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The Foundation over the years has had the opportunity to further enhance their vision of enhancing Social Cohesion and Cultural Diversity by providing medium term funding commitment to select organisations, generally in the order of $30-50,00 pa over 3 years.
We believe more effective outcomes can be achieved by working with selected existing community development focused organisations to develop programs/actions that meet identified needs within the community.
Experience gained through our giving of Community Grants over the years allows us to identify organisations that share our mission and, through their successful delivery of projects for which grants have been provided, we know they have the organisational capacity to deliver large multi-year funded projects through the development of a detailed business plan.
A selection of these projects that the Foundation is currently or has recently funded is set out below:
Projects Focused on the Needs of Migrant and Refugee Women
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A Living and Learning Together project being funded through Wellsprings for Women in the City of Greater Dandenong for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Women and their pre-school aged children. In its second year the project continues to celebrate the social connection of women and children as participants learn about the Australian education/training system, pathways to other learning environments and/or employment as well as the ‘soft skills’ that are necessary to participate in workplace environments.
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Improving the lives of young migrant/refugee mothers with large families is being funded through the Ecumenical Migration Centre (EMC) of the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Footscray. The project offers disadvantaged women with a large number of children and dependants a range of support measures that are individually targeted to their needs, including opportunities for engagement in social activities, assistance with tutoring and connection to mainstream services.
Projects Focused on the Development and Mentoring of Young People from Diverse Backgrounds.
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Streetlighters Enhanced funded through Concern Australia in the City of Greater Dandenong is in its second year and continues to build on trusting relationships with marginalized youth, especially from Sudanese and Polynesian backgrounds between 15-21 years by providing them with an inclusive space to gather on a Friday night and the delivery of a soccer and youth leadership program for these youth.
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Recently the Foundation provided funding through the Australian Multicultural Foundation for the following youth related projects;
- Voices of Young Australians: Uniting for Social Cohesion funded through Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) in Victoria.
- Connections: Culturally Diverse Youth Development Project funded through St George Youth Services in NSW
- Under the Radar: Multicultural Youth Living on the Margins funded through Multicultural Youth South Australia (MYSA)
Learned experiences from these projects can be accessed via the Australian Multicultural Foundation Website;
http://amf.net.au/scanlon/
Projects Focused on Building Community Connections and Cohesiveness
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Growing Communities together Project is funded through The Benevolent Society in the Greenacre and Bankstown communities of NSW. In its 3rd year this project aims to build social cohesion and address social and economic disadvantage through a facilitating Partner Model in the communities of Greenacre and Bankstown.
http://www.bensoc.org.au/director/policyandresearch/
research/growingcommunitiestogether.cfm
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Sports without Borders targets newly arrived refugee and migrant young people in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne (North Melbourne and the City of Hume) who are involved or want to get involved in sport. They will provide direct grants to individuals and teams to enable them to participate in sport within local communities and through this participation become more connected to their community.
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