ENVIRONMENT
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name of organisation
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website
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project and amount
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description
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also supported by
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Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions
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www.breaze.org.au
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Employment of part time project manager. $30,000
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Developing environmental sustainability in Ballarat.
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Supported by Hamer Fund of Melbourne Community Foundation
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Climate Action Network Australia
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www.cana.net.au
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Building for Poznan: Increasing the capacity of Australian NGOs to work on climate change
$2,000
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Increasing the capacity of NGOs to engage in the climate change policy debate
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Environment Victoria
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www.envict.org.au
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Strengthening community involvement in sustainable water management
$15,250
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Creating a strong voice to protect and restore river health
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Environment Victoria
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www.envict.org.au
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Multicultural leaders in sustainability
$20,000
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Engaging young culturally and linguistically diverse youth to work with their local environment
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Friends of the Earth Melbourne
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www.melbourne.foe.org.au
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Victoria's desalination project, at what cost? Forcing change to responsible water policy
$31,000
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Educating the public about Victoria’s water supply options and sustainable water use
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Supported by Grigg Family Fund of Melbourne Community Foundation
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Friends of the Earth Melbourne
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www.melbourne.foe.org.au
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Communications tools & platforms to strengthen the climate movement
$13,000
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Generating stronger campaigns through developing communication and networking tools
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Mount Alexander Sustainability Group
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www.masg.org.au
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Focus on community
$10,000
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Resourcing the local community to work with disadvantaged groups on environment projects
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National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
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www.nattrust.com.au
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Devilbend Reserve aquatic ecology monitoring
$5,500
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Surveying ecological studies to ensure the sustainability of the Devilbend Reserve
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Supported by Philippa and Peter Currie
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Victorian National Parks Association
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www.vnpa.org.au
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Protection of Victoria's marine and coastal biodiversity
$25,000
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Raising awareness and changing policy concerning Victoria’s coastlines
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Supported by Philippa and Peter Currie and an anonymous donor
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Wilderness Society
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www.wilderness.org.au
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Gunns proposed pulp mill
$17,560
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Resourcing the community in the Tasmanian Tamar Valley affected by the proposal to build a pulp mill
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Responsible Forest Management Australia
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www.fscaustralia.org.au
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Visit of Dr Michael E Conroy from the US Environmental Grantmakers Network
$2,500
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Supporting discussion around responsible forest management
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Wilderness Society
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www.wilderness.org.au
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Development of a regional biodiversity and cultural heritage agenda
$37,000
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Building capacity and collaboration between environment groups and Indigenous Traditional Owners
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Total Environment
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$ 218,810
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HUMAN RIGHTS
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Brophy Family
& Youth Services
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www.brophy.org.au
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Ssafe in the South West
(2008-09) $15,000
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Advocating the safety
needs for the gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender,
intersex (GLBTI) community
in south-west Victoria
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Supported by Foundation
for Young Australians and
Ian Gould
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Cobaw Community
Health Service
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www.cobaw.vic.gov.au
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Getting strategic about
promoting sexual diversity &
challenging homophobia in
rural Victoria $30,000
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Working in rural
communities on strategic
plans to address
homophobia and the
needs of same sex
attracted young people
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Supported by Ian Gould
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Cobaw Community
Health Service
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www.cobaw.vic.gov.au
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WayOut media
management & skill
development $3,000
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Developing more powerful
media engagement
through skills development
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Gippsland Asbestos
Related Diseases Support
Inc
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www.gards.org
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Pilot asbestos storage facility
in Gippsland & asbestos
awareness and advocacy
– part 2 $25,000
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Protecting the interests
of victims of asbestos in
Gippsland
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Good Shepherd Youth and
Family Service
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www.goodshepvic.org.au
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Researching the gaps:
recovery needs of women
in domestic violence $30,000
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Supporting domestic
violence victims in post-crisis
situations
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Supported by H M Carson
and Anne Carson
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Industrial Deaths
Support & Advocacy Inc
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www.idsa.com.au
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Organisational capacity
building for IDSA $20,000
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Building the capacity and
advocacy skills of those
affected by a workplace
death
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Matrix Guild
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www.matrixguildvic.org.au
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Determining strategies to
enhance the aged care
services provided to GLBTI
seniors $20,000
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Identifying structural gaps
that impact on GLBTI seniors
in aged care services
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Supported by Foundation
for Young Australians and
Ian Gould
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Meadow Heights
Learning Shop
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www.mhls.com.au
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YADI (Youth Addressing
Diversity Issues) $41,000
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Addressing institutional and
community homophobia in
the City of Hume
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Open Channel
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www.openchannel.org.au
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Short & sharp pitching
competition $3,000
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Supporting the Human
Rights Arts & Film Festival
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Oxfam Australia
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www.oxfam.org.au
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Letter of support for African
refugee communities $1,000
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Advocating for African
refugee communities
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Project Respect
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www.projectrespect.org.au
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Prostitute - Who is she?
$30,000
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Encouraging change
through education about
the realities of women in
prostitution
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St Luke’s Anglicare
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Stage 3 DGR research
and advocacy project for
neighborhood houses and
learning centres $10,000
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Advocating for a broader
and more appropriate
charity tax status for
Neighborhood Houses
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The Trustee for the
Brigidine Association Asylum Seeker and Refugee Trust
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Paddling in the excised
zone $2,000
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Generating interest in
Australia’s denial of asylum
seekers’ access to Australian
territory and its onshore
protection determination
process
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Upper Hume Community
Health Service
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www.uhchs.vic.gov.au
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Safe schools and
communities together
$20,000
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Developing effective
responses to inappropriate
sexual behavior or assault
occurring in the school or in
the community
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Upper Hume Community
Health Service
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www.uhchs.vic.gov.au
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Let go - WayOut Albury
Wodonga $15,000
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Raising community
awareness of same sex
attracted services in Albury
Wodonga
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Supported by Ian Gould
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Total Human Rights
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$ 265,000
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
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Foundation for Rural
& Regional Renewal
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www.frrr.org.au
www.kric.org.au
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Koorie Resource and
Information Centre
Goulburn Valley Woongi
Women’s Centre $45,500
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Assistance to enable the
employment of staff at the
Woongi Women’s Centre
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Supported by Ricci Swart
Multimedia and Fleur
Spitzer
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Friends of the
Earth Melbourne
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www.melbourne.foe.org.au
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Reconciliation bus $2,000
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Assisting Indigenous groups
to attend the official
Parliamentary apology to
the Stolen Generations
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Supported by Belinda Gross
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Friends of the
Earth Melbourne
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www.melbourne.foe.org.au
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Yorta Yorta informed
consent for national parks
on country $51,000
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Community education
and resourcing to secure
joint ownership of Yorta Yorta
country
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Supported by S & J Rothfield Family Fund of Melbourne
Community Foundation,
H M Carson and Jane
Abercrombi
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Mildura Aboriginal
Corporation
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‘Step up’: youth
empowerment $17,200
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Establishment of an
Indigenous leadership
program in Mildura
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Supported by Social Justice
Fund and Silver Gold Fund
of Melbourne Community
Foundation
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Public Interest Law
Clearing House (PILCH)
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www.pilch.org.au
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Indigenous issues research
$9,900
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Improving access to legal
assistance for Indigenous
organisations and people
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Supported by Social
Justice Fund of Melbourne
Community Foundation
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Tarerer Gunditj
Project Association
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www.tarerer.com.au
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Dreaming up a change -
Where to from here? $12,500
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Addressing the lack of
representation for the
Indigenous Australian voice
in the wider Australian
community
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Supported by Rick Begg
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Uniting Church in Australia
Kilmany
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Walking together $30,000
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Engaging and empowering
Indigenous communities
through community
development practices
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YWCA
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www.ywca.net
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Sisters doing it for
themselves $60,000
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Support for Indigenous
women to become more
active in community affairs
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Supported by S & J Rothfield
Family Fund, Stegley Fund,
Fairness Fund and Social
Justice Fund of Melbourne
Community Foundation
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Total Indigenous People
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$ 228,100
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JUSTICE AND THE LAW
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Federation of Community
Legal Centres
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www.communitylaw.org.au/fedclc
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Is community a crime?
$2,000
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A forum for communities
affected by anti-terrorism
laws and policing
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Fitzroy Legal Service
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www.fitzroy-legal.org.au
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Fitzroy Legal Service
criminal record project
$20,000
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Advocating for Victoria
to amend current laws on
discrimination relating to
having a criminal record
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Flat out
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www.flatout.org.au
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Centre for Human Rights of
Imprisoned People $30,000
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Enhancing access to
justice and human rights for
imprisoned people
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National Children’s and
Youth Law Centre
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www.ncylc.org.au
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Research and development
- national child rights
monitoring kit $20,000
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Development of a national
child rights monitoring
process
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Uniting Care -
Cutting Edge
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www.ucce.org.au
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Access to justice in
the Goulburn Valley:
demonstrating the need for
community legal services
$20,000
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Assisting the community
to build a case for the
establishment of a
community legal centre in
Shepparton
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Total Justice and the Law
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$ 92,000
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NEWLY ARRIVED COMMUNITIES
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Advocacy and
Rights Centre Ltd
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Rural Australians for
Refugees - now and into the
future $6,000
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Solving structural issues in
relation to the provison of
settlement support
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Supported by Becher
Foundation
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Jesuit Social Services
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www.jss.org.au
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Somali Australian Council
advocacy and community
capacity building $35,000
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Encouraging greater
advocacy and community
capacity building within the
Somali community
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Supported by Fleur Spitzer,
Jane Abercrombie and an
anonymous donor
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Multicultural Arts Victoria
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www.multiculturalarts.com.au
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Do the Right Thing! Human
Rights Day Festival 2008
$10,000
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Coordinating young
culturally and linguistically
diverse youth to run a youth
focused social awareness
raising festival
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Tenants Union of Victoria
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www.tuv.org.au
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Somali women’s community
enterprise $28,000
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Coordinating leadership
seminars for Somali women
to further their business and
employment skills
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UCA - Hotham Mission
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www.asp.hothammission.org.au
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Asylum seeker community
advocacy $32,000
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Campaigning for the rights
of asylum seekers
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Western Region
Health Centre
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www.wrhc.com.au
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Developing self-sufficient
leadership in peer
education $30,000
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Coordinating health and
nutrition projects amongst
newly arrived communities
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Refugee Council
of Australia
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www.refugeecouncil.org.au
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Victorians asylum advocacy
and sectoral collaboration
$21,000
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Alliance building in Victoria
amongst refugee and
asylum seeker organisations
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Supported by Grigg
Family Fund of Melbourne
Community Foundation
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Total
Newly Arrived
Comunities
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$ 213,000
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PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY
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Australian Federation of
Disability Organisations
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www.afdo.org.au
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Transport standards review
$1,000
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Reporting experiences of
people with a disability on
public transport
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Disability Justice
Advocacy Inc
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www.justadvocacy.com
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Aids and Equipment Action
Alliance $50,000
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Advocating for fairer
access to disability aids and
equipment in Victoria
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Supported by an
anonymous donor
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Disability
Resources Centre
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www.drc.org.au
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Public transport access
watch: phase 2 $30,000
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Promoting the needs of
people with a disability in
accessing public transport
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Gippsland Advocates
for Mental Health
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www.barrierbreakers.org.au
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Barrier Breakers $25,000
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Resources to establish a
mental health advocacy
network in Gippsland
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Mental Health Legal
Centre
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www.communitylaw.org.au/mentalhealth
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Planning for community
wellbeing - living wills for
people living with mental
illness $20,000
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Increasing awareness about
living wills (a document
that records an advance
directive to inform family,
friends and practitioners
about a person’s
preferences for treatment
in the event they become
unwell)
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Psychiatric Disability
Services (Vicserv)
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www.vicserv.org.au
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Listening to the voices of
women mental health
consumers $31,000
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Advocating for safety and
gender sensitivity within
mental health services
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Supported by NE Renton
Family Fund of Melbourne
Community Foundation,
Fleur Spitzer, HM Carson and
an anonymous donor
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Self Help Addiction
Resource Centre
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www.sharc.org.au
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Peer helper $30,000
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Increasing awareness of
peer-to-peer projects that
address addiction
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Social Firms Australia
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www.socialfirms.org.au
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Advocating for accessible
employment opportunities
for people with a psychiatric
disability $30,000
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Informing and advocating
to government for more
appropriate support for
employees with a mental
illness
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Supported by an
anonymous donor
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St Mary’s House
of Welcome
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www.smhow.org.au
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Homeless doesn’t mean
vote-less $ 1,368
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Empowering the homeless
community to vote
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Victorian Council
of Deaf People
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www.vcod.com.au
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Needs of community
interpreting $25,000
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Raising awareness
of structural gaps in
interpreting for deaf people
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Supported by an
anonymous donor
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Women’s Health Victoria
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www.whv.org.au
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Building the evidence: the
case for improving family
violence practice $35,000
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Documenting standards of
practice for women with
disabilities experiencing
violence
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Supported by an
anonymous donor
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Total
People with Disability
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$ 278,368
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GENERAL
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North Central
Rural Financial Counseling
Service
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www.lmclp.org.au
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LMCLP disadvantaged
access scholarship $12,000
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Creating access in the
Loddon Mallee Region to
the Community Leadership
Program for young aspiring
community leaders from
disadvanted backgrounds
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Victorian Council
of Social Service
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www.vcoss.org.au
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Advocacy training program
$5,000
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Capacity building program
for 30 Victorian community
groups
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Yarraville
Community Centre
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Creating the future by
embracing the past:
spanning three centuries
of community connection in Yarraville $2,000
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Bringing the community
together to help save the
Yarraville Community Centre
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RMIT Foundation
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Scoping study: Advocacy
is a legitimate charitable
activity $5,000
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Support to Changemakers
to enable input into federal
government review of
charities law
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Total General
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$ 24,000
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TOTAL GRANTS
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$ 1,319,278
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