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Sector leaders react to Gates Foundation’s historic plan to spend down US$200bn

Fri, 16 May 2025

Bill Gates has announced that the Gates Foundation plans to spend its endowment and ‘virtually all’ of his personal wealth totaling US$200 billion in the next 20 years to accelerate its mission of ‘saving and improving lives around the world’. Here, four leaders from the Australian philanthropic sector, Daniel Petre, Audette Exel, Peter Johnstone and Maree Sidey react.

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Operation Flinders: ‘It’s a bit of a headspin for the kids’

Nick Place Fri, 30 Aug 2024
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Video: Inspiring story – Catherine House

Philanthropy Australia Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Catherine House provides crisis, longer term accommodation and support services to women experiencing homelessness in South Australia.

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Video: Inspiring Story – Foundation Barossa

Philanthropy Australia Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Foundation Barossa nurtures and builds its community’s strength and assets, responding to challenges and opportunities and supporting organisations and individuals to do likewise. 

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Watch: Inspiring video stories of South Australia

Philanthropy Australia Fri, 23 Aug 2024

The Philanthropy Australia Conference 2024, hosted in Adelaide, SA on Kaurna Country, showcased six inspiring stories of purpose from South Australia.

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New gender-wise resource launched to support philanthropic collaborations

Philanthropy Australia Fri, 26 Apr 2024

Australians Investing In Women (AIIW) and the University of Melbourne's Melbourne Social Equity Institute (MSEI) have launched a comprehensive resource to increase the impact of philanthropic and social investments.

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Startling research shows cost of living pressures hitting Sydney women hard

Lisa Grinham, Head of Sydney Women’s Fund Fri, 22 Mar 2024

Philanthropy Australia co-hosted an event with Sydney Women’s Fund to launch its Portrait V Women of Greater Sydney Research on International Women’s Day 2024. The study is conducted every three years and takes the pulse of women in Sydney, highlighting the issues that matter to them and the challenges they face. Here, Lisa Grinham, Head of Sydney Women’s Fund, shares the findings, which inform the organisation’s granting process.

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