GiveOUT Day aims to bridge the vast funding gap for LGBTQIA+ causes
Fri, 11 Oct 2024
GiveOUT Day, Australia's national day of celebration and fundraising for underfunded LGBTQIA+ organisations, is on Thursday 17 October 2024. This year’s GiveOUT Day shines a light on the strength, diversity and power of LGBTQIA+ organisations that are driving meaningful change, while raising much-needed funds to support their vital work.
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Gifts in wills: How can charities ensure that promised bequests are realised?
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
In this joint Q&A, Morgan Koegel and Rohani Bixler, two of the specialist speakers at Philanthropy Australia and Include a Charity’s Legacy Lunch in October, share some findings from the latest research on unfulfilled bequests. Ahead of their upcoming report, they provide valuable insights on the cost of ‘missing gifts’ and what charities and advisers can do to ensure a donor’s legacy achieves the impact that was intended.
Watch: Inspiring video stories of South Australia
Philanthropy Australia
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
The Philanthropy Australia Conference 2024, hosted in Adelaide, SA on Kaurna Country, showcased six inspiring stories of purpose from South Australia.
Why we can’t wait 300 years for gender equality
Australians Investing in Women
Fri, 16 Aug 2024
One theme emerged with crystal clarity at the Breakfast of Champions for Gender Equality event at Conference: the urgent need for collective action to accelerate progress towards gender equality. The event was co-hosted by Australians Investing in Women, Perpetual, Philanthropy Australia, the ResourceFULL Collective (International Women's Development Agency, Pacific Feminist Fund and Urgent Action Fund – Asia & Pacific) and Red Rocketship Foundation.
Responsive philanthropy: How Sydney Women’s Fund launched a quickfire domestic violence campaign
Dee Rudebeck, Advisor, News and Storytelling
Fri, 10 May 2024
The Sydney Women’s Fund (SWF) has launched a campaign that took just over a week to create in response to the series of horrific violent incidents against women dominating news cycles that the government has called a national crisis. The Fund’s ongoing work with frontline services operating in the domestic and sexual violence space was instrumental in building the quickfire campaign more commonly associated with large not-for-profits dealing in disaster response.
New gender-wise resource launched to support philanthropic collaborations
Philanthropy Australia
Fri, 26 Apr 2024
Australians Investing In Women (AIIW) and the University of Melbourne's Melbourne Social Equity Institute (MSEI) have launched a comprehensive resource to increase the impact of philanthropic and social investments.
Australian women are set to inherit trillions – what will that mean for giving?
Allison Harding
Fri, 12 Apr 2024
JBWere’s recent report, The Growth of Women and Wealth, estimates that Australian women will become custodians of more than 65% of the nearly $5 trillion in intergenerational wealth transfer in coming years – but what does that mean for charitable giving?
