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Homelessness & Affordable Housing
Inclusive, Sustainable Economy & Jobs
Healthy & Climate Resilient Communities
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Affordable housing challenge
Energy efficiency & climate resilience
Climate Change Resilience in the West
Hot spots
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Join Impact100 Melbourne
Open a Charitable Fund Account
Leave a gift in your Will
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Why We Give
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Professional advisors
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2024 Affordable Housing Challenge
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Productivity Commission 2023 Review of Philanthropy
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Friday, 5 May 2023
The Productivity Commission is conducting a
review of Australian philanthropy
with the aim to boost donations to charities and meet the Australian Government’s goal of doubling philanthropic giving by 2030.
Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation, Australia’s largest independent community foundation, provided a submission to the Commission, which can be accessed below.
The Foundation's submission to the Philanthropy Inquiry
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A draft report is expected to be released mid-November 2023, with final report to Government due mid-late 2024.
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