2022 – 2023
Anglicare
Buldau Yioohgen (Indigenous Youth Leadership Academy) – Hike to Higher Education
Buldau Yiooghen provides vulnerable young Indigenous people in rural, regional and metropolitan Victoria opportunities to strengthen their connection to culture. Hike to Higher Education encourages students to discover their passion and, from this, build their academic and career journey in an environmental setting that is supportive, scenic, culturally sensitive and challenging. It also helps the participants find a feeling of accomplishment. Funding provided for the hike on Maria Island in Tasmania.
anglicarevic.org.au
Asylum Seekers Resource Centre
ASRC Health Program: The ASRC runs a free clinic for people seeking asylum who are members of the ASRC. The service includes onsite appointments, supply of prescriptions and some medications, maintaining relationships with local pharmacies and increasing awareness of asylum seekers’ lack of access to pharmaceutical benefits and the healthcare concession card.
asrc.org.au
Australian Youth Climate Coalition
AYCC Climate Leaders Training Program: The aim of AYCC is to build a generation-wide movement to protect the environment from climate change. Young Australians are educated, inspired and empowered to take action for environmental sustainability in their communities. This grant supports building the scale, commitment, diversity and strategic capacity of their grassroots movement via online and offline programs.
aycc.org.au
BackTrack Youth Works
Untied Funding: BackTrack, based in Armidale, NSW, works with young people at risk to increase their participation in education, to build skills for employment, reduce criminal activity and develop resilience and healthy behaviours in order to live a fulfilling life and participate in the community.
backtrack.org.au
Banksia Gardens Community Services
Banksia Gardens Stronger Foundations Study Program: Banksia Gardens Community Services works with people experiencing disadvantage and poverty by providing opportunities that lead to further education and employment pathways, enhanced well-being, and transforms lives in the area of Hume. Funding supported a Study Group that offers much-needed academic assistance to children and young people who live or study in Hume, together with their families.
Food Pantry: Grant to help fund staff member to coordinate food relief to local residents.
banksiagardens.org.au
Boys to the Bush
Boys to the Bush expansion: BttB works in NSW with community groups, schools and welfare authorities, to identify and support at risk and disengaged boys, aged 10-19 years. They deliver term break and long weekend camps, group and one-on-one Men of Tomorrow “MENtoring” programs to build confidence, communication and resilience. Funds to support the expansion of the program into NE Victoria.
boystothebush.org.au
Cure Brain Cancer Foundation
Discovering novel targets for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell Therapy in Glioblastoma: CBF is Australia’s leading organisation for brain cancer research, advocacy and awareness and aims to make sure that all Australian children can access new treatments with less harmful side effects.
curebraincancer.org.au
Down the Track
Down the Track Youth Worker: Down the Track operates out of the remote community of Lake Cargelligo in NSW. DTT works with the most vulnerable youth in the community with programs that promote engagement and self-esteem, and reduces youth crime. Two social enterprises provide young people with work experience, skill development, community engagement, confidence, structure and employment activities. Funding provided a contribution to the salary of a youth worker.
downthetrack.org.au
Earbus Foundation of Western Australia
Karalundi Support: Earbus Foundation of Western Australia [EFWA] is a multi-award-winning charity established in 2013 to reduce the incidence and impact of otitis media [OM] or middle ear disease on Aboriginal and other at-risk children. EFWA works at over100 locations across the Pilbara, Goldfields, Peel, Perth Metro, Southeast and Southwest regions of WA, partnering with regional Aboriginal Medical Services, schools, day care centres, kindergartens, child-parent centres and other regional agencies such as Royal Flying Doctor Service and Starlight Children’s Foundation. Funding for a trip to the remote community of Karalundi.
earbus.org.au
EdConnect Australia
Untied funding: EdConnect links volunteers who want to make a difference, with young people in schools who need additional help and guidance.
edconnectaustralia.org.au
Environmental Defenders Office
End Native Forest Logging: EDO is the largest environmental legal centre in the Australia-Pacific. They work to defend the environment, using the law to protect our wildlife, people and places.
edo.org.au
First Step
Road Home Project, South Melbourne: First Step is a for-purpose addiction, mental health and legal services hub based in St Kilda. The Road Home project directly impacts the lives of vulnerable women and their children, many of whom are fleeing domestic violence, by providing comprehensive, trauma-informed mental health, addiction and legal services in situ, when and where they need it.
firststep.org.au
Foodbank Victoria
Foodbank Mobile Supermarket: Foodbank is Australia’s largest food relief organisation. Grant was to assist with food relief during COVID-19 pandemic. Funds assisted the development of a supermarket bus.
foodbank.org.au
Human Rights Law Centre
Justice for Aboriginal Children and Young People: Funding supports The Human Rights Law Centre to use their legal and advocacy expertise, strong partnerships and deep knowledge of children’s human rights law and policy, to ensure long-standing positive change in youth justice systems.
hrlc.org.au
Karinya Young Women’s Service
Karinya Young Mums Program (KYM): Karinya Young Women’s Service Inc. operates a crisis accommodation service for young women in Launceston. The KYM program assists young mothers and pregnant teens in accessing suitable housing and security of tenure, and provides learning and social opportunities
kyws.org.au
Kids Under Cover
Village 21 Evaluation: KUC delivers relocatable studio accommodation and education scholarships as an early intervention strategy to prevent youth homelessness and family breakdown. Village 21 is a pilot program in partnership with Anglicare that provides accommodation combined with wrap-around supports to at-risk young people, aged 18-21, leaving Out of Home Care (OOHC) or already post-care.
Funds contributed to the evaluation of the program.
kuc.org.au
Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre
Untied Funding and Flood Relief: The Resource Centre supports and advocates for the children, young people and families of Fitzroy Crossing in WA.
mwrc.com.au
National Trust
Mooramong Conservation and Activation Project: Mooramong is an historically significant property in Skipton, Victoria. An important site for local indigenous owners, the Wathaurung people, it also has associations with the earliest Western District European settlers. Additionally, it is the site of the Mackinnon Nature Reserve, under covenant for protection between the National Trust and the Victorian Trust for Nature. Funding for conservation and repair works.
nationaltrust.org.au
Ngadju Conservation Aboriginal Corporation
Staff Salary: Ngadju Conservation is working with the Ngadju community in Western Australia to increase the understanding of conservation and land management opportunities and to assist in building capacity to achieve them. Ngadju rangers care for the Ngadju Native Title Lands. Funding contributing to the Business Manager’s salary.
ngadjuconservation.org
Outer Urban Projects
Untied Funding: OUP is a bold, performing arts company that creates new forms of contemporary performance imagined from the life experiences of young emerging artists from the outer northern suburbs. It gives voice to the unexpressed aspirations and creative potential of ghettoised, culturally diverse emerging artists whose origins span five continents.
outerurbanprojects.org
Royal Flying Doctor Service
Flying Doctor Speech Therapy Program: The Flying Doctor Speech Therapy service is working in partnership with Robinvale District Health and the Mallee Track Health and Community Service to ensure that children between 0-12 in the Mallee area can access local speech therapy services.
flyingdoctor.org.au
flyingdoctor.org.au/vic/our-services/speech-therapy-talking-point-mallee/
Save the Children / Hands on Learning
An alternative education program that addresses the problem of disengaged young people leaving school early. At risk Year 7-10 students spend one day a week taking part in creative building projects that benefit the school and the community.
handsonlearning.org.au
savethechildren.org.au
Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network
Seed Senior Executive Leadership Team: Australia’s first and only Indigenous, youth-led, climate, non-profit organisation is a powerful, national grassroots network of over 250 volunteers. Funding will contribute to establishment and support of Seed’s first Senior Executive Leadership Team.
seedmob.org.au
Tasmanian Land Conservancy
Sloping Main Reserve: The Tasmanian Land Conservancy is a not-for-profit, apolitical, science and community-based organisation that raises funds from the public to protect irreplaceable sites and rare ecosystems by buying and managing private land in Tasmania. Grant contributed to the purchase of land in Tasmania for the purpose of protection and management of a high conservation value.
tasland.org.au
Western Community Legal Centre Ltd/WEstjustice
Poverty is not Destiny: WestJustice Out of Home Care Legal Clinics WEstjustice is a community-based legal service which provides free, accessible and equitable legal services to people in the western suburbs of Melbourne. This grant provides legal services to children in Out of Home Care run by Anglicare Victoria in Melbourne’s west.
westjustice.org.au
Youth Law