2024 – 2025
About Time Media Inc
About Time publishes and distributes a free national newspaper to prisons and detention centres. People incarcerated in Australia have little or no access to the internet, few news sources and limited opportunities for self expression. About Time provides these people with a voice. It is a platform for education, expression and hope. Untied funding.
Anglicare
Buldau Yioohgen (Big Dreams) – Hike to Higher Education
Buldau Yiooghen is a program that facilitates and supports young First Peoples across Victoria, to realise their full potential through cultural activities, education, and training, with exposure to several career pathways supported by their partner organisations. Hike to Higher Education is one element of the program and 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.
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, while maintaining relationships with local pharmacies and increasing awareness of asylum seekers’ lack of access to pharmaceutical benefits and the healthcare concession card.
Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network
Network provides peer support, access to experts and funding opportunities to funders who fund solutions to the climate and nature crises. Untied funding.
BackTrack Youth Works
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. Funds went towards an additional solar energy system on Backtrack accommodation.
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.
Boys to the Bush
Operations and Equipment
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.
Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia
Building the Community Sponsorship Movement
The mission of CRSA is to lead in encouraging, developing and supporting programs that expand and improve refugee resettlement in Australia by harnessing the generosity, goodwill and social capital of everyday Australians. Funding will support the organisation’s plan to increase the number of community groups for their CRISP program (Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot)
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 contributed to the salary of a youth worker.
Earbus Foundation of Western Australia
Karalundi Support
Earbus Foundation of Western Australia [EFWA] is a multi award-winning charity established to reduce the incidence and impact of otitis media [OM] or middle ear disease in Aboriginal and other at-risk children. EFWA works at over 100 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. Funds contributed to services in the Karalundi area in WA.
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. Funding to go towards the organisation’s plan for a state other than WA and Vic to commit to phase out native forest logging by 2030, with the focus on NSW.
Environs Kimberley
Environs Kimberley are the peak environmental NGO for the Kimberley region and far north-west Australia. They are dedicated to looking after the health of the land and waters of the region through advocacy and on-ground cultural and natural resources management projects. Untied funding.
First Step
Mitford St Relocation of Centre of Excellence
First Step is a not-for-profit addiction, mental health and legal services hub in St Kilda, Melbourne. They provide free services to thousands of vulnerable Victorians every year, with the firm belief that everybody deserves every chance to turn their lives around. First Step provides a uniquely multi-disciplinary team of GPs, psychologists, nurse practitioners, lawyers, mental health nurses, care coordinators, counsellors, along with their outpatient program ResetLife. Funding for relocation of premises.
Justice Connect
Not for Profit Law Program
Justice Connect connects people with legal help. They use the power of the law to open up the legal system for those locked out of it, and fight to change the system where it is broken. Funding for their Not for Profit Law Program, a national legal service offering free and affordable legal services to not for profit organisations and social enterprises.
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.
Kids Under Cover
Moorumbina Mongurnallin (Village 21 Frankston)
KUC delivers relocatable studio accommodation and education scholarships as an early intervention strategy to prevent youth homelessness and family breakdown. Village 21 Frankston is a program in partnership with VACCA that provides accommodation combined with wrap-around supports to at-risk Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, aged 18-21, leaving Out of Home Care (OOHC) or already in post-care.
Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre
The Resource Centre supports and advocates for the children, young people and families of Fitzroy Crossing in WA. Untied funding for strategic priorities.
Nalderun Education Aboriginal Corporation
School-Based Apprentice Traineeships Wrap-Around Support (SBAT)
Nalderun creates empowering education and employment opportunities for First Nations young people at the foothills of Liyanganyuk Banyul, on Djaara Country. The Nalderun Wrap Around Service for the School-Based Apprentice Traineeships (SBAT) is a program that helps support sustainable employment and training for young Aboriginal people as they transition from their Year 12. Nalderun continues to play a key role in the SBAT program to secure local Indigenous students in paid traineeship positions with host employers who are committed to improving employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians. The cultural component of the project and continuity that they provide to students through partnering in the delivery of this program sets up the students for certification, training, and employment outcomes, through an Indigenous lens.
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.
Nature Glenelg Trust
Nature Glenelg Trust is an environmental organisation which protects and enhances the natural environment with emphasis on all forms of ecological restoration including wetlands across south-east Australia. Operational funding.
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.
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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.
Southside Community Foundation
Grants for Conversations
Southside Community Foundation (SCF) brings together the people, businesses, and organisations of Port Phillip to create a stronger, more connected and inclusive community. They believe that real change starts locally – resourcing local solutions to local problems, growing greater community connection and building stronger trust and cooperation. Funds contributed to their “Grants for Conversations” aimed at bringing together agencies and stakeholders in key areas identified in their 2024 Vital Signs report.
Tasmanian Land Conservancy
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. Funding went towards the purchase and protection of the Pine Tier property.
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. Funds went towards providing legal services to young people in Out of Home Care run by Anglicare Victoria in Melbourne’s west.
You Matter
You Matter supports women and children who have experienced family violence by supplying and setting up the contents of their long term accommodation. Operational funding.
YMCA of Sydney: Youth and Community Services
The Alternative to Suspension Pilot Program
The Y NSW Alternative Suspension Program is a pilot project for Australia that comes with more than 20 successful years of delivery in Canada and Europe. Alternative Suspension (AS) transforms the student’s suspension period away from school into a positive experience, fostering personal development and autonomy. By putting disengaged students in an environment that promotes self-worth, goal setting, the acquisition of social skills and community respect, the program seeks to increase its participants’ resilience and ability to persevere in education, reducing the number of repeat suspensions.
The Kimberley Foundation G3 Committee Grants
Gnarly Neighbours
Gnarly Neighbours is more than free skateboard lessons. They create safe, consistent spaces where young people build confidence, purpose and better mental health.
Read the Play
Read the Play leverages young people’s passion for sports and their bond with local clubs to spread crucial mental health information and guide them on how to get help.
Future Minds Network
Future Minds Network are bridging the gap between Gen Z and employers by instructing corporates on how to understand, attract and invest in Gen Z talent. They also deliver self-employment and employability programs, and teach entrepreneurship and life skills education to young people.