The Foundation Annual Report 2019–20 Contents Origins of The

Origins of The Myer Foundation 1 A Sustainable Future 2 The Myer Foundation President’s Address 3 The Myer Foundation CEO’s Introduction 5 Vale Professor Harry Simon 6 The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants 7 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 9 Sustainability & Environment Program 10 Mental Health Program 12 Family Grants Program 13 Front cover: Reach Foundation Biographies of The Myer Foundation Directors 15 Back cover: Four Winds Festival, Welcome The Myer Foundation Committees and Membership 16 to Country from representatives of the Yuin-Monaro Nations. Photo: David Rogers The Myer Foundation Financials 17 Below: Reach Foundation The Myer Foundation was established in 1959 by ’s sons, the late Kenneth Myer AC DSC, and Baillieu Myer AC, as a way to support initiatives and new opportunities arising from contemporary issues. The Myer Foundation was endowed through Kenneth Myer’s estate following his death in 1992.

1 A Sustainable Future The Myer Foundation President’s Address

Environmental Sustainability is one of The Myer Foundation and This has been a year in which we through the use of meaningful and have all faced many challenges. It has well-designed deliberative processes. Sidney Myer Fund’s five core values while addressing climate been a year in which TMF’s focus on Philanthropy is ideally placed to support change is one of the two abiding themes of the FY19–23 climate change and innovation has the dissemination of evidence-informed, felt particularly appropriate. It was disinterested approaches to public strategic plan (the other being inequality). the year in which the Kenneth Myer policy and this centre will be critical to Innovation Fellowships were renamed our shared success in addressing The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals can help to acknowledge my father, the late water security. us achieve a better and more sustainable future. The Myer Kenneth Myer AC, DSC. The change of name, to be applied prospectively, Consistent with TMF’s beyond Foundation acknowledges that we all have an imperative to limit is part of a suite of measures to reflect grantmaking strategic pillar, TMF global warming through achieving net zero emissions by 2050. the impact of Ken’s vision and legacy resolved to invest 100 percent of of forward thinking, progressive and its corpus in either environmentally The Myer Foundation is pursuing climate action and courageous philanthropy and on his sustainable, social and governance – so co-founding and endowing The Myer called ESG investments – by the 2022 environmental sustainability goals across its portfolio of Foundation. TMF Annual General Meeting, with 90 grantmaking and investment activities. Funded organisations percent of the portfolio to be invested Penlidis James Photo: We recognise climate change as or committed in accordance with this Martyn Myer AO use a variety of levers including financial markets, political one of the most pressing challenges strategy by December 2020. We can all President discourse, social movements, public policy, education and facing our global community. FY20 do more than award grants in support saw TMF build a portfolio approach of our philanthropy and we are keen awareness, business and industry, and strategic litigation as to grantmaking on climate action and to explore how our approach might pathways to effect systemic change. environmental sustainability by funding inform other trusts and foundations in diverse but complementary means to enlivening their investment portfolios effecting change. The portfolio maps to meet the challenges we face as a out key levers - such as strategic global community. litigation and financial markets – and the organisations that can drive policy As many of you know, on 26 November and decision makers to act. It sees TMF I step down as President of TMF. It continue its support of ClimateWorks has been a great privilege to lead TMF while also championing the newly these past 11 years and I am proud merged Environmental Defenders Office. of the Foundation’s achievements Financial Public over this most recent period. My Markets Policy FY20 was the year in which we term commenced with the 2009 took the important first steps in Commemorative Grants Program, Climate & environment SDGs establishing an independent, national which saw a series of impactful grants water and catchment policy centre to made across our community, but Business & Political Industry Pathway to 50% emissions reduction Discourse catalyse transformative change in the perhaps none more impactful than the by 2030 management of ’s freshwater creation of ClimateWorks Australia. Net zero by 2050 systems and catchments. The Myer ClimateWorks was founded to help Foundation and The Ian Potter bridge the gap between climate Foundation have each committed $5 research and action. Recognising Education & Social million over ten years towards the centre this need, The Myer Foundation and movements Awareness (and raised in excess of a further $20 Monash University partnered to create million), which seeks to improve how a new, independent not-for-profit, Strategic Litigation policy decisions are made about water working within the Monash Sustainable management by working collaboratively Development Institute. For the past with governments and key stakeholders decade ClimateWorks has played a

2 3 The Myer Foundation CEO’s Introduction

unique role in Australia’s transition I’d like to thank my fellow Directors FY20 has seen a series of cascading TMF Directors’ support of Fair Agenda towards a net zero future. Climate for their work over these past 11 years crises hit Australia. Now, more than in this financial year represents a change is the most pressing challenge and congratulate AO ever, our community needs leadership. material investment in a campaigning facing us as a species. It’s not our on his election as President of TMF. We need leadership that is fit-for- and advocacy organisation focused planet that’s in trouble; it’s us. The I look forward to TMF continuing to purpose, that is supple when it needs on the safety, economic security, and planet will survive in some form, but we act decisively and progressively to to be and resolute when required. agency of all women over their lives and won’t if humanity doesn’t successfully address our most complex challenges It is time to lean in to our values, to bodies. Such a grant is emblematic of address the climate change challenge. with innovative and success- those qualities and attributes which our organisations strategic pillar and TMF’s persistent focus on addressing orientated thinking. I would also like define us and exist outside of reporting SMF/TMF’s Equality value. climate change continues to evolve to congratulate John Daley on his timelines. I am grateful for the work and explore new and innovative ways appointment to the TMF board and that TMF Directors and SMF Trustees I’d like to acknowledge and thank to effect positive change in the face of thank Leonard Vary, CEO of The Myer have previously completed with Myer Martyn Myer AO for all that has been dire consequences. From the creation Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund and family members to settle our values of achieved under his Presidency of of ClimateWorks to the restructuring of his outstanding team for their sector- Leadership, Creativity, Environmental TMF. Martyn has a perspicacious and TMF’s investment portfolio with a view leading work. Sustainability, Integrity, and Equality; inquisitive mind and an intolerance for to achieving strong financial returns in those values continue to guide our injustice wherever it might be found. His alignment with environmental, social This has been a very difficult year efforts to meet the challenges we face. oversight of the redevelopment of VCA’s Penlidis James Photo: and governance goals, our thinking has for many in our community and our Southbank campus, his persistent and Leonard Vary continued to explore new solutions to recovery from the bushfire crisis and the TMF’s establishment of the water vocal support for marriage equality, and CEO this wicked problem. global pandemic will take many years. and catchment policy centre this the multi-year funding of the Grattan That recovery would not be possible year is one such example of TMF’s Institute’s pursuit of independent, During these past 11 years TMF has without the dedicated individuals leadership in action. This new centre rigorous and practical solutions to helped support some genuinely positive working in the not-for-profit sector and will be a crucial pillar in propagating Australia’s most pressing problems social change in our country. Our focus I extend my thanks to them for their an evidence-informed discussion are prime examples of his leadership. on legal, civil and human rights has tireless work. regarding one of our most precious My congratulations to Rupert Myer resulted in support for organisations resources. I am delighted to have seen AO on his prospective election to such as the Human Rights Law Centre, this initiative, which is being created the presidency – my team and I look which uses strategic legal action, policy by a collaboration of more than a forward to working with Rupert over solutions and advocacy to support dozen philanthropic funders large and the coming years and continuing people and communities to eliminate small from all over Australia, materially TMF’s legacy of bold and impactful inequality and injustice and build a progress towards its funding target and philanthropy. fairer, more compassionate Australia. the appointment of a chair, board It has also afforded us to be one of and CEO. My thanks to the talented and the first large philanthropic entities to hardworking team at Bennetts Lane support marriage equality publicly and Prior to the onset of the global and to the dedicated and passionate financially. pandemic the priority theme for TMF for-purpose sector people and Directors’ grantmaking was human, organisations which feature in this civil and legal rights. In the context of report. I commend the work of these an emergency such as COVID-19 there committed individuals to you and can be a tendency for some issues to suggest that in this time of great need be considered other-than-urgent and we find whatever means we can to therefore peripheral and put aside. support their extraordinary efforts. A particularly important role for TMF at a time of considerable limitations on liberties and freedoms will be to maintain its focus on the agreed theme and I am pleased to have seen that focus persist.

4 5 Vale Professor Harry Simon The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants

The first grant made by The Myer Foundation in 1959 supported the establishment of the Chair of Oriental Studies at the University of . This prescient and pioneering initiative would establish the direction of so much that was to follow for The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund.

Harry Felix Simon: at other levels. One was the official 13 September 1923 – 7 July 2019 interpreter for successive Australian prime ministers from Bob Hawke to Professor Harry Felix Simon, who led John Howard. Chinese studies at the for a remarkable 27 years, Harry chaired the department for was born in Berlin on September 13, an unprecedented 27 years. He was 1923. associate dean and dean of the faculty of arts between 1966 and 1977. In 1959, The Myer Foundation made a Elected to the University Council, generous grant, including the purchase he served vigorously on faculty and of a building, to enable the University council committees and was pro- of Melbourne to establish a new vice-chancellor from 1979 to 1980. He department of oriental studies. Harry promoted Chinese cultural activities in was appointed its foundation professor Melbourne, organising an exhibition of in 1961. The programs Harry devised Modern Chinese Art in 1974, and took a Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Torch the Place (a Next Stage commission) in rehearsal followed the London/SOAS model keen interest in the Melbourne Theatre with a first year of intensive language Company, serving on its council, too. priming followed by three years’ Recipient State Project Name FY Grant Funding Total Commitment immersion in literary texts – modern, Upon retirement, Harry made his home Approved Term Grant from FY20 medieval and classical – as well as in Toorak, Melbourne. In 2009, he (years) Amount Budget contemporary material from mainland donated his large collection of Chinese Chinese newspapers. books to the university – more than Multi-year grants 1000 items in all dating from the 1880s Centre for Social Impact, NSW National Program for 2020 Five $1,500,000 - Harry believed university programs on, the result of a lifetime of research University of Not-for-profit Leaders in Asian languages should include and collecting – a substantial resource Environmental Defenders Office NSW General Operating Support 2020 Three $210,000 $210,000 grounding in the literature as well as for later generations. His wife, Margo, Human Rights Law Centre VIC An Australian Charter of Human Rights 2020 Three $150,000 $150,000 cultural background on the historical, died in May 2010. Harry died peacefully, Grattan Institute VIC General Operating Support 2020 Three $150,000 - political and sociological contexts – an aged 95 years, at his nursing home in National Library of Australia ACT Challenging Australia: The Kenneth Myer 2020 Five $125,000 - approach thought “traditionalist” by Melbourne on July 7, 2019. then, when language education was Lecture, 2020-2024 increasingly prioritising communication By Andrew Endrey, Christopher Nailer Centre for Policy Development NSW Cities and Settlement Program 2018 Three $450,000 $150,000 competencies. From 1965, Japanese was and Carol Simon. Justice Connect VIC Justice Connect Legal Help Gateway 2018 Three $450,000 $150,000 added to the department’s offerings, The Foundation for VIC Learning, Earning and Living in the Future 2018 Three $300,000 $100,000 The authors were students of Chinese and from 1971, it also incorporated Young Australians at the University of Melbourne between Indonesian and Malayan studies. Domestic Violence VIC Addressing Pornography’s Influence 2018 Three $170,000 $50,000 1970 and 1981. Andrew and Christopher Resource Centre Despite its small size, the department also tutored there. Carol is the third Australian Academy of ACT A New Approach 2017 Three $1,200,000 $400,000 punched far above its weight. Its generation of Simons to study Chinese. the Humanities Chinese studies alumni from 1961 to 1988 include an ambassador to Beijing, Writers VIC Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund 2017 Three $338,000 - a consul-general to Shanghai, heads of Melbourne Theatre Company VIC Next Stage Writer’s Program 2017 Five $250,000 $50,000 mission in countries other than China Human Rights Law Centre VIC Safeguarding Democracy Project 2016 Four $1,000,000 $250,000 as well as many Foreign Affairs officers Total $6,293,000 $1,510,000

6 7 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships

Fair Agenda’s 2019 campaign helped more NSW women access reproductive health care 2019 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellow Dr Eve Lester

The Kenneth Myer Innovation based community organising in the we are joined and supported in the task Recipient State Project Name Commitment Fellowships afford the crème of climate movement, a social enterprise of selecting each year’s Fellow by a from FY20 Budget Australia’s social and environmental employing a new approach to training stellar committee, comprised of Andrew innovators a year in which to develop a disability support workers, and growing Myer AM, Prof John Daley, Jan Owen AM ground breaking idea into a sustainable the ecosystem for plant-based food and Kathryn Fagg AO. We are grateful Single-year grants plan for action, or to take an early stage innovations. In an era of increasing for their insightful contributions, and Centre for Policy Development NSW Climate and Recovery Initiative $100,000 project to the next level. The Myer forced migration around the world, to the members of the Kenneth Myer Fair Agenda VIC General Operating Support $100,000 Foundation supports one Fellowship we are delighted that the Fellowship Innovation Fellowship Support Panel, The Australian Academy of Science ACT Water and Catchment Policy Centre - each year, within the broad definitions supported by TMF in FY20 will develop Oliver Roydhouse, Clare Harding and University of Melbourne / Jack Brockhoff VIC Improving Support for Children Bereaved $50,000 of sustainability and environment or a mobile app to facilitate monitoring of Quentin Miller. Thanks also to CEO Child Health and Wellbeing Program by Domestic Homicide human, civil and legal rights. Over the conditions of immigration detention. Leonard Vary and the team. UNSW Sydney/ UNSW Law / NSW Progressing Uluru: ensuring Aboriginal & Torres Strait $50,000 the past seven years Fellowship Indigenous Law Centre Islander voices remain at the heart of Voice, Treaty, Truth projects have included exploration Each year the Fellowships are keenly Dr Anna Foley and Anna Spraggett, sought after and this year was no Co-Convenors Kenneth Myer Innovation Oceans & Plastic Initiative VIC General Operating Support $10,000* of justice reinvestment aimed at different, with over 460 Expressions of Fellowships Committee NEXUS Australia WA General Operating Support $10,000 reducing First Nations imprisonment, work to strengthen constituency- Interest submitted. As Co-Convenors Philanthropy Australia VIC General Operating Support $10,000 Recognition in Anthem Project VIC General Operating Support $10,000 Sydney Chamber Opera NSW General Operating Support $5,000 Australian Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust NSW General Operating Support $5,000 Recipient State Fellowship Project Total Grant Committment from FY20 Australian Environmental VIC General Operating Support $5,000 Budget Grantmakers Network Free 3D Hands VIC General Operating Support $5,000 Dr Eve Lester VIC AppCID: Technology to Transform $150,000 $150,000 The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute VIC Young Clinicians at WEHI $989 Detention Monitoring of Medical Research Total $360,989 The Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowship program is a joint initiative of the Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation. Each year, three Fellowships are funded with the balance * Grant subsequently withdrawn following event cancellation. of Fellowships reported on in the Sidney Myer Fund’s FY20 Annual Report. 8 9 Sustainability & Environment Program

The green tree frog is just one of thousands of species the Environmental Defenders Office is fighting for. Photo: Nick Watts

Sustainability & Environment we are pleased that two organisations Our thanks to fellow Committee Rick Laird and Environment Defenders Office solicitor Belinda Rayment-Bogabri grantmaking was considered in the taking different but complementary members Badgery, Martyn challenging circumstances of the approaches to climate action were Myer AO, David Shelmerdine, Lindy COVID-19 crisis and the risk that key funded. Shelmerdine, John Connor and Dr decision and policymakers would be John Spierings for their work in FY20. distracted from the urgent actions Grants were awarded to the Australian We were pleased to welcome David that must be taken to achieve net zero Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) and back to the Committee this year and emissions by 2050. The benefit of the Investor Group on Climate Change to be joined by John Connor and John awarding multi-year untied support to (IGCC). The Committee recognised Spierings. We would like to thank CEO organisations demonstrating consistent AYCC’s goal to build a social movement Leonard Vary and Program Manager Jane Thomas and the team at Bennetts and scaleable impact was never clearer. of young people and the importance of Lane for their support and assistance In pursuit of our focus area to support giving them agency over and a voice in over the past year. organisations that seek to influence key relation to climate action. IGCC’s work stakeholders to take action on climate with its constituency of institutional Jon Berry and Will Spraggett, change, the Committee has taken a investors demonstrates investment as a Co-Convenors of the Sustainability & portfolio approach to grantmaking, and key lever to effect change. Environment Committee

Recipient State Project Name FY Grant Funding Total Commitment Approved Term Grant from FY20 (years) Amount Budget

Australian Youth Climate Coalition VIC General Operating Support 2020 Three $395,000 $395,000 Investor Group on Climate Change NSW General Operating Support 2020 Three $395,000 $395,000 GCC CEO Emma Herd with environmentalist and former AYCC representatives in The Next Economy QLD General Operating Support 2020 One $10,000 $10,000 United States of America Vice President Al Gore ClimateWorks VIC General Operating Support 2018 Four $400,000 - Environmental Leadership Australia NSW General Operating Support 2019 Two $395,000 - Total $1,595,000 $800,000 10 11 Mental Health Program Family Grants Program

The Family Grants Program is an initiative of The Myer Foundation designed to support charities and encourage charitable giving through member philanthropy. The Program recognises cash donations to charities and, for those family members of The Myer Foundation 35 and under, time spent volunteering.

Funds approved match family member giving on a dollar for dollar basis and recognise the value of members’ volunteer time working in an organisation, or participation as a member of an organisation’s board or committee of management.

Reach Foundation The Man Cave

The Mental Health Committee was in the coming years’ grantmaking The Man Cave and Reach Foundation formed at the 2013 fourth generation rounds. Reaching these communities in FY20, with further capacity reserved Environs Kimberley Retreat. Delegated with the authority became even more difficult once the to help support bushfire-affected to act on behalf of the G4 cohort, the COVID-19 social distancing regulations communities in the year to come. Committee’s grantmaking focus rests were introduced. This difficulty only Recipient State Project Name Commitment We’d like to thank our fellow Committee from FY20 on upstream interventionist activities strengthened our resolve however as members Laura Richards, Nell Golden, Budget and programs in the youth mental the challenges created by the bushfire Jessica Myer, Jemima Myer, and Kristen health sector. crisis have not disappeared nor can Douglas for their dedication and their Asylum Seeker Resource Centre VIC Emergency Appeal $4,500 they be deprioritised in the face of Each year, the Committee seeks counsel. Further thanks to Leonard Australia Council for the Arts NSW Venice Biennale $22,000 this new catastrophe. The COVID-19 to balance its grantmaking across Vary, Neal Harvey and the team at crisis will significantly impact bushfire Australian Chamber Orchestra NSW ACO Melbourne Patron’s Circle $5,000 program delivery and research Bennetts Lane for their assistance victims. By addressing its funding to Australian Conservation Foundation VIC General Operating Support $5,000 initiatives and looks to award multiple with our grantmaking activities as we those communities already in distress, Australian Environmental VIC General Operating Support $5,000 grants in support of large and small look forward to another impactful year the Mental Health Committee aims Grantmakers Network organisations. assisting the dedicated individuals and to help alleviate the suffering created organisations which make up Australia’s Australian Tapestry Workshop VIC General Operating Support $20,000 In response to the 2019-20 Australian by this new emergency. In adopting not-for-profit sector. Brotherhood of St Laurence VIC COVID-19 Crisis Appeal $5,000 bushfire crisis, the Mental Health this strategy, the Committee was able CARE Australia ACT General Operating Support $2,500 Committee sought to prioritise to provide some ongoing support to Emily Myer and Nicholas Lindsay communities affected by the bushfires Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Co-Convenors Mental Health Committee CAUSINDY NSW General Operating Support $25,000 Environmental Justice Australia VIC General Operating Support $5,000 Environs Kimberley WA General Operating Support $5,000 Recipient State Project Name FY Grant Funding Total Commitment Epworth Medical Foundation VIC General Operating Support $5,000 Approved Term Grant from FY20 Farmers for Climate Action NSW General Operating Support $5,000 (years) Amount Budget Flinders Quartet VIC COVID-19 Relief Grant $10,000 Murdoch Children’s Research Institute VIC General Operating Support 2019 Three $150,000 - Foundation for Rural and VIC Strengthening Rural Communities Program $6,750 The Man Cave VIC General Operating Support 2019 Two $60,000 $30,000 Regional Renewal - Bushfire recovery The Man Cave VIC COVID-19 Support 2020 One $30,000 $30,000 Four Winds Festival NSW General Operating Support $2,000 The Reach Foundation VIC COVID-19 Support 2020 One $30,000 $30,000 Frankston Peninsula Carers VIC General Operating Support $5,000 Satellite Foundation VIC General Operating Support 2017 Three $60,000 $20,000 Gondwana Choirs NSW General Operating Support $12,500 The Next Economy QLD General Operating Support 2020 One $5,000 $5,000 Inner North Community Foundation VIC General Operating Support $3,000 The Resilience Project VIC General Operating Support 2020 One $5,000 $5,000 International Social Service Australia VIC General Operating Support $12,500 Total $340,000 $120,000 Malthouse Theatre VIC Malthouse Theatre Foundation Members $3,000

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Zoos Victoria Royal Historical Society

Recipient State Project Name Commitment from FY20 Budget

McAuley Community Services for Women VIC General Operating Support $5,000

Melbourne Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital VIC General Operating Support $5,000 Nicholas Lindsay, Mary Vallentine AO, Martyn Myer AO, Adelaide Myer, Emily Myer. Absent Kathryn Fagg AO. Photo: Jaime Murcia Melbourne International Comedy Festival VIC General Operating Support $2,000 Melbourne Recital Centre VIC General Operating Support $4,000 Founder and Benefactor She is currently employed at the Kooyong Group, Company of SA. She was Managing Director of the Kenneth Myer AC DSC involved particularly with activating small philanthropic Sydney Symphony Orchestra for 17 years prior to her Melbourne Theatre Company VIC Next Stage Writer’s Program $25,000 foundations and maximising the impact of philanthropic appointment as CEO of Melbourne Recital Centre contributions made by the company. She has previously (2010-2016). She was a Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Murdoch Children’s Research Institute VIC General Operating Support $7,000 Founder & Life Governor worked as acting CEO of the Prader-Willi Research Fellow at Monash University (2017-2019) and is now Mr S. Baillieu Myer AC Music Broadcasting Society of Victoria VIC General Operating Support $5,000 Foundation, a small rare-disease research organisation. Classical Music Advisor and Opera Producer for the Emily’s wide-ranging experience in program Adelaide Festival. Apart from her position on the National Portrait Gallery Of Australia ACT 2020 Andrew Sayers Memorial Lecture $8,250 Life Governors coordination includes working at large international board of The Myer Foundation, Mary is a director organisations such as Sciences Po university in Paris of Malthouse Theatre, Flinders Quartet, Australian Renew Australia VIC General Operating Support $2,000 Lady Southey AC AC and the UN World Food Program in Rome. Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Naomi Milgrom SANE Australia VIC General Operating Support $25,000 Emily is driven by a desire to contribute to initiatives Foundation and Ukaria Cultural Foundation. She was President that address disadvantage, and her passions lie made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for Schizy Incorporated VIC Strategic Planning and Mojo Festival $2,500 particularly in youth mental health, child health and services to music in 1986. Martyn Myer AO, B.Eng, MESc.(Mon), MSM (MIT) wellbeing, addressing climate change and prevention Martyn Myer is President of The Myer Foundation, SecondBite VIC General Operating Support $2,500 of violence against women. Kathryn Fagg AO Chair of The Myer Foundation’s Audit and Investment Kathryn Fagg is Chair of Boral Limited, Non-Executive The Australian Ballet VIC General Operating Support $23,400 Committees and a member of The Myer Foundation’s Directors Director of National Australia Bank Limited and The VIC General Operating Support $10,000 Sustainability & Environment Committee. He is Adelaide Badgery BA Djerriwarrh Investments Limited as well as a board Chairman of Cogstate Ltd and member of the board Adelaide is a communications specialist with a member of CSIRO. Kathryn was a member of the Theatre Network Australia VIC Cash for Crisis: Independent Artists Support $25,000 of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Martyn stepped Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 2013 to down as Deputy Chancellor of the University of The Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust VIC General Operating Support $10,000 an Advanced Diploma of Business (Public Relations) 2018. In the non-for-profit sector, Kathryn is Chair Melbourne and member of the board of the Melbourne from RMIT. She is currently studying a Bachelor of the Breast Cancer Network Australia, as well as The Mumbulla Foundation NSW General Operating Support $2,000 Theatre Company at the end of December 2019 and of Midwifery at Australian Catholic University, has being a board member of the Grattan Institute and Chairman of The Myer Family Investments Pty Ltd a background in PR, and experience in strategy the Male Champions of Change. She is the Immediate The Reach Foundation VIC General Operating Support $7,100 in October 2016. In 2008, Martyn was appointed development, copywriting, event management and Past President of Chief Executive Women, a former an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for service media engagement. She is a mother of two children. Chairman of Parks Victoria and the Melbourne Recital The Robin Boyd Foundation VIC General Operating Support $2,500 to business and the community, particularly Centre and a former board member of the Australian The Royal Historical Society of Victoria VIC General Operating Support $2,500 through contributions to medical research and the Nicholas Lindsay Centre for Innovation. establishment of the Florey Neuroscience Institute and Nicholas is passionate about social impact. In Kathryn is a Fellow of the Australian Academy Thin Green Line Foundation VIC General Operating Support $25,000 through executive and philanthropic roles with a range particular, he is excited and motivated by the emerging of Technology and Engineering. In addition to her of organisations. convergence of the commercial and philanthropic engineering degree, Kathryn also holds an MCom University Of Melbourne VIC Fiona Myer Art Awards $10,000 in Organisational Behaviour with Honours from the Vice President sector and its potential to generate change. Prior Victorian Arts Centre Trust VIC Ovation Fundraising Gala $2,000 to joining The Myer Foundation, he completed an University of NSW, which has also awarded her an Emily Myer BA (Hons), MA (Arts and Internship at the Foundation for Young Australians and honorary Doctor of Business and the Ada Lovelace Victorian Opera VIC General Operating Support $2,500 Entertainment Management) volunteered as a homework mentor for four years at Medal in 2017 which recognises an Outstanding Emily is currently Vice-President of The Myer Wildlife Victoria VIC Bushfire Support Appeal $5,000 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Australia. Nicholas currently Woman Engineer. She was a recipient of the Foundation’s board of directors and Co-Convenor serves as a Co-Convenor of The Myer Foundation’s University of Queensland’s Inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s World Wide Fund for Nature NSW General Operating Support $2,000 of its Mental Health Committee. She is a member of Mental Health Committee and works in finance and Alumni Excellence Award in 2013 and the University the advisory committee of the Child and Community operations. also awarded her an honorary Doctor of Chemical Yarra Riverkeepers Association VIC General Operating Support $6,250 Wellbeing Program at the University of Melbourne. Engineering. Emily has many years’ experience in program and Mary Vallentine AO Kathryn was made an Officer of the Order of Zoos Victoria VIC Bushfire Support Appeal $5,000 project management and administration, and a decade Mary Vallentine has had an extensive career in Australia (AO) in June 2019 for distinguished service to Total $402,250 spent working in governance and leadership roles in arts management with executive roles at Musica business and finance, to the central banking, logistics the philanthropic and not-for-profit sector. Viva Australia, Adelaide Festival and State Theatre and manufacturing sectors, and to women. 14 15 The Myer Foundation Committees The Myer Foundation Financials and Membership

Commitment from FY20 Budget Founder and Benefactor Members Sidney Myer AM Kenneth Myer AC DSC Adelaide Badgery David Shelmerdine The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants $1,870,989 Joanna Baevski Emily Shelmerdine Sustainability & Environment Program $800,000 Founder and Life Governor Christopher Baillieu Kate Shelmerdine Mr S. Baillieu Myer AC Samantha Baillieu AM Laura Richards Family Grants Program $402,250 Jon Berry Life Governors Jigna Desai Lindy Shelmerdine Mental Health Program $120,000 Lady Southey AC Dr Anna Foley Maree Shelmerdine Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowship $150,000 Carrillo Gantner AC Carrillo Gantner AC Matthew Shelmerdine Dr Dashiell Gantner Nicholas Shelmerdine Total $3,343,239 President Vallejo Gantner Stephen Shelmerdine AM Martyn Myer AO ZiYin Gantner Tom Shelmerdine Kerry Gardner AM William Shelmerdine Vice President Nell Golden Lady Southey AC Emily Myer Daisy Hayward Anna Spraggett Marigold Hayward William Spraggett The Myer Foundation & Sidney Myer Fund Combined Reporting Directors Robert Hayward The Myer Foundation’s Total FY20 Grant Commitments $3,343,239 Adelaide Badgery Kate Herd Staff Nicholas Lindsay Natalie Herd Sidney Myer Fund’s Total FY20 Grant Commitments $8,422,712 Kathryn Fagg AO Simon Herd Chief Executive Officer Mary Vallentine AO Lilian Hodges Leonard Vary Combined FY20 Commitments $11,765,951 Jessica Lockie Chief Financial Officer Combined Total Commitments Since Inception $280,224,228* The Myer Foundation Grantmaking Jonathan Lindsay Nicholas Lindsay Hang Truong Committees Sally Lindsay * not adjusted to present day values. Timothy Lindsay Program Managers Sustainability & Environment Hugh Lockie Kirsty Allen William Spraggett (Co-Convenor) Andrew Myer AM Dr Neal Harvey Jon Berry (Co-Convenor) David Moffatt Jane Thomas Martyn Myer AO Annabel Myer Lindy Shelmerdine Charles Myer Executive Assistant David Shelmerdine Edgar Myer Denise Minahan Adelaide Badgery Edward Myer Dr John Spierings Edwina Myer Administration Assistant John Connor Emily Myer Jennifer Kelly Jemima Myer Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships Jessica Myer FY20 Funding by Focus Area (co-supported by the Sidney Myer Fund) Jon Myer Dr Anna Foley (Co-Convenor) Laura Myer Anna Spraggett (Co-Convenor) Lilly Myer Andrew Myer AM Louise Myer Arts & Humanities Jan Owen AM Lucy Myer Prof John Daley Martyn Myer AO Domestic Violence Kathryn Fagg AO Max Myer Michael Myer Mental Health Committee Patrick Myer Sustainability & Emily Myer (Co-Convenor) Philip Myer Environment Human, Legal Nicholas Lindsay (Co-Convenor) Rupert Myer AO Laura Richards Mrs Sarah Myer & Civil Rights Nell Golden Vanessa Myer Jessica Myer Walter Myer Jemima Myer William Myer Kristen Douglas Mr Baillieu Myer AC Policy Development Initiatives Mental Health Medical Research Leadership Development

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