What we back
Where our giving goes
We do not begin with a strategy document and a set of categories to fill. We begin with conversations, and the shape below is what has emerged from them.
We describe the character of our giving rather than the organisations that receive it. That is a deliberate choice, and in some cases it protects organisations doing sensitive work.
What the giving has in common
Five themes
Bringing people together across divides
A consistent thread: work that bridges the lines people fall on either side of. Religious and secular. The many threads of a diverse Australia. This is rarely reconciliation work in the formal sense. More often it is the practical business of putting people in the same room, on shared ground, doing something together.
Culture as infrastructure, not decoration
We treat culture as something a community is built on rather than something it displays once it can afford to. That means supporting the institutions and practitioners who keep memory, language and creative life in working order, and treating that work as load-bearing rather than ornamental.
Memory and legacy
Inherited memory carried forward by being put to use. We back work that takes what was handed down and does something live with it, in performance, in learning, in the ordinary observances of community life.
Standing up for the community
Support goes to the systems and services that hold a community steady: the work of protecting people and institutions, of countering harm, and of looking after those within the community who need looking after. Much of this is unglamorous and none of it is optional.
Elevating young and new leadership
Rather than directing what the next generation of leadership should look like, we fund the conditions in which it grows: the programmes, the roles, the organisations where young people take on responsibility early and are supported while they carry it.