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Philanthropy Driving Innovation - Lessons from Silicon Valley

Tackling Homelessness

Homelessness is a growing concern despite many efforts by community housing organisations and funders including our Foundation. This is because it is an issue that requires more than one response to address it.

A Home for Diversity: Building the Capacity of Homelessness Services to Meet the Needs of Older

Homelessness & Affordable Housing, Older People (55+ years), New & Emerging Communities, Community Research

Digital Civil Society – time to focus on what this means for philanthropic funders

Last week we hosted Dr Lucy Bernholz of Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab to talk over what philanthropic foundations should be actively thinking about themselves and as funders of the not for profit sector within a digital world. My ‘to do’ list is quite long after this discussion!

Shaping the Future

Sustainable Cities Oration

Every year the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation holds a thought leadership event where we invite an expert speaker and a panel to talk over an issue that is a priority for us. We call this our Inspiring Philanthropy Oration. We not only want to inspire people to get involved in long term philanthropy but also to do inspiring philanthropy. Philanthropic foundations with endowments sits in a unique position, able to take a long term view and, as well as addressing current social problems, look at how we prevent them in the future.

Employment Potential

Time of Our Lives?

Older women ageing in long term income poverty is not an appealing topic. Our society is ageing at rapid rate and it is expected that the number of older women living in income poverty will dramatically increase.

Time of Our Lives? Report

Building opportunity and capacity for the economic and social participation of older Australian women.

Homelessness & Affordable Housing, Older People (55+ years), Women & Girls, Community Research