Sidney Fund The Annual Report 2016–17

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Shared Mission and Vision 2 Total FY17 Grants Joint Statement from the Chairman of the Fund, the President of The Myer Foundation and the CEO 3 Trustees of the Sidney Myer Fund and Directors of $7,326,991 The Myer Foundation 4 Sidney Myer Fund Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Grants 6 The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants 8 Awards and Fellowships 10 $6,280,357 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships 10 The Myer Foundation Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards 12 Myer Innovation Fellowships 14 Large Grants Programs 16 Capacity Building Streams 18 $13,607,348 Small Grants Programs 20 Total Grantmaking Family Grants Program 22 Mental Health Committee 23 Fund 24 Listing of all FY17 Grants 25 The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund Committee Membership 34 Staff 34 Financial Summary 35 Contact Details 36

1 The Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation

The Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation are two separate philanthropic entities of philanthropy. They are both managed by the same team and have separate, but complementary philanthropic programs and activities.

Sidney Myer, a generous philanthropist in his lifetime, left a portion of his estate upon his death in 1934 to be invested for the benefit of the community in which he made his fortune. That bequest created the Sidney Myer Fund which exists in perpetuity.

The Myer Foundation was established in 1959 by Sidney’s sons, Baillieu Myer AC and the late Kenneth Myer AC DSC, and their sisters Lady Southey and the late Mrs Neilma Gantner as a way to support initiatives and new opportunities arising from contemporary issues. The Myer Foundation was further endowed through Kenneth Myer’s estate following his death in 1992.

2 In FY17, the Poverty & Disadvantage varied cultural connections we share Committee of the Sidney Myer Fund with our closest global neighbours. The awarded a small grant in support of the Myer Foundation, in collaboration with Windeward Bound Youth Leadership the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation Challenge. The Challenge sees ten and the Keir Foundation, acted bigger young Tasmanians and nine recently through its support of A New Approach: arrived young Australians undertake a a cross-sector strategic intervention ten-day voyage on the sailing training to advance a coherent, comprehensive vessel Windeward Bound in an cultural policy position from which endeavour to strengthen cross-cultural we might build better political and understanding and relationships among institutional settings and allied public the next generation of Australians. commentary. The 19 young people face a variety of challenges over the course of the The Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer voyage and must overcome their fears Foundation continue to adapt better by and inhibitions to work together refining our grantmaking practices in successfully. It’s a confronting response to specific challenges faced experience for some of the participants by grant recipients or what we learn and for most, just overcoming the through grantmaking. The Capacity seasickness is a huge achievement. Building Stream, which supports the But for a number of the young people, activity of some of ’s most this pivotal moment will shape the impactful organisations, now features paths their lives will take from this across all four large grantmaking point forward. According to Challenge programs, while the Myer Innovation participant Elyse, Fellows continue to develop innovative solutions to pressing social and It occurred to me on the last day as we environmental issues. were sailing home, how much we had grown both individually and as a group… On the whole, this year’s grantmaking we had helped one another learn, worked takes in many more initiatives than together as a team, and bonded so much those listed here. This report features that on the last day I cried because I was several other grants made this year, so proud. while the final pages contain a comprehensive list of all of the grants This one, small grant has helped deliver approved by the Trustees of the Sidney AO a program which has left an indelible Myer Fund and the Directors of The Chairman of the Sidney Myer Fund mark on the lives of some of Australia’s Myer Foundation. next generation. This is a life-changing Martyn Myer AO experience and is exemplary of the In closing we acknowledge, with President of The Myer Foundation philanthropy we strive to deliver gratitude, the important work of through the three pillars of our strategic those in the not-for-profit sector. Our plan: acting bigger, adapting better and philanthropy is effected in partnership Leonard Vary strengthening family engagement. with them, thanks to their tireless Chief Executive Officer efforts, and we look forward to working This year, the Sidney Myer Fund with these inspiring individuals, and continued to act bigger through its many others, in years to come. support of AsiaTOPA – the inaugural triennial celebration of the many and

3 Sidney Myer Fund

(L-R) Sidney Myer AM, Carrillo Gantner AO, Sally Lindsay, Andrew Myer.

Sidney Myer Fund and a director of the Andyinc Foundation, a PAF The Myer Foundation established in 2002. A producer and executive Chairman producer of Australian feature films, Andrew’s Founder, Life Governor & Emeritus Director credits include Radiance, Three Dollars, Look Both Carrillo Gantner AO, BA, MA (Stanford), Grad Dip Ways, Romulus My Father, My Year Without Sex, Mr S. Baillieu Myer AC (Arts Admin, Harvard) Balibo, Make Hummus Not War, the telemovie Carrillo Gantner is Chairman of the Sidney Life Governors Dangerous Remedy for the ABC, Paper Planes, Last Myer Fund. He has a BA from the University Cab to Darwin and Monsieur Mayonnaise Lady Southey AC of , a Master of Fine Arts (Drama), Carrillo Gantner AO Stanford, California, and a Graduate Diploma in Sidney Hordern Myer AM, BEc and Graduate Arts Administration, Harvard. Carrillo was the Diploma in Marketing President first Drama Officer at the Australia Council for the Sid Myer is the Chairman of Myer Family Martyn Myer AO, B.Eng, MESc.(Mon), Arts (1970-1973) and was General Manager of the Investments Pty Ltd and a Trustee of The Sidney MSM (MIT), FIE (Aust) Melbourne Theatre Company (1973-1975). He was a Myer Fund. He is a Director of Yulgilbar Group of Martyn Myer is President of The Myer Foundation, Founding Director of the Playbox Theatre Company, Companies, The Myer Family Company Ltd, Copia Chair of The Myer Foundation’s Audit and (now Malthouse Theatre); Executive Director (1976- Investment Partners, Deputy Chairman of the Investment Committees and a member of The 1984) and Artistic Director (1988-1993). He was National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the Patron Myer Foundation’s Sustainability and Environment Counsellor (Cultural) at the Australian Embassy in of Asialink. Beijing (1985-1987), Chairman of the Performing Committee. He is Chairman of Cogstate Ltd and a member of the Council of the University of Arts Board and a member of the Australia Council Sally Lindsay BA, Dip Ed (Primary) Melbourne. Martyn stepped down as Chairman of (1990-1993). He was Chairman of Asialink (1992- Sally Lindsay has been a member of the Poverty The Myer Family Investments Pty Ltd in October 2006), Chairman of the Melbourne International and Disadvantage Committee for over ten years, 2016. In 2008 Martyn was appointed an Officer in Comedy Festival (1994-2000), President of the the Committee’s convenor since 2011 and a Trustee the Order of Australia for service to business and Victorian Arts Centre Trust (2000-2009) and of the Sidney Myer Fund since 2007. Sally is a the community, particularly through contributions President of the Melbourne Festival (2009 - passionate advocate for education and community to medical research and the establishment of 2014). He was awarded an Officer of the Order of wellbeing. Alongside her membership of The Myer the Florey Neuroscience Institute and through Australia in 2001 for services to the performing Foundation, the Merlyn Myer Fund and the Sidney executive and philanthropic roles with a range of arts and Australia’s cultural exchange with Asia. In Myer Fund’s Education Committee, Sally was the organisations. recognition of his cultural and philanthropic service, founding patron of ArtPlay: an inspirational arts he was the 2007 Victorian of the Year. hub for children to explore their creativity, sense of Vice President self and belonging. Sally is a long-time volunteer Trustees with e.motion21, a not-for-profit organisation that Emily Myer BA (Hons), MA (Arts and provides dance and fitness programs for children Andrew Myer, MBA (Melbourne Business School, Entertainment Management) and adults with Down syndrome. 2003) Before returning to Melbourne to start a family, Andrew Myer pursues a variety of business Emily spent seven years in Europe, working for interests through the A V Myer Group of Companies, the UN World Food Programme in Rome, and including property development, investment, film for renowned French political science university, and philanthropy. He is a director of The Myer Sciences Po, in Paris. Emily has served on the Family Investments since 2013. Andrew was Vice board of the NETS Victoria as well as the Social President of Bush Heritage Australia for nine Justice and Arts and Humanities committees of years until March 2016 and a director, Chair and The Myer Foundation where she was a Director Deputy-Chair of the Melbourne International Film for a short time before moving overseas. Since Festival for sixteen years until October 2017. He November 2013 she has served as Director was appointed Chair of and Vice-President of the Board of The Myer Foundation and became a director of Documentary Foundation, and is also a committee member of the Australia Foundation in June 2017. He is founder Myer Foundation’s Mental Health Committee.

4 The Myer Foundation

(L-R) Myer, Emily Myer, Tim Jacobs, Martyn Myer AO, Mary Vallentine AO, Kim Williams AM, Lindy Shelmerdine.

Directors Emeritus Professor Dorothy Scott AM, BA (Hons), Mary Vallentine AO (from Nov 16) MSW, PhD (Melb) (until Nov 16) Mary Vallentine has had a career in arts AO, B.Com (Hons) Melb, MA Cantab Dorothy Scott is a social worker who worked in management for more than forty years. She has (until Nov 16) the fields of child welfare and mental health prior held Executive roles with Musica Viva Australia, Rupert Myer is Chairman of Nuco Pty Ltd, a to teaching students and conducting research in Adelaide Festival and State Theatre Company of Director of AMCIL Limited, Healthscope Limited, those fields at the for 20 SA. She was Managing Director of the Sydney The Myer Family Investments Pty Ltd and eCargo years. She was seconded from the University to the Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 2003 then Holdings Limited. Rupert serves as Chairman of position of CEO of The Ian Potter Foundation from undertook a series of arts consultancies in the Australia Council for the Arts, and The Aranday 2000 to 2004, and in 2005 became the Foundation Australia, NZ and Qatar prior to her appointment Foundation. He is a board member of The Felton Chair of Child Protection and the inaugural Director to the position of CEO at Melbourne Recital Bequests’ Committee, The Faculty of Business and of the Australian Centre for Child Protection at the Centre (2010-16). She is Music Advisor and Opera Economics – The University of Melbourne, Creative University of South Australia. Dorothy is now an Producer for the 2018 Adelaide Festival and has Partnerships Australia, The Yulgilbar Foundation honorary professorial fellow at the University of recently taken up a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial and Jawun-Indigenous Corporate Partnerships. South Australia and the University of Melbourne. Fellowship at Monash University. Mary was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to Lindy Merlyn Shelmerdine – MAICD Tim Jacobs B.A (Hons) music in 1986. Lindy serves on the Arts & Humanities of the Tim Jacobs worked as a studio potter for ten Sidney Myer Fund and Sustainability & Environment years before moving into arts management. Over committees of The Myer Foundation and on the a 25 year career he was Director of Visual Arts, board of the Merlyn Myer Fund. A former director of Craft and Design at the Australia Council, Deputy The Myer Family Company Limited Lindy has also Director and then Director of Arts Victoria, and served on the boards of Foundation for Regional Chief Executive of both the Sydney Opera House and & Rural Renewal, Earthwatch Institute, and on the Arts Centre Melbourne. He recently served as selection committees for Nuffield Farmers Assoc. Executive Director of Melbourne Festival and as a and CSIRO in their Division of Wildlife & Ecology. trustee of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust.

Adelaide Myer (from Nov 16) Kim Williams AM Adelaide is a communications specialist with a Kim Williams has served as Chief Executive Bachelor of Arts from Melbourne University and an at News Corp Australia, FOXTEL, Fox Studios Advanced Diploma of Business (Public Relations) Australia, the Australian Film Commission, from RMIT. She is a skilled PR professional with Southern Star Entertainment and Musica Viva experience in strategy development, copywriting, Australia. Kim was the founder and Chairman event management and media engagement, of the Australian Film Finance Corporation and and currently works at a mid-sized PR agency served on a wide variety of other arts boards over in Melbourne, Keep Left. Adelaide lives in North the last three decades including most recently as Carlton with a housemate and a beagle x called the Chairman of the Sydney Opera House Trust Bambi. from 2005 until 2013. He is currently serving on the boards of a variety of commercial and not-for- profit enterprises in Australia and internationally, where he sits either as the Chairman or as a non- executive director. He was appointed as a Member in the Order of Australia in 2006 for his services to the arts and for public policy formulation in the film and television industries.

5 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Grants

In FY17 the Trustees of the Sidney Myer Fund granted Total Grants over $2 million to a range of programs, projects and prospects which see us striving to act bigger in our $2,169,277 role as philanthropic leaders. Three such grants are featured on these pages: “Supported by a coalition • Asia TOPA is a joint initiative of the Sidney Myer of private philanthropy Fund and Arts Centre Melbourne to host the first and government – federal ever triennial of Asia-Pacific performing arts. and local – funding, Asia TOPA revealed the • Refugee Legal’s Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) full potential of creative Clinics provide essential legal advice and application leadership backed by assistance to people who need to apply for a TPV enlightened public-private as part of the Federal Government’s “Fast Track” funding.” assessment process. United States of America Ambassador Cynthia • The National Portrait Gallery will create an audio Schneider. guide based on oral histories, interviews and writings of portrait subjects currently in the collection. Below: National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Brett Boardman.

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Above: Asia TOPA: XO State. Photo by Below: David Manne, CEO of Mark Gambino. Refugee Legal.

Refugee Legal’s strategic work has a 100% success rate in test case litigation. Nine cases won in the High Court of Australia have had flow-on benefits for many thousands of asylum seekers and refugees.

7 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants

The Directors of The Myer Foundation granted Total Grants over $4 million in FY17. Their grantmaking continues to leverage significant contributions $4,244,380 from other funding partners, particularly in the case of their foundational grant to create ClimateWorks Australia. Other significant grants to Our Watch and Yulgilbar Alzheimer’s One in three Australian women has Research Program invest in a future that will benefit us all. experienced physical violence, since the age of 15

Below: Our Watch. Photo by James Penlidis.

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“Established as a partnership with Monash University in 2009 with a $4.6 million grant from The Myer Foundation, ClimateWorks has been able to establish itself as a leading independent adviser, identifying innovative, evidence based solutions to climate change and catalysing their implementation.” ClimateWorks Australia Chair, John Thwaites.

Left: Alzheimer’s Research Program, MRI scan of a human brain. Below: The Myer Foundation and ClimateWorks Australia receive the 2017 Best Large Grant Award from Philanthropy Australia. L-R: John Thwaites (Chair ClimateWorks Australia), Leonard Vary (CEO of The Myer Foundation & Sidney Myer Fund), Anna Skarbek (CEO Climateworks Australia), Martyn Myer AO (President of The Myer Foundation) and Louise Myer.

9 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships

The Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships recognise outstanding talent and exceptional courage in mid-career artists. Each Fellow is awarded a tax- free, untied grant of $160,000 over a two-year period. The Fellowships are open to artists and arts managers across the entire spectrum of the visual, performing, interdisciplinary, new media and literary arts. In November 2016, eight Fellowships were awarded.

Dr Bianca Hester (NSW) Multi-disciplinary Visual Arts.

Sarah Holland-Batt (Qld) Poetry. Khadim Ali (NSW) Painting.

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Since 2011, the Sidney Myer Fund has awarded 55 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships valued at $8.8 million

Gareth Liddiard (VIC) Musician.

Jonathan Oxlade (SA) Theatre and Film Design. Alex Kelly (NT) Thought-leader, Community Arts and Film Maker.

Justin Shoulder (NSW) Multi-artform. Mary Anne Butler (NT) Playwright.

11 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

The winners of the 2016 Sidney Myer Performing Arts First awarded in 1984, Awards were announced on Tuesday 4 April 2017 at the Sidney Myer Cranlana, Toorak. Gavin Webber, Co-Artistic Director Performing Arts Awards of The Farm, received the Individual Award. Australian have awarded over Theatre for Young People (ATYP), accepted the Group Award and Kathy Burns, Artistic Director, Barkly $3.6 million Regional Arts, was awarded the Facilitator’s Prize not adjusted for inflation.

Below: [L-R] Mark Warburton (Chair, ATYP), Gavin Webber, Kathy Burns, Amy Maiden and Fraser Corfield (ATYP).

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Above left: Mark Warburton, Amy Maiden, and Fraser Corfield. Above: Acrobats in Waiting. Far left: Kerry Gardner and Andrew Myer. Left: Christine Johnson, Michael Shmith, and Lady Potter AC. Below left: Carrillo Gantner AO. Below: Michael Pappalardo, Audra Tory, Sean Memery, Yuiko Masukawa.

13 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Myer Innovation Fellowships

The Myer Innovation Fellowships support breakthrough solutions to Australia’s most pressing social and 12 environmental challenges and brings new talent to the social sector. Fellowships awarded since 2014. The Myer Innovation Fellowships support ideas that are high impact, unique, scalable and sustainable in the hands of leaders who are experienced, entrepreneurial, passionate and connected.

Dr Bjorn Sturmberg’s SunTenants is a social enterprise that uses cutting- edge smart-metering technology and a transparent, purpose-driven, business model to share the value of solar systems amongst housing tenants and landlords.

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Dr Daniel Harrison is investigating the possibility of preventing coral bleaching by brightening marine clouds during periods the water is unusually warm, as brighter clouds reflect more sunlight into space and cool the reef.

Dr Sarah Doyle’s experience working as a doctor in busy Emergency Departments has motivated her to create a tool for better communication between doctors and patients. What the Doctor Said is an application that will allow patients, families and carers access to their discharge instructions at any time after their initial visit to the Emergency Department.

15 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Large Grants Programs

Through their Large Grants Programs, The Myer Total Grants Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund act bigger to achieve impact and sustainability by providing multi-year support $2,090,247 of organisations delivering important community outcomes. Large Grants Programs are active in the focus areas of Poverty and Disadvantage, Education, and Sustainability and Environment.

As of 2017, 65% of Teach for Australia alumni remain in the education sector, with over half in school leadership roles, including one principal, one campus principal, two acting principals and Below: Teach for Australia (Education Large Grant Recipient) participants at one acting assistant principal. Hoppers Crossing Secondary College. Photo by Tori Sim Photography.

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Tactical Urbanism |Definition|: a city and/ Left: The Neighbourhood Project, by CoDesign. Sustainability and Environment Large Grant or citizen-led approach to neighbourhood Recipient. Photo by Sebastian Avila for building using short-term, low-cost and CoDesign Studio. Below: Berry Street clients, Poverty and scalable interventions, intended to catalyse Disadvantage Large Grant Recipients. Berry Street helps vulnerable children, young people and long-term change. families across Victoria by providing safe homes, healing trauma, and strengthening families.

17 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Capacity Building Streams

Capacity Building Streams are active in each of Arts and Total Grants Humanities, Education, Poverty and Disadvantage, and Sustainability and Environment Programs. Each stream $1,237,867 of funding has a refined focus, developed in consultation with its sector, exemplifying our desire to adapt better to the communities in which we make our grants.

Left: SNAICC (Australia’s peak body for Indigenous child welfare), Poverty and Disadvantage Capacity Building Stream Grant Recipients. Photo by Wayne Quilliam.

Below: Restless Dance Theatre, Arts and Humanities Capacity Building Stream Grant Recipient. Dancers Chris Dyke, Lorcan Hopper, Josh Campton and Michael Hodyl. Photo by Andy Rasheed

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FY17 Capacity Building Recipients by State and Territory

Fontanelle Gallery & Studios SNAICC – National Voice for our Children Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre isthisyours? Insite Arts International Restless Dance Theatre Vitalstatistix Conservation Council of Ararat College South Australia Senior Secondary Greening Australia College South Australia Flowerdale Primary School Glenroy Secondary College MacKillop Specialist School Geelong Trees For Life

Child and Family Welfare Association of Tasmania Foster and Kinship Carer Association of Tasmania Kempton Primary School Below: Perth Primary School Trees for Life, Sustainability and Environment Northern Tasmanian Natural Capacity Building Stream Grant Recipients. Resource Management [L-R] Angela Clements, Gary Dunn, Colin Association Andy and Michele Garner.

19 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Small Grants Programs

The Small Grants Programs, which run Total Grants across the Poverty and Disadvantage and Education Programs, aim to provide $1,004,735 quick responses to community needs, Australia-wide. The Education Program “In 2016, Fern Bay Public School supports projects that improve the received a grant from the Sidney Myer education outcomes for 0-25 year olds Fund to help refurbish our library. while the Poverty and Disadvantage The brightly coloured shelving, Program supports strategies to benefit a Dewey-decimal reading rug, Australian communities by strengthening ottomans and mini-cushions to host their abilities to deal with poverty and an entire class and a dedicated area disadvantage. for Indigenous themed books have all helped reinforce the importance of reading among our students.” Sally Johnston, Grants Officer, Fern Bay Parents and Citizens Below: Fern Bay Public School Library Renewal, Education Association Small Grant Recipient.

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FY17 Small Grant Distributions by State and Territory

NT $46,786

WA $45,000 QLD $196,991

SA $74,050 NSW $347,314 VIC $261,826

TAS $32,768

Below: The Windeward Bound Trust – 2016 Youth Leadership Challenge, Poverty and Disadvantage Small Grant Recipient.

21 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Family Grants Program

The Family Grants Program recognises Myer family The Stroke members’ philanthropic activity and matches their Foundation’s Stroke individual philanthropic giving. The Program recognises Ambulance will be the donation of money, and for fourth generation the first mobile stroke family members, time. Three of this year’s recipient unit in the southern organisations are featured on these pages. hemisphere.

Clockwise from left: Ragamuffin the cat gets some help from Lort Smith Animal Hospital staff; The Stroke Ambulance; 2017 Causindy Conference Participants.

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22 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Mental Health Committee

The Mental Health Committee, co-convened by and composed of fourth generation Myer family members and a non-family sector expert, is dedicated to realising the philanthropic vision of the fourth generation of the Myer family. Each year, the Committee makes a series of grants in support of upstream interventions addressing young people’s mental health and well-being.

Right: VicHealth’s Bright It is estimated Futures for Young Victorians Challenge. that mental illness

Below: Centre for costs the Victorian Multicultural Youth clients. [L to R]: Ali Nazari, Nyayoud economy $5.4 billion Jice, Anjali Nambissan. every year.

23 ACTING BIGGER | ADAPTING BETTER | FAMILY ENGAGEMENT Merlyn Myer Fund

The Merlyn Myer Fund is governed by Dame Merlyn While women are well Myer’s four grand-daughters and in FY17 made grants represented in the in support of the Cape York Girls Academy and the performance streams Merlyn Myer Commission. of Australia’s music conservatoria, the same cannot be said of the compositional streams. Since 2015 The Merlyn Myer Commission has been creating opportunities to redress this imbalance.

Left: 2017 Merlyn Myer Music Commission recipient, Andrea Keller.

Below: Cape York Girls Academy residents. Photo by Brad Newton.

24 FY17 Grant List

25 Sidney Myer Fund Four Winds $2,000 Shepparton Art Museum $100,000 NSW VIC Trustees’ Grants Core Support New Shepparton Art Museum

ActNow Theatre $2,000 Good360 Australia $75,000 Social Traders $250,000 SA NSW VIC Core Support Collaborative Funding - Goods for the Social Investment Portfolio Greater Good Adelaide Festival $10,000 South East Arts $2,000 SA Habitat for Humanity Victoria $10,000 NSW Core Support VIC Core Support Core Support Art Gallery of South Australia $5,000 St Kilda Gatehouse $25,000 SA Jam Factory $5,000 VIC Core Support SA Young Women’s Project Core Support Arts Centre Melbourne $550,000 Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden VIC Jewish Christian Muslim Association Foundation $80,000 Asia TOPA: Triennial of Performing Arts of Australia $50,000 VIC VIC Kitchen Garden Skills Online Asylum Seekers Centre $25,000 JCMA Schools Program NSW The Production Company $10,000 NSW Alliance for People Seeking Asylum - Just Us Theatre Ensemble $2,000 VIC Humanitarian Hub QLD Core Support Core Support Asylum Seekers Centre $50,000 The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation $2,000 NSW Kids Thrive Inc $50,000 VIC Asylum Seekers Centre Chief Executive VIC Core Support Officer Employing Kids Thrive General Manager The Torch Project $10,000 Australia-Indonesia Institute $40,000 L2R Next Gen $30,000 VIC ACT VIC Core Support Core Support L2R Operations 2017 Theatre Council Tasmania $10,000 Australian Brandenburg Orchestra $2,000 La Mama $10,000 TAS VIC VIC Tasmania Theatre Awards Core Support Core Support Ukaria $2,000 Australian Research Alliance for Malthouse Theatre $100,000 SA Children and Youth $32,277 VIC Core Support ACT Tower Residency Program right@home Phase 2 Vitalstatistix $2,000 Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s SA Australian Tapestry Workshop $2,000 Resource Centre $2,000 Core Support VIC WA Core Support Core Support Western Edge Youth Arts $10,000 VIC Australian Theatre for Young People $2,000 Mission to Seafarers Victoria $10,000 Building Belonging NSW VIC Core Support Core Support Windmill Theatre Company $2,000 VIC Australian World Orchestra $10,000 National Portrait Gallery $100,000 Core Support NSW ACT Core Support In Their Own Words: A Location Based Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Audio Guide to the Collection of the Grants Total: $2,169,277 Belarus Free Theatre $10,000 National Portrait Gallery VIC Core Support Refugee Legal $265,000 VIC BJ Morriszonkle $2,000 Volunteer Coordinator and Fast Track VIC TPV Clinics Core Support Refugee Advice and Casework Service Brown’s Mart Theatre $2,000 (Aust) $50,000 NT NSW Core Support Volunteer Coordination Project

Castlemaine State Festival $10,000 Salamanca Arts Centre $2,000 VIC TAS Core Support Core Support

Centre for Policy Development $100,000 Shepparton Art Museum $45,000 VIC VIC Track II Dialogue on Forced Migration 2015 Sidney Myer Fund Australian in the Asia-Pacific Ceramic Award

Fitzroy Learning Network $2,000 VIC Core Support

26 The Myer Foundation Human Rights Law Centre $250,000 University of Melbourne $50,000 VIC VIC Directors’ Grants Safeguarding Democracy Project Children as Contributors

Arts Law Centre of Australia $5,000 Human Rights Law Centre $88,880 University of Melbourne $10,000 NSW VIC VIC Core Support Advancing Human Rights Using Strategic Core Support Litigation Australian Academy of Humanities $400,000 University of Melbourne $800,000 ACT Hyde Street Youth Band $5,000 VIC A New Approach VIC Redevelopment of the Southbank Campus Core Support of the Faculty of VCA and MCM Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network $30,000 Jawun $80,000 Writers Victoria $130,000 VIC QLD VIC Growing Green Philanthropy Core Support Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund

Australian Environmental Grantmakers Kilfinan Australia $25,000 Youth Law $10,000 Network $5,000 VIC VIC VIC Capacity Building Project Core Support Core Support Love Mercy Foundation $1,000 The Myer Foundation Directors’ Australians For Equality $200,000 NSW Grants Total: $4,244,380 NSW Core Support Marriage Equality Plebiscite Malthouse Theatre $5,000 Beacon Foundation $1,000 VIC TAS Core Support Core Support Melbourne Prize Trust $5,000 Contemporary Arts Precincts $350,000 VIC VIC Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014 Collingwood Arts Precinct Melbourne Theatre Company $50,000 EdConnect Australia $5,000 VIC VIC Next Stage Writer’s Program Core Support Monash Sustainability Institute Elbow Room Theatre $5,000 - ClimateWorks $200,000 VIC VIC Core Support Core Support

Epilepsy Foundation $2,000 National Library of Australia $20,000 VIC ACT Core Support Kenneth Myer Lecture Series

Federation of Community Legal Centres $100,000 Nature Conservation Society of SA $2,500 VIC SA Smart Justice Core Support

Fighting Chance Australia $2,000 Our Watch $400,000 NSW VIC Core Support Creating a Violence-Free Future – Respectful Relationships Education in Flemington Kensington Community Australian Primary Schools Legal Centre $30,000 VIC Philanthropy Australia $20,000 Without Suspicion: Towards Inclusive and VIC Human Rights Focused Policing in Victoria Core Support

Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Recognise $800,000 Culture Centre $2,000 NSW NT Regional Field Campaign Core Support The Melbourne Neuroscience Institute Habitat for Humanity Victoria $10,000 of the University of Melbourne $100,000 VIC VIC Core Support Yulgilbar Alzheimer’s Clinical Research Network Program Heide Museum of Modern Art $5,000 VIC The Trustee for the Save the Children Core Support Australia Trust $30,000 VIC Human Rights Law Centre $10,000 Targeted Advocacy Campaign: Global VIC Refugee Summits September 2016 Advance LGBTI Rights

27 Sidney Myer 2016 Sidney Myer Performing Poverty and Disadvantage Creative Fellowships Arts Awards Large Grants

Alexis Wright $80,000 Australian Theatre for Young People $90,000 Anglicare Victoria $105,635 VIC NSW VIC 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow 2016 Group Award The Home Stretch - Let’s Finish What We Started Courtney Collins $80,000 Gavin Webber $60,000 VIC QLD Australian Foster Care Association $31,543 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow 2016 Individual Award ACT Encouraging and Sustaining Quality Care Emily Floyd $80,000 Kathy Burns $25,000 to Improve Outcomes for Children and VIC QLD Young People in Care 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow 2016 Facilitator’s Prize Berry Street $250,000 Gabrielle de Vietri $80,000 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award VIC NT Total: $175,000 Family Finding - Connecting Children in 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Protection to Lifelong Family and Cultural Support Harry Angus $80,000 Myer Innovation Fellowships VIC Centre for Excellence in Child and 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Family Welfare $233,000 Bjorn Sturmberg $130,000 VIC 2016 Myer Innovation Fellow Lawrence English $80,000 Improving Education Outcomes for Young QLD People in Out of Home Care Daniel Harrison $130,000 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow 2016 Myer Innovation Fellow Kids Thrive $10,000 Marieke Hardy $80,000 VIC Sarah Doyle $124,505 VIC Core Support 2016 Myer Innovation Fellow 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow The Australian Centre for Social Myer Innovation Fellowship Grant Total: $384,505 Martin Del Amo $80,000 Innovation $208,822 NSW SA 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Rethinking Foster Care, Shifting the System Timothy Watts $80,000 VIC The Salvation Army $61,000 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow VIC Continuing Care Project Tommy Murphy $80,000 NSW Poverty and Disadvantage 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Large Grants Total: $900,000

Alex Kelly $80,000 NT 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Education Large Grants

Bianca Hester $80,000 Flinders University $104,465 NSW SA 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Stop-and-Think Maths

Gareth Liddiard $80,000 Glenroy College $10,000 VIC VIC 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Core Support

Jonathon Oxlade $80,000 Teach For Australia $225,000 SA NSW 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Accelerated School Leaders Program

Justin Shoulder $80,000 The Australian Council for Educational NSW Research $104,629 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow VIC Understanding and Dealing with Khadim Ali $80,000 Mathematics Anxiety QLD 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow Education Large Grants Total: $444,094

Mary Anne Butler $80,000 NT 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow

Sarah Holland-Batt $80,000 QLD 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow

Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship Total: $1,440,000

28 Sustainability and Environment Education Capacity Building Arts and Humanities Capacity Large Grants Stream Grants Building Stream Grants

Australian Youth Climate Coalition $5,000 Ararat College $60,000 Fontanelle Gallery & Studios $45,000 VIC VIC SA Core Support Peer Observation and Feedback Capacity Building

CoDesign Studio $726,150 Bendigo Senior Secondary College $60,000 Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre $45,000 VIC VIC SA The Neighbourhood Project Building Capacity through Peer Mentoring Capacity Building

Yarra Riverkeeper Association $5,000 Flowerdale Primary School $6,820 isthisyours? $25,000 VIC VIC SA Core Support Peer Observations and Coaching Capacity Building

Sustainability and Environment Glenroy Secondary College $60,000 Insite Arts International $45,000 Large Grants Total: $736,150 VIC SA Building Challenging Tasks Capacity Building

Poverty and Disadvantage Kempton Primary School $11,790 Restless Dance Theatre $45,000 TAS SA Capacity Building Stream Peer Observations Capacity Building Grants MacKillop Specialist School Geelong $58,300 Vitalstatistix $45,000 Barnardos Australia $95,950 VIC SA NSW Improving Educational Outcomes for Capacity Building Safety of Aboriginal Children in Out of Vulnerable Children Home Care Arts and Humanities Capacity Building Perth Primary School $57,400 Grants Total: $250,000* Child and Family Welfare Association TAS of Tasmania $23,000 Good to Great Teaching * $120,000 co-funded by James & Diana Ramsay TAS Foundation Home Stretch Campaign Education Capacity Building Grants Total: $314,310

Foster and Kinship Carer Association of Tasmania $81,120 Sustainability and Environment TAS Fostering Better Care in Tasmania Capacity Building Stream Grants SNAICC – National Voice for our Children $100,000 NT Conservation Council of South Australia $95,587 Aboriginal Community Controlled Out SA of Home Care Services in the Northern Champions and Changemakers Territory Greening Australia South Australia $95,000 Poverty and Disadvantage Capacity SA Building Grants Total: $300,070 Adelaide Green Cities

Northern Tasmanian Natural Resource Management Association $95,000 TAS Information and Data Management Improvement Project

Trees For Life $87,900 SA Urban Corridors Project

Sustainability and Environment Capacity Building Grants Total: $373,487

29 Poverty and Disadvantage Dandenong South Primary School Path 2 Change $8,000 Community Hub $10,000 NSW Small Grants VIC Life Skills Enrichment Program Mothers’ Learning and Support Playgroup Able Australia Services $9,994 Police Citizens Youth Clubs $10,000 QLD Down Syndrome Association $10,000 NSW NDIS Focus Group Sessions for Aboriginal NSW Fitness, Fun and Family Through Football and Torres Strait Islanders with Accessible Information Disabilities Port Macquarie Community College $10,000 Dress for Success Sydney $10,000 NSW Action on Disability within Ethnic NSW Absolutely Everybody Choir Communities $6,160 Sydney Outreach Program VIC Powerhouse Youth Theatre $7,500 Stronger Karen Women - Stronger Edmund Rice Camps $10,000 NSW Community Wyndham TAS Tribunal Refugee Sports Camp Afghan Fajar Association $7,050 Preston Reservoir Adult Community NSW Enterprise Learning Projects $10,000 Education $10,000 Drive to Success WA VIC Tramulla Op Shop Enterprise Learning Asylum Seekers Welcome Project Aged And Disability Advocacy Australia $10,000 QLD Family Access Network $10,000 Queensland University of Technology $9,892 LGBTI Seniors and Residential Care VIC QLD Engagement Project Bridging the Gap Providing Eye Care to Refugee Communities of Brisbane Bairnsdale Neighbourhood House $2,950 Foodbank South Australia $9,950 VIC SA Seeds of Hope Community Services $10,000 Heating and Cooling for Support and Whyalla Food Hub Set-up QLD Education Groups Financial Choices Enhancement Grandparents For Grandchildren SA $7,200 Bateau Bay PCYC $3,000 SA Southern Cross Kids’ Camps $10,000 NSW Extra-curricular Support for Grandparent VIC Indigenous Domestic Violence Program Carers Overcoming the Impact of Child Abuse in the Shepparton Region Bayside Initiative Group $9,750 Gunawirra $10,000 QLD NSW Southern Migrant and Refugee Centre $9,989 BIG Meals Project Gunawirra Aboriginal Pregnancy Program VIC Refugee Education Support Project Birrang Enterprise Development $10,000 Hackham West Community Centre $10,000 NSW SA Springvale Neighbourhood House $7,043 Driving Forward Family Fun Fridays VIC English & Computer Classes for Asylum Blue Light Victoria $6,000 Inclusion Melbourne $10,000 Seekers VIC VIC Bendigo Blue Light Boxing Program Supporting the Inclusion and Wellbeing of St Joseph’s Outreach Services $1,500 LGBTIQ People with Intellectual Disability VIC Breakthru People Solutions $9,800 Transitional Housing Units Makeover NSW KARI Aboriginal Resources $10,000 Driving for Success NSW Stretch-A-Family $9,400 KARI Brighter Futures Families Camp NSW Bridge for Asylum Seekers Foundation $10,000 Thrive Rather than Survive NSW Kennerley Children’s Homes $9,280 Asylum Seekers Project VIC Symphony For Life Foundation $10,000 Growing up Financial NSW Caretakers Cottage $10,000 Everybody Sing! NSW Law Access $10,000 Case Work Brokerage Fund WA Tangentyere Council $10,000 Asylum Seeker Legacy Caseload Appeals NT Carringbush Adult Education $9,200 BikeAbout VIC Lions Club of Corio Norlane $10,000 Work Pathways for Asylum Seekers VIC Toowoomba CatholicCare Social Services $9,800 Corio Norlane Shelter Project QLD Castlemaine Community House $6,800 The Dignity Project VIC Mahboba’s Promise $10,000 Feeding the Community NSW The Windeward Bound Trust $9,793 Bibi’s House TAS Circle of Friends Australia $10,000 2016 Youth Leadership Challenge SA Make a Difference Dingley Village $10,000 Volunteer Interview Support Project VIC Thrive Community $9,704 When I’m Big, I Don’t Want to be Poor VIC City Wide Ministries $3,495 Budgeting Course for the Disadvantaged VIC Narrabri & District Community Aid Service $5,000 Stitches Inner-City Kids Club NSW Top Blokes Foundation $8,957 Community Garden NSW Community Living & Respite Services $10,000 Building Blokes 2.0 VIC Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy $9,950 Opening Doors Project - On the Move NSW University of Queensland $8,250 Move, Explore, Create QLD Refugee Legal Clinic

30 Vineyard Mercy Centre $5,880 Croxton Special School $6,500 Little Souls Taking Big Steps $5,500 QLD VIC QLD Community Connection Cafe Pre-CAL Life-Skills Numeracy Program Small Group Socialisation

Youth Off The Streets $8,050 Curran Public School $10,000 Magnetic Island State School NSW NSW P+C Association $9,654 Cultural Connections Parents as Partners QLD Outdoor Reading and Sensory Happy Poverty and Disadvantage Duri Public School $6,799 Garden Small Grants Total: $499,337 NSW Technology and Learning Maitland Grossmann High School $2,186 NSW Education Small Grants Empire Vale Public School $10,000 Wheelchair Accessible Garden Bed NSW How to get a Picture to tell 1000 words Malanda State School $9,200 Alawa Primary School $8,050 QLD NT Esk and District Kindergarten $1,261 Community Space for Connecting Early Intervention for Learning QLD New Kindergarten Chairs Manning Gardens Public School $10,000 Alstonville Community Preschool $9,998 NSW NSW Fern Bay P&C $9,660 Our Cooking Adventure Enhancing Literacy Together We Can NSW and Numeracy Fern Bay Library for Learning and Literacy Amy Hurd Early Learning Centre $9,940 Manunda Terrace Primary School $9,600 NSW Glenallen School $9,350 NT Aboriginal Support Educator VIC Engaging the Early Years - Creating a Accessible Mathematics Resources Stronger Future Annette’s Place $3,487 NSW Goomeri State School $10,000 Meandarra State School $10,000 Bing Bang Bong - Instruments for QLD QLD Rural Kids Canberra Camp Robotics In Rural Regions Ardoch Youth Foundation $10,000 Greystanes High School $7,300 Morphett Vale Primary School $10,000 VIC NSW SA LEGO Robotics in Corio Norlane Technology for the Support Unit Digital Visual Literacy for Disadvantaged Students Bedourie State School Parents and Hillman Primary School $10,000 Citizens Association $5,000 WA Moura State High School $10,000 QLD Nurture Group QLD From Red Sandhills to White Snow #2 Music Program Gunnedah Shire Council $2,255 Beenleigh State High School NSW Mudgee High School $10,000 P&C Association $10,000 Junior Brain Games NSW QLD Laser Cutter Laptops for Learning Hunter River High School $9,960 NSW Murray High School $10,000 Bendigo Science & Technology Museum $5,850 Dhun-barn Boo-larng (Stronger Together) NSW VIC Literacy Strategy Connection to Country Minibeasts in The Lab at Discovery Indigo North Health $5,000 Murwillumbah High School $10,000 Blackburn English Language School $6,000 VIC NSW VIC Sensory Room Yes We Can Cafe The Books in Homes Project Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association $2,810 NSW Department of Education and Bourchier Street Primary School $10,000 QLD Training $10,000 VIC Flying High - Gymnastics Goes Bush NSW Re-engaging At-risk Students with a Kids iPad Pedagogy Program Shed Karama Primary School $9,800 NT Nyngan High School $9,987 Broadmeadows Special Develomental Learning to Talk, Talking to Learn! NSW School $8,000 Library Upgrade - Technology Component VIC Kintore Street School $9,336 From Crate to Plate NT Ocean View College $10,000 Working with the Future SA Carlton School $7,000 Sports, Fitness and Outdoor Education SA Lake Tyers Day Health and Children’s Academy Cooking Together Service $4,354 VIC One Arm Point Remote Community School $10,000 Coast FM $2,975 RAMP Remote Access Multicultural WA TAS Playgroup Early Childhood Education Community The Voice of Youth Program Lalor Park Preschool Kindergarten Colbinabbin Primary School $6,790 Association $1,500 PUUYA Foundation $10,000 VIC NSW QLD Nature Based Play Area Magic Maths and the Numbers Game Outdoor Learning Environment Coppabella State School $10,000 Lawnton State School $5,000 Runcorn State School $10,000 QLD QLD QLD STEM Impact Community Garden Academic Social Emotional Opportunities for all Students

31 School of Special Education North West $10,000 Family Grants Children First $4,000 TAS VIC Eye Participate A Peace of Nourishment $5,000 Life Changing Surgery for Disadvantaged VIC Children Story Dogs $9,765 Core Support VIC CoDesign Studio $2,100 Help Melbourne’s Disadvantaged Children Adelaide Festival Centre $10,000 VIC Learn to Read SA The Neighbourhood Project Oz Asia Festival 2017 Sunbury Downs Secondary College $10,000 Creative Partnerships Australia $20,000 VIC Amy Gillett Foundation $6,240 VIC Building Digital Literacy in Middle Years VIC Biennale of Australia Art Learners A Meter Matters Creativity Australia $3,000 The Community Place $5,000 Animals Asia $20,000 VIC QLD SA With One Voice Inspiring Little Scientists with STEM Core Support Foodbank Tas $5,000 VICSEG New Futures $10,000 Ardoch Youth Foundation $10,000 TAS VIC VIC Statewide School Breakfast Programs Inner West Student Engagement and Harmony in Strings Project Support Program Giant Steps Melbourne $10,000 Arts Centre Melbourne $25,000 VIC Virginia Primary School $9,900 VIC Community Access for Children and Young SA Victorian Arts Centre Trust Adults Learning for Enrichment Asylum Seekers Resource Centre $2,500 Giant Steps Sydney $5,000 Waroona District High School $5,000 VIC NSW WA Core Support Annual Bike Ride Nyoongar Six Season Garden Australia Council for the Arts $25,000 Heide Museum of Modern Art $5,000 Wunghnu Primary School $3,520 NSW VIC VIC Venice Biennale Core Support Building Teacher Capacity Australian Brandenburg Orchestra $2,500 Hobart City Mission $5,000 Wyndham Central College $4,576 NSW TAS VIC Core Support Small Steps Drumbeat Australian Chamber Orchestra $5,000 Humane Society International $5,000 Wyrallah Road P&C Association $7,535 NSW NSW NSW ACO Mountain Australia for Dolphins Little Readers - Big Futures Australian National Academy of Music $10,000 Lort Smith $28,000 Young Families Connect $10,000 VIC VIC QLD Georgina Grosvenor Scholarship Guardian Circle YFC Playground Australian Tapestry Foundation $10,000 McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery $5,000 Your Angel $10,000 VIC VIC NSW Core Support Core Support Ask Nao Berry Street $5,000 Melba Opera Trust $10,000 Education Small Grants Total: $505,398 VIC VIC Y-Change - Change More Support the Scholars

Brotherhood of St Laurence $5,000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival $5,000 VIC VIC Core Support Core Support

Brotherhood of St Lawrence $3,000 Melbourne Theatre Company $25,000 VIC VIC Urban Youth Camp Next Stage Writer’s Program

Causindy $20,000 Melbourne Writers’ Festival $5,000 NSW VIC The Conference of Australian and Core Support Indonesian Youth Migrant Resource Centre $10,000 Cerebral Palsy Alliance $5,000 TAS NSW Bicultural Worker Pool Equipment for Children with Cerebral Palsy Museum of Contemporary Art $15,000 NSW Chatter Matters Tasmania $10,000 Bella Dinner 2016 TAS Just Sentences

32 Musica Viva $5,000 The Salvation Army $5,000 Mental Health Committee NSW VIC Melbourne International Chamber Music Core Support Centre for Multicultural Youth $110,000 Competition VIC The Stella Prize $6,500 Launch National Portrait Gallery $15,000 VIC ACT Core Support Murdoch Childrens Research Institute $50,000 Helena Rubinstein Acquisition VIC The Tapestry Foundation of Australia $5,000 Assessing Resilience in Children Opera Australia $25,000 VIC NSW Give an Inch Satellite Foundation $20,000 Capital Fund VIC University of Melbourne $25,000 Core Support Red Stitch Actors Theatre $2,500 VIC VIC Southbank Precinct Redevelopment Youth Live4Life $20,000 Core Support VIC University of Melbourne $10,000 Live4Life Pilot Evaluation Robin Boyd Foundation $5,000 VIC VIC Director’s Circle Program Mental Health Committee Grants Total: $200,000 Core Support University of Melbourne $20,000 Rotary Australia World Community Service $8,000 VIC TAS VCA Scholarship Merlyn Myer Fund Rafiki Mwema Project Victoria University $15,000 Cape York Girl Academy $30,000 SANE Australia $12,000 VIC QLD VIC Core Support The Wellbeing Program Core Support Victorian Arts Centre Trust $3,000 Melbourne Recital Centre $45,000 Second Bite $7,500 VIC VIC VIC First Call Fund Merlyn Myer Commission Core Support Victorian Opera Company $3,000 Merlyn Myer Fund Grants Total: $75,000 Shepparton Art Museum $10,000 VIC VIC Victorian Opera Public Fund Core Support Yarra Riverkeeper Association $5,000 Spinal Research Institute $2,500 VIC VIC Waste Strike Force and River Health Core Support Monitoring

St Vincent de Paul $10,000 Family Grants Total: $596,340 TAS Louis’ Van Hobart

Stroke Foundation $10,000 VIC Stroke Ambulance

The Australian Ballet $2,500 VIC Ambassador Program

The Butterfly Foundation $5,000 VIC Core Support

The Ethics Centre $4,500 NSW The Catalyst Program

The Fred Hollows Foundation $5,000 NSW Melbourne Coastrek

The LINK - Youth Services $10,000 TAS Headspace Hobart

The Ned Kelly Centre $3,000 VIC Feasibility Study

33 Sidney Myer Fund The Myer Foundation Jessica Myer Jon Myer Chairman Founder, Life Governor and Emeritus Director Laura Myer Carrillo Gantner AO Mr S. Baillieu Myer AC Lilly Myer Louise Myer Trustees Life Governor Lucy Myer Sally Lindsay Lady Southey AC Michael Myer Sidney Myer AM Carrillo Gantner AO Patrick Myer Andrew Myer Philip Myer President Mrs Sarah Myer Sidney Myer Fund Grantmaking Committees Martyn Myer AO Walter Myer Sidney Myer AM Arts and Humanities Vice President David Shelmerdine Kate Shelmerdine (Convenor) Emily Myer Emily Shelmerdine Lady Southey AC Kate Shelmerdine Carrillo Gantner AO Directors Laura Richards Rupert Myer AO Rupert Myer AO (until Nov 2016) Lilian Shelmerdine Lindy Shelmerdine Lindy Shelmerdine Maree Shelmerdine Kerry Gardner Tim Jacobs Matt Shelmerdine Patrick Myer Prof Dorothy Scott AM (until Nov 2016) Stephen Shelmerdine Sue Nattrass AO Kim Williams AM Tom Shelmerdine Stephen Armstrong Adelaide Myer (from Nov 2016) William Shelmerdine Mary Vallentine AO (from Nov 2016) Anna Spraggett Education Will Spraggett Maree Shelmerdine (Convenor) Members (in addition to Office Holders above) Sally Lindsay Joanna Baevski The Myer Foundation Grantmaking Committees Louise Myer Chris Baillieu Anna Spraggett Samantha Baillieu AM Sustainability and Environment Lucy Myer Jon Berry William Shelmerdine (Co-Convenor) Jon Berry Jigna Desai Patrick Myer (Co-Convenor) Ben Jensen Anna Foley Martyn Myer AO Dashiell Gantner Lindy Shelmerdine Poverty and Disadvantage Vallejo Gantner Prof Hugh Possingham (until Dec 2016) Sally Lindsay (Convenor) ZiYin Gantner Toby Kent Lady Southey AC Carrillo Gantner AO Andrew Myer Kerry Gardner Myer Innovation Fellowships (co-supported by Louise Myer Nell Golden the Sidney Myer Fund) Laura Myer (leave of absence from Feb 2017) Daisy Hayward Anna Foley (Co-Convenor) Joanna Baevski Rob Hayward Jon Myer (Co-Convenor) Prof Dorothy Scott AM Kate Herd Andrew Myer Phillip Mendes Natalie Herd Jan Owen AM Simon Herd John Daley Merlyn Myer Fund Jessica Lindsay Sally Lindsay Jonathan Lindsay Mental Health Committee Lindy Shelmerdine Nick Lindsay Laura Richards (Co-Convenor) Samantha Baillieu AM Sally Lindsay Nell Golden (Co-Convenor) Joanna Baevski Timothy Lindsay Emily Myer Andrew Myer Nicholas Lindsay Annabel Myer Robert Hayward Edgar Myer Sarah Hardy Edwina Myer

STAFF

Chief Executive Officer Leonard Vary

Program Managers Kirsty Allen Dr Neal Harvey Elena Mogilevski

Executive Assistant Amy Hill

Administration Assistant Jennifer Kelly

Staff Left to right: Jenny Kelly, Kirsty Allen, Dr Neal Harvey, Amy Hill, Leonard Vary, Elena Mogilevski.

34 Financial Summary

The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants $4,244,380 Myer Innovation Fellowships $130,000 Sustainability and Environment Large Grants $736,150 Sustainability and Environment Capacity Building Stream Grants $373,487 Mental Health Committee Grants $200,000 Family Grants $596,340

Total The Myer Foundation Grants $6,280,357

Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Grants $2,169,277 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships $1,440,000 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards $175,000 Myer Innovation Fellowships $254,505 Poverty and Disadvantage Large Grants $900,000 Poverty and Disadvantage Capacity Building Stream Grants $300,070 Poverty and Disadvantage Small Grants $499,337 Arts and Humanities Capacity Building Stream Grants $250,000 Education Large Grants $444,094 Education Capacity Building Stream Grants $314,310 Education Small Grants $505,398 Merlyn Myer Fund $75,000

Total Sidney Myer Fund Grants $7,326,991

Total Fund and Foundation Grants $13,607,348

35 Sidney Myer Fund The Myer Foundation 17 Bennetts Lane Melbourne Vic 3000 Australia

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