain, hail, frost or snow, with a…

  • Vinnies CEO Sleepout Business Chicks Website – 7 June 2012

    Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:32pm

    Hi Business Chicks around Canberra, I will be taking part in this year’s Vinnies CEO Sleepout. Please help me and Watts McCray Lawyers raise the target I set for myself of $3,500. Please click here to donate: http://www.ceosleepout.org.au/ceos/act-ceos/profile/?ceo=2343 Thank you for your support and wish me luck! Alanna

  • 2CC Radio – 15 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 5:33pm

    Duration: 2 mins 52 secs ASR: AUD 343 Compere: Mark Parton   Parton says the CEO Sleepout is in Canberra next week, and Jorian Gardner will take part. Parton speaks to Louise Curtis, Lollypotz and Hamperesque, who is also taking part. Curtis says it is a great cause, and an opportunity for her to give…

  • Northside Chronicle- 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:11pm

    Cold Comfort for CEOs when they sleep rough

  • Business Chicks, Alanna Davis – 7 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 3:51pm

    Hi Business Chicks around Canberra, I will be taking part in this year’s Vinnies CEO Sleepout. Please help me and Watts McCray Lawyers raise the target I set for myself of $3,500. Please click here to donate: http://www.ceosleepout.org.au/ceos/act-ceos/profile/?ceo=2343 Thank you for your support and wish me luck! Alanna

  • CIT Part of the Vinnies CEO Sleepout Once Again this Year – CIT Online

    Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:34pm

    On Thursday 21 June CIT’s Deputy Chief Executive - Education Services, Jenny Dodd, on behalf of CIT, will be lining up with her sleeping bag  as part of the St Vincent de Paul Society’s CEO Sleepout. This year Jenny will represent CIT alongside CEOs and senior business and community leaders in capital cities across Australia, spending…

  • Canberra Weekly 3 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:30pm

    Vinnies seeks 160 local CEOs

  • 2CC Canberra 15 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:56pm

    Duration: 6 mins 27 secs ASR: AUD 824 Compere: Mark Parton   Email – Parton says he has a joke email saying that Jorian Gardner, 2CC Producer, has been promoted to CEO of Capital Radio. Parton calls Pete Davison, the boss of 2CC, who says the news is true. Gardner tells Davison he is sacked,…

  • Bosses to sleep rough for charity – Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn 2 May 2012

    Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:39pm

      With nothing but beanies, scarves and sleeping bags to protect them, business leaders from across the territory will get a taste of what it’s like to be homeless when they sleep outside the National Gallery of Australia for the third annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout on 21 June. Each June, hundreds of CEOs in Australia’s…

  • Brumby Jack prepares Fagan for a rough sleep on June 16

    Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:19pm

    Andrew Fagan, the CEO of the Brumbies, will soon have to leave the comfort of his own home to sleep it rough in the cold outdoors to raise money for, and awareness of, homelessness in the ACT and Queanbeyan region. In preparation of the month leading up to the Vinnies CEO Sleepout, Brumby Jack, along…

  • From making decisions to making a difference

    Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 3:31pm

    MEDIA RELEASE: From making decisions to making a difference Launch of the 2011 Vinnies CEO Sleepout CEOs used to making decisions in the comfort of their boardrooms will soon be sleeping outdoors on a cold Canberra winter’s night to raise awareness of, and funds for, the plight of those living without a roof over their…

  • 15 April 2013: CBD – Sydney Morning Herald

    Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 2:11pm

    Tit-for-tat tussle for Sleepout title.

  • Australia’s iconic house gets behind people without a home

    Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:45pm

    The Sydney Opera House will get behind the 2013 Vinnies CEO Sleepout as it plays host to the national launch of the event on Wednesday 10 April 2013. Participating in the launch will be Sydney Opera House CEO, Louise Herron and Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, who will both be sleeping out for the first…

  • mX Sydney – 14 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 5:06pm

    Bosses join the board for a rough night

  • Cold night on streets for Sydney CEOs – Ninemsn 14 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 5:05pm

    The outlook is gloomy for more than 250 CEOs facing a cold, wintery night on the streets of Sydney on June 21. The bosses will be swapping the boardroom for a piece of cardboard when they sleep rough on the night to get a taste of life on the streets during the annual Vinnies CEO…

  • Eden Imlay Magnet – 14 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 5:02pm

    Kevin to sleep on the streets of Sydney

  • News Weekly (Merimbula) – 13 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:40pm

    Kevin to sleep rough

  • Sydney Morning Herald – 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 3:55pm

    This month’s Vinnies CEO Sleepout will have an extra dose of meaning for at least one chief executive taking part in the event. BC Iron chief executive Mike Young has used the June 21 event to highlight the plight of his older brother Stewart ”Skip” Young, who spent three years on the streets of the…

  • SME Online News – 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 3:50pm

    21 June 2012: 2012 CEO Sleepout
CEO Caroline Hong will join hundreds of CEOs and business leaders from across Australia to rise to the challenge of sleeping out rough for one night to raise funds for homeless services and to raise awareness of this social issue.
It is not too late to support our CEO to rise…

  • Rough Treatment – Western Advocate 9 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 3:13pm

    THE next time you crawl into your warm bed this winter, spare a thought for those who are not as fortunate. Skillset CEO Ben Bardon is hoping to raise money for – and awareness of – youth homelessness when he sleeps out in Sydney on June 21 as part of the annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout….

  • CBA’s Narev gets in the soup line- Sydney Morning Herald 21 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:34pm

    CBA’s Narev gets in the soup line

  • Darwin Sun 16 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:29pm

    New Venue for CEO Sleepout Northern Territory CEOs will be raising the profile of homelessness by sleeping out in Fannie Bay Gaol this year accompanied by St Vincent de Paul National CEO Dr John Falzon.   Dr Falzon said that the Gaol is a powerful reminder of the fruits of inequality:  “This venue holds many…

  • Homeless gain a lifeline- NT News Online 16 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:22pm

    Phalen Lang has learnt the skills to get a job through the Knockabout Chefs program after spending years sleeping rough. Picture: DANIEL HARTLEY-ALLEN A YOUNG homeless survivor who slept rough in abandoned houses and went to jail for stealing cars has stepped up his game as a “Knockabout Chef”. Phalen Lang, 18, is one of…

  • Northern Territory News, Darwin 16 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:19pm

    Homeless gain a lifeline

  • Channel 9 News Darwin- 15 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:18pm

    Duration: 1 mins 49 secs ASR: AUD 1,453 Compere: Jonathan Uptin   Top Darwin executives will join in the Vinnies CEO Sleepout to raise awareness and money for homelessness. David Taylor from Vinnies says the event is an opportunity to give back. Homeless man Phalen Lang is now training to be a chef. Vinnies CEO…

  • Raine & Horne CEO explores pitfalls of city living – 14 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:46pm

    Inner city terraces and parkland views attract top dollar among Adelaide property investors, but Raine & Horne SA Chief Executive Kevin Magee is exploring the dark side of our city’s most sought after locations. In a new video released on social media today, Mr Magee parodies his own monthly online market report by exploring the…

  • The Crows are Sleeping out – Adelaide Crows News 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:42pm

    Crows CEO Steven Trigg is moving into Adelaide Oval – for the night anyway. Together with fellow board members Rob Chapman, Nigel Smart, Andrew Payze and Greg Moulton, the five will brave the cold to take part in the St Vincent de Paul Society’s CEO Sleepout. On June 21 business people and community leaders will…

  • CEOs go homeless for the homeless – University of SA 11 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:33pm

    Some of South Australia’s leading business executives will spend a cold night away from their home comforts this month as part of a national fundraiser to help homeless people. The annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout is to be held on June 21, making Adelaide Oval a bed for those South Australian high ranking business leaders who…

  • ABC North and West SA (Port Pirie) – 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:28pm

    Duration: 1 mins 32 secs ASR: AUD 945 Compere: Annabelle Homer Homer plays an excerpt from Drew Radford, ABC State Director in Adelaide, who is doing the CEO Sleepout to raise funds for the homeless through St Vincent de Paul’s Society. He explains to listeners how to donate money for the cause. Interviewee: Drew Radford,…

  • Bosses ready to Sleepout – City Messenger South Australia 15 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:17pm

    CHILLY: David Wark and Keith Bradshaw will be among the CEOs taking part in the Vinnies’ sleepout fundraiser. Picture: Luke Hemer MORE than 50 city executives will brave the Adelaide Oval cold next month to raise awareness of homelessness. The St Vincent de Paul Society has launched its third annual CEO Sleepout to raise money…

  • In Business South Australia- 1 May 2012

    Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:30pm

    The St Vincent de Paul Society SA has partnered with the Adelaide Oval Function Centre for the 2012 Vinnies CEO Sleepout, giving SA CEOs, business and community leaders the chance to walk, and sleep, on hallowed ground. The annual event, in its third year in SA, challenges business and community leaders to experience homelessness first-hand…

  • Adelaide bosses ready for Vinnies CEO Sleepout- The Advertiser 2 May 2012

    Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:24pm

    St Vinnies state president Dominic Lagana, former Australian cricketer Wayne Phillips and former AFL player and coach Graham Cornes get wrapped up at Adelaide Oval. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe Source: The Advertiser   ADELAIDE’S chief executives will swap five-star for five billion stars on June 21 when they sleep rough at Adelaide Oval to raise money…

  • Vinnies calls for CEOs to chill out for a cause

    Posted on Monday, April 22, 2013 11:26am

    St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria is calling for warm-hearted CEOs to surrender their doonas forsleeping bags at the 2013 Vinnies CEO Sleepout at Etihad Stadium on Thursday 20 June, in a bid toraise much needed funds and awareness for homeless Australians. The country’s most influential business and community leaders will join forces at simultaneous…

  • 100 CEOs now registered for Melbourne’s Vinnies CEO Sleepout

    Posted on Saturday, April 20, 2013 3:48pm

    Vinnies Victoria is proud to announce 100 CEOs have risen to the challenge and are registered for this year’s Vinnies CEO Sleepout. The event asks CEOs to raise awareness regarding the issues of homelessness by experiencing what it is like to sleep rough for just one night. Every night over 100,000 Australians have this experience!…

  • 2013 Vinnies CEO Sleepout – Rise to the Challenge

    Posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 11:13am

    The St Vincent de Paul Society is once again asking CEOs to rise to the challenge and sleep rough for just one night to experience first-hand what over 100,000 Australians experience every night.    Funds raised from this event goes towards the ongoing provision of Vinnies homeless services in Victoria.   DATE Thursday 20 June…

  • WA’s Business and Community leaders challenged to get behind Homelessness as the 2013 Vinnies CEO Sleepout is launched.

    Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:00am

    Minister for Housing and Homelessness Mark Butler today encouraged CEOs in Western Australia to sleep rough for one winter night to experience what it is like to be homeless. Mr Butler today visited homeless youth service Passages Resource Centre, in Northbridge, to officially launch the 2013 Vinnies CEO Sleepout in Western Australia, the event will…

  • Albany Advertiser – 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:58pm

    Two set for Vinnies Sleepout

  • North Coast Times Community- 12 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 4:27pm

    Chief has most worthy goal

  • NGIS online news – 6 June 2012

    Posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 3:14pm

    NGIS’ MD TO JOIN VINNIES CEO SLEEP OUT Paul Farrell to sleep on the streets for charity Once again, NGIS’ Managing Director Paul Farrell is watching nervously as the mercury falls. Paul will join several hundred Australian business and community leaders from around Australia on June 21 when they take to the streets for the…

  • Victoria Park Examiner – Perth June 6 2012

    Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:22pm

    Homeless Empathy

  • NGIS MD to join Vinnies CEO Sleepout – NGIS News Online 6 June 2012

    Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:16pm

    NGIS’ MD TO JOIN VINNIES CEO SLEEP OUT Paul Farrell to sleep on the streets for charity Once again, NGIS’ Managing Director Paul Farrell is watching nervously as the mercury falls. Paul will join several hundred Australian business and community leaders from around Australia on June 21 when they take to the streets for the…

  • 98.5 Sonshine FM Perth – 3 May 2012

    Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:50pm

    St Vincent de Paul is encouraging West Australians to take part in its annual 2012 CEO Sleepout. Lucinda Ardagh, St Vincent de Paul, says all donations raised go towards the homeless. Interviewee: Lucinda Ardagh, St Vincent de Paul Society 07:00 News 7:02:42 AM Duration: 0 mins 30 secs

  • Bosses swap penthouse for pavement- The West Australian 1 May 2012

    Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:27pm

    Chief executives will swap the penthouse for a patch of concrete to raise funds for the homeless. Bosses across the country will sleep rough for one night at the annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout in June, which organisers hope will raise $5 million for the nation’s 105,000 homeless. Ann Sherry, chief executive of luxury cruise company…

  • Fred’s Van

    Posted on Friday, June 15, 2012 10:00am

    Fred’s Van, an initiative of Comestibles and the St Vincent de Paul Society, will be selling soup to city suits between 11.00am and 1.00pm on Friday 15 June and Wednesday 20 June to raise awareness and funds for the 2012 Vinnies CEO Sleepout. Fred’s Van is named after the founder of the St Vincent de…

  • One hundred WA CEOs prepare for a night on the streets

    Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:38pm

    With two weeks to go to the 2012 Vinnies CEO Sleepout, WA has had its 100th CEO register to take part in the event on Thursday 21 June and sleep outside on a sheet of cardboard to raise awareness and funds for Vinnies homeless services. This is the third year the event will take place…

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