What is the Natgen foundation?
Join Managing Director Steven Goakes as he introduces the Natgen Foundation, highlighting its charitable initiatives and community partnerships that make a meaningful impact.
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In this video, Managing Director Steven Goakes provides an overview of the Natgen Foundation, a key component of Natgen’s commitment to social responsibility.
He discusses the Foundation’s strategic initiatives, including its support for the Legacy – Bring it Home Campaign, which aims to raise funds for the construction of a new Legacy House at Greenslopes Hospital in Brisbane.
Steven emphasises the importance of community engagement and how the Foundation’s efforts align with Natgen’s values of purpose-driven leadership and lasting impact.
Steven brings a wealth of experience to Natgen and our clients. His 30 year career has focused on commercial real estate, funds management, compliance, corporate governance and law.
With a masters degree in property and trust law and a business degree, since 1998 Steven has been structuring and operating manage investment funds to maximise returns to stakeholders. Success in this area has come through critical analysis of organisational and stakeholder needs, and focusing management effort in those areas which add investor value.
Steven has managed investment assets in excess of $1 billion and has personally overseen the purchase and investment of a further $1 billion of commercial properties and participated in (and advised on) joint-venture developments totalling over $400 million in gross realisation.
Beyond his professional activities, Steven is also actively involved in mentoring business professionals for organisations within Australia & abroad.
Steven is a responsible manager under the Group’s AFSL.
The management team of Natgen believes that we need to make sure that we give back as well when we’re in the business community. So we’re in the process at the moment of founding and launching the Natgen Foundation, which is a charitable foundation supporting defined charitable intents.
We’ve started endowing the foundation from Natgen itself as the manager, but we’ve also got some of our investors who have made charitable gifts to the foundation, which will supplement the amount of money that we have to distribute to charities year on year.
We have a number of areas of charitable giving that we seek to support, and some of those are mental health. We’re going to look specifically at suicide prevention and mental health support.
We’re also looking particularly at the moment at a charity that supports children who are victims of domestic violence in very tangible ways.
So really our causes are more likely to be social rather than anything else. We’re not particularly medical in our thinking; it’s more social causes that we’ll be putting the Natgen Foundation funds towards.
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