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Be Kind Sydney Appeal 2021 INSPIRING YOUR GIVING Initiatives of the Sydney Community Foundation
Contents
3 Place-Based Philanthropy Program Map
5 Message from CEO
6 Impact Areas
7 Grassroots Giving Goes Further
8 Trusted Experts
10 Multi-year Place-Based Programs
11 Impact
12 Sydney Women's Fund Priority Projects 2021
23 Be Kind Sydney Priority Projects 2021
32 Supporters
33 Thank you to our donors
34 Sponsorship opportunities
35 How you can get involved
We are a proud supporter of the United Nations
sustainable development goals, a global collaboration
and universal plan to achieve a better and more
sustainable future for all.
Our work focuses on goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 11.
Image acknowledgements
With many thanks to our community partners for photos supplied and included in this document.
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Geographic &
Gender Lens Place-Based
Giving Philanthropy
New South Wales
Baulkham Hills
Est.2017
Greater Sydney North Sydney
Ryde
Mt Druitt Parramatta Est. 2017
Est.2017
Fairfield Redfern
Fairfield
Greater Warwick
Inner West
Sydney Liverpool Bankstown Sydney Airport
Est. 2017
Western Sydney
Hurstville
Est. 2017
Claymore South West
Est.2016
Campbelltown
Sydney
HUBS & GRANTS MAP
Place-Based program hubs
- Liverpool Hub
- Campbelltown Hub
- Fairfield Hub
- Bankstown Hub
- Inner West Hub
- South West Sydney Hub
- North Sydney Hub
Flagged suburbs represent grassroots charity partners
we're supporting across Greater Sydney
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“Revolutions never start at the top.
If we dare to dream of a more loving
country - kinder, more compassionate, more
cooperative, more respectful, more inclusive,
more egalitarian, more harmonious, less
cynical - there's only one way to start turning
that dream into a reality:
each of us must live as if this is already that
country."
Hugh McKay AO, Author, The Kindness Revolution
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Building
stronger Giving
Sydney Together
communities
Last year was the first time many of us living in Sydney had experienced a OUR LEADERS
threat to our wellbeing and mental health. We felt the vulnerability, fear and
lack of choice that many who struggle in our city feel every day. Patron
Sydney Community Foundation
As we live with unpredictable events, Be Kind Sydney is calling on you to help
Her Excellency the Honourable
build a stronger more inclusive Sydney by connecting funds to people living
with uncertainty, fear and loss of hope. Margaret Beazley AC QC
Governor of New South Wales
Be Kind Sydney’s Annual Appeal is building a community of kind and
compassionate people, bringing their giving together to support programs Vice Patron
supporting people of all ages and backgrounds having a tough time in local Sydney Community Foundation
communities across Sydney.
Rosalind Strong AM
The Be Kind Sydney Covid Appeal was launched last year as Sydney locked
down to assist us in funding Sydney Women's Fund projects. Be Kind Sydney Directors
and Sydney Women's Fund are both initiatives of Sydney Community Sydney Community Foundation
Foundation. Women and families remain most impacted by the pandemic, Michael Lynch AO CBE, Chair
especially those women who are already vulnerable. While about a third of Georgina Byron AM, Deputy Chair
programs stopped for a period, most of our wonderful program partners Larissa Behrendt AO
reset and continued providing assistance with food security, shelter, safety Benedicte Colin
from financial and family abuse. With our generous donor support, services Corinne Kemp
delivered food, counselling, education programs for children, young people Sophie McCarthy
and women giving hope of better times ahead.
Elizabeth O'Brien
Wayne Stokes
By late last year, with the generous support of our donor community, including
major donors to Be Kind Sydney and Sydney Women’s Fund raised just
short of one million dollars for programs supporting women and families , Directors
community groups and men and boys isolated by the pandemic. We know Be Kind Sydney
grassroots giving goes further (page 7). Michael Lynch AO CBE, Chair
Lucinda Brogden AM
Community need continues and we are again asking for your generosity to Benedicte Colin
support the most vulnerable among us. Elizabeth O'Brien
Wayne Stokes
On behalf of the boards of directors, I sincerely thank all our philanthropic
donors including The Snow Foundation, Ecstra Foundation, Melbourne’s
Patrons
Portland House Foundation, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund and Bennelong
Foundation, fund holders with Australian Philanthropic Services, and our Sydney Women’s Fund
Sydney Community Foundation fund holders who gave to the appeal. Wendy McCarthy AO
Lucinda Brogden AM
Please give generously to these much-needed place-based programs and
services that change lives one by one across Greater Sydney, enabling people Advisory Council
to build their own strong family and community life and to be part of a kinder, Sydney Women’s Fund
more inclusive Sydney.
Georgina Byron AM, Chair
Lucinda Brogden AM, Patron
Benedicte Colin
Clare Ainsworth-Herschell
Niki Kesoglou
Sophie McCarthy
Genevieve Smart
JANE JOSE MICHAEL LYNCH AO CBE William Smart
Nicola Verco
Chief Executive Chair
Deanne Weir
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Impact areas
Creates opportunities and equity Builds stronger communities and
for women and girls alleviates poverty
Education & Employment Job Readiness & Employment
• Supported learning • Job readiness & mentoring
• Employment and academic scholarships • Schools programs
• Job skills training & mentoring • Participation, belonging &
independence
Financial Skills & Enterprise Education
• Financial literacy • Re-skilling
• Microbusiness incubators • Youth at-risk alternative learning &
• Advocacy & research job pathways
• Social enterprise
Domestic Violence & Crisis
• Safety from family abuse Mental Health
• Emergency shelters • Programs to support & build
wellbeing resilience and belonging
• Basic needs of young mothers and
families
• Community drop-in centres
People supported:
• Youth at-risk • Families in need
• Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders • Older Australians
• Refugee & humanitarian migrants • LGBTQIA
• Asylum seekers • People living with a disability
• CALD communities • Young mum's and carers
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Grassroots giving
goes further
Local solutions to local problems $10million in donations, to 350+ non-profits in the
last decade. And when you give to local charities
Each year Sydney Women’s Fund and Be Kind with low overheads, your dollar goes further. For
Sydney co-designs and funds programs that support example, what started with donations to buy a coffee
locals in need. machine, has grown to fund seven profit-for-purpose
businesses and pay more than $145,400 in wages
As specialists in small, frontline programs, we annually while women gain a TAFE qualification and
undertake extensive due diligence before partnering job skills. The COVID restrictions have made our job
with local non-profits or making donations on your more important than ever.
behalf.
Our programs for women and families support the
Sydney’s community foundation
most vulnerable - programs for young mothers, Underpinning the work of Sydney Women’s Fund
older women, domestic violence survivors, and Be Kind Sydney is the Sydney Community
Indigenous people, migrants and asylum seekers. Foundation.
We support programs that teach boys to grow into
kind, strong men, strengthen mental health and Started in 2004, with support from the City
emotional resilience, provide food and shelter, and of Sydney, the Myer Foundation and NSW
much, much more. Government, it is the city’s only independent public
foundation. Sydney Community Foundation enables
We operate in Sydney’s most disadvantaged easy, effective giving on behalf of companies,
geographies. Our local partners often do not have families, and like-minded groups of people that want
the resources to promote their work, fundraise, to donate to grassroots non-profits and a pathway
advocate to government, or access experts. Instead, out of poverty and intergenerational welfare.
they rely on us, and our donors, for support.
There are more than 40 families and groups that
We are the bridge between corporate, family have set up planned giving funds within the
and individual donors and little known but highly foundation’s corporate structure. They rely on our
effective grassroots programs. Together, we deep local knowledge, due diligence on non-profit
have connected 3,000+ donors, and more than projects to fund, administration and compliance.
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Trusted experts
Why support us
With more than a decade’s experience in grassroots Our operations are funded through philanthropic
giving, we are trusted by many of Australia’s giving and sponsorships and we are governed by a
established and most respected private family board of eminent, independent directors. All entities
foundations, community leaders and businesses. report to the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits
Commission.
• Evidence-based approach
with targeted research and A small experienced team at Be Kind Sydney
measurable outcomes (which provides operations for Sydney Community
foundation and Sydney Women's Fund) are
• Extensive local knowledge and
supplemented with significant expert volunteer
relationships
support in business management, finance and
• Every dollar you donate is used for marketing.
program delivery in local
communities • Investment funds are managed
by JBWERE and we are independently
• Flexible, efficient giving options audited by HLB Mann Judd
for businesses, foundations and
individuals • Be Kind Sydney is a DGR1 Charity
• Low overheads and direct funding • Sydney Community Foundation is a Not
means sponsor's and supporter's for Profit Foundation (DGR2)
donations go further • Sydney Women's Fund (DGR2) is a fund
• Responsible, experienced guidance of the Sydney Community Foundation
on how to effectively invest in local
community programs
• Clear, compliant grant acquittal
and reporting
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Major donors
Partners
and sponsors
THE
SNOW
FOUNDATION
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Multi-year place-based projects
Where the need is greatest
Together with a network of grassroots charity
partners, Sydney Women's Fund and Be Kind
Sydney have co-designed and established seven
hubs in geographic areas of acute disadvantage
where we support innovative multi-year programs,
with sustainable funding.
Our
Place-based
• Liverpool Hub
hub program is
• Bankstown Hub built on community
• Fairfield Hub engagement
• Campbelltown Hub
• Inner West Hub
• South West Hub
• North Sydney Hub
“The partnership we have formed with
the Sydney Community Foundation and
their donors has empowered women,
fostered community engagement and
created community leaders."
Pat Hall, CEO, Liverpool Neighbourhood
Connections
10 10Impact
In the 2019-20 financial year $1.3 million
in combined donations to Sydney
Women's Fund, Be Kind Sydney and
Sydney Community Foundation, went to
programs delivered by our local partners
with measurable results.
Our impact
335 vulnerable people supported to employment
500+ disadvantaged women given opportunities to
learn and pathways to employment
$145,000 wages paid by social enterprises
5,000 hours paid employment through earn
and learn social enterprise projects
500+ refugee and asylum seekers provided
with tailored support
10,000 young people engaged via education,
mentors, mental health and care
26 scholarships awarded to people in need
(10 indigenous recipients)
51 schools supported with community programs for
students in need
65 marginalised women launched 18 small businesses
over 25,000 food parcels/meals made available to families,
school students and bush fire victims
in children participating in programs
improved resilience (Save the Children accredited)
11Inspiring your
giving
Sydney Women's Fund - 2021 Projects Fundraising Target
$575,525
Employment (p. 14 - 16)
q Access to the Future $ 27,500
q Virtual Career Support $ 27,500
q Women's Housing Employment Hub $ 11,000
q Social Enterprise Employment Scholarships $ 34,900
q Women in Work $ 25,000
q Refugee Retail Training Scholarship $ 33,000
q Women in Work - Over 55's $ 11,000
q Women's Sewing Circle $ 8,250
q Stepping into Independence $ 27,500
q iWorx Job Pathways for CALD Women $ 19,800
q Multicultural Young Women's Employment $ 11,000
Education (p. 17)
q Sydney Women's Fund Future Changemaker Scholarships $ 11,000
q Strive for Girls $ 33,000
q Laptops for Learning $ 16,500
Enterprise (p. 18)
q Girls in Business $ 27,225
q Women's Business Incubator "The Rising Collective" $ 11,000
q Women in Business $ 5,500
Financial Capability (p. 19)
q MoneyGirl $ 3,850
q Women's Work Community Webinar $ 50000
q Women's Work - Schools Wellbeing $ 25,000
Safety and Independence (p. 20 - 22)
q Young Warrior Woman $ 13,000
q Early Years for Young Mum's $ 22,000
q Strong Mothers $ 16,500
q Dandelion Care for Bubs $ 11,000
q Women: Choice and Change $ 22,700
q Hope and Heal Retreat $ 13,200
q Legal Advice for Reugee Women and Girls $ 11,000
q Asylum Seekers Safety and Independence $ 3,600
q My Story Vignette $ 11,500
q Music Therapy Rehabilitation $ 26,000
q Women's Coffee Club $ 5,500
12Message to our
donors
In 2021, we are increasing our focus on Women’s Work was a response to our 2018, Sydney
addressing women's financial vulnerability Women's Fund Portrait III Research: Hopes Dreams
and pathways to employment to ensure their and Fears of Sydney Women which painted a vivid
financial independence, and their safety. picture of women's financial vulnerability.
With NSW Government funding, Sydney Women's Key findings in this research, designed by Sydney
Fund has created a compelling mini documentary Women's Fund with leading social researcher Dr
series, 'Women's Work', you can watch now at: Rebecca Huntley, include:
www.womenswork.org.au
• 48% of women in paid work earn less than
Women's Work launched on International $34,000 p.a
Women's Day demonstrates the unequal financial • 54% of women are in paid work, only 30% work
challenges women face throughout their life full-time
and their higher risk of financial vulnerability. It • Only 11% are sure they’ll have enough to retire
encourages women to explore their relationship
with managing money as an important aspect of
• 32% say if their relationship broke down, they
building financial security over a lifetime. would be at risk financially
In this years Inspiring Your Giving Appeal, our Please enjoy the rich diversity of programs
partner programs have a more dedicated focus responding to the needs of women and families
on assisting women to build confidence and take across Greater Sydney. We thank our charity partners
steps towards stronger financial wellbeing. Many for the work they do strengthening women's lives
programs will help those in need into work. and community. And a huge thank you to our
generous donors whose support enables this vital,
The first step to financial independence is secure kind work.
employment and we work with local grassroots
charities providing supported learning and job
skills opportunities. This includes the provision
of childcare, case work, referrals to specialists
for targeted mental health care, navigating the
Australian recruitment process, and building a GEORGINA BYRON AM
healthy relationship with managing money. Chair, Sydney Women's Fund Advisory Council
13Supported job
skills training
Employment
Access to the Future - Inner West, Inner Sydney, Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: Women's economic Employment and
safety and independence through tailored Education pathways
support and access to education and
training pathways for women impacted by for women in need
homelessness, family violence, and social
disadvantage. Building on women's strengths Donation Target
with one-on-one mentoring and training to
build confidence and financial independence. $27,500
Supporting: 100 women experiencing A Gift of Just
disadvantage living in Sydney typically
aged 18 – 65 (average participant age is $500 will fund a woman
currently 42 yrs). to attend public speaking
training in preparation for
Place: Inner West, Inner Sydney, Greater Sydney interviews and work
Program partner: Women's and Girls'
Emergency Centre (WAGEC)
Virtual Career Support: Digital Portal - Greater Sydney, NSW
Giving opportunity: Enabling women of Scaling online career
all ages from across Australia to access a support for women in
holistic range of career support services
remotely, 24/7. Access to training, resume need so she can get
reviews by HR specialists, mock interviews, the job
one-to-one coaching, virtual styling and
clothing for work.
Donation Target
Supporting: 3500 women - from girls in low
socioeconomic families, to women over 60 at $27,500
risk of living in poverty. Instilling confidence,
restoring dignity and building resilience to A Gift of Just
enable more women to start their future sooner. $350 helps a woman
from hardship to financial
Place: Marrickville to Greater Sydney, NSW,
and capacity for national reach stability with career support
Program partner: Dress for Success so she can secure a job
Women's Housing Employment Hub - Woolloomooloo, Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: Enabling Women's Education and
Housing Company tenants and support employment pathways
clients of all ages and multicultural
backgrounds access to training for women's housing co.
and support so they can embark on tenants and clients
employment pathways, to achieve their
goals. WHC has 1,000 properties across 29
Local Government Areas providing housing Donation Target
and support to single women, and women
with children at risk of homelessness. $11,000
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 442 multicultural women and
residents of Women's Housing Company $100 will provide peer
aged between 17-65. support for five women to
get back on their feet and
Place: Woolloomooloo, Greater Sydney into work
14 Program partner: Women's Housing Co.Social Enterprise Employment Scholarships - Warwick Farm
Giving opportunity: LNC currently runs Employment and
7 social enterprises and through these job training for
provide job skills and paid employment to
sole parents, multicultural women from disadvantaged
disadvantaged backgrounds. Alleviating women
financial stress for their families, the
women take great joy and pride in the role
model they become for their children. Donation Target
Supporting: 11 women and 2 men with $34,900
access to approx 6,200 hours of paid
A Gift of Just
employment via the social enterprises.
$200 will employ a
Place: Liverpool, Warwick Farm woman for a week
Program partner: Liverpool Neighbourhood
Connections
Women in Work: Employment Scholarships - Bankstown
Giving opportunity: CSS Village is a Return to work
platform for social cohesion helping employment
vulnerable individuals from low socio-
economic backgrounds, particularly for and training for
those from CALD nationalities. Providing disadvantaged women
on the job training, CSS Village assists
women in need with paid employment
opportunities. Donation Target
Supporting: 3 women with secure paid $25,000
employment learning practical skills for
A Gift of Just
work including administrative support,
book-keeping, volunteer coordination and
customer service.
$180 will employ a
woman for a week
Place: Bankstown, Belmore
Program partner: Community Support
Services Inc (CSS Village)
Refugee Retail Training Scholarships - Newtown, Western Sydney
Giving opportunity: Retail training and job Paid retail training
readiness program for young women from scholarship for
refugee, asylum seeker and humanitarian
backgrounds. Reaching women who are refugee and asylum
experiencing severe disadvantage, falling seeker women
through the gaps without support from
other sources. After graduating young
women are supported to transition into Donation Target
ongoing employment.
$33,000
Supporting: 12 young women per year,
A Gift of Just
typically aged 18-29 from refugee,
asylum seeker or humanitarian migrant
backgrounds.
$750 will fund mentoring
and pre-employment training
for young refugee women in
Place: Newtown to Western Sydney her first Australian job
Program partner: The Social Outfit
Women in Work: Over 55s - Bankstown
Giving opportunity: Providing skills and Return to work job
training for work to women over 55 who skills and future
due to culture, language or age have not
been able to return to work. Building career expansion for
on their strengths, the women gain vulnerable women
administration and computer skills and
bring a strong sense of belonging to CSS.
Donation Target
Supporting: 10 women with up to 15 hours
per week supported job skills training $11,000
and mentoring for future employment
A Gift of Just
pathways.
$100 will provide women
Place: Bankstown, Belmore with a Tech Savvy skills
Program partner: Community Support training to stay relevant in
Services Inc (CSS Village) the job market
15Women's Sewing Circle - Bankstown
Giving opportunity: Sewing skills to Practical sewing
offer refugees, single mums, struggling skills for work or sole
families with a way to generate income
and financially support themselves and trading for vulnerable
their families. Providing social contact and women
valuable skills to improve daily life.
Supporting: 15 women sewing lessons with Donation Target
a passionate designer from beginner to
advanced. Plus the purchase of a printing $8,250
machine for products to develop into a new
A Gift of Just
social enterprise.
$500 will provide a
Place: Bankstown woman the opportunity to
Program partner: Community Support start her own alterations
Services Inc (CSS Village) business from home
Stepping into Independence - Inner West
Giving opportunity: To accommodate Independent Living
and support young women at risk of Program for young
homelessness pursue employment and
higher education pathways that allows women experiencing
them to gain independence, build homelessness
respectful relationships and maximise their
potential in a safe environment. Without
access to mainstream youth services, they Donation Target
require significant support to achieve
sustainable wellbeing outcomes. $27,500
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 15 young women at risk of
homelessness in the Independent Living
Program
$100 will provide internet
access to one young woman
pursuing higher education or
Place: Inner West career pathways for 5 months
Program partner: Stepping Stone House
iWorx Job Pathways for CALD Women - Rockdale
Giving opportunity: A tailored 6 month Meeting the gap in
employment training program for young employment support
women from CALD backgrounds. A
virtual webinar on financial capability for women from CALD
will strengthen knowledge, skills and backgrounds
confidence around managing their money.
Plus, the 6 month iWorx program to access
education and employment through Donation Target
individual pathway plans, with counselling
and case management. $19,800
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 8 women with individual
case management plans focusing on
employment and education pathways.
$100 will provide 8
women with transport
support to travel to and from
Place: Rockdale the project that are facing
Program partner: Exodus Youth Worx financial difficulty
Multicultural Young Women's Employment - Brighton, Sutherland
Giving opportunity: To train and provide Multicultural young
employment opportunities for young
women from disadvantaged backgrounds women's employment
so they are job ready and empowered to gain and social enterprise
financial independence. Training in small marketplace training
business development, entrepreneurship
and leadership and starting a social
enterprise “Young Women’s Marketplace”. Donation Target
Supporting: 30 to 40 young women from $11,000
Aboriginal, CALD (including newly arrived
immigrants and refugees), LGBTQI, and A Gift of Just
those with a disability. $100 will provide a
mentor for the project for
Place: Brighton and Sutherland 3 hours
Program partner: 2Connect Youth and
16 CommunitySupported
learning
Education
Sydney Women's Fund Future Changemaker Scholarships
Giving opportunity: Scholarships for girls Scholarships for
identified by their teachers and school disadvantaged girls
Principal as having academic potential
but because of their disadvantage, cannot with high academic
afford the support that would help them potential
reach their full capability.
Supporting: 10 girls from across Sydney. Donation Target
These girls are typically refugees or live in
out of home care, or are from Aboriginal $11,000
and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds,
A Gift of Just
or live in poverty often due to domestic
violence and family breakdown. $1,000 will pay for
high speed internet and PC
Place: Greater Sydney support for 12 months for a girl
Program partner: Harding Miller
Education Foundation
Strive for Girls - Warwick Farm, Liverpool
Giving opportunity: A 40 week program Safe space for
supporting vulnerable girls transitioning to vulnerable girls to
high school, building their confidence and
belief they can have a better future. How to finish school and
deal with issues and make the right choices build skills for future
that they may be faced with such as sexual
health, anti bullying, drug use.
Donation Target
Supporting: 15 girls to attend the ten
week course. Providing a safe space, and $33,000
education on respectful relationships,
A Gift of Just
confidence and belief in their future.
$100 will supply
Place: Liverpool, Warwick Farm equipment and resources to
Program partner: Liverpool Neighbourhood learn a new skill (eg. coding
Connections or self defence)
Laptops for Learning - Sydney, Cumberland, Parramatta
Giving opportunity: Refurbishing laptops Overcoming the digital
for women and girls who have been unable divide by providing
to engage in online education due to
economic disadvantage, family violence, laptops for learning for
or homelessness. Covid-19 restrictions have women and girls
changed the way education providers deliver
services, with online tutorials and learning
modules now the primary method of delivery. Donation Target
Supporting: 150 women and girls who $16,500
would otherwise not be able to engage in
A Gift of Just
online educational activities.
Place: Sydney, Cumberland, Parramatta
$200 is a laptop for a
woman who is undertaking
Program partner: The Reconnect Project online education
17Women & girls
in business
Enterprise
Girls in Business - Warwick Farm, Liverpool
Giving opportunity: Training young women Job skills and future
who due to culture, language and financial career expansion for
barriers have not been exposed to the
outside business world. Working in the Girls vulnerable girls
in Business Wildflower Hair Accessories
social enterprises will expand their future Donation Target
career opportunities.
$27,225
Supporting: 20 young women and girls
with mentoring and training, plus will A Gift of Just
employ a local woman to supervise and
provide administrative support to the girls
expanding interests. $1,225 gives a girl access
to enterprise training and
Place: Liverpool, Warwick Farm, business skills program
Program partner: Liverpool Neighbourhood
Connections
Women's Business Incubator 'The Rising Collective' - Liverpool
Giving opportunity: Through the social Micro business skills
enterprise 'The Rising Collective' boutique, for women in need
graduates of the Women's Business
Incubator gain access to a main street to build financial
retail space. In addition, the store is part independence
of the employment scholarship program
providing practical retail experience.
Donation Target
Supporting: 10 women who face cultural
barriers, or escaping violent relationships $11,000
with mentoring and training to bring a
A Gift of Just
product or service to market and develop
their financial independence. $500 will provide one
woman a start-up grant to
Place: Liverpool, Warwick Farm launch her new enterprise
Program partner: Liverpool Neighbourhood
Connections
Women in Business: Start-up Work Space - Bankstown
Giving opportunity: Providing a safe Work Safe work space
Space, coaching and mentoring for women for women in need
struggling with a business or trying to start
up a new one. This pilot project is in to build financial
response to the growing list of women who independence
have launched with CSS Village support.
Supporting: 10 women who face cultural Donation Target
barriers, or escaping violent relationships
with mentoring and training to bring a $5,500
product or service to market and develop
A Gift of Just
their financial independence.
$500 will provide one
Place: Bankstown woman with one to one
Program partner: Community Support training and mentoring
Services Inc (CSS Village)
18Money Financial
wellbeing skills Capability
MoneyGirl - Western Sydney
Giving opportunity: Addressing the Helping young women
mindset and behaviours to develop a build skills and a
good relationship with managing money.
From breaking down money stories positive relationship
and understanding budgeting, tax, with managing money
superannuation, plus love and money to
prevent financial control and abuse.
Donation Target
Supporting: 10 young women and girls
with a fun and interactive workshop with $3,850
the experienced team at MoneyGirl.
A Gift of Just
Place: Western Sydney $350 ensures one girl
Program partner: MoneyGirl, and will have access to the skills
Sydney Women's Fund charity partners to secure her future financial
safety and independence
Women's Work: Community Webinar - Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: An online training Improving women's
and support program for women in the relationship with
business and not-for-profit sector to
improve their financial wellbeing and managing money
literacy via an online webinar series. A
four week program is based on a study Donation Target
guide exploring themes raised in the
Sydney Women's Fund Women's Work $50,000
documentary series.
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 1000+ women assisted to
develop strategies to improve their skills at $500 will help provide
managing money to reduce the number of the technology platform for
women who are financially vulnerable. delivery
Place: Online, Greater Sydney, NSW
Program partner: Sydney Women's Fund
Women's Work: Schools Wellbeing - Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: Sharing the Women's Building young
Work documentary series digital resource women's future
and School's Study Guide in three local
Western Sydney high schools as a pilot financial wellbeing
project to engage young people in
the conversation of women's financial Donation Target
vulnerability. The program outcome
is for young girls to develop a positive $25,000
relationship with managing money sooner.
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 1000 students to participate
in a screening and guided discussion on $50 will help share the
gender bias and money stories to how to films and study guide with
establish positive money habits, early. a school to improve their
students money wellbeing
Place: Greater Sydney
Program partner: Sydney Women's Fund
19Domestic and Safety and
family violence Independence
Young Warrior Woman - Redfern
Giving opportunity: Mentoring young Helping young women
vulnerable women transitioning from out- transition from
of-home-care into independent living and
prepare for adulthood. Statistically they are Out-Of-Home-Care to
at high risk of becoming homeless within independence
the first year of leaving care. Often they
have experienced trauma, typically do not
have healthy social connections or stable Donation Target
positive adult influence and may have
complex mental health issues. $13,000
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 25 young women aged 15-25
years often survivors of trauma. $50 will pay for five
valuable life skills education
Place: Redfern to Greater Sydney
workshop sessions for a
Program partner: Warrior Woman
young vulnerable woman
Foundation
Early Years for Young Mum's - Hurstville, Gymea
Giving opportunity: Support for vulnerable Addressing the needs
and isolated young mothers and children of CALD and Aboriginal
of CALD and Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander backgrounds. Many have been and Torres Strait Islander
impacted by domestic violence and new young mums
increased episodes of mental health
problems. Assisting them to find they help
they need and strong support connections Donation Target
within the community.
$22,000
Supporting: 50 young mothers and their
A Gift of Just
newborns/young children from CALD
and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities.
$1,000 will provide a
subsidised qualification for a
young mum
Place: Hurstville, Gymea
Program partner: 3Bridges Community
Strong Mothers - Redfern, Newtown, Annandale
Giving opportunity: Young Aboriginal Young mothers
pregnant women and their children up education relating to
until school age, working to heal present
and transgenerational trauma using a nutrition, parenting or
holistic model. Recognising the adverse emotional support
effects of childhood traumas ‘triggered’
during pregnancy affect emotional
attachment between mother and child. It Donation Target
lays the foundation of transition for a new
generation of First Nations children. $16,500
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 10 to 15 young Aboriginal
mothers aged between 15 and 28 years, as
well as their children and families of origin.
$175 will provide food
and nappies for a week for a
young mum and her bub
Place: Redfern, Newtown, Annandale
Program partner: Strong Mothers
20Dandelion Care for Bubs - Caringbah, Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: Disadvantaged New and pre-loved cots,
families face many challenges, but the prams, car seats and all
welfare of their children causes the most
stress. This project provides both new and the things mum's need
preloved cots, prams and car seats, as well for bub's and kids
as preloved and new clothing, toys and
linen to families to ensure their children
have everything they need for their safety. Donation Target
Supporting: 50 financially disadvantaged $11,000
families and sole parents affected by
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COVID-19 - often encompassing mothers
and children escaping domestic violence. $1,000 will provide a
family with everything they
Place: Caringbah to Greater Sydney need to give their new baby
Program partner: Dandelion Support the best start in life
Network Inc.
Women: Choice and Change - Kings Cross, Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: A face-to-face group- Choice and change
based program to work with women who program for domestic
have experienced domestic violence. They
may be thinking of leaving a dangerous violence survivors
relationship or have already left. A safe
space to learn, heal and change, to live in Donation Target
happier and healthier relationships.
$22,700
Supporting: 72 women (aged 18+), from all
socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, A Gift of Just
including many middle aged and older
(50-60+) who have experienced domestic $1,000 gives 10 women
violence or have lived through toxic or emergency funding to find
unhealthy relationships. safe overnight accommodation
when shelters are closed or full
Place: Kings Cross to Greater Sydney along with Opal cards or taxi
Program partner: Lou's Place money for essential travel
Hope and Heal Retreat - Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: While servicing the Post crisis, long-term
immediate crisis period in family violence is recovery program for
crucial, this focus has created a dangerous
gap for survivors, where the long term female survivors of
impacts of abuse go largely untreated. family violence
Hope and Heal Retreats addresses the
long-term recovery so survivors can rebuild
their lives, participate in their community Donation Target
and economic opportunities.
$13,200
Supporting: 40 women survivors of
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violence across 2 retreats delivering
practical tools to empower women to take
charge of their health and wellbeing.
$6,000 pays for the
Retreat Hire and all meals for
15 women
Place: Greater Sydney
Program partner: Hope and Heal
Legal Advice for Refugee Women and Girls - Parramatta
Giving opportunity: Award winning Legal health checks
program providing refugee women and for high risk and
girls in Western Sydney with access to free,
confidential legal support in a women’s only vulnerable refugee and
space. Mainly temporary visa holders, they asylum seeker women
are not eligible for any Federal Government
financial support often leaving these
vulnerable women in perilous situations. Donation Target
Legal health checks also address fines,
unpaid bills, tenancy or medical issues. $11,000
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 150 women depending on the
complexity of their needs. $50 gives a woman access
to an interpreter so she can
Place: Western Sydney document her situation
Program partner: Refugee Advice & accurately
Casework Service
21Asylum Seekers Safety and Independence - Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: Help vulnerable Safety and
women and children seeking asylum who independence for
live in precarious conditions gain physical
safety and financial independence. These women seeking asylum
women and children are often fleeing and their children
danger, including domestic violence, and
persecution. Providing a personalised
pathway to employment or education with Donation Target
childcare to study, attend interviews and stay
competitive in accepting flexible work hours. $3,600
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 1 vulnerable woman and her
children seeking asylum. $200 will help women
contribute to weekly rent
Place: Newtown to Greater Sydney showing good faith till they
Program partner: Asylum Seekers Centre find employment
My Story Vignette - Burwood
Giving opportunity: Creative workshop Creative workshops
intervention for women and children for women and
escaping domestic violence. This
program is a partnership between Sydney children escaping
University CREATE, the Women’s and Girls’ domestic violence
Emergency Centre (WAGEC) and Milk
Crate theatre, focused on women residing
in the WAGEC emergency centre who are Donation Target
predominantly from CALD backgrounds.
$11,500
Supporting: 20 women living in emergency
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shelter to build social connections and
confidence to make positive life changes. $1,000 will enable 20
women and their children
Place: Burwood
attend a creative workshop
Program partner: Milk Crate Theatre,
to build skills, have fun and
WAGEC, Sydney University CREATE
improve their lives
Music Therapy Rehabilitation - Glebe
Giving opportunity: Music therapy for Music therapy for
young women who are dealing with drug young women
and/or alcohol dependency. Exposed to
addictions, domestic violence, childhood impacted by violence
abuse and neglect, many have destructive or other trauma
lifestyles. This program supports their
rehabilitation, helping them to express and
regulate emotion through music therapy. Donation Target
Supporting: 15-20 young women in the $26,000
Detour House drug/alcohol rehabilitation
A Gift of Just
program.
$350 is a 3.5 hour group
Place: Glebe therapy session run by a
Program partner: Nordoff Robbins Music registered Music Therapist
Therapy T/A Noro Music Therapy, Detour House
Women's Coffee Club - Campbelltown, Camden, Randwick
Giving opportunity: Nominated as a Local A safe space for
Hero in the 2021 Australia Day honours, women and children of
Rosemary Kariuki is bringing together
Sydney siders from diverse backgrounds. all backgrounds
The Women's Coffee Club is a safe space for
women to drop in for a chat. It's a grassroots Donation Target
response to the hundreds of messages to
Rosemary following her award from women $5,500
seeking support who identified with her story.
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 50 women to come together in
a safe space with childcare and refreshments $100 will help cover the
to bring them out of isolation and connected cost of childcare for a session
with local services to ensure their safety.. so women can access
supports as needed
Place: Campbelltown, Camden, Randwick
Program partner: Rosemary Kariuki
22Inspiring your
giving
Be Kind Sydney - 2021 Projects Fundraising Target
$553,989
Job Skills (p. 25-26)
q Dinner for 4: Food Parcels $ 5,500
q The Village Pantry $ 15,000
q Plate it Forward $ 55,000
q Being Herd Pathways $ 27,000
q RISE $ 55,000
q Project Educate $ 27,500
q The Footpath Library Hub $ 5,500
Education (p. 27-29)
q Reading for Life $ 17,369
q Junior RISE $ 33,000
q SCRAP (Sustainable Communities Recycling All Paper) $ 14,850
q Ditto's Keep Safe Adventure $ 11,000
q Thrive for Boys $ 11,550
q Family Support Service $ 16,500
q Swimming Lessons $ 7,920
q Transition to University Scholarships $ 21,700
q Youth Edcuation and Support Service (Y.E.S.S) $ 11,000
q Follow My Lead $ 33,000
q #Headstartt $ 33,000
Mental Health (p. 30-31)
q KYDS $ 27,500
q Kookaburra Kids Connect $ 7,150
q Junior Top Blokes $ 27,000
q Stepping Up $ 26,600
q Mobile Community Centre $ 27,500
q A Listening Ear $ 27,500
q Rhythm is Life $ 9,350
23Message to our
donors
Last year as Sydney locked down, Be Kind Sydney As you plan your giving please consider our
called on the kindness of Sydneysiders and projects and making a gift this year or a multi-year
launched the Be Kind Sydney Covid Appeal to commitment. Please contact us about how you
assist those struggling in our city. would like to give and be involved.
With donors generous support Be Kind Sydney Be Kind Sydney offers a unique opportunity to
provided assistance with food security, shelter, safety make your philanthropy in Sydney work to build
from financial and family abuse and importantly a stronger community for everyone in the city we
enabled supported education programs for children, love and to address its increasing divide.
young people and women to continue online, giving
hope of better times ahead.
By late 2020, with gifts from community donors and
major donors to Be Kind Sydney and strong and
kind supporters of Sydney Women’s Fund, we had
raised just short of one million dollars. WAYNE STOKES
This has been distributed and we have reports of Director, Be Kind Sydney
outstanding impact delivered with these funds.
As we live with unpredictable events, Be Kind Sydney
can still build a stronger Sydney by connecting funds
from those who have what they need, or more,
to people living without wellbeing who live with "That I can learn new things, and at
uncertainty and loss of hope. the same time it’s a paid job. It helped
Be Kind Sydney changes lives one-by-one.
me to be more confident in what I
believe I can do."
Our aim is to change a life through supported
learning and education, overcoming isolation and Participant, Be Kind Sydney funded program
mental challenges, so each person has a strong
chance of building resilience and wellbeing, with a
positive family and community life.
24Be Kind
Sydney Job Skills
Dinner for 4: Skills for Work - Heckenberg
Giving opportunity: Dinner for 4 creates Creating jobs and
new employment opportunities for making it easier for
disadvantaged women in Liverpool to
prepare and package a healthy meal for families to eat a healthy
families in need in Western Sydney. dinner
Supporting: 120 families will receive healthy
meals. In addition, 2 women are employed Donation Target
and trained in safe food handling to pack
30-40 meal parcels for delivery per week. $5,500
The women gain skills, work experience
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and are paid 2 hours per week for 40 weeks
of the year. $2,400 secures 2 hours
per week employment for a
Place: Heckenberg year and TAFE certification to
Program partner: Liverpool Neighbourhood a woman in need, preparing
Connections food parcels for families
The Village Pantry - Bankstown
Giving opportunity: Putting food on the Food security and
table for those struggling. Refugee, asylum on the job training
seekers, single parents, elderly, people living
with a disability or mental illness. Healthy skills development for
meals and connection to further support, those in need
education and a sense of belonging.
Supporting: 700 meals per week. In 2020, Donation Target
CSS Village Pantry supported 25,000
vulnerable people with food. Plus, Village $15,000
Pantry also provides supported job skills
A Gift of Just
training for volunteers and is expanding it's
skills for work with FoodLab. $1,000 trains volunteers
to prepare healthy food
Place: Bankstown parcels for locals
Program partner: Community Support
Services Inc (CSS Village)
Plate it Forward - Glebe, Kings Cross
Giving opportunity: Plate it Forward Food relief, education,
is tackling hunger and employment training and
insecurity in Australia by harnessing
the power of food to provide food relief, employment for
education, training and employment. people in need
Redefining 'equal opportunity' to help
those left out of employment pathways.
Donation Target
Supporting: 6,500 hours of employment,
education and training at Ability Social (20 $55,000
hours per week at 6 staff p.a. Plus 3,000
A Gift of Just
hours of Asylum Seeker employment and
training to deliver 1000 meals per week $400 rescues 1,000 kilos
of food to be donated to
Place: Redfern, Glebe, Kings Cross, South- marginalized community
West Sydney members
Program partner: Plate it Forward
25Being Herd Pathways - Parramatta, Penrith, Campbelltown
Giving opportunity: Addressing the Linking young people
link between mental ill-health and
unemployment for young people (aged at-risk with mental
16-24) to overcome challenges related health and job seeking
to seeking employment, education and support
training. The pilot engaged 150 hard to reach,
at risk young people, with 46% of participants
reporting engagement in training, education Donation Target
or employment (almost 20% higher than
those utilising Jobactive services). $27,000
Supporting: 40 at-risk young people A Gift of Just
who are not in education, training, or
employment. $1,750 takes a
young person through
the workshop, and peer
Place: Parramatta, Penrith, Campbelltown
mentoring program
Program partner: BATYR
RISE - Claymore
Giving opportunity: Reconnecting Employment and
young people suspended or chronically education pathways
disengaged from school with alternative
pathways to further education, training for at-risk young
or employment. The impacts of Covid-19 people
are profound for young people in low
socioeconomic families and is increasing
the barriers to future employment. Donation Target
Supporting: 20 at-risk young people $55,000
between 14-19 years of age from
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Campbelltown LGA including young
women, men, LGBTQI+ and Indigenous
young people.
$1,000 enables 3
young people to enrol to a
subsidised Cert III training in
Place: Claymore, Campbelltown, Camden their chosen career path
Program partner: Whitelion Youth Agency
Project Educate - Hurstville
Giving opportunity: Support at-risk young Re-engaging young
people to re-engage in learning within people at-risk with
an alternative education setting that
provides wrap around support with both a education and
distant education curriculum and trauma employment pathways
informed case management. Flexible
approaches and hands on practical skills
will remove barriers to learning to achieve Donation Target
a qualification and secure a pathway into
further education and employment. $27,500
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 10-12 young people per year
(aged 15-17) of mixed gender, from a range
of cultural backgrounds.
$100 will provide 2
disadvantaged young people
with the cost of all their core
Place: Hurstville subjects for one year
Program partner: Project Youth
The Footpath Library Hub - Sydney, Parramatta
Giving opportunity: A monthly, mid A 'one stop shop' of
week, daytime hub in Sydney where The support services for
Footpath Library will collaborate with other
services providers such as a street medic, people experiencing
legal outreach, street vet, counsellors etc. to homelessness
offer a warm, safe environment for people
experiencing homelessness and disadvantage
to access a 'one stop shop' for support. Donation Target
Supporting: 100 people experiencing $5,500
homelessness or disadvantage or at risk to
A Gift of Just
walk away feeling more positive and to feel
that they matter and that people care. $100 buys 25 pairs of
reading glasses
Place: City of Sydney, Parramatta, Inner
West, Liverpool
Program partner: The Footpath Library
26Learning for
life Education
Reading for Life - Camden
Giving opportunity: Reading for Life is Overcoming learning
an evidenced based program designed difficulties for at-risk
by a speech pathologist, teacher and
psychologist. It's helps children with primary children
learning difficulties by training community
volunteers to work with selected children at Donation Target
their school to improve their reading, self-
esteem and confidence. $17,369
Supporting: 20 children in years 2-4 A Gift of Just
who are struggling significantly with
their reading will participate in a 15 week $1,000 will enable
intervention program 'Reading for Life' at one child to participate in
Camden and Thomas Acres Public Schools. tailored literacy support
sessions
Place: Camden
Program partner: Learning Links
Junior RISE - Campbelltown
Giving opportunity: Helping primary Re-engaging at-
school children re-engage and thrive risk primary school
in education despite high risk factors
of their home life and setbacks in their children with their
learning. The number of school referrals education
and suspensions in primary students has
increased over the past five years, above
average in South Western Sydney. Donation Target
Supporting: 35 primary age children $33,000
suspended or at-risk of suspension or
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withdrawal provided targeted resilience
training finding their strengths and
improving their future life outcomes.
$1,000 will allow a child
to develop their strengths
with an individual learning
Place: Campbelltown plan
Program partner: Save the Children
SCRAP - No Dig Gardens for Mum's and Bub's
Giving opportunity: Building confidence Sustainable living
in and around the home and community skills supporting
garden. Skills focus on sustainability
measures, build confidence while mothers and their
providing care and stimulating activities for children
children. The workshops will also focus on
transferrable skills that may assist women
in seeking work. Donation Target
Supporting: 50 people directly and a $14,850
further 100 people in the supporting
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activities.
$100 will provide care and
Place: Holsworthy to Western Sydney fun for 10 children while their
Program partner: SCRAP (Sustainable mums learn to build a no dig
Communities Recycling All Paper) garden
27Ditto's Keep Safe Adventure - Western Sydney
Giving opportunity: ‘Ditto’s Keep Safe Personal safety
Adventure’ Personal Safety Program is a live, skills for children to
interactive 1/2hr show delivered through
song and easy-to-understand concepts, for navigate situations
children aged 5-8 years. Designed to provide where they feel unsafe
children with personal safety skills to help
them navigate situations where they may
feel unsafe including child sexual assault. Donation Target
Supporting: 1500 children, their family $11,000
members/carers and teaching staff will
A Gift of Just
benefit with language to communicate
these critical conversations. $175 means one child
can see “Ditto Keep Safe
Place: Western Suburbs Adventure Show”, an activity
Program partner: Bravehearts Foundation book, two story books, and a
printed parent pack
Thrive for Boys - Warwick Farm, Liverpool
Giving opportunity: The Western Sydney Educating young men
community is made up of many different in self respect, healthy
cultures and with the current surge of DV
cases Thrive is sharing the message of self relationships and
respect and equality with young boys. positive choices
Supporting: 11 young men to respect each
other, respect women, be informed about Donation Target
drug and health issues and confident in
their own ability to make choices in life. $11,550
A Gift of Just
Place: Liverpool
Program partner: Liverpool Neighbourhood $500 provides
Connections in partnership with NSW equipment for education
Police.
Family Support Service- Surry Hills
Giving opportunity: Providing individual Practical skills, and
parents/carers, family units, children resources for parents
and youth with support that is flexible
and tailored to their needs. FFS upskills facing complex risks
and empowers parents with the skills, to strengthen families
knowledge and resources so they can self-
manage and strengthen their families. 65%
live in social and community housing, 75% Donation Target
are one-parent families and from culturally
and linguistically diverse backgrounds, all $16,500
living with a number of issues/risk factors.
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 150 families who live on and
below the poverty line
$120 provides a parent
with access to the family
support program to get a
Place: Surry Hills helping hand when times
Program partner: The Girls & Boys Brigade are tough
Swimming Lessons - Alexandria, Kingsford, Bondi
Giving opportunity: Swimming Swimming lessons for
scholarships for children living with a socially disadvantaged
disability on welfare due to domestic
violence situations ( eg. Bayside Women’s children living with
Shelter) or CALD ( culturally and disabilities
linguistically diverse) families. Water is a
great place to heal and it is vital every child
learns how to be safe in the water and Donation Target
experience the benefits it can bring to an
individuals health and well-being. $7,920
A Gift of Just
Supporting: 6 students living with a
disability and their families in the Sydney
Metropolitan Area.
$30 enables a child
in need to enjoy a fully
supervised swimming lesson
Place: Alexandria, Kingsford, Bondi with qualified teacher
Program partner: Little Heroes Swim
28 AcademyTransition to University Scholarships - Greater Sydney
Giving opportunity: Scholarships for Scholarships for young
disadvantaged youth combining corporate people in need to
mentoring and financial relief for Years 11,
12 and the first year of further education/ transition successfully
training. Scholars are matched with their from school to uni
own corporate mentor and participate in
structured, facilitated sessions, one-on-
one meetings and a two-day Leadership Donation Target
Summit.
$21,700
Supporting: 3 scholars to participate in
A Gift of Just
Year 12 and first year of further education.
$100 will provide digital
Place: Greater Sydney access for university/Year 12
Program partner: ABCN Scholarship textbooks and resources
Foundation
Youth Education and Support Service (Y.E.S.S) - Bankstown
Giving opportunity: Getting young people Job skills and future
off the screens and re-engaged with their career expansion for
education. Led by a qualified teacher, YESS
provides educational support in subjects vulnerable youth
across the school curriculum along with
fun 'inside technology' lessons, taking apart Donation Target
computers and discussing social issues
facing our ever connected young people. $11,000
Supporting: 20 young people at-risk A Gift of Just
with a focus on literacy, math skills, and
alternative pathways to further education. $100 gives a young
person access to a qualified
Place: Bankstown tutor
Program partner: Community Support
Services Inc (CSS Village)
Young People Tackling Discrimination - Arncliffe, Riverwood, Bexley
Giving opportunity: Empowering young Leadership Education
people with skills and knowledge to reduce for younth to improve
discrimination, improve belonging, and
build their employability skills through cultural harmony and
a leadership education program. Young employment
leaders will learn how to educate their
peers on anti-racism, cultural awareness,
acceptance and kindness towards all. Donation Target
Supporting: 1,500 young people aged
$33,000
16–25 from culturally/linguistically diverse A Gift of Just
& Aboriginal backgrounds (including new
arrived & refugee backgrounds, LGBTQI,
and those with a disability).
$100 will provide a
qualified mentor for the
project for 3 hours
Place: Arncliffe, Riverwood and Bexley
Program partner: 2Connect Youth &
Community
#Headstartt - Fairfield
Giving opportunity: Engaging refugee Engaging refugee
young people largely from Iraqi and Syrian young people in
backgrounds a weekly program (Fridays,
4-7 pm), offering homework assistance education and job
and tutoring, Job Club and psychosocial skills training support
support activities: exercise, art activities
and mental health literacy.
Donation Target
Supporting: 100 refugee young people age
14-24 improve their academic results and $33,000
engagement with education, job seeking
A Gift of Just
skills and employment, particularly important
to bridge the gaps created by COVID-19. $1,000 helps secure a
. highly trained youth worker
Place: Fairfield to guide and mentor young
Program partner: NSW Service for the people each week
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and
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