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As the community continues to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Foundation is no longer operating in a context that is stable and where issues can be tackled in silos. More and more of the Foundation’s projects are addressing more than one outcome and many issues are interrelated.

The end of the year lies in sight. What a journey it has been with challenges and big wins!

Philanthropy has a special role in the climate transition, supporting people facing disadvantage and funding innovative programs & policy. Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation will be working on climate change until a just transition is achieved.

Melbourne, and Australia more broadly, has been the fortunate beneficiary of many bequests from individuals who wanted to contribute to a better world – even though they would not see the impact of their gift.

Increasing the supply of affordable housing is part of the solution to our homelessness challenge. Especially when we can find new ways of unlocking underutilised land in well located positions to provide high quality, sustainable, well-designed housing. One project is showing what is possible when we work together.

Dr Catherine Brown OAM discusses Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation approach to philanthropy: being an early/first funder, and taking informed risks in the hope that we will leave tracks for others to follow in the future.

How to speed up the wide adoption of Impact Investment by foundations and other investors wanting to invest for impact & financial return across various asset classes?

While Australia was not ambitious in its commitments at COP26, there is momentum growing in the race to zero.

COP26 has come to a close in Glasgow and the Glasgow Climate Pact has been agreed. Alok Sharma, the President of COP26, describes it as a ‘fragile win’. The world will now need to act to ensure we all safely transition to a zero-carbon economy and hold global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.