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Creating the next generation of Upstanders.

Courage to Care is a community outreach initiative demonstrating the importance of standing up to discrimination whenever it occurs. Courage to Care is an initiative of B'nai B'rith and offers a travelling exhibition, classroom and workplace programs. Visit our Port Macquarie Exhibition at The Glasshouse Port Macquarie between 9 July - 28 August:

https://couragetocare.com.au/local-upstander/

03/11/2026

All racism is bad for all of us.

It is one of the plainest things we believe, and the line that follows it says why:

"When hatred targeting any group goes unchallenged, the social fabric that protects everyone is weakened."

That is why our programs are designed to combat discrimination in all its forms, not one form at a time. Students hear real stories of courage and compassion, then work out what they could safely do when someone near them is being targeted.

Every individual can make a positive difference. Our job is to show students how.

01/11/2026

Why would we start a Year 3 class with a story that never happened?

Because every session is pitched to the age in the room. In Years 3 and 4, our volunteers open with a fictional story about someone choosing to be an Upstander. The class works on kindness and inclusion, and each student adds a leaf to the classroom kindness tree.

By Years 5 and 6, the story is true. Same idea, more weight: stereotyping, discrimination, racism and prejudice. The leaves go on the Upstander Commitment tree.

As one Year 6 student in the Northern Rivers put it: "It has given me ways to reach out to people who are having a hard time to see if they are ok and if I can help them."

29/10/2026

Every one of our school visits starts with a teacher who said yes. ⭐

Today is World Teachers' Day, and we want to say thank you to the teachers across NSW, the ACT and Queensland who open their classrooms to our volunteers. You book us, you welcome us in, and you carry the lesson on after we leave.

We couldn't do this work without you.

Tag a teacher who makes room for this kind of learning, and pass on our thanks! 🎉

29/10/2026

27/10/2026

Does being an Upstander mean stepping into the middle of a fight?

It doesn't, and nobody is asked to be a hero.

An Upstander is someone who chooses to act, safely and effectively, when they see discrimination or hatred, rather than staying a bystander. That word "safely" matters. What our volunteers bring into classrooms is safe, practical Upstander action: strategies students can actually use at school, online and in their community.

Small, safe, practical actions make a difference. Knowing that is what makes the choice to act feel possible to a student, and within their reach.

13/10/2026

Four schools, three days, one corner of the NSW Northern Rivers.

That was one week in May. A team of ten setting up a school hall. Eight of them at the gate of Banora Point High School in the rain. One volunteer reading to a primary class. And a Year 6 group at Holy Family in Skennars Head, hanging their promises on a commitment tree.

Different ages, different rooms, the same conversation about what you do when you see someone treated badly.

Thank you to every school that opened its door that week, and to every volunteer who made the drive. We couldn't do it without you.

07/10/2026

Chairs in a circle, and a handful of sticky notes on the floor.

That was the Upstander Program at Newcastle Grammar School on Tuesday, where Year 9 spent the session in small groups with our volunteers, working out what speaking up looks like when it is your turn.

It is the quietest part of the day and it does the most work: saying it out loud, in front of the people you see every day.

Thank you to the staff at Newcastle Grammar, and to the volunteers who were there. We couldn't do it without you.

Photos are below. Tag yourself and share a moment that stuck.

05/10/2026

A classroom, a volunteer, and a tree with no leaves on it yet.

That is how a primary Upstander session starts. We come to the school, so there is no transport to organise. A volunteer opens the morning and tells a story. Then the class gets to work: activities about being left out, about the names people get called, and what someone can safely do when they see it.

Near the end, every student writes their own promise on a leaf and adds it to the commitment tree. Then they sit down and talk about what they wrote.

Years 3 to 6. Sixty or ninety minutes. Free to the school.

05/10/2026

Our Volunteer Information Workshop is next Tuesday, and it is the short version of what our volunteers already know: the travel around regional NSW is good, the group you travel with is better, and the work itself - helping young people recognise prejudice and practise doing something about it - is genuinely rewarding.

Come and hear what the role involves, ask us anything, then decide in your own time. In person in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Tuesday 13 October, 10:00am to 12:00pm; we will send you the address when you register. If you would like a place, email [email protected].

02/10/2026

Schools ask us what exactly we are. It is a fair question, and we answer it the same way in everything we send them:

"We're not a religious organisation and we don't promote a political message. We're focused on one thing: Creating the Next Generation of Upstanders."

Courage to Care was founded in the Jewish community, and the history our volunteers carry into classrooms comes from there. But the subject is discrimination: what it does when nobody interrupts it, and what one person in a room can do about it.

That is the whole of it.

Address

17 Barker Street
Kensington, NSW
2033

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 1pm

Telephone

02 9321 6301

Website

https://couragetocare.org.au/nsw/donate/

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