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Strategy 2030 aims to amplify impact, foster collaboration, and ensure Greater Melbourne is well-equipped to address the challenges and opportunities now and in the future.

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- A just and equitable future for Melbourne's West
- Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE)

The Greater Melbourne Foundation grants program supports long‑term, flexible solutions; research grounded in community; and, collaborative models that help communities thrive.

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Knowledge hub

Knowledge Hub is the place where you can access in-depth Stories of Impact about our grantmaking, the latest research reports, thought-leadership articles and sector insights, as well as the Foundation's annual reports, newsletters and videos.

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2022 Annual Report: The Community Foundation for Greater Melbourne

Community foundations - a place for everyone.

Philanthropy’s role in home ownership

Providing affordable housing is an essential and enduring way to prevent entry and entrenchment into the homelessness system - stopping the revolving door of cycles of homelessness.

Homelessness & Affordable Housing

Stories of Impact

Disrupting the cycle of youth homelessness

Melbourne’s largest provider of youth crisis services, Melbourne City Mission Frontyard Youth Services, was concerned at the rising rate of youth over the past decade and particularly about a group of young people who they identified that repeatedly returned to Frontyard for help.

Homelessness and Affordable Housing

Stories of Impact

A place to call home

VincentCare, re-opened its Ozanam House in 2019 to great excitement after five years of planning, design and construction.

Homelessness and Affordable Housing

Stories of Impact

Employment that sticks

In response to the increasing rates of long-term unemployment and low job retention rates among young people, in 2015 SYC developed the Sticking Together Project – an innovative 60‑week one-on-one employment coaching program.

Education & Employment

Stories of Impact

Keeping Melbourne on the menu

Five years ago, Dr Rachel Carey and colleagues Kirsten Larsen and Jen Sheridan at The University of Melbourne began a comprehensive research project known as FoodPrint Melbourne to investigate the future of Melbourne’s food growing capacity and its ability to feed a rapidly growing population.

Over the years, the project has developed significantly and is influencing current government policy on protecting the future of Melbourne’s foodbowl.

Healthy & Resilient Communities Environment & Sustainability

Supporting community-based responses to heatwaves

On 3 September 2019, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) added their voice to the growing list of international health organisations declaring climate change a health emergency and calling for urgent government action on climate change on health grounds.

Healthy & Resilient Communities Hot Spots Initiative