The Eve Mahlab AO Gender-wise Philanthropy Award

Use our awards website to nominate someone for the Eve Mahlab AO Gender-wise Philanthropy Award.

Nominations are welcomed from Philanthropy Australia members, non-members, supporters and friends of our partner organisations.

The Australian Philanthropy Awards are open to all members of the Australian philanthropic and broader social change community. You are able to nominate your own organisation.

Nominations are assessed by the selection panel on the following criteria: 

1. Demonstrates gender analysis of the social issue being addressed.

2. Demonstrates how the funding supported women and girls, or applied a gender lens and contributed to better outcomes.

3. Demonstrates leadership in gender-wise philanthropy and advancing gender equality – for example, the commitment is evident in their philanthropic strategy, funding practices and/or influence.

Note: Nominations may be for an individual funder or a collaboration of funders.

This award is for initiatives that can demonstrate at least three years of impact.

Nominators remain confidential and only finalists and successful recipients are announced.

To complete our nomination form on AwardsForce, you will need to describe in 1-2 pages or a 2 minute video

1. What is the social issue being addressed by this funding and what did the gender analysis of the issue reveal? (Criterion 1)

2. How has the funding supported women and girls, or applied a gender lens and contributed to better outcomes? (Criterion 2)

3. How did the funder demonstrate leadership in gender-wise philanthropy and advancing gender equality? (e.g. their commitment is evident in their philanthropic strategy, funding practices and/or influence)? (Criterion 3)

4. Why do you think this funder/funding initiative deserves recognition? i.e what can others in the philanthropy sector learn from this example as being good practice?

Supporting information (optional)

5. Please attach or link to evidence of outcomes and impact from the work, including any evaluation of impact, and how the findings were published/shared. This may include web articles or video links.

6. Nature of philanthropic investment:

Please specify how the funder supported the project.

• Once-off grant funding
• Multi-year grant funding
• Impact investment
• In-kind support (e.g. professional services)
• Capacity building (e.g. mentoring)
• Other: (please specify)

You will be asked to estimate the funding organisation(s)’ philanthropic dollar investment (AUD) in the initiative/project:

Please estimate the funding organisation(s)’ in-kind and/or non-financial investment (AUD) in the project:

*Please note that the nominations are assessed based on the key selection criteria and the impact achieved, not on the dollar value of philanthropic investment. These estimates are helpful to know and will assist the selection panel. These estimates will not be made public.

Nominations for the Eve Mahlab AO Gender-wise Philanthropy Award:

• open Thursday 7 December 2023
• close Sunday 25 February at 11.59pm (AEDT)

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