Sidney Fund The Annual Report 2014–15

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Mission 2 Joint Statement 3 $7,602,876 Trustees and Directors 4 Fund grants Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Grants 6 The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants 8 Awards and Fellowships 10 $3,793,189 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships 10 The Myer Foundation grants Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards 13 Myer Innovation Fellowships 14 Large Grants Programs 16 $11,396,065 Capacity Building Streams 18 Total Sidney Myer Fund and Small Grants Programs 20 The Myer Foundation Family Grants Program 22 Grantmaking Fund 24 The Grants 25 Committee Membership 34 Staff 34 Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation 2014/2015 Grant Summary 35 Contact details 36

1 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 act created the Sidney Myer Fund which will exist in perpetuity, the income from which is distributed annually.

The Myer Foundation was established in 1959 by Sidney’s sons, Kenneth Myer AC DSC (deceased) and Baillieu Myer AC, and their sisters Mrs Neilma Gantner (deceased) and Lady Marigold Southey 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.

The Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation continue the legacy of Myer family generosity, through members of four succeeding generations of the Myer family, who give in many ways, to make significant and lasting changes in our society.

2 This Annual Report marks the Family engagement feels particularly completion of the second year of the intensified at present. This year saw Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer The Myer Foundation recognise an Foundation’s refreshed five-year increase in G4 volunteerism in the strategy which centres our activities wider community through its Family around the themes of acting bigger, Grants Program while a special concert adapting better and strengthening family was held to mark the 80th anniversary engagement. of Sidney Myer’s passing. With the support of the Sidney Myer Fund the We act bigger by focussing our resources City Council’s celebratory in fewer areas and utilise tools other event at The Capital Theatre was than grantmaking to achieve greater a most appropriate and enjoyable impact. This year, the Sidney Myer occasion for all who attended. Fund made the second payment of a $2 million grant to Arts Centre On the whole, our philanthropic for Asia TOPA: Triennial of Performing activities reveal much more than those Arts while The Myer Foundation made listed here. This report features further its second payment of a $4 million grant initiatives supported this year as well as to the Victorian College of the Arts to a detailed list of the individual grants enhance further the redevelopment of approved by the Trustees of the Sidney the Southbank arts precinct. Both of Myer Fund and the Directors of The these grants have catalysed considerable Myer Foundation. support from other sources, further underscoring their significance for In closing we acknowledge the tireless recipients. and dedicated work of those in the not-for-profit sector. Our philanthropy The Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer is only as impactful as their efforts Foundation continue to adapt better by are indefatigable and we look forward refining our grantmaking practices in to working with these inspiring response to specific needs in particular individuals, and many others, in years sectors. This year saw the introduction to come. of capacity building funding for the Sidney Myer Fund by the Arts and Humanities Committee, while the second round of Myer Innovation AO Fellowships were conferred. Both the Chairman of the Sidney Myer Fund Fellowships and Capacity Building Streams exemplify our desire to build Martyn Myer AO programs around recipients’ needs President of The Myer Foundation whilst learning from our previous experience. Leonard Vary Chief Executive Officer

3 Sidney Myer Fund Trustees Left to right: Sally Lindsay, Andy Myer, Carrillo Gantner AO, Sid Myer AM

The Myer Foundation Directors Left to right: Tim Jacobs, Martyn Myer AO, Kim Williams AM, Dorothy Scott OAM, Emily Myer, AO. Absent: Anna Spraggett, Jim Peacock AC

4 Trustees and Directors

Sidney Myer Fund The Myer Foundation Directors Chairman Founder, Life Governor & Emeritus Director Mr Kim Williams AM Kim Williams has served as Chief Executive Mr Carrillo Gantner AO, BA, MA (Stanford), Mr Baillieu Myer AC at News Corp , FOXTEL, Fox Studios Grad Dip (Arts Admin, Harvard) Australia, the Australian Film Commission, Carrillo Gantner is Chairman of The Sidney Life Governors Southern Star Entertainment and Musica Viva Myer Fund. He has a BA from the University Australia and also as a senior executive at the of Melbourne, a Master of Fine Arts (Drama), Mrs Neilma Gantner (7 Nov 1922 – 15 June 2015) ABC. Kim was the founder and Chairman of the Stanford, California, and a Graduate Diploma in Lady Southey AC Australian Film Finance Corporation, Chairman Arts Administration, Harvard. Carrillo was the of MCN, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and of first Drama Officer at the Australia Council for the President Musica Viva Australia; and most recently as the Arts (1970-1973) and was General Manager of the Chairman of the Trust from Melbourne Theatre Company (1973-1975). He was a Mr Martyn Myer AO, B.Eng, MESc.(Mon), 2005 until 2013. He was appointed as a Member in Founding Director of the Playbox Theatre Company, MSM (MIT), FIE (Aust) the Order of Australia in 2006 for his services to the (now Malthouse Theatre); Executive Director (1976- Martyn Myer is President of The Myer Foundation arts and public policy formulation in the film and 1984) and Artistic Director (1988-1993). He was and a member of The Myer Foundation’s television industries. Counsellor (Cultural) at the Australian Embassy in Sustainability and Environment Committee. He is Beijing (1985-1987), Chairman of the Performing Chairman of The Myer Family Investments Pty Ltd Mr Rupert Myer AO, B.Com (Hons), MA Cantab Arts Board and a member of the Australia Council and Cogstate Ltd and a member of the Council of Rupert Myer is the Deputy Chair of Myer Holdings (1990-1993). He was Chairman of Asialink (1992- the . In 2008 Martyn was Ltd, Chairman of Nuco Pty Ltd, a Director of 2006), Chairman of the Melbourne International appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for AMCIL Limited, Healthscope Limited and eCargo Comedy Festival (1994-2000), President of the service to business and the community, particularly Holdings Limited. Rupert serves as Chairman of Victorian Arts Centre Trust (2000-2009) and through contributions to medical research and the the Australia Council for the Arts, and The Aranday President of the Melbourne Festival (2009 - establishment of the Florey Neuroscience Institute Foundation. He is a board member of The Felton 2014). He was awarded an Officer of the Order of and through executive and philanthropic roles with Bequests’ Committee, The Faculty of Business and Australia in 2001 for services to the performing a range of organisations. Economics – The University of Melbourne, Creative arts and Australia’s cultural exchange with Asia. In Partnerships Australia, Australian International recognition of his cultural and philanthropic service, Vice Presidents Cultural Foundation Ltd, The Yulgilbar Foundation he was the 2007 Victorian of the Year. and Jawun-Indigenous Corporate Partnerships. Mrs Anna Spraggett B.Sc. Trustees Anna Spraggett is currently Account Director Dr Jim Peacock AC, FAA, FRS, FTSE, FAIAST at Think HQ and is an inaugural member of (until November 2014) Mr Sidney Hordern Myer AM, BEc and Graduate Philanthropy Australia’s ‘New Generation’ program, Jim Peacock is an award winning molecular Diploma in Marketing and of The Funding Network’s Leadership Council. biologist and science advocate, recognised Sid Myer is the Chief Executive Officer of the She recently served as Vice Chair of The Butterfly internationally in the field of plant molecular biology Yulgilbar Group of Companies, Chairman of Asialink Foundation and as Director of One Disease at a and its applications in agriculture. In 1994, he was and the Estate of the Late Sidney Myer, Director Time. She is a member of the Sidney Myer Fund’s made a Companion of the Order of Australia for of The Myer Family Investments Pty Ltd, The Education Committee. outstanding service to science, particularly in the Myer Family Company Ltd and Copia Investment fields of molecular biology and science education. Partners, Australian Geographic Pt Ltd, and Ms Emily Myer BA (Hons), MA (Arts and a Member of the Board of the National Portrait Entertainment Management) Professor Dorothy Scott OAM, BA (Hons), Gallery of Australia. Before returning to Melbourne to start a family, MSW, PhD (Melb) Emily spent seven years in Europe, working for Dorothy Scott was the Foundation Chair of Child Mrs Sally Lindsay BA, Dip Ed (Primary) the UN World Food Programme in Rome, and Protection and the inaugural Director of the Sally Lindsay is Convenor of the Sidney Myer Fund’s for renowned French political science university, Australian Centre for Child Protection at the Poverty and Disadvantage Committee. She is also Sciences Po, in Paris. Emily has served on the University of until 2010 when she a member of The Myer Foundation, the Merlyn board of the NETS as well as the Social retired. She is an honorary professorial fellow at Myer Fund Committee and the Sidney Myer Fund’s Justice and Arts and Humanities committees of the University of South Australia and the University Education Committee. She is a founding patron of The Myer Foundation where she was a Director of Melbourne. She serves on the Board of the ArtPlay and is a passionate advocate for education for a short time before moving overseas. Since Tasmanian Early Years Foundation and the Advisory and community wellbeing. November 2013 she has served as Director Council of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, and Vice-President of the Board of The Myer as well as being Patron of the Centre for Excellence Mr Andrew Myer Grad Dip Bus Mgt, MBA Foundation, and is also a committee member of the in Child and Family Welfare, the Australian Foster Andrew Myer pursues a variety of business Myer Foundation’s Mental Health Committee. Care Association and Permanent Care and Adoptive interests through the A.V Myer Group of Companies, Families. In 1999 Dorothy was awarded the Medal of including property development, investment, Order of Australia for her development of innovative film and philanthropy. He is Vice-President of services in the fields of maternal mental health and Bush Heritage Australia and Deputy-Chair of the sexual assault. Melbourne International Film Festival. A producer and executive producer of Australian feature films, Mr Tim Jacobs B.A (Hons) Andrew’s credits include Radiance, Three Dollars, Tim Jacobs worked as a studio potter for ten Look Both Ways, Romulus My Father, My Year years before moving into arts management. Over Without Sex, Balibo and Make Hummus Not War, the a 25 year career he was Director of Visual Arts, telemovie Dangerous Remedy for the ABC, Paper Craft and Design at the Australia Council, Deputy Planes and Last Cab to Darwin. Director and then Director of Arts Victoria, and Chief Executive of both the Sydney Opera House and the Victorian Arts Centre. He recently served as Executive Director of Melbourne Festival and as a trustee of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust.

5 Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Grants

In FY15 the Trustees of the Sidney Myer Fund granted Total Distributed over $2 million to a range of programs, projects and prospects which see us striving to act bigger in our role as $2,201,386 philanthropic leaders. The Trustees’ grants catalyse the community’s support, often for nascent ideas whose time “In 2017 Arts Centre has come. Two such grants are featured on these pages: Melbourne seeks ’s Asia Triennial of Performing Arts to create the most will see Melbourne host the first ever triennial festival of significant event on performing arts celebrating our global neighbourhood the Australian cultural while the Centre for Policy Development’s Track II Dialogue seeks to draw together an international coalition calendar - and one of the to address the many issues we are all facing as a result of most anticipated on the forced migratory activities here and around the globe. Asian regional cultural calendar.” Stephen Armstrong Below: A performer takes part in Kada Lumping at Arts Centre Melbourne, part of Creative Director Asia-Pacific the Supersense Festival and a precursor to Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts. Triennial of Performing Arts.

6 In FY15 SMF Trustees agreed to allocate $1 million over four years to projects, initiatives and organisations in the area of asylum seeker issues. Three grants were made this year to Asylum Seekers Centre “Track II dialogues Above: Track II Dialogue participants. Inc, the Centre for Policy Below: Kada Lumping at Arts Centre are non-governmental Melbourne, part of the Supersense Development, and the discussions aimed at Festival and a precursor to Asia- Refugee and Immigration Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts. building relationships Below right: Daniel Lo from Malaysia Legal Centre. and Andy Rachmianto (at front) from and exploring new ideas.” Indonesia take part in the Track II Dr Travers McLeod Dialogues. CEO Centre for Policy Development.

7 The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants

The Directors of The Myer Foundation distributed Total Distributed over $2.4 million in FY15. Their grantmaking continues to leverage significant contributions from other $2,418,778 funding partners, particularly in the case of their grant to the Victorian College of the Arts to advance the redevelopment of the greater Southbank precinct. Other significant grants to the Grattan Institute for the completion of its Higher Education Program and the Foundation for Young Australians in support of its Below Left: Jake Preval, VCA student Young People Without Borders Program saw the Directors Below: Foundation for Young Australians’ Asia Hub members prepared to invest in a future which will benefit us all. chatting in China town.

8 “Among the corps of higher education commentators Andrew Norton is first among equals – a master of the data with a comprehensive grasp of policy and an acute understanding of political reality. His reports on student funding and how the post school system works, or doesn’t, are The Myer Foundation Directors’ grant always read by policy makers and opinion of $4 million, over four years, to the shapers. Mr Norton is a classical liberal who Victorian College of Arts has leveraged a follows the evidence not ideology. With further $30 million worth of investment in the project from other funders. his old boss, former Howard Government education minister David Kemp, Mr Norton produced an April report on demand driven funding, which made such a strong case

Below: An aerial shot of the Southbank precinct that will be very hard for either side of taking in the National Gallery of Victoria, Victorian politics to drop.” College of the Arts, Melbourne Theatre Company, The Melbourne Recital Centre, Australian Centre for Stephen Matchett (Campus Morning Mail) discussing Andrew Norton, Contemporary Art and the Malthouse Theatre. Program Director of the Grattan Institute’s Higher Education Program.

9 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships

The Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships recognise outstanding talent and exceptional courage in mid-career artists. Each Fellow is awarded an unrestricted grant of $160,000 over a two year period. To be nominated for a Fellowship, artists and thought leaders must be within seven and 15 years of their creative practice. The Fellowships are open to artists and arts managers across the entire spectrum of the visual, performing, interdisciplinary, new media and literary arts. In September 2014, eight Fellowships were awarded.

Vernon Ah Kee  Vernon was born in Innisfail, North , and is of the Kuku Yalandji and Gug Yimithirr peoples. He holds a doctorate in Visual Art (Fine Art) from the Queensland College of Art, and represented Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale. More recently, Vernon has produced an acclaimed body of work relating to the events surrounding the death in custody of Aboriginal man Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004.

Clare Britton  Since 2003 Clare has developed work as Co-Artistic Director of acclaimed performance collective My Darling Patricia. A founding member of the company, Clare has collaborated to create My Darling Patricia’s unique process and body of work. This work has received numerous awards and toured nationally and is recognised for having made a major contribution to Australian independent theatre.

10 Since 2011, the Sidney Myer Fund has awarded 37 Creative Fellowships for a total of $5.92 million.

Antony Hamilton  Antony is a choreographer whose award winning pieces involve a sophisticated melding of movement, sound and visual design. The resulting works of performance are widely regarded as truly enigmatic with a unique visual aesthetic. As a choreographer, he has worked both in Australia and abroad creating works for The Lyon Opera Ballet, Chunky Move, , Dancenorth, Expressions, LINK, The Victorian College of the Arts, Amy Gebhardt  Stompin, Rogue and The New Zealand School of Dance. Amy has written and directed many short films, winning various awards including Best Direction at the Chloe Hooper  Flickerfest International Short Film Chloe was awarded the inaugural Festival for Look Sharp. Amy has WG Walker Fulbright Award in 1997 directed several documentaries for ABC and undertook a Masters in Fine Arts and SBS, including Heart as part of the at Columbia University, New York. Her Matchbox Films’ Anatomy Series which thesis, A Child’s Book of True Crime, was won Best Documentary at the MIFF. published in 2002 and translated into In 2011 she completed a unique project ten languages. It was shortlisted for partnering with Screen Australia and the British Orange Prize for Fiction, Youtube making a film from 100% user- and became a New York Times Notable generated content depicting a journey Book. Chloe was awarded a Walkley into the Australian psyche. We Were Award for The Tall Man: Death and Life Here was nominated for the IF Award on Palm Island which was published for Best Short Documentary. in 2008. In 2012, Chloe’s second novel, The Engagement was published she has continued to write non-fiction, in Australia, the United Kingdom, the in particular for The Monthly, The Good United States and Europe. Since then Weekend and the UK Guardian.

11 Emily Sexton  Emily is a curator, producer and festival director. Across her work is a passion for the great political and social potential of the meeting between outstanding art and curious minds, and her curatorial interests lie in contemporary art that’s provocative, challenging and relevant. Emily’s work demonstrates the role an Artistic Director can play in contextualising bold, challenging art; this approach has consistently increased audiences and enthusiasm for contemporary art and artists, across several high profile Australian arts festivals. From 2010-14, Emily was Artistic Director and co-CEO of Next Wave and from 2008-10 Emily was Creative Producer for Melbourne Anthony Pateras  Fringe. Anthony is an Australian composer, pianist and electro-acoustic musician. As a pianist he has performed his work at The Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Sydney Opera House, the ICA (London), Concertgebouw Brugges, Foundaçao Serravles (Porto), Hamer Hall (Melbourne), Logan Centre for the Arts (Chicago), Ancienne Belgique (Brussels), Stavanger Konserthus, State Theatre (Sydney), Melos- Ethos (Bratislava), and The Festival. As composer his work has been performed by /Los Angeles Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Markus Stenz, Richard Tognetti & Satu Vänskä, Eugene Ughetti/Speak Percussion, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Hiatus, Australian Art Orchestra, Timothy Munro, Erkki Veltheim, Percussionists of the Basel Symphony, Ensemble Intégrales Hamburg and Vanessa Jeff Sparrow  Tomlinson. Jeff is the editor of Overland literary journal. His books include Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within (both with sister Jill), Communism: A Love Story (nominated for the Colin Roderick Award), Killing: The 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Misadventures in Violence (shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature), Money Fellowship selection panel Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship (longlisted for the John Button Prize 2013, comprised Andy Myer (Chair and shortlisted for the Manning Clark House Cultural Award and a Special Mention representing the Sidney Myer in the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award), and Left Turn (co-edited with Antony Fund Trustees), Fran Clark, Fenella Loewenstein). He is the host of the weekly radio show ‘Hullabaloo’ on 3RRR FM. He Kernebone, Angharad Wynne-Jones, writes for many publications, including a fortnightly column for Guardian Australia. Rosemary Miller, Stephen Armstrong, Gideon Obarzanek and Iain Grandage.

12 Myer Innovation Fellowships

The Myer Innovation Fellowships support Australia’s Jordan’s start up, HireUp, brightest, self-directed leaders to forge breakthrough has raised over solutions and articulate actionable ideas which compel our community to respond. Fellows take nine months $2 million away from their current role to pursue projects that in seed funding since have the capacity to radically shift our approaches to the being awarded a Myer challenges facing the social and environmental sectors in Innovation Fellowship. Australia today.

Jay Boolkin Sophie Weldon Jordan O’Reilly Jay Boolkin wants to motivate people Stories Are Everything is a social Jordan O’Reilly is developing a to do the things they most want to do enterprise that utilises the power of revolutionary online platform that will with their lives, while creating a more storytelling to improve social health enable people with disabilities to find engaging, personal and empowering and community connectivity. and engage their own support workers way to donate to charities that make a in the community. better world. He gets inspired by small Sophie will be commercialising her actions that have the power to bring mobile Story Pod for communities to The new platform, called HireUp, about big change and loves engaging record and archive their stories as well provides an online community where with like-minded people who give more as develop the Save Our Stories (SOS) individuals can search and connect with to the world than they take. While schools program which will facilitate great support workers in their area, as living in Cambodia as an Australian intergenerational connections and well as the tools needed to facilitate Youth Ambassador for Development, reduce social isolation through face to the working relationship. From payroll Jay founded Promise or Pay, a social face storytelling. to insurance, HireUp takes care of the motivation platform that helps you complex administration while enabling stick to your goals by donating money users to focus on developing successful to charity if you don’t follow through, relationships with their support and encouraging others to donate if workers. you succeed.

13 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

The winners of the 2014 Sidney Myer Performing Arts First awarded in 1984, Awards were announced on Wednesday 18 March 2015 at the Sidney Myer a garden party and ceremony held at Cranlana, Toorak. Performing Arts Awards The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australia’s finest period-instrument have awarded over ensemble was awarded the Group Award ($80,000). One of Australia’s most exciting contemporary playwrights, Lally Katz won the Individual Award ($50,000). Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean, co-founders of SLAM (Save Live Australian Music) $3 million and owners of Bakehouse Studios in Melbourne, were awarded the Facilitator’s in today’s terms. Prize ($20,000).

What sets the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards apart from other awards are the significant cash prizes that accompany the honours. To date, over $3 million (adjusted to present day values) has been distributed directly to the winners. Announced annually, the national awards are determined by a Judging Committee chaired by Carrillo Gantner AO (Chairman of the Sidney Myer Fund) and which this year included: Sarah Neal, Duncan Ord, Brett Sheehy AO, Hannah Skrzynski and Noel Staunton.

Left: Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean. Above: Lally Katz.

14 Left: Bridget O’Brien and Bruce Applebaum (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra). Below: Brett Sheehy AO, ZiYin Gantner, Leonard Vary and Andy Myer. Bottom Left: Carrillo Gantner AO. Bottom Right: Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo.

15 Large Grants Programs

Though the Large Grants Programs The Myer Foundation Total Distributed and Sidney Myer Fund have supported a number of impactful projects that have achieved sustainability $2,576,211 beyond our philanthropic support of them.

Midnight Basketball “There is now widespread acknowledgement Midnight Basketball Australia is a harm in the Midnight Basketball network of prevention social inclusion programme that protects ‘at risk’ youth from harm whilst tournaments and communities of the helping them identify and embrace positive importance of undertaking this kind of work opportunities. Dinner, compulsory life skills workshops and tournament basketball games and the value the Sidney Myer Fund has brought are run in stadiums on Friday or Saturday to this strategic project.” nights from 7.30pm till midnight, followed by Tess White, CEO Midnight Basketball. a bus home, providing a safe and motivating environment.

16 Nine out of ten Teach For Australia participants who finished the program in 2014 are still teaching. Above: A Teach For Australia participant on lunch recess.

“Teach For Australia is helping Teach for Australia Teach For Australia recruits and trains inspiring and passionate young break the cycle of disadvantage Australians to teach in disadvantaged communities for a minimum of by developing a pipeline two years, where they have a life changing impact on their students. Teach For Australia’s rigorous recruitment model, coupled with its award of exceptional leaders for winning training and leadership program, supports participants to be disadvantaged schools.” highly effective teachers who can inspire students to achieve. Brad Bowden, Executive Officer, Teach For Australia.

Below: A Teach For Australia participant talks with her students.

17 Capacity Building Streams

Capacity Building funding is now active across “It definitely involved the the Arts and Humanities, Education and Poverty city in a truly remarkable and Disadvantage program areas. Each stream way, and as the sun set of funding has a refined focus, developed in and the runner entered consultation with their respective sectors, the final leg of the race the exemplifying our desire to adapt better to the atmosphere was electric communities in which we make our grants. among onlookers still none the wiser as to why they were even there. A gold medal affair” Below: Tristan Meecham and Bec Reid are All The Queens’ Men, 2015 Arts and John Bailey, , Australia discussing All Humanities Capacity Building funding recipients. This shot is from their show the Queens’ Men’s Fun Run performance. Fun Run a riotous spectacle that pushes the limits of endurance.

18 Cape York Cape York Alliance Indigenous Schooling Support Unit Education

Port Douglas Mossman State School Education

Cairns Balaclava State School Education

Bundaberg Mundabbera State P-10 School Education

Noosa Burpengary State School Education

Byron Bay Stokers Siding Public School Education

Create Foundation Poverty and Disadvantage

Sydney Cara Incorporated Poverty and Disadvantage Foster Care Association of Victoria Poverty and Disadvantage Melbourne Permanent Care and Adoptive Families Poverty and Disadvantage The Mirabel Foundation Inc Poverty and Disadvantage All The Queens’ Men Arts and Humanities Fraught Outfit Arts and Humanities Lemony S Puppet Theatre Arts and Humanities Roslyn Oades & Collaborators Arts and Humanities Sisters Grimm Arts and Humanities

MADE (Mature Artists Dance “This is the best Professional Development I have Experience) Arts and Humanities ever done as a teacher. I am so grateful for this Second Echo Ensemble opportunity and so motivated to change things in Arts and Humanities my classroom.” Karly Allison (Year 1 and 2 teacher, Mossman State School).

Mossman State School’s Watching Others Work program Mossman State School’s Watching Others Work program enables the school to continue teacher learning by assisting participants embed learned behaviours directly into their classrooms. This kind of applied learning program systemically changes teaching practices for the better.

19 Small Grants Programs

The Small Grants Programs, which runs across Poverty and Disadvantage and Education Programs, aims to Almost two provide a quick response to community needs, Australia- wide. The Education program supports projects that aim thirds of the victims of assault to improve educational outcomes for 0-25 year olds while the Poverty and Disadvantage program is prioritising 15% in the Northern Territory of its resources for asylum seekers living in the Australian are women, and community. 82% are

Alice Springs Women’s Shelter Indigenous Alice Springs Women’s Shelter provides a range of support for women and children experiencing domestic family violence. The services include emergency women. accommodation, outreach support, court support and counselling.

“A small amount of money has enabled us to considerably expand our service delivery, community development and education programs.” Below: The front desk of the Alice Dale Wakefield, Alice Springs Women’s Shelter. Springs Women’s Shelter.

20 NT $39,374

WA $60,820 QLD $173,454

Alice Springs Women’s Shelter

SA $56,374 NSW $250,194 VIC $339,924

The Corinda State School TAS $75,350 Inclusive Music Program

Below: Corinda State School students The Corinda State School Inclusive Music Program with their instruments. The school’s highly successful instrumental music program allows every Year Five student to participate free of charge. For the first time in 2015 the program will be a core curriculum subject for all students in two year levels simultaneously.

21 Family Grants Program

The Family Grants Program recognises the wish of Myer family members to have their individual philanthropic interests reflected through The Myer Foundation, and to have a process that will support their own philanthropic giving. The Program recognises the donation of money, and for G4 members, time.

“Thanks to the support of inspiring individuals like Mrs Neilma Gantner and organisations such as The Myer Foundation, The Mission to Seafarers can continue to provide support to the seafaring The Family Grants Program saw $552,200 distributed and community; who otherwise live and work in isolated leveraged over half a million and often dangerous conditions at sea.” dollars of Myer family Andrea Fleming, Chief Executive Officer, Mission to Seafarers. philanthropy.

Below: Big Brothers Big Sisters Huddle Study Support Program offers homework assistance to high school students thanks to the efforts of local volunteers.

22 Mission to Seafarers Clockwise from below: A seafarer watches another cargo ship depart the For their safe and efficient operations, ships depend on seafarers working far from Port of Melbourne. their home and family for months, sometimes years – often in harsh and dangerous Associate Professor Margaret conditions. Woodward and Ship’s Visitor Tony Correll preparing to board the bulk As an island nation Australia relies on seafarers. The work of the Mission to carrier Pan Edelweiss. Seafarers is a way of acknowledging their work and hardships, by provision of A photo from the archives of the support. Mission to Seafarers: the Crew of the SS Grace Harwar, July 1921.

23 Merlyn Myer Fund

The guiding principle of the Merlyn Myer Fund is the experience, well-being, and concerns of women – endeavours which enable the intelligences, sensibilities and attributes of women.

The Social Outfit The Social Outfit provides education, training and employment Women in Australia opportunities in the fashion industry to refugee and new migrant earn just 83 cents communities in clothing production, retail, design and marketing. in the male dollar, a disparity that has widened over the past four years.

The pay gap between men and women costs the Australian economy $93 billion every year—8.5% of GDP

Above left: The Social Outfit storefront in Sydney. Left: Three models from The Social Outfit.

“The Social Outfit exists to celebrate the skills and styles of our new migrant and refugee communities in Australia. At the heart of everything we do, we want to share the values of learning, belonging and respect. One of the biggest highlights so far has been to see the incredible workmanship and talent required in making clothing. Customers love knowing who made their garments.” Jackie Ruddock, CEO, The Social Outfit.

24 The Grants

25 Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Footscray Community Arts Centre $50,000 Salamanca Arts Centre $2,000 VIC TAS Grants Collaborate Asia Core Support

Arts Centre Melbourne $550,000 Foundation for Rural and Regional Shepparton Art Museum $45,000 VIC Renewal $125,000 VIC Asian Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts VIC 2015 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Back To School Program Ceramic Award Asylum Seekers Centre $90,000 NSW Gunawirra $2,000 State Library of Victoria $45,000 Asylum Seekers Centre Chief Executive NSW VIC Officer Core Support Rare Newspaper Digitising Project

Auspicious Arts Projects $2,000 Half The Sky Foundation Australia Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden VIC Limited $2,000 Foundation $80,000 Core Support VIC VIC Core Support Kitchen Garden Skills Online Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia $80,000 International Social Service Australia $25,000 Sydney Chamber Opera $2,000 SA VIC NSW Growing our Spirit: Supporting the ISS Australia - A Sustainable Future Core Support Recruitment of Community-based Carers for Aboriginal Children Kids’ Own (Australia) $26,000 The Capital Bendigo’s Performing VIC Arts Centre $3,490 Australian Red Cross Society $50,000 WePublish in Wugularr VIC VIC Core Support Vulnerability Report 2014 Kids Thrive - Kids Leading Creative Change $40,000 The School Volunteer Program $20,000 Bendigo International Festival of VIC WA Exploratory Music $50,000 Children’s Support Worker for 3081 Australia’s First National Intergenerational VIC THRIVE Charity in Schools Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music 2015 and 2016 Launchpadyouth $2,000 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards $100,000 NSW VIC Centre for Contemporary Photography $2,000 Core Support 30th anniversary researching, writing and VIC archiving Core Support Lucy Guerin Association $2,000 VIC Theatre Network Vic $2,000 Centre for Policy Development $100,000 Core Support VIC VIC Core Support Track II Dialogue on Forced Migration in Médecins Sans Frontières Australia $2,000 the Asia-Pacific NSW West Australian Aboriginal Core Support Dance Company $2,000 Child Abuse Prevention Service WA (Sydney) $2,000 Melbourne Recital Centre Limited $40,000 Core Support NSW VIC Core Support Summer in Southbank Sidney Myer Fund Trustees’ Grants Total: $1,971,490 Creativity Australia $30,000 Melbourne Theatre Company $2,000 VIC VIC MyChoir “How To” Guide Core Support

Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust $10,000 Monash University Musuem of Art $10,000 VIC VIC Core Support Believe Not Every Spirit but Try the Spirit’s Exhibition Donkey Wheel Ltd $200,000 VIC National Museum of Australia $50,000 The Difference Incubator ACT Encounters: Rare Indigenous Objects from Doxa Youth Foundation $10,000 the British Museum (Encounters) VIC Core Support Older Womens Network Australia $2,000 NSW Expressions $2,000 Core Support QLD Core Support Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre $50,000 VIC Flat Out $30,000 RILC Volunteer Coordinator Project VIC Centre for the Human Rights of safe steps Family Violence Response Imprisoned People Centre $10,000 VIC Foodbank Victoria $20,000 Core Support VIC Fresh for the Future - Transition Project

26 The Myer Foundation Human Rights Law Centre $83,778 University of Melbourne $800,000 VIC VIC Directors’ Grants Advancing Human Rights Using Strategic Redevelopment of the Southbank Campus Litigation of the Faculty of VCA and MCM Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network $30,000 Human Rights Law Centre $10,000 Woor-Dungin $75,000 VIC VIC VIC Growing Green Philanthropy Core Support Criminal Record Discrimination Project

Australian Environmental Grantmakers Jawun $5,000 YGAP $10,000 Network $5,000 NSW VIC VIC Beagle Bay Futures Indigenous Polished Man Sustaining Support Corporation YGAP $2,000 Australian Women Donors Network $40,000 Maree Crabbe Consultancy $4,000 VIC VIC VIC Core Support The Genderwise Project Reality and Risk in the United States of America The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants Black Dog Institute $62,000 Total: $2,428,778 NSW Melbourne Prize Trust $5,000 Improving Adolescent Sleep Problems to VIC Prevent Depression Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014

CoDesign Studio $2,000 Mind Australia $50,000 VIC VIC Core Support Core Support

Deakin University $100,000 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute $63,000 VIC VIC Sue Nattrass Scholarship Fund Calm Kids

Federation of Community Legal National Gallery of Victoria $60,000 Centres (Victoria) $45,000 VIC VIC Art Acquisitions Smart Justice National Library of Australia $20,000 Flemington Kensington Community Legal ACT Centre $30,000 Kenneth Myer Lecture VIC Without Suspicion: Towards More Inclusive OurSay $2,000 and Human Rights Focused Policing in VIC Victoria Core Support

Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater $5,000 Public Interest Law Clearing House $50,000 VIC VIC Core Support Next generation PILCH

Foundation for Young Australians $252,000 Public Transport Users Association $5,000 VIC VIC Young People Without Borders Core Support

Game Changers Australia $2,000 The Conversation Foundation $50,000 VIC VIC Core Support The Conversation in Indonesia

General Sir John Monash Foundation $60,000 The Florey Institute of Neuroscience VIC and Mental Health $1,000 2015 and 2016 Scholarship VIC Core Support Grattan Institute $400,000 VIC The Funding Network $75,000 Grattan Institute Higher Education NSW Program Digital Marketing Coordinator

Grattan Institute $25,000 VIC Core Support

27 Sidney Myer Creative Sidney Myer Performing Arts Myer Innovation Fellowships Fellowships Awards Jay Boolkin $125,000 NSW Australian Brandenburg Orchestra $80,000 Emma Donovan $80,000 Promise or Pay NSW VIC Group Award 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship Jordan O’Reilly $129,991 NSW Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean $20,000 Erkki Veltheim $80,000 HireUp VIC VIC Facilitator’s Prize 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship Sophie Weldon $129,905 VIC Lally Katz $50,000 Kate Ben-Tovim $80,000 Save Our Stories VIC VIC Individual Award 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship Myer Innovation Fellowship Total: $384,896 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award Kate Fielding $80,000 Total: $150,000 WA 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Kate Miller-Heidke $80,000 NSW 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Kirsty Boyle $80,000 NSW 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Melissa Madden Gray $80,000 VIC 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Stefan Gregory $80,000 NSW 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Stephanie Lake $80,000 VIC 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Tom Nicholson $80,000 VIC 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Amy Gebhardt $80,000 VIC 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Antony Hamilton $80,000 VIC 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Antony Pateras $80,000 VIC 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Chloe Hooper $80,000 VIC 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Clare Britton $80,000 NSW 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Emily Sexton $80,000 VIC 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Jeff Sparrow $80,000 VIC 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Vernon Ah Kee $80,000 QLD 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

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

28 Education Large Grants Sustainability and Environment Education Capacity Building Large Grants Grants Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy at Victoria University $665,000 ClimateWorks Australia $500,000 Balaclava State School $60,000 VIC VIC QLD Teacher Education: Improving Practice, Organisational Funding Balaclava State School Teacher Improving Outcomes Development Programme Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology $135,211 Teach For Australia $225,000 VIC Burpengary State School $60,000 VIC Reimaging The Suburb: Planning For QLD Accelerated School Leaders Program Biodiversity In The Urban Fringe New Horizons: Unleashing the Potential Within Education Large Grants Total: $890,000 University of Melbourne $52,000 VIC Cape York Alliance - Indigenous Innovative New Resources to Improve Schooling Support Unit $50,000 Awareness, Management and Restoration QLD Poverty and Disadvantage of Native Grasslands Developing Teachers in Remote Large Grants Indigenous Schools Sustainability and Environment Australian Foster Care Association $80,045 Large Grants Total: $687,211 Mossman State School $40,000 ACT QLD Encouraging and Sustaining Quality Care WOW (Watching others Work) Project to Improve Outcomes for Children and Young People in Care Arts and Humanities Mundubbera State P-10 School $40,000 QLD Capacity Building Grants Centre for Excellence in Child and Sharing Great Practice Family Welfare $233,000 All The Queens’ Men $40,000 VIC Stokers Siding Public School $50,000 VIC Improving Education Outcomes for Young NSW Capacity Building and Sector People in Out of Home Care Peer Mentoring in the 21st Century Strengthening Grant e.motion21 $80,000 Education Capacity Building Grants Fraught Outfit $40,000 VIC Total: $300,000 VIC Addressing Disadvantage Through Dance: Capacity Building and Sector Strengthening Individuals, Families And Strengthening Grant Communities. Poverty and Disadvantage Lemony S Puppet Theatre $40,000 Midnight Basketball Australia $70,000 VIC Capacity Building Grants NSW Capacity Building and Sector Midnight Basketball Educational Cara $100,000 Strengthening Grant Workshop Framework VIC Sanctuary Model Implementation Mature Artists Dance Experience $40,000 Anglicare Victoria (St Luke’s) $151,561 TAS VIC CREATE Foundation $50,000 Capacity Building and Sector Education Support Project NSW Strengthening Grant Professional Development - Organisational Summer Foundation Ltd $212,500 Policy Roslyn Oades & Collaborators $25,000 VIC VIC Regional Stories: Young People with Foster Care Association of Victoria $30,500 Capacity Building and Sector Disability in Nursing Homes VIC Strengthening Grant Strengthening Carers The Australian Centre for Social Second Echo Ensemble $25,000 Innovation $141,894 Permanent Care and Adoptive Families $80,000 TAS SA VIC Capacity Building and Sector Rethinking Foster Care, Shifting the Permanent Care and Adoptive Families Strengthening Grant System Sustainability Project Sisters Grimm $40,000 Poverty and Disadvantage The Mirabel Foundation $39,500 VIC Large Grants Total: $969,000 VIC Capacity Building and Sector Analysing Mirabel’s Effectiveness - A Strengthening Grant Social Impact Project Arts and Humanities Poverty and Disadvantage Capacity Capacity Building Grants Total: $250,000 Building Grants Total: $300,000

29 Education Small Grants Hume Valley School $10,000 Nhill College $10,000 VIC VIC Acacia Hill School $10,000 RISE UP - Youth Empowerment Program Year 10 Camp NT for Young People with Disabilities Bikes for All Abilities Northcliffe District High School $2,500 Jika Jika Community Centre $10,000 WA Alawa Primary School $10,000 TAS Goldfields School Camp NT Out in Front - The Walker Street Effective Oracy, Foundations For Literacy Homework Club Oatlands District High School Association $9,500 TAS Albany Senior High School $10,000 John Paul II Catholic School $10,000 Reading for All WA TAS Indonesian Cultural Exchange Mountain Bike Track and Bikes Parkes High School $5,000 NSW Ashmore Community Gardens $2,000 Kadina High School $7,600 Central West Comic Fest QLD NSW Ashmore Community Garden HSIE Sydney Excursion Penguin District School $10,000 TAS Bairnsdale Neighbourhood House $9,632 Kemps Creek PS $10,000 The Digital Dial Room VIC NSW Teenage Mentors for Aboriginal Children Reading Resources Preston South Primary School $7,719 VIC Ballan and District Pre-school Centre $2,215 Kintore Street Special School $9,374 Philosophy Changing Children’s Lives VIC NT IT in Kinder Fittness in the Future Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association - Rockhampton Branch $5,637 Kuranda Community Kindergarten $10,000 Koolunga Primary School $6,548 QLD QLD SA Alternative Learning Space Rockhampton Kindy Storage Overhaul Play Group and Strong Beginnings Red Cliffs Secondary College $10,000 Community Kindergarten $5,980 Lightning Ridge Central School $10,000 VIC QLD NSW Artways and Pathways Fun Friends Program Come N See 2015 Robogals Newcastle $1,500 Camperdown College $4,994 Lismore Preschool Kindergarten $10,000 NSW VIC NSW Tamworth and Armidale Rural & Regional Redesigning Education - Rethinking the Renovation Playtion Visit School Corridor Maitland Grossmann High School $2,781 Ronald McDonald House Orange $10,000 Cessnock High School $1,288 NSW NSW NSW Creative, Inventive, Alternative Gardening Education for Sick Kids and their Siblings Bush Tucker Garden Matthew Flinders Girls’ Secondary College $7,490 South Gippsland Specialist School $9,685 Corinda State School P&C Association $10,000 VIC VIC QLD Teenage Mental Health Engine Room Corinda State School Inclusive Instrumental Music Program Men’s Outreach Broome $3,000 St Joseph’s Catholic School Parents WA & Friends Association - Cloncurry $10,000 Dunkeld Kindergarten $8,984 Broome Dad’s Get Together QLD VIC St Joseph’s Catholic School P&F Back to Nature Mount Barker Community Resource Association Centre $10,000 Debney Meadows Primary School $10,000 WA Stokers Siding Public School $3,000 VIC ‘YESP’ Youth Educational Services NSW Social Skills Art Program Connected Communities

East Loddon P-12 College $8,000 Mount Muchison Primary P&C Association $8,530 Stradbroke Chamber Music Festival $2,348 VIC QLD QLD 21st Century Learning CyberSmart Kids - Talk, Report, Learn Dunwich State School Song Project

Everton Park State High School $10,000 Mpower $10,000 Sunshine Secondary College QLD VIC Lighthouse Program $8,486 Homework Club Respite and Therapy Centre Playground VIC Equipment Sunshine College Lighthouse Survival Federal Community Children’s Centre $5,000 Camp NSW Mums’ Cottage $8,335 Bush Food Living Classroom NSW Swallowcliffe P-7 $9,826 Sensory and Education Room SA Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Soccer 4 Change Centre $10,000 Murray High School $6,002 VIC NSW Telethon Speech and Hearing Centre Childcare Centre Safety Surface Upgrade. Cultural Inclusion Excursion to Melbourne for Children WA $9,750 WA Hellyer College $7,500 Narooma Public School $8,000 Reading and Literacy Attack TAS NSW Creating Connections Home Help Project 21st Century Learning Tools for School

30 Thallon State School $5,000 Poverty and Disadvantage Cranbourne Christian Fellowship QLD Centre $9,600 Expanding Horizons, Engaging Minds Small Grants VIC Feeding Families The Creche and Kindergarten Association Aboriginal Catholic Ministry $10,000 Limited $8,190 SA Edmund Rice Camps NSW $10,000 QLD The Otherway Centre Program NSW Educational Resources for the Indigenous Junior and Senior Camp - Western Sydney Community’s Children of Mackay Alice Springs Women’s Shelter $10,000 NT Far South Coast Family Support Service $10,000 The River Nile Learning Centre $4,800 Reality & Risk in the Northern Territory: NSW VIC Supporting Safe Access to Technology in Strength Across the Shire: A Whole- Educating Young Refugee Women - Remote Australia of-Community Approach to Suicide Computers Prevention Anchor $10,000 Thorpdale and District Kindergarten $5,000 VIC Feed the Little Children $9,670 VIC Outer East Kinship Care Support Groups WA Technology Aware Children for Thorpdale Breaking the Hunger Cycle in Broome - Arts Access Victoria $10,000 Phase 2 Tullamore Central School $10,000 VIC NSW Art of Origin Filling the Gap $10,000 Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness for Music NSW and Information Technology for Tullamore Asylum Seeker Resource Centre $10,000 Improving Oral Health in Indigenous Central School Students and Community VIC Communities ASRC Dandenong - Education Pathways Tyrrell College $10,000 for Asylum Seekers Global Sisters $10,000 VIC NSW Rock in the Mallee Bendigo and District Aboriginal Global Sisters- Financial Independence Co-operative $10,000 for Women University College $6,500 VIC VIC Koori Football and Netball Carnival Helping Hand Aged Care* $10,000 Delivering Hands On Sustainability SA Education to a Disadvantaged Refugee and Bendigo Family and Financial Services $9,800 Turn Up Your Voice Migrant School Community VIC Young Mums Support Program Hobart Police And Community Youth Club $9,850 Upper Yarra Community House $10,000 TAS VIC Bethlehem House $8,500 Keeping Kids Safe and Off the Streets Moving Forward TAS Online Centres Ipswich Community Youth Service $10,000 Warrnambool East Primary School $10,000 QLD VIC Boronia Multicultural Services $9,930 Youth Housing and Support Program Nurturing Room NSW Women’s Community Engagement project Iramoo Youth Refuge $8,400 Willmot Public School $10,000 VIC NSW Camp Breakaway $9,728 Fine-Free Travel Program CAPA WISH Performance Program NSW A Breakaway for Young Carers Junkuri Laka Community Legal Wycheproof and District Preschool Centre $496 Centre Aboriginal Corporation $10,000 VIC CareWorks SunRanges $10,000 QLD Farm-Play for Farm-Kids VIC Providing Legal Services to Mornington Helping Hands Island Yakamia Primary School - Kindergarten and Primary $7,300 Carringbush Adult Education $3,023 Living the Dream Foundation $9,360 WA VIC VIC Nature Based Playground Asylum Seeker Work Pathways Project Community Connect - Health and Wellbeing Program for Refugees and Education Small Grants Total: $495,490 Castlemaine District Community Asylum Seekers Health Ltd $10,000 VIC Macarthur Diversity Services Initiative Ltd $9,600 The Meeting Place NSW Saturday Youth Cafe Child Community Links - District Council of Coober Pedy $10,000 Marist Youth Care Limited $9,240 SA VIC Child Community Links Program Hammer Time - Moreland Young Women’s Woodworking Collective Christians Against Poverty $5,000 NSW Merri Outreach Support Service $2,500 Money Youth VIC Health and Wellbeing Holiday Program Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre Port Macquarie $10,000 Mission Australia $10,000 NSW NSW Debt Centre Richmond Groove

Coalition for Asylum Seekers, National LGBTI Health Allliance* $10,000 Refugees & Detainees $8,600 NSW WA Virtual Visitors Critical Case Program

31 Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia $7,830 Tableland Women’s Centre $7,849 Family Grants NSW QLD MEX: Managing Emotion and Expression Women’s Welcome and Wellbeing Animals Asia Foundation (Australia) Ltd $10,000 (for disadvantaged youth) SA Tasmanian Association Police and End Bear Bile Farming Parenting and Family Support Centre, Citizens Youth Club $10,000 School of Psychology, University TAS Ardoch Youth Foundation $5,000 of Queensland $10,000 Queenstown Mobile Activity Centre VIC QLD The Way Forward Project Promoting Positive Adjustment in Migrant The Girls & Boys Brigade $9,600 and Refugee Families Through Delivery of NSW Arts Centre Melbourne $13,200 an Evidence-Based Parenting Program Transition to High School Camps VIC Playking Asian Travel Scholarships Pony Riding for the Disabled Association The Helping Hand Project $10,000 - McIntyre Centre $10,000 VIC Arts Centre Melbourne - Christmas for QLD Upskilling Volunteer Mentors for Melbourne $4,000 Recruitment and Training Program Refugee Youth VIC Christmas for Melbourne Prison Fellowship Australia - Victoria $10,000 Top Blokes Foundation $10,000 VIC NSW Asylum Seeker Resource Centre $5,000 Extraordinary Lives Teen Mentoring Building Blokes VIC Core Support Queensland Domestic and Family Urban Seed (Collins Street Baptist Violence Research Centre $10,000 Benevolent Society) $10,000 Asylum Seeker Resource Centre $2,500 QLD VIC VIC Breaking the Cycle: Training for Workers Norlane Children’s Resilience Project Winter Appeal From Disadvantaged Communities Welfare Rights Centre SA $10,000 Aussie Helpers Limited $5,000 Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare SA QLD Association $9,420 Advocacy and Empowerment Outreach General Support for Aussie Helpers QLD Project Beenleigh Youth Nights Australian Ballet $2,500 Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre $10,000 VIC Refuge of Hope $10,000 NSW Core Support VIC The Winmalee Community Food Cupboard Latin American Employment Hub Australian Film Institute Endowment *Co-Funded with The Gay and Lesbian Fund $10,000 Search Light $10,000 Foundation of Australia (GALFA) VIC QLD The Annual Award of the Natalie Miller The Parenting Program Poverty and Disadvantage Small Grants Total: Fellowship $500,000 Seeds of Hope Community Services Ltd $10,000 Australian Tapestry Foundation $10,000 QLD VIC Seeds of Hope Financial Choices Embassy Tapestry Series

Sing&Grow Australia $8,500 Big Brothers Big Sisters $6,400 QLD VIC Sing&Grow Australia- Group Programs The Huddle Study Support Program

St Mary’s House of Welcome $10,000 Brotherhood of St Laurence $5,000 VIC VIC Employment of Volunteer Coordinator Hippy Program

St. Joseph’s Flexible Learning Centre $4,000 Brotherhood of St Laurence $10,500 VIC VIC Wollangarra Camping Program Core Support

Bush Heritage Australia $22,500 VIC Naree Station Campaign

Chamber Music Australia $5,000 VIC Chamber Music Australia

Christ Church Mission $5,000 VIC Christ Church Community Centre

ClimateWorks Australia $2,500 VIC ClimateWorks Action Fund

Creative Partnerships Australia $1,500 VIC Support for Humanities 21

Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust $2,500 VIC Melba Opera Fund

32 FareShare Australia $5,000 Second Bite $2,500 Merlyn Myer Fund VIC VIC Fare Share Second Bite Fitted for Work $20,000 VIC Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Health $10,000 Shepparton Art Museum $14,800 Linking Women Experiencing VIC VIC Disadvantage with Work CANVAS Project Ceramics Collection Melbourne Recital Centre $37,000 Foundation for Rural and Regional State Library of Victoria Foundation $2,400 VIC Renewal $11,600 VIC Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s VIC State Library of Victoria Foundation Commission Heywire Grants Program The Butterfly Foundation $2,500 The Social Outfit $20,000 Giant Steps Sydney Ltd $5,000 VIC NSW NSW Core Support The Social Outfit Women’s Training and Community Access for Students and Young Education Project Adults with Autism The Dugdale Trust for Women and Girls Public Fund $10,000 Merlyn Myer Fund Total: $77,000 Habitat for Humanity $50,000 VIC VIC Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust Core Support The Mission To Seafarers Victoria $20,000 Humane Society International Australia $10,000 VIC NSW Core Support Core Support The Opera Studio $10,000 International Social Service Australian VIC Branch $10,000 2015 Culture Project - Curlew River VIC Core Support The Orangutan Project Australia $5,000 WA John Button Foundation $5,000 Core Support VIC John Button Public Fund The Stella Prize Pty Ltd $10,000 VIC Foundation for Young Australians $3,000 The Stella Prize Schools Program VIC (Victoria) Core Support The Thin Green Line Foundation Ltd $20,000 Manning Clark House $20,000 VIC ACT Core Support Core Support Univeristy of Melbourne $15,000 Mayflower Community $5,000 VIC VIC Victorian College of the Arts and Core Support Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

Melbourne City Mission $15,000 University of Melbourne $25,000 VIC VIC Core Support Southbank Precinct Redevelopment

Melbourne City Mission $5,000 University of Melbourne $25,000 VIC VIC Mates for Inmates Project The Samuel and June Hordern Endowment Monash Health $5,000 VIC University of Melbourne $10,000 Core Support VIC Asialink Mumbulla Foundation $5,000 NSW Victorian Arts Centre Trust $5,000 Mumbulla Foundation VIC First Call Fund Nataraj Cultural Centre $12,000 VIC Victorian Opera $2,500 Presentation of Indian Performing Artists VIC on tour in Australia Victorian Opera Public Fund

National Portrait Gallery $15,000 Young and Well CRC $7,000 ACT VIC National Portrait Gallery of Australia Digital Education Program

Opera Australia $25,000 Family Grants Total: $552,200 NSW Core Support

SANE Australia $20,800 VIC Core Support

33 Committee Membership

Sidney Myer Fund The Myer Foundation Jessica Myer Jon Myer Chairman Founder, Life Governor and Emeritus Director Laura Myer Carrillo Gantner AO Mr Baillieu Myer AC Lilly Myer Louise Myer Trustees Life Governor Lucy Myer Sally Lindsay Lady Southey AC Patrick Myer Sid Myer AM Neilma Gantner (7 Nov 1922 – 15 June 2015) Sarah Myer Andy Myer Walter Myer President Sid Myer AM Sidney Myer Fund Grantmaking Committees Martyn Myer AO David Shelmerdine Emily Shelmerdine The Arts and Humanities Vice Presidents Kate Shelmerdine Kate Shelmerdine (Convenor) Emily Myer Laura Shelmerdine Lady Southey AC Anna Spraggett Lilian Shelmerdine Carrillo Gantner AO Lindy Shelmerdine Rupert Myer AO Directors Maree Shelmerdine Kerry Gardner Rupert Myer AO Matt Shelmerdine Patrick Myer Tim Jacobs Stephen Shelmerdine Lindy Shelmerdine Dr Jim Peacock AC (outgoing) Tom Shelmerdine Sue Nattrass AO Professor Dorothy Scott OAM William Shelmerdine Stephen Armstrong Kim Williams AM Will Spraggett

Education Members The Myer Foundation Grantmaking Committees Maree Shelmerdine (Convenor) Joanna Baevski Sally Lindsay Chris Baillieu Sustainability and Environment Louise Myer Samantha Baillieu William Shelmerdine (Co-Convenor) Anna Spraggett Jon Berry Patrick Myer (Co-Convenor) Lucy Myer Anna Foley Martyn Myer AO Ben Jensen Dashiell Gantner Lindy Shelmerdine Vallejo Gantner Prof Hugh Possingham Poverty and Disadvantage ZiYin Gantner Rob Adams Sally Lindsay (Convenor) Carrillo Gantner AO Lady Southey AC Kerry Gardner Myer Innovation Fellowships (co-supported by the Andy Myer Nell Golden Sidney Myer Fund) Louise Myer Daisy Hayward Dashiell Gantner (Co-Convenor) Laura Myer Kate Herd Natalie Herd (Co-Convenor) Joanna Baevski Natalie Herd Andy Myer Professor Dorothy Scott OAM Simon Herd Jan Owen Phillip Mendes Jessica Lindsay John Daley Jonathan Lindsay Nick Lindsay Mental Health Strikeforce Sally Lindsay Laura Shelmerdine (Co-Convenor) Timothy Lindsay Nell Golden (Co-Convenor) Andy Myer Emily Myer Annabel Myer Jon Berry Adelaide Myer Nick Lindsay Edgar Myer Sarah Hardy Edwina Myer

STAFF

Chief Executive Officer Leonard Vary

Program Managers Kirsty Allen Neal Harvey Elena Mogilevski

Executive Assistant Amy Hill

Administration Assistant Jennifer Kelly

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

34 Financials

Sidney Myer Fund $ Arts and Humanities 1,700,000 (including the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships) Education 1,695,490 Poverty and Disadvantage 1,779,000 Trustees’ Grants 2,201,386 (including the Myer Innovation Fellowships) Merlyn Myer Fund $77,000 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards $150,000 Total Sidney Myer Fund Grants 7,602,876

The Myer Foundation Sustainability and the Environment 697,211 The Myer Foundation Directors’ Grants 2,543,778 (including the Myer Innovation Fellowships) Family Grants 552,200 Total The Myer Foundation Grants 3,793,189

Total Fund and Foundation Grants $11,396,065

Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation Cumulative Grants Summary Total $ Pre 2014/15 $203,878,463 2014/15 $11,396,065 Total *$215,274,528

*Not adjusted to current day values

Value of Grants by Funding Program

Sidney Myer Fund The Myer Foundation Trustees’ Grants Directors’ Grants 20% 27% Value of Grants by Theme

Social Finance 2% Poverty and Poverty and Sustainability and Disadvantage Disadvantage 15% Environment 16% Arts and 6% Health and Humanities 34% Arts and Wellbeing 5% Education Humanities The Myer Foundation Director’s Grants 15% 16% Other 4% Sustainability and the Environment

Arts and Humanities

Education 24% Environment Education 7% Civil Society and Poverty and Disadvantage Human Rights 9%

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