Supporting our community
As well as sitting on external investment committees for a number of not-for-profits, every year we select a new community organisation to support – by a process of staff nomination. Over the years we have made positive contributions to a variety of organisations that are important to us, including: John Fawcett Foundation, Scope, UNHCR, Monash Health Foundation, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Berry Street, headspace, FightMND and Pancare Foundation.
2023: The Mirabel Foundation
The Mirabel Foundation was established in Victoria in 1998. It is the only organisation in Australia specifically addressing the needs of children who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental drug use.
The Mirabel Foundation provides essential assistance from the moment a family first contacts them right through until a child reaches 18. They provide tangible, practical and emotional support for both the children and their carers. Their focus is to do whatever they can to give these children the most normal childhood possible.
To find out more about the Mirabel Foundation, please visit www.mirabelfoundation.org.au
2022: Go Foundation
Founded by Adam Goodes, Michael O’Loughlin and their good mate, James Gallichan, the GO Foundation started its journey in the NSW town of Dareton (near Mildura). With around a third of the town’s 600 or so residents of Indigenous or Torres Strait Islander heritage, Dareton was GO’s initial foray into community work.
In 2014, the GO Foundation refined its focus to education, believing that education is the key to creating a brighter future for Indigenous Australians. GO Foundation’s scholarship program provides access, opportunity and wrap around support for Indigenous students to ensure their journey through school is as rich and rewarding as possible. GO provides scholarships from primary school to university, in public and independent schools, to students who live with family, in community and on country. www.gofoundation.org.au
2021: Black Dog Institute
Black Dog Institute is a not-for-profit facility for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mood disorders such as depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. www.blackdoginstitute.org.au