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Addressing disadvantage through legal support: Justice Connect

Justice Connect is there to help people experiencing significant disadvantage – to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness; to help renters understand and act on their rights; and to help people and business who are struggling after floods and fires. They also he...

Women's Homelessness Prevention Project: Keeping Women and Children Housed (Justice Connect Hom

Getting the right help when affected by COVID-19

Project Powerhouse: Partnering to prevent homelessness and build resilience for Victorian women

Ask Izzy uplift for COVID-19

Stories of Impact

Accessible legal support helps not-for-profit sector and individuals at risk of homelessness

Helping charities deal with the minefield of legal compliance challenges is just one of the many community services provided by Justice Connect. Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation provided several important grants to Justice Connect to help them support the legal needs...

Response and Recovery Webinar 1

This is the first in our series of Response and Recovery Webinars. To learn about future webinars, please subscribe . Learn more and support the Foundation’s COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. Our guest speakers: 7:41 Dr James McMahon - Head of Clinical Re...

YiP24 Forum – Inspiring the Next Generation of Young Changemakers

Our Youth in Philanthropy (YiP) program inspires young students in Melbourne to learn about community philanthropy while also providing them with opportunities to create a positive impact on current social issues. This year students from 14 schools across Greater Melbour...

Celebrating a decade of impact: Melbourne Women’s Foundation

In 2024, Melbourne Women’s Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary of bringing together individuals united by purpose to make a meaningful difference in the lives of women. Founders Pat Burke OAM and Gillian Hund OAM (pictured above) were honoured for their vision ...

Tackling Homelessness

We have to address the causes of homelessness and we have to address the practical need for housing, across the spectrum of social and affordable housing. It is a frustrating situation because we know what could work but it will take a cross sectoral approach. People wit...

The Impact of Social Enterprise

Social enterprises are enterprises that ‘trade to intentionally tackle social problems, improve communities, provide people access to employment and training, or help the environment.’ (Social Traders). Injections of philanthropic funding at strategic points along their ente...

Supporting our most vulnerable communities

Our charities are demonstrating incredible resilience and agility as they adapt their services to meet unprecedented demand using digital tools and new collaborations. Our outstanding health system has meant that philanthropy in Australia can support additional research a...

Better Philanthropy

The Foundation committed $1 million in funding with the aim of unlocking more land at no cost for affordable housing from local government. This has led to the planned development of 40 new affordable housing units in the City of Darebin. The City of Darebin’s Preston site ...

Responding to Disasters

For 97 years we have the supported the community through two world wars, several community health crises and economic downturns. The Foundation launched fundraising appeals and made grants to support the bushfires of 1939, 1983 and 2009. This year we have responded to the Bl...

Leaving tracks for others to follow

I have just finished reading an inspiring book titled The Dreaming Path – Indigenous thinking to change your life by Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon (Panter Press, 2022). It has given me some food for thought, especially about leadership. A couple of key insights tha...

Foundation grants additional half a million dollars to combat COVID‑19

This rapid response philanthropic funding is in addition to the $250,000 grant provided to Alfred Health’s Infectious Diseases Unit last week. The grants were provided to six not-for-profit organisations across homelessness, health and social enterprise sectors to help...

Over $3M in grants to Melbourne charities for COVID-19 recovery

The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation Chief Executive Officer Dr Catherine Brown OAM said the Foundation has always been committed to assisting the city through tough social times since it was established in 1923. "But COVID-19 is undoubtedly a unique challenge." "Many of...

Five reasons to be hopeful this year: Homelessness Week 2024

Erin Dolan, the Foundation's Senior Program Manager - Homelessness & Affordable Housing , shares some positive initiatives addressing homelessness in Australia and ways that you can show your support. I spend a lot of my professional life telling people what the proble...

Stories of Impact

Help only a click away

After the Bourke Street incident in January 2017, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation provided a $200,000 Proactive grant to Gather My Crew to increase the capacity of the innovative digital platform which connects people affected by trauma or disaster to easily connect with...