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Homelessness & Affordable Housing
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Affordable housing challenge
Energy efficiency & climate resilience
Climate Change Resilience in the West
Hot spots
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Your donation ensures that the Foundation can continue to respond for the next 100 years.
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Staying Cool and Supporting Others During Extreme Heat
This summer is predicted to be hot and muggy. It’s important that we all brush up on how to keep ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities safe during a heatwave.
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Foundation closes the calendar year distributing $2 million in grants in December
Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation has announced 22 new proactive grants totalling approximately $2 million to for-purpose and charitable organisations, as well as social enterprise, working across social justice, community support, homelessness, climate resilience and new economy models.
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Foundation launches its Reconciliation Action Plan – Reflect
Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation has launched its Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan with the Foundation’s Chair Janina Gawler and CEO Peter Walton at the Foundation’s For Purpose Impact Accelerator Hub.
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Staying Cool and Supporting Others During Extreme Heat
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Foundation closes the calendar year distributing $2 million in grants in December
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Why Giving is Good
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Foundation launches its Reconciliation Action Plan – Reflect
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Lively Home Care: Scaling an innovative model of intergenerational care
“Lively is a social enterprise with a vision of a world where all young and older people feel valued, connected and supported,” explains Anna Donaldson, founder of Lively.
Unequivocal Women’s Housing: Quality affordable housing for women at risk of homelessness
Monash University
Honouring Bethany
A talented jazz musician, Geoff Barlow feels he has had a fortunate life, blessed with the support of his close-knit family and a successful business in financial services. It was this strong family support, that helped Geoff and his family endure first the death their son Chris and then more recently granddaughter Bethany.
A gift for the future
The Martin Family Auditorium at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital’s new state-of-the-art Education Precinct will be a space in which current and future leaders in eye and ear health will educate, learn, and collaborate.
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