Our 2020 Reimagining Australia grantee partners: Everybody’s Home, Economic Media Centre, Dhadjowa Foundation, and 350.org Australia.
Established as a vehicle for collective giving, the Impact Fund inspires investments in the boldest solutions to our country’s biggest issues.
By harnessing the power of our community’s shared ambition for a fairer and more sustainable Australia, the Impact Fund demonstrates what we can achieve when we come together. It’s proof that giving together is an effective way of exercising our democratic rights and improving outcomes for all Australians.
Interested in supporting a project? If you have a fund or foundation with Australian Communities Foundation, please contact us to make a grant request. Alternatively, anyone can make a direct donation to any of these projects online.
Since its establishment in 2017, the Impact Fund has distributed nearly $2 million to over 30 national projects that are working on some of the boldest solutions to our country’s biggest issues. Take a look at the highlights of the impact we’ve helped create so far.
Supporting projects and organisations working to combat the unequal distribution of opportunities across the social, economic, political, and cultural spheres.
Supporting projects and organisations working to strengthen the foundations of Australia’s democracy.
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Supporting projects and organisations that are led or owned by Indigenous peoples, who we believe are best placed to improve outcomes for their communities.
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Supporting projects and organisations protecting Australia’s natural ecosystems and working towards a safe and stable climate.
Get inspired by our grantee partners safeguarding the environment →
Alliance for Gambling Reform
Supporting the big names to divest from pokies and leveraging the current pokies shutdown to #BuildBackBetter
Country Needs People
Delivering lasting and effective environmental change and securing jobs in remote communities through Indigenous land and sea management
Australian Gun Safety Alliance
Providing a credible alternative voice to the gun lobby and holding governments to account
Blak Loungeroom
Investing in First Nations-led philanthropy by supporting Koondee Woonga-gat Toor-rong to provide a space for First Nations peoples in the sector to come together
The Impact Fund provides both Large Grants and Agile/Seed Grants for advocacy, campaigning, research and scaling proven approaches nationally. Its bold but thoughtful co-funding process is helping to tip the scales towards a more culturally, environmentally, economically and socially just Australia.
We work with our giving community and changemakers across the above four areas to identify opportunities for timely intervention and pathways to positive change. We then coordinate our collective resources in support of these opportunities, meaning that we move more resources in a more impactful way, together.
The Impact Fund supports Australia’s leading change-makers through Large Grants and Agile/Seed Grants.
Large Grants are distributed via an annual grant round. The Impact Fund carefully selects projects across the four impact areas, pledges a contribution to each and invites co-funding contributions from the broader funding community.
Agile/Seed Grants are made throughout the year in rapid response to urgent opportunities across the four impact areas. The Impact Fund pledges a contribution and puts out a time-limited call for co-funding contributions from the broader funding community.
Invited applicants are shortlisted based on the Impact Fund’s five key selection criteria.
Alignment with impact area
Timeliness/urgency of opportunity
Potential for systemic impact
Evidence base
Potential to influence change.
Support the work of our country’s leading changemakers for a fairer and more sustainable Australia.
Thank you to Joan Nelson, Ruth Dixon, Dianne Lesley Young and Lydia M MacMichael, whose bequests enabled Australian Communities Foundation to establish the Impact Fund.
