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Be Kind Sydney Appeal 2022 Funding Grassroots Programs Building Strong Communities Initiatives of the Sydney Community Foundation
INSPIRING YOUR GIVING
FOR SYDNEY WOMEN & COMMUNITIES
“If you can be anything, be kind”* – we all
have the capacity for kindness. Some of us Sydney is a wonderful city of great opportunity and our vision at the
Sydney Community Foundation is to extend that opportunity to everyone
who calls Sydney home. As we learn to live with a pandemic, we are all
have the opportunity to support others who more aware of the importance of strong community life in our city and
how each of us can contribute to making it safe, just and kind..
need a hand-up. Be Kind Sydney is active, It’s a pleasure to invite you to join our community of donors and give to
the annual Be Kind Sydney Appeal that aims to raise $1.5 Million for our
67 partners. The important programs those charities deliver in a range of
financial kindness: please support our areas are outlined in this document.
work if you can.”
We see the impact when we invest funds in well-run grassroots programs
led by local people, for local families. Programs we’ve funded have given
food security; shelter to homeless women and children; improved wellbeing
for people of all ages; voice to women and refugees needing legal services;
supported education and skills training, bringing confidence and opportunity to
Lucy Brodgen AM women and young people.
Patron Sydney Women's Fund Be Kind Sydney enables us to have a rapid response to issues. For example, with
Director Be Kind Sydney a gift from a new major donor we are funding crucial work to support displaced
Ukrainian women and children arriving in Sydney.
Thank you for your interest in our important work to make positive change to
people's lives in Sydney. Please join me and our community of donors this year
and give to Be Kind Sydney Appeal.
Warm regards,
Sophie McCarthy
Chair, Sydney Community Foundation | Be Kind Sydney | Sydney Women's Fund
Sydney Women's Fund and Be Kind Sydney are Initiatives of the Sydney Community Foundation
* Henry Jones, Author
Front cover photograph courtesy of Weave Youth & Community Services
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GIVING TOGETHER GOES FURTHER 2021 IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS
We supported 3000+
“I got a call that they were selling their
possessions to buy food. As if their lives women and children with
weren’t already hard enough.” shelter as demand grew
Liverpool Neighbourhood Connections
Mona Mohamed, due to the pandemic
Community Support Services
Our charity partners
provided 6900
Together, we have hampers to feed
connected 4,000+ donors over 25,000
and more than $11 million vulnerable
Sydneysiders during
in donations, to 400+
the peak of the
non-profits in the last Covid-19 lockdowns Bayside Women's Shelter
decade. When you give
to local charities with low
overheads, your dollar "The Warrior Woman Foundation and the Women's & The 2021 Appeal
goes further Girls' Emergency Centre are now referring clients to us
at Hope and Heal. It is amazing how the 2021 Be Kind
helped connect
Sydney Appeal brought us together for women and women's domestic
children. This ripple effect will support communities and
Each year Be Kind Sydney and Sydney Women's Fund We operate in Sydney’s most disadvantaged places. violence and
is an amazing legacy for future generations."
co-design and fund programs that support locals Our local partners often do not have the resources crisis services to
in need. By giving together to the Be Kind Sydney or time to promote their work, fundraise, advocate to Nadine Taylor,
Appeal, each donation large and small goes further in government, or access philanthropic funders directly. Hope & Heal Retreats work together for
its impact. Instead, they rely on us, and our donors, for support. increased impact
Hope & Heal Retreats
Our programs for women and communities support We are the bridge between corporate, family
the most vulnerable. We support education, food foundations and individual donors and highly
security, shelter, safety from family violence, social effective grassroots programs. We provide "Despite Covid-19, one of our social enterprises provided 5,489
enterprise, job skills and employment, connection, administration and due diligence to help donors give hours of employment and paid wages of $176,000."
health and wellbeing. well and with impact.
Pat Hall
Liverpool Neighbourhood Connections
by
Sydney The Social Outfit
Community
Foundation
Sydney Women's Our partner charities
We thank donors to Sydney Women's Fund and Sydney Community Foundation who have given generously Fund's produced provided 10s of 1000s
through the pandemic years to the Be Kind Sydney Annual Appeal. To support the most vulnerable in our Women's Work a of hours of on the job
community we enable simple and effective tax deductible giving by individuals, families, companies, sporting 4-part documentary training, employment
and cultural groups.
to help women and
opportunities
Sydney's dedicated charities join us in seeking your support for the programs listed in the catalogue. Our donors girls reduce their
rely on the team's deep local knowledge, due diligence and philanthropy expertise. financial vulnerability and business skills
"This program made me feel I can do
to those who
Please contact us to help you give. anything in this industry and brought
back my confidence." needed it most
Participant, Strive for Girls
2 Liverpool Neighbourhood Connections 3
MAJOR DONORS & PARTNERS PARTNER WITH US
IN 2022
Our expert team invite the opportunity to discuss your needs
THE
SNOW and how we can help you achieve your philanthropic goals
FOUNDATION through the Be Kind Sydney Appeal
Be Kind Sydney
We manage your
Appeal provides So you can rest
donation and
extensive access assured you're
maximise its
to grassroots doing good
impact
community giving
We offer: Our governance:
• Experienced advisors to manage your giving • We are governed by a board of independent
• Evidence-based approach for impact directors, and advised by eminent women leaders
• Extensive local knowledge and charity relationships on the Sydney Women's Fund Advisory Council
• Responsive granting for on-ground needs • Be Kind Sydney is a DRG1 Charity
• In-depth grant acquittals and reporting • Sydney Community Foundation is a Not for Profit
• All donations over $2.00 are tax-deductible Foundation DGR2, of which Sydney Women’s Fund
• Investment funds managed by JBWERE, is a sub-fund
with independent audit by HLB Mann Judd • All entities report to the Australian Charities and
Not-for-Profits Commission
We are a proud supporter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
a global collaboration and universal plan to achieve a better and more sustainable
future for all. Our work advances the above goals.
THE TURNBULL FOUNDATION
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CONTENTS BE KIND SYDNEY
GIVE WHERE YOU LIVE
1 Message Chair Sydney Community Foundation
GREATER SYDNEY
3 2021 Impact Highlights & Testimonials North
4 Major Donors and Partners
5 Partner with Us in 2022 Upper
North
North West Shore
Northern
9 Impact Areas Be Kind Sydney Outer West
Beaches
Lower
10 Impact Areas Sydney Women's Fund North
Parramatta Shore
11 Message Chair Sydney Women's Fund
13 How to Give to Be Kind Sydney Appeal Central
Sydney
Eastern
Inner West Suburbs
14 Project List 2022 - Be Kind Sydney Appeal South West
Southern
26 Project List 2022 - Sydney Women's Fund Sydney
41 Our Board and Supporters
Sutherland
Shire
Together with a network of grassroots charity • Liverpool Hub
partners, Sydney Women's Fund and Be Kind
Sydney have co-designed and established seven
• Bankstown Hub
hubs in geographic areas of acute disadvantage
where we support innovative multi-year
Acknowledgement of Country programs, with sustainable funding.
• Fairfield Hub
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land who have helped shape Sydney. We pay our respects to
• Campbelltown Hub
Elders past and present. We define Greater Sydney as all of the Sydney Metropolitan Area, comprising diverse
communities that ring Global Sydney. This includes the Gadigal people of the Eora nation on the southern • Inner West Hub
harbour shores and extends from Campbelltown, Dharawal people, in the south to the Northern Suburbs,
Garigal and Caregal people, to Gosford and the Central Coast, the Darkinjung people and to Penrith in the west, • South West Hub
Darug people. East to west it extends from the coast to the Blue Mountains, the Dharug and Gundungurra
people, and north to south from the Hawkesbury River, Darug and Darkinjung people, • Northern Beaches Hub
and to the Illawarra Escarpment, the Dharawal people.
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BUILDS STRONGER COMMUNITIES
& ALLEVIATES POVERTY
IMPACT AREAS
In the 2020-21 financial year $1.3 million in combined donations to
People supported
Be Kind Sydney, Sydney Women's Fund and Sydney Community Health & Wellbeing
Foundation to our annual Be Kind Sydney Appeal went to programs • Families in need
• Programs to support & build
delivered by local partners with measurable results. wellbeing, resilience & belonging
• Older Australians
• LGBTQIA+ people
• People living with a disability
Job Readiness & Employment
350 disadvantaged women given opportunities to • Job readiness & mentoring
• Young carers
learn and pathways to employment • Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders
• Participation, belonging &
independence • Refugees & humanitarian
$176,000 wages paid by social enterprises
migrants
Education • Asylum seekers
5489 hours paid employment through earn and learn • Schools programs
social enterprise projects
• Re-skilling
1000+ refugee and asylum seekers provided with tailored
support
• Youth at-risk alternative
learning & job pathways
• Social enterprise
45,000 food parcels/meals made available to families,
school students and bush fire victims
"Kindness fuels greatness and Be Kind
10,000 young people engaged via education, mentors,
mental health and care
Sydney is your chance to build a stronger
community in the city we love and to
address its increasing divide.
3 tonnes two food banks delivered 3 tonnes of food to those
in need As you plan your giving, please consider
our projects and making a gift this year or
a multi-year commitment. Please contact
30 scholarships awarded to people in need us about how you would like to give and be
involved."
40 schools supported with community programs for WAYNE STOKES
Director, Be Kind Sydney
students in need
65 marginalised women launched 18 small businesses
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CREATES OPPORTUNITIES & EQUITY A VOICE FOR WOMEN,
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS A FORCE FOR CHANGE
IMPACT AREAS Your giving provides opportunity & equity for women and girls
Domestic Violence & Crisis Women supported
The Be Kind Sydney Appeal 2022 offers many
• Safety from family abuse • Young women at-risk projects focusing on building women and girls'
• Emergency shelters • Aboriginal & Torres Strait confidence, stronger financial independence
Islanders and wellbeing.
• Basic needs of young mothers &
families • Refugee & humanitarian Sydney Women's Fund projects are included in
the Be Kind Sydney Appeal to invite donors to
• Community drop-in centres migrants
give to vulnerable women and families. This year
• Asylum seekers we offer donors a rich diversity of programs for
CALD communities funding.
Education & Employment •
We work with local grassroots charities providing
• Supported learning
supported learning, job skills, training and
• Employment and academic work experience. We fund childcare, case work,
scholarships referrals to specialists for physical and mental
• Job skills training & mentoring health care, support in navigating the Australian
recruitment process, and building a healthy
relationship with managing money.
By giving opportunity and equity to Sydney
Financial Skills & Enterprise We thank our charity partners for the work they women we hope for every woman to have
• Financial literacy do strengthening women's lives and community. access to education, work, independence and
And a huge thank you to our generous donors choice to share in all Sydney offers.
• Micro-business incubators
whose support enables this vital, kind work.
• Advocacy & research
Again we have a strong focus on women's
financial wellbeing. Data from our 2021 Sydney
Women's Fund Portrait IV Research continues
to paint a sobering picture of women's financial
GEORGINA BYRON AM
vulnerability:
Chair, Sydney Women's Fund Advisory Council
• 48% of women in paid work earn less than
$34,000 p.a
"I am very grateful for the scholarship. • 67% of women are the equal or main
...Thank you for continuing to be so breadwinner for their household
generous in helping girls like me." • 53% of women are not financially prepared
Sydney Women's Fund Changemaker Scholarship recipient for retirement
• 52% of Sydney women are concerned
about having stable and concerned
housing
• 63% Feel they will achieve the things they
want in life
10 11THANK YOU TO ALL BE KIND SYDNEY APPEAL 2022
2021 DONORS HOW TO GIVE
Be Kind Sydney 2021 is thrilled to have supported South Eastern
Community Connect with other major donors to realise a dream of a
community bus that can meet the diverse needs of communities across
South Eastern Sydney. Donate online
Scan this QR code
Make a direct deposit
BSB: 063 088
Account: 904 445 475
(Please label your direct deposit with your initial and surname, or organisation name and email confirmation
of your donation to hello@bekindsydney.org.au so we can send you a receipt for your tax deductible donation).
Contact us to discuss your gift, grant or CSR partnership
for specific projects
(02) 8030 7050
hello@bekindsydney.org.au
www.bekindsydney.org.au
Become a Be Kind Sydney Appeal Ambassador
If you run a business, a sports team or would like to get involved in making Sydney a kinder
city please get in touch. Our small, talented team has access to both amazing charities
and leaders in every area of Sydney life who respect and lend support to our work.
Working with us, you will make a difference in people's lives.
"I'd be lost without the People's Pantry. It has given me food
support when I have needed it most."
All donations over $2 are tax deductible
South Eastern Community Connect client
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BE KIND SYDNEY APPEAL 2022 JUNIOR TOP BLOKES MENTORING
PROJECT LIST Giving opportunity: Strengthen
the mental health and emotional
Mental Health and
Emotional resilience
resilience of teenage boys in South workshops for teen
West Sydney, while improving their boys
engagement and perception within
the community. Over 6-months,
Donation Target
48 x 14-17-year-old males in high
Support these Be Kind Sydney and Sydney Women's school will participate in weekly $21,400
interactive workshops covering: risk
A Gift of Just
projects to help raise $1.5M for 76 projects. taking and peer pressure, mental
health, respectful relationships, $1000 will fund two
online behaviour and consequences workshops for young boys
(including sexting, pornography to change their attitudes
and cyber bullying), alcohol and on masculinity and to treat
women respectfully
drugs, racism, sexuality and anger
management.
Program partner:
Supporting: Engage 48 young males
Top Blokes Foundation
to help turn around their lives
Place: South-Western Sydney
TAILORED SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Giving opportunity: Offer tailored Fund a qualified
one-on-one support for youth at-risk clinician to provide
across North and North West Sydney tailored one-on-one
by providing funding for a qualified support for youth at-
clinician 4 days per week for one year.
risk
The specialist employed will provide
counselling sessions to at-risk young
people and support fellow clinical Donation Target
team members, increasing service $18,547
capacity, bringing waiting times and
list numbers down. A Gift of Just
Supporting: 50 young people at-risk $100 will facilitate an
Place: Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai, North online workshop for young
Sydney, Ryde, Willoughby people and parents to
develop wellbeing skills
Program partner:
KYDS Youth Development
Service Inc.
THE HUB SYDNEY
Giving opportunity: Help pilot The Provide people
Hub Sydney program - a volunteer experiencing
led - regular service at an Inner West homelessness a safe
venue to provide people experiencing space to connect with
homelessness with a welcoming,
support
safe space to connect with support
and gain access to essential services.
These include legal advice, housing Donation Target
support, personal care, street vets, $10,000
counselling, financial literacy and
budgeting. A Gift of Just
Supporting: 80-100 people per month $100 will provide four new
Place: Inner West books or eight pairs of reading
glasses to be distributed
to people experiencing
homelessness
Some of our included charity partners: Little Dreamers, ABCN Foundation and Harding Miller Education Foundation Program partner:
The Footpath Library Ltd.
14 15MACEDONIAN SENIORS MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT HEAR ME PLAY - MENTAL HEALTH AND TRAUMA THERAPY
Giving opportunity: Improve Improve the health Giving opportunity: Support an Early intervention
Macedonian older people's lives, and wellbeing of early intervention program providing trauma healing for
their health and wellbeing. Address older Macedonian 12 weekly individual play therapy children through
social isolation caused by language Australians sessions to vulnerable children with
barriers, age, mobility and health
play therapy
direct experiences of trauma. Under
concerns, including the pandemic. the supervision of a dedicated Play
Donation Target Donation Target
Provide mental health and wellbeing Therapist, each child can play out their
information and activities in $12,000 inner and real-life experiences in a way $23,820
Macedonian/other former Yugoslav that rewires the physical and emotional
A Gift of Just A Gift of Just
languages. Promote access to health patterns of trauma. This extra support
and wellbeing services and create $100 will provide two helps children in need to make sense $1000 will provide six
referral pathways for individuals. hours of wellbeing support of their traumatic experiences, so they additional early intervention
Supporting: 60 seniors to one older person play therapy sessions for
become thriving young teenagers and
Place: Bayside, Canterbury- those children with very
Program partner: beyond.
high-level trauma
Bankstown, Fairfield, Georges River, Supporting: 12 at-risk children living in
Liverpool, Sutherland Shire Australian Macedonian
Welfare & Wellbeing Sydney with mental ill-health Program partner:
NSW Inc. Place: Mosman, North Sydney, Be Centre Foundation
Northern Beaches Limited
MOBILE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH HUB
Giving opportunity: Fund a mobile Mental health and
hub connecting young people from wellbeing for young ACCELERATE CREATIVE YOUTH WORKSHOPS
diverse cultures and backgrounds aged people through the
11-16, who are struggling with their Giving opportunity: Support the Creative programs
creation of a mobile
mental health and wellbeing. The hub implementation of a youth-led creative for young people
outreach service program to be held at 107’s Redfern
will offer group-work programs and enabling work
individual mentoring, empowering location in partnership with Shopfront pathways in the arts
recipients with skills and knowledge to Donation Target Arts Co-op. This creative workshop
care for themselves. By using mobile $25,000 program for local young people aged 12
Donation Target
outreach and engagement methods to 24 with the opportunity to gain skills
such as art, music and interactive A Gift of Just to facilitate employment pathways in $20,000
activities, this program reaches young $100 will supply a one creative industries. Help young people
navigating the post-pandemic future A Gift of Just
people who are disengaged from hour mentoring session for
formal support, socially isolated or for two kids to gain a sense of inclusion, increased $210 covers the cost of
whom seeking help for mental health is confidence and new skills. an expert creative facilitator
a taboo. Program partner: Supporting: 90 creative workshops to lead a three hour youth
2Connect Youth & each with 45 participants specific workshop
Supporting: 65 young people
Place: Bayside, Canterbury-Bankstown, Community Place: Redfern
Program partner:
Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool,
107 Projects Incorporated
Sutherland Shire
WITH ONE VOICE URBAN FABLES: STORIES FROM THE STREETS OF SYDNEY
Giving opportunity: Choirs Social inclusion choirs Giving opportunity: Provide creative Affect social change
for Sydneysiders facing acute for Sydneysiders facing opportunities for people with lived through the power of
disadvantage and homelessness, acute disadvantage and experience of homelessness disability
involvement promotes inclusion and
performance by under-
homelessness and/or mental health issues to develop represented voices
social cohesion. Funds will provide on confidence, skills and connections.
the ground support for committees Facilitated by some of Sydney’s
Donation Target Donation Target
to sensitively and appropriately grow most exciting contemporary artists,
and support choir membership. The $15,000 participants will have access to a $10,000
program is working to heal social range of platforms and art forms,
A Gift of Just A Gift of Just
dislocation caused by the pandemic. and the works created will be shared
Training will be delivered for all $1000 will provide a with audiences to bridge differences, $1000 will help secure
conductors to lead re-engagement dedicated support worker challenge preconceptions and build a videographer to work with
and materials developed to promote for 1 choir for 3 months community members to
empathy around social issues and
increased participation with the aim of disadvantage. develop their stories into
strengthening and fostering stronger Program partner: short films
Supporting: 20 people
local communities. Creativity Australia
Place: Woolloomooloo, Waterloo
Supporting: 250 people facing acute Program partner:
disadvantage and homelessness. Milk Crate Theatre
Place: Blacktown, City of Sydney,
Willoughby
16 17YOUNG CARER TUTORING PROGRAM FOOD PANTRY PROGRAM
Giving opportunity: Continue a Address the extra Giving opportunity: Food stress Reducing food stress
successful pilot tutoring program education support is one of the biggest issues facing for struggling families
to help engage young carers to needed by young families at the moment, particularly
achieve their educational goals carers for those with insecure employment,
whilst balancing their caring role. It is Donation Target
underemployment or unemployment.
estimated that 1 in 10 young people
Donation Target The Food Pantry Program aims to $10,000
in Australia are carers, and during alleviate food stress by providing
2020 many disengaged with their $25,000 weekly food hampers, emergency
A Gift of Just
education and struggled to learn
A Gift of Just packages and vouchers. There is a $100 provides a family
from home. Young carers deserve focus on fresh, healthy, and culturally of four with food for a week
to experience a childhood and have $100 assigns a young appropriate items where necessary.
access to the same opportunities as carer a one-on-one mentor/ Support this program to ensure Program partner:
their peers and we need your help to tutor based on shared
families do not go hungry. The Girls and Boys
interests, goals and location Brigade
make this a reality. Supporting: 200 people for 6 months
for an entire year
Supporting: 80 Young Carers through Place: Inner West, Randwick,
tutoring, mentoring and resources Program partner: City of Sydney
Place: City of Sydney Little Dreamers Australia
THE VILLAGE PANTRY
EDUCATION
Giving opportunity: Putting food Food security and CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: ONE DEVICE AT A TIME
on the table for those struggling on the job training Giving opportunity: Distribute Distributing
in Sydney's South-West. Refugee, skills development for refurbished laptops to people who refurbished laptops
asylum-seekers, single parents, those in need otherwise would not have access to to people who
elderly, people living with a disability
technology. Donations of unwanted otherwise would
or mental illness. Healthy meals
Donation Target laptops from individuals, businesses
and connection to further support, not have access to
education and a sense of belonging. $15,000 and Councils come through a number
of drop-off collection points. Each
technology
Supporting: 700 meals per week. In
A Gift of Just laptop is securely erased, new battery
2021, CSS Village Pantry supported Donation Target
installed, faults repaired, and the
25,000 vulnerable people with food. $1000 trains latest operating system installed. $15,000
Plus, Village Pantry also provides volunteers to prepare
healthy food parcels for Through a network of Caseworkers
supported job skills training for A Gift of Just
locals at at-risk youth outreach programs,
volunteers and is expanding its skills
for work with FoodLab.
refugee support groups, mental $100 covers the cost of a
Program partner: health recovery agencies and women's new hard drive and charger
Place: Bankstown, Belmore
Community Support refuges, working laptops reach people for a donated laptop
Services Inc. who need them most.
Supporting: Digitally connecting 100 Program partner:
The Reconnect Project
EARLY BIRD CAFE people in need
Place: Blacktown, Cumberland,
Giving opportunity: Early Bird Cafe is Fairfield, Liverpool
Breakfast for
a breakfast program for the homeless homeless and
and disadvantaged of Sydney. The
breakfast attracts people from all over
disadvantaged READING FOR LIFE
Sydneysiders
the city. Our volunteers offer a safe, Giving opportunity: Reading for Evidence based
non judgmental and smiling start to Life is an evidence-based program
Donation Target reading program
the day. We are a 100% volunteer run designed by a speech pathologist,
charity with no overhead costs for $10,000 teacher and psychologist. It helps
delivered by
our operation or projects. In addition community
A Gift of Just children with learning difficulties by
we provide toiletries, books, clothing, volunteers
training community volunteers to
blankets, sleeping bags, and anything $100 will provide for a work with selected children in schools.
else requested by our customers. breakfast for 80 people who
It improves their reading, self esteem Donation Target
Supporting: Hot breakfast is
provided each weekday morning
are hungry and homeless
and confidence. $17,500
Program partner: Supporting: 20 children in years 2-4
to over 100 customers who are struggling significantly with A Gift of Just
Place: Inner Sydney City Community Care Inc.
their reading will participate in a 15 $875 will fund one child's
week intervention program participation in the program
Place: South-West and Western
Sydney Program partner:
Learning Links
18 19RISE (RE-ENGAGEMENT INTO SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION) READY FOR SCHOOL, READY FOR LIFE
Giving opportunity: RISE supports Re-engaging Giving opportunity: Supporting at-risk Helping at-risk young
young people at-risk of becoming young people at young people the program seeks to people stay in school
disengaged, marginalised or risk in education reduce barriers to engaging and re- and training
missing out on education and engaging in education/training. The
and training
training. Group work sessions for success of the program is matching a
Donation Target
soft skills and life skills development, young person at-risk of dropping out of
individualised educational support,
Donation Target learning with a young case worker as $25,000
case management to identify learning $100,000 a positive adult role model and friend.
A Gift of Just
goals and barriers work together to The program empowers young people
increase young people's education A Gift of Just to improve their personal capabilities $100 will deliver 4 one-
and training success. Participating $1000 gives a and ability to respond to life’s stresses. on-one mentoring sessions
to at-risk young people in
in the program's group sessions disadvantaged young It promotes self protective behaviour in
the community
strengthens peer relationships, social- person access to vital young people's lives through creating
support from a Whitelion social bonds, gaining skills and
emotional competence and self- Program partner:
youth worker for up to three
regulation. months learning and community involvement. StreetWork Australia
Supporting: 12 -18 year olds Supporting: 150 young people Limited
experiencing high socio-economic Program partner: Place: North and North-West Sydney
disadvantage Whitelion Youth Agency
Place: Camden, Campbelltown Ltd
EVERYONE CAN READ
INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM
Giving opportunity: Literacy has Increase children's
Giving opportunity: A community Supporting young fallen behind since Covid-19 home- literacy for future
housing program for young community housing schooling. Anecdotal indicators show independence
adults who have transitioned a 2-year lag in literacy skills for primary and success
residents to live
to independent living and are students from disadvantaged homes.
independently and 42% of Australian adults do not have
pursuing higher education and Donation Target
pursue education and the functional literacy to manage
career pathways. The young people
live in apartments sourced by
career pathways their day-to-day affairs. Everyone $25,000
Stepping Stone House housing Can Read delivers up to 12 months
Donation Target A Gift of Just
partners. Acknowledging that young improvements over 18-weeks. Enhance
adulthood and independence can $25,000 students capability to learn across $100 will supply readers
be stressful and overwhelming, this the curriculum, build self-confidence, for one group of six students
program offers residents access to A Gift of Just self-esteem, success in education
and ensure lifelong opportunities Program partner:
a suite of developmental programs $100 will provide internet relating to employment and economic Bill Crews
and therapeutic care resources. access to one young person
Supporting: 10 young people pursuing higher education independence. Charitable Trust
Place: Canterbury-Bankstown, or career pathways for 5 Supporting: 30 students with low
Cumberland, Georges River, months literacy skills
Inner West Place: Marrickville, Inner West
Program partner:
Stepping Stone House
LEARN READY 'MOVE' PROGRAMS
PROJECT EDUCATE
Giving opportunity: One in eight Help young people
Giving opportunity: Alternative Re-engaging young young people in Northern Sydney stay in school and
education addressing the needs of people in education by aged 15-19 is not in education or progress their
young people experiencing mental removing barriers to employment, and early intervention
illness, complex disadvantage and education and
success for those struggling in education
work- life
who are disengaged from main is critical. Assist young people to
stream school. Re-engaging them transition from primary to secondary
Donation Target Donation Target
through tailored learning support school, particularly those who began
from a qualified teacher, paired $25,000 in these year groups during Covid-19. $50,000
with wrap-around support by a The program works with schools and
A Gift of Just
social worker to address their health, families to identify young people A Gift of Just
wellbeing, housing and welfare needs. $1000 will supply at-risk before they fully disengage, $1000 will help the
The approach recognises that young the curriculum learning offering flexible support for students team contact more schools
people will struggle to succeed in life materials for 10 young and identify at-risk kids
with a range of complex social and
if broader needs are not addressed. people for one term of
school
educational needs and aiming to
Outcomes include obtaining a inspire a life-long love of learning. Program partner:
ROSA, going on to further education, Supporting: 75 students transitioning Phoenix House Youth
Program partner:
increased confidence and resilience, from primary to high school at-risk of Services
Project Youth
employment and reconnection with leaving school
family. Place: North and North West Sydney
Supporting: 10 disengaged students
Place: Georges River
20 21THRIVE FOR BOYS FIRST NATIONS ENGAGEMENT PROJECT
Giving opportunity: With a strong Mentoring programs Giving opportunity: Champion Advance acceptance and
focus on teaching respect for self, for young boys Indigenous voices through community understanding of First
for others and especially for women, engagement, and increase Nations communities
this young boys program invites understanding of our First Nations through promoting
Donation Target
local police and community role communities and their needs, by funding
$15,000 connection and
models to deliver weekly sessions. a short term contract for a First Nations
partnerships
Throughout the year, boys are Engagement Officer. This role will
A Gift of Just
taught how to stay safe, avoid drug help build stronger, more connected
use, look after their health and $500 will provide communities, by promoting the cultural Donation Target
manage the many issues they face. learning resources for the
boys
skills and knowledge of Indigenous $25,000
The boys gain access to mentors people, forming vital partnerships and
and educators, as well as basketball delivering educational community A Gift of Just
Program partner:
courts to help develop their physical
Liverpool Neighbourhood
programs and networking event that $500 will supply 20 x
and numerical skills. advance diversity and inclusion. Parenting Packs for First
Connections Supporting: 25,000 person engagement
Supporting: 25 boys facing Nations Families
disadvantage Place: Bayside, Randwick, City of Sydney
Place: Warwick Farm, Liverpool Program partner:
South Eastern Community
Connect
OFF-SCREENS AND LEARNING CREATIVE CONNECTIONS
Giving opportunity: Getting young Reducing screen Giving opportunity: Weekly workshops Bringing creativity,
people off screens and re-engaged time and increasing for girls aged 11 to 17 living in refuges, hope and healing to
with their education. Led by a qualified engagement with out of home care, or youth justice. The girls living in refuges,
teacher, this program provides program brings a portable creative home care and Youth
education
educational support in subjects production studio to participants, using
Justice
across the school curriculum along digital media the girls are guided by
Donation Target artists to create their own songs, music
with fun 'inside technology' lessons,
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taking apart computers and discussing $20,000 and visual content. Creative challenges
social issues facing our ever connected
A Gift of Just
are fun and accessible and integrate $15,000
young people. creative, technical and personal skills
Supporting: 20 young people at-risk $100 gives a young development. Participants make A Gift of Just
with a focus on literacy, math skills, person access to a qualified critical social connections and enjoy $100 will supply
and alternative pathways to further tutor positive interaction with peers and a materials for 3 creative
education. new creative network. Visits are fun and workshops
Place: Belmore, Bankstown Program partner: uplifting, providing important respite
Community Support from stress. They reduce social isolation Program partner:
Services Inc. for very vulnerable children and youth. Heaps Decent
Supporting: Girls ages 11-17
Place: Campbelltown, Inner West,
INDIGENOUS
City of Sydney
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY INDIGENOUS FILMMAKER SCHOLARSHIPS REFUGEES & ASYLUM SEEKERS
Giving opportunity: A new 4 year Fund documentary
scholarship scheme to support
UKRAINIAN HELPING HAND PROJECT
production costs for
mid-career Indigenous filmmakers. Indigenous scholarship Giving opportunity: Fund crucial Immediate local
Recipients will complete a Macquarie recipients positions for those at the centre of assistance to newly
University Masters-by-Research degree the welcome effort for traumatised
in year one and a PhD in the following
arrived displaced
Donation Target displaced Ukrainian families arriving in Ukrainian families
three, during which they will produce a Sydney. Fund a Humanitarian Welcome
major work of documentary research, $10,000 Program Manager and two part-time
in either traditional documentary Donation Target
A Gift of Just case workers in Lidcombe (the heart
form or augmented/virtual reality of Sydney’s Ukrainian community) to $180,000
documentary form. Funds will go $1000 will cover travel collaborate with existing and emerging
towards the production costs for and interviews on Country A Gift of Just
services supporting those newly arrived
the films to be made by scholarship
recipients in the first year of the Program partner:
from the war-torn country. Currently $1000 will provide vital
there are no funded positions in any support from a caseworker
program. Documentary Australia other organisations and volunteers to one family
Supporting: 2 mid-career Indigenous Foundation need additional support as Sydney is
documentary filmmakers the most common destination due to Program partner:
Place: Greater Sydney the existing community infrastructure. Ukrainian Council of
Supporting: Women and families NSW & STARTTS
arriving from Ukraine to Sydney
Place: Greater Sydney (Lidcombe)
22 23EMERGENCY CASH ASSISTANCE FOR DISPLACED UKRAINIANS
Giving opportunity: Allocated on a Emergency Funds for
JOB READINESS & EMPLOYMENT
needs basis and prioritised for young Humanitarian arrivals
people arriving in Sydney on their in need from Ukraine
LEARN - GROW - THRIVE
own, cash assistance will be offered to Giving opportunity: Provide Job skills and training
provide immediate support and dignity young people with an employment for young people who
Donation Target
for Ukrainians who have fled the opportunity which will give them not
conflict. 786 Visas and rights have been $50,000 only a thorough introduction to the
are survivors of trauma
promised to arrivals by the Federal hospitality industry and workforce but
Government which will allow for access
A Gift of Just Donation Target
also positive personal development,
to Medicare and schooling. However $1000 will help arrivals education, training, support and $15,000
this will take time to affect and cash connect to the internet to mentorship. Help young people who
assistance is an important scaffold for stay informed and access A Gift of Just
are survivors of trauma to protect
Ukrainian arrivals until this time. services
against mental ill-health, believe $1000 will help develop
Supporting: Women and families in themselves, set goals and workshops and training
Program partner:
arriving from Ukraine to Sydney achieve their dreams.
Ukrainian Council
Place: Greater Sydney (Lidcombe) Supporting: 10 x 15–25 year olds who Program partner:
of NSW
are looking for an opportunity Things To Do With Kidz
to develop workplace skills and Charitable Foundation
positive self-development skills Ltd.
HOUSE TO HOME whilst earning money
Place: Northern Beaches
Giving opportunity: Meeting the acute Helping to remake
needs of refugees, asylum seekers, homes for refugees,
survivors of family violence and other
vulnerable members of the community.
asylum seekers and REDFERN TRAINING CAFE
domestic violence
This program provides free quality Giving opportunity: Provide support Upskill homeless and
victims
used furnishings and household goods and basic human needs to the in need people in the
sourced via collections and re-homing marginalised and disenfranchised
Donation Target food and beverage
agreements with councils across the members of society. The training industry
Sydney metropolitan area and through $35,000 cafe will help up-skill homeless and
customer donations. Beneficiaries less well-off people in the food and
are supported by partner agencies to A Gift of Just Donation Target
beverage industry, helping them have
secure safe accommodation where $500 will furnish a a better chance of finding permanent $50,000
they can rebuild their lives. household for 4 with future employment. The cafe will
Place: Greater Sydney quality pre-loved items and A Gift of Just
be used to prepare meals for the
appliances
Supporting: 700 individuals who are
refugees and asylum seekers
homeless, which will be $1000 will sponsor five
Program partner: distributed by vans. people with educational
Supporting: 10 people every courses to help re-enter the
Bower Reuse and Repair workforce
Centres 6 months
Place: Inner City
Program partner:
Will2Live
YOUTH SPACE - AFTER HOURS YOUTH PROGRAM
Giving opportunity: Engage refugee Wellbeing programs, PLATEITFORWARD'S EDUCATION AND TRAINING
and migrant young people of largely homework and Giving opportunity: A 26-week Kitchen training and
Iraqi, Syrian and Tamil backgrounds. employment paid kitchen training program employment in the
Offer twice weekly afternoon assistance for refugee teaching skills for a long-term PlateitForward social
homework assistance, Job Club
and migrant young career in hospitality for individuals
and psychosocial support activities Enterprise
people from marginalised communities -
including exercise, art classes, and
50% Indigenous. Upon graduation,
mental health literacy. Local volunteers Donation Target
Donation Target students gain further employment at
will act as role models, many of whom
are from Iraqi, Tamil and Syrian $35,000 PlateitForward's commercial restaurant $25,000
and catering company, serving
communities born in Australia or who A Gift of Just
A Gift of Just restaurant-quality meals for corporate,
arrived when they were very young.
The volunteers will assist in program $500 will provide a
private and community events. $1000 will facilitate
Graduates also become community nearly 40 hours of training
delivery and also provide participants year of access to sporting for one student
role models, facilitating connection
with linguistically and culturally activities, wellbeing
programs, homework and and food security within their own
appropriate assistance. Program partner:
employment assistance for communities. The 2022 program will
Supporting: 40 students per year PlateitForward Limited
one person take place in a new commercial kitchen
Place: Cumberland, Fairfield
space at Harbourside, Darling Harbour.
Program partner: Supporting: Educate, train and
STARTTS - NSW Service employ individuals from marginalised
for the Treatment communities, typically excluded from
the workforce
Place: Inner West, City of Sydney
24 25DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & CRISIS GROUNDED WOMEN INITIATIVE
Giving opportunity: Building the Building capability and
capacity of CALD women in the community resilience
RESETTING LIVES community to support, respond to support domestic
Giving opportunity: One in four and network with women who have violence victims
Mentoring to support
women in Australia has been assaulted experienced domestic violence. The
women escaping
by their partner, and abuse often initiative will deliver four rotations Donation Target
domestic violence of a four-week program made up
begins in childhood, with one in six
women being physically or sexually of three sessions of education and $24,635
Donation Target social activities, and one session of
abused before age 15. Support the A Gift of Just
implementation of a mentor program, $25,000 art therapy. A full day conference
$500 will contribute to 5
delivered face-to-face or online, to offer twice in the cycle of the program to
A Gift of Just celebrate participants and increase women acquiring the skills
victims non-judgemental guidance and tools necessary to build
and understanding. Group and peer- $100 will match a mentor social connectivity and cohesion. The
project will also support individual
resilience and work through
to-peer mentoring provides the safety and mentee trauma
to build support networks and a sense women who approach Exodus for
of belonging - matching 'survivors' to Program partner: case management or counselling on Program partner:
Women's Resilience Centre a needs basis. Exodus Youth Worx
'thrivers' to foster long-term recovery.
Supporting: 60 women domestic
Supporting: 90 women who are violence victims
victims of domestic violence Place: Bayside, Georges River
Place: Greater Sydney
AWARE ARC: ANIMAL AWARE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
RE:LOVE - CREATING HOMES WITH KINDNESS Giving opportunity: Improve the Bringing together
capacity of family violence and animal domestic violence
Giving opportunity: Help women and Creating homes for services workers to support victims of
children in crisis to relocate to safe women and children and animal protection
domestic violence and their pets. The
homes by providing quality rescued who have fled program brings together frontline services to protect
furniture, white goods, homewares, violence workers across disciplines to share women and their pets
technology and a start-up pantry - with local referral pathways, resources, in domestic violence
no cost or delay. The program provides common barriers and relevant laws. situations
Donation Target By increasing awareness of the
dignity of choice by allowing women to
choose their furniture and household $25,000 signs of animal abuse and domestic
violence, frontline workers will be Donation Target
goods so they can feel they are making
a home, rather than a roof over their A Gift of Just better equipped to help women $25,000
experiencing domestic violence make
head. Finding a place to call home is $500 will provide a safety plan for themselves and their A Gift of Just
the first step in rebuilding safe futures. delivery of essential pets.
Supporting: 250 women and children household furniture, home Supporting: Women and their pets $100 trains a frontline
at no cost and with no delay, allowing set up and essential new who are victims of domestic violence. worker to respond to women
families to rest their heads safely in items such as a pantry Place: Blacktown, Blue Mountains, and children and their pets
starter pack
their first night in their new home Hawkesbury, Hornsby, Parramatta, Penrith,
The Hills Shire Program partner:
Place: Greater Sydney
Program partner: Lucy's Project Incorporated
The Run For Good Project HOPE & HEAL RETREATS
Giving opportunity: Support 3 retreats Retreats to heal
STRONGER SUPPORT FOR DOMESTIC & FAMILY VIOLENCE carefully developed in consultation women survivors of
with DV survivors and health/ domestic violence
Giving opportunity: Provide holistic wellbeing experts to meet increased
Free legal and non-legal
demand. Equip women with tools
legal and non-legal support for support for women who Donation Target
vulnerable women facing domestic & to overcome the enduring effects of
family violence. The service offers free,
are fleeing domestic trauma. Retreats offer education on $20,000
violence PTSD, The Window of Tolerance, safe
timely support across compounding A Gift of Just
legal and tenancy matters. Multi-tiered boundaries, trauma sensitive yoga,
support offers safety, peace of mind
Donation Target mindfulness techniques, meditation $20 provides a remedial
and avoids re-traumatising clients who $25,000 and breath-work training. Education healing massage for one
woman
would otherwise have to repeat their on stress trauma and group work,
matter to multiple service providers. A Gift of Just trauma sensitive massage techniques,
Program partner:
This critical socio-legal service requires $125 will send a social journaling and art therapy, financial
training and nutritious food. Help
Hope and Heal Retreats
a Domestic Violence Program Officer, worker to support a
to ensure clients have direct access to vulnerable woman at the women take charge of their wellbeing,
immediate support when in crisis. police station and allow them to feel safe and enable
Supporting: 114 women who are their economic and social participation.
victims of domestic violence. Program partner: Supporting: 45 survivors of domestic
Place: Bayside, Burwood, Canada Bay, Marrickville Legal Centre violence.
Canterbury-Bankstown, Georges River, Place: Blacktown, Campbelltown,
Inner West, Strathfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, Central Coast,
Sutherland Shire Inner West, Liverpool, Randwick,
(City of) Sydney, Waverley.
26 27SYDNEY YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAM CREATIVE SPACE
Giving opportunity: Support a Mentoring to support Giving opportunity: Creative Space Creative therapy for
mentoring program focused on young women who are offers a therapeutic safe place for women impacted by
young women who have experienced victims of domestic women who have been impacted by domestic violence,
domestic violence. Designed in violence domestic violence, sexual assault and sexual assault and
response to overbearing demand in homelessness. Women are invited
homelessness
Western Sydney and in consultation to "drop in" for 2 hours each week
Donation Target
with local communities, the early during the school term. Bonnie's
intervention program offers young $25,000 partners with Rosebank Child Sexual Donation Target
women one-on-one and group
A Gift of Just
Abuse Service to co-facilitate the $12,000
mentoring sessions. By supporting group and provide specialised trauma
the young person, we will also support $1000 provides group informed support. Creative activities A Gift of Just
their caregivers and communities on training for mentors to learn
skills to support a vulnerable
are provided in consultation with $100 will supply class
the road to healing. participants to encourage ownership materials
young person
Supporting: 100 young women who and choice.
are victims of domestic violence. Supporting: 20 women who are Program partner:
Program partner:
Place: Blacktown, Hornsby, Parramatta. victims of domestic violence, sexual Bonnie Support Services
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Penrith. assault or who are homeless. Ltd
Australia
Place: Greater Sydney
HEART & SOUL CARE DV HEALING RETREATS
PLATFORM NINE HOUSE
Giving opportunity: Fund domestic Creating homes for
violence healing retreats held at women and children Giving opportunity: Help Platform Provide refugee for
Heart & Soul Retreat centre in Otford, Nine provide crisis accommodation women and children
who have fled
situated on 20 acres at the foot of to women and women with children fleeing violence
violence impacted by domestic violence and or
the Royal National Park. A place
where clients can find peace of mind, homelessness across two properties
Donation Target Donation Target
heal and recover, awakening the in South East Sydney, providing
authentic self and find the courage $10,000 accommodation for up to 36 people at $18,000
and confidence to begin again. Our a time. The program provides intensive
A Gift of Just A Gift of Just
team of volunteer professionals provide case management, referrals and
a holistic mind/body/soul approach, $500 will fund one tenancy facilitation to support women $40 can house a family
building self confidence, offering new women to attend the retreat to find longer term housing solutions of four for one night
skills, and introducing a holistic healthy with suitable wrap-around services to
Program partner: ensure they are being well supported Program partner:
lifestyle including meditation and yoga.
CFL Welfare TA Heart & in the community as they begin to live Kingsway Community
A community of women is built who
Soul Care independently. Care
support each other in their healing
journey. Supporting: 70 women and children
Supporting: 20 women to attend the seeking refuge from violence.
retreat Place: Georges River, Sutherland Shire.
Place: Blue Mountains, Sutherland
Shire, Wollongong
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BROKERAGE
SEED PROGRAM Giving opportunity: A woman who Emergency funds for
has been abused will attempt to women fleeing violence
Giving opportunity: Support the Support for children leave her abuser seven to eight times
social, emotional, educational and and young people and before leaving for good, according
developmental needs of children and Donation Target
their families who have to NSW Communities and Justice
young people and their carers who experienced trauma data. The Australian Council of Trade $20,000
have experienced trauma or violence.
and violence Unions has found it takes the average
A Gift of Just
This program provides enriching victim $18,000 and 141 hours to
activities that address the impact of
Donation Target extricate themselves from an abusive $250 will provide a
adverse childhood experiences, giving relationship. The Domestic Violence moving truck for relocation
kids the tools they need for a positive $25,000 Brokerage program provides financial of a family escaping
and safe life trajectory. Interventions support when women need it most.
domestic violence
include: parenting support education, A Gift of Just
Emergency funds for domestic
individual and family therapeutic $100 gives a teenager violence victims from St George and
Program partner:
The Family Co.
sessions with an in-house clinical three personal tutoring the Sutherland Shire help women
psychologist, and a school holiday sessions to help them keep
leave, protecting them from harm and
program. up at school
supporting them back into a stable
Supporting: 350 children and young and safe environment.
people and their families Program partner:
Women's and Girls' Supporting: 100 women
Place: Burwood, Inner West Place: St George, Sutherland Shire
Emergency Centre
(WAGEC) Centre
28 29CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOPS SAFETY AND HEALING
Giving opportunity: Support Workshops to support Giving opportunity: Support women Case management,
the delivery of two Living With survivors of child in the Sutherland Shire currently counselling and
Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) sexual abuse experiencing or who have been assistance for
Recovery Workshops in 2022. The victims of domestic violence. Provide domestic violence
workshops are supportive and free confidential case management
Donation Target victims in Sutherland
educational sessions addressing the and counselling, support to develop a
practical, emotional and therapeutic $14,892 safety plan, assistance with housing,
Shire
needs of CSA survivors and the help with Centrelink and other agency
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associated trauma. An improved forms, connection with support
service model will see workshop $100 helps survivors services including Drug and Alcohol, $20,000
delivery face-to-face and online to of childhood sexual abuse groups for example. Sessions are not
provide unlimited geographical attend life-changing capped, women can access help for A Gift of Just
workshops to enable them
reach. Delivered over an eight-week to unravel the effects of as long as they need during their $44 will fund an hour
period by facilitators specialising in trauma recovery journey. Working from a of one-on-one case
CSA case management and trauma. trauma informed, client focused management
Supporting: 12 young people Program partner: perspective, enabling the women to
Place: Greater Sydney Stepping Out Program begin to rebuild their lives. Program partner:
Inc. Supporting: 25 women who are Orana NSW Inc.
victims of domestic violence
BUILDING BLOCKS WORKSHOPS Place: Sutherland Shire
Giving opportunity: Empower Support workshops
domestic abuse survivors with for women escaping SAFE BABIES, STRONG FAMILIES - COVID-19 CRISIS SUPPORT
motivation, knowledge as well as domestic violence
practical life skills to become self- Giving opportunity: Covid-19 has Supply essentials for
sufficient, financially stable and disproportionately impacted families babies and children
Donation Target who were already experiencing
connected with their community. in families struggling
Through two series of workshops, $15,000 financial hardship. Support 100 under Covid-19
women are supported to work families, many of whom are escaping
A Gift of Just pressure
through the trauma they have domestic violence, living with mental
experienced, and build strength $100 will pay for one health diagnoses, experiencing
Donation Target
and self-confidence. The second women to learn the tools to homelessness, are newly arrived
workshop program works with move through the grief of a refugees and single mothers. Provide $25,000
women to identify goals for healthy domestic violence situation new essential items; cots, carseats,
and prams, as well as pre-loved A Gift of Just
living including a strong emphasis
on self-care.
Program partner:
Community Northern
clothing, toys and linen. Ensure babies $100 will buy a new,
Supporting: 50 domestic violence and children are safe when they are ACCC approved bassinet
Beaches (CNB) sleeping, travelling and playing. to provide a safe sleeping
survivors
Supporting: 100 families over 12 space for a vulnerable
Place: Manly newborn baby
months
Place: Greater Sydney Program partner:
MARY'S HOUSE REFUGE Dandelion Support
Giving opportunity: Be part of a Network Inc.
Offer respite for women
community response to domestic and children when
violence, help to reduce risk of harm
and save lives. This refuge supports up
they are at their most SISTER 2 SISTER - YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAM
vulnerable
to five families from all denominations Giving opportunity: Sister 2 Sister A 'Sister to Sister'
at a time, providing safety, a sense is an 8-month 'Big Sister, Little mentoring program
Donation Target Sister' program providing structured
of belonging and respite when for girls facing socio-
clients are at their most vulnerable. $25,000 mentoring, psychoeducational economic disadvantage
Beyond the essentials of safety, the workshops and activities to vulnerable
A Gift of Just or disadvantaged teenage girls aged
case management provided really
Donation Target
helps women get back on their feet. $125 will provide a baby from 12 to 18. Funds will employ a
Qualified women social workers with nappies, clean clothes professional Welfare Officer to ensure $25,000
tailor plans to clients in line with each and food program success and provide ongoing
A Gift of Just
woman's goals and needs. guidance and supervision to the Big
Supporting: 10 women and children Program partner:
Mary's House Refuge
Sister mentors, through training, $1000 will fund two 'Little
Place: North Sydney and accepting regular meetings, and individual Sisters' to attend a three day
women and children from across support. residential bootcamp with their
Sydney and NSW Supporting: 70 teenage girls 'Big Sister'
Place: Greater Sydney
Program partner:
Life Changing Experiences
Foundation Ltd
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