Sidney Myer Fund The Myer Foundation Annual Report 2007-2008 ii SIDNEY MYER FUND THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES Myer Family PhilanthropyMissionStatement xxxxxx relation toAustralia’sregional setting. positive changeinAustralia,and through initiativesthatpromote creative, sustainableandcaringsociety Our missionistobuildafair,just, xxxxxx 2 2007-2008 GrantSummary Sidney MyerFund&S The MyerFoundation The MyerFoundation Sidney MyerFund Contents otc eal 49 46 34 46 38 Contact Details 40 29 Staff 46 Working Group Members Trustees, Directors,Members 32 Asialink 44 Health 42 Family GrantsProgram General Grants G4 Fund Sustainability andtheEnvironment Beyond Australia pca rjcs 26 24 19 7 Special Projects 4 General Grants 2 Poverty andDisadvantage Education 13 The ArtsandHumanities From theChiefExecutiveOfficer President ofTheMyerFoundation From theChairmanofSidneyMyerFund& 48 28 6

SIDNEY MYER FUND THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES From Carrillo Gantner Chairman of the Sidney Myer Fund and President of The Myer Foundation

Unlike personal generosity, organised or institutional • Local opportunities to create a model for water use philanthropy is not an amateur sport. It is challenging sustainability – The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne; and at times confronting as it seeks to address many of the major problems facing our society. If philanthropy is • The opportunities presented through landscape scale to be effective in producing good outcomes, it must work restoration and protection of biodiversity – Bush in a manner that is innovative, respectful, articulate and Heritage Australia; and professional all at the same time: • The search for sustainable agricultural practices – The • Innovative in the application of its limited funding Lady Southey Nuffield Scholarships. towards new and sometimes risky solutions to social The second major area to which I draw your attention is and environmental problems, towards building a just, that of indigenous issues. I note that this is not a separate caring and creative society; focus area but, rather, it falls across several areas of our • Respectful of those seeking support so that their good work. In this field we have responded to significant ideas may surface and be supported as it is their ideas opportunities including: 2 and passions which drive change; • Increasing attendance at school by indigenous children • Articulate in relations with grant seekers to ensure in outlying and remote communities – The Clontarf the best possible program design, in leveraging other Foundation; support and in the promulgation of successful models; • Changing the way people think about education and for indigenous children in Australia – The Institute • Professional in maximising the effectiveness of research, for Indigenous Education Leadership Institute at grant processing and evaluation, in the appointment and Queensland University of Technology; development of staff, in the management of investment • Contributing to improved eye health for people capital, and in dealings with applicants, boards, in communities in central and northern Australia, community sector colleagues and government. especially in addressing the high incidence of trachoma And all the time the eyes have to be on the main game, through trialling new diagnostic tools – The Centre for namely: are we really making a positive difference in those Eye Research; areas we choose to support? I would like to focus on three • Researching the efficacy of vaccinations to reduce the of these – the environment, indigenous issues, and our incidence of pneumoccocal disease among indigenous relations with the Asia Pacific Region – to illustrate some people in central Australia – Menzies School of Health of the ways in which we are addressing these challenges. In Research; a foreword such as this, this inevitably means quick brush strokes to indicate the issues and program responses. I • Drawing on strong indigenous music culture to create commend to your attention the more detailed program and a fusion program with NSW jazz musicians – Darwin project descriptions in the pages that follow. Festival Association; and

Challenges in the management of Australia’s fragile • The opportunity to build indigenous natural resource environment have a particular interest for many of the management as a strategy towards reconciliation and younger members of the Myer Family, among others, so I enterprise development – The Australian National will start there. In the year under review we have responded University. to:

• The stresses and demands on northern Australia and how this region’s natural resources can be supported and protected – Australian Conservation Foundation; The third area to which I draw your special attention is it is important to fulfill our mission as major Australian that of Australia’s engagement with the Asia Pacific Region. philanthropic entities. This is a long standing area of interest to Myer Family Philanthropy and this year we have responded to: After more than two years working with the ‘new model’ for Myer Family Philanthropy, the Directors of the • Opportunities to develop governance and international Foundation and Trustees of the Fund have recently resolved relations in the Pacific region – Lowy Institute for to undertake in the year ahead a modest review of our International Policy; own effectiveness, governance structures, administrative processes and grant programs. Self evaluation is as • The acquisition of deeper cultural understanding important as evaluation of funded projects and it is my through exchange programs – The University of Sydney; hope that this will provide a useful guide to refinements Asia Pacific Journalism Centre; in how we go about our business. The world in which we • Development of human and intellectual capacity operate is not static and we must not be either. We exist through education and cultural exchange – The to bring about positive changes in people’s lives and in Australian society. We can only do this well if we ourselves Australia Indonesia Institute and Asia Education 3 Foundation and the Australian Consortium for seek to apply a keenly professional approach to achieving In-Country Indonesian Studies; and these outcomes.

• The desire to foster the development and understanding Whether it is in defining issues, working with others in the of philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector across development of programs to address them, improving our the Asian region – The Asia Pacific Philanthropy governance, or playing an active role in the Australian and Consortium. regional philanthropic communities, Trustees and Directors depend heavily on the professional expertise and articulate Overlaying all of this is the continuing and extraordinary presentation of the case by our excellent management work of The Asialink Centre in partnership with the team ably lead by Christine Edwards. My gratitude to University of Melbourne. each of them, to fellow Trustees and Directors as well as to members of the Foundation and external members who These are just a few of the many important challenges and generously serve on our grantmaking committees. I also larger projects on which we have been focused during the thank Peter Winneke of MF Philanthropic Services for his year. You will find details of these and many more in this excellent management of our investment processes and Annual Report. services as Company Secretary.

Over the year under review, The Myer Foundation and All of us on this side of the Myer Family Philanthropy table Sidney Myer Fund have worked in harmonious alliance. exist to support and facilitate the ideas, energies and causes At times, however, the schedule of large and small grant of the many wonderful partners who give so much of programs and committee meetings across five major themselves to improve and enrich the lives of others. Such focus areas as well as further special programs (Health, people inspire and give meaning to our work. We thank Family Grants, “Back to School”) and the development you all. of a major 2009 anniversary program has meant that our organisational capacity has been somewhat stretched. And Carrillo Gantner ao of course our philanthropic activities are not restricted to grantmaking. Our CEO Christine Edwards and her small team, as well as Trustees and Directors, are frequently engaged in presentations and participation in philanthropy sector groups and conferences in Australia and abroad, in submissions to government enquiries and in research. This list of related activities could be expanded and all of From Christine Edwards Chief Executive Officer

Traditional boundaries between the charitable sector, of the role that the not-for-profit sector has in a democratic business, academia, government and philanthropy become society. And there are commitments to look at how the less rigid as each sector recognises its contribution within sector and governments can work together in open and the complex process of policy and service development in a collaborative ways. democratic society. Our grants through the Sidney Myer Fund and The interplay happens because in different combinations The Myer Foundation are made to make changes at the and at different times, the players are connected in their level of individual lives and at the systems level. Our desire to improve people’s lives and society as a whole. program activities focus funding on individual, family It should be no surprise to find that academic research and community support, as well as on systems to improve reveals how policies and services need to change to protect society. children’s brain development from birth. Or that a service For example, a grant to the Foundation for Rural and providing support for families and children takes this Regional Renewal, as part of their Small Grants For Small research and asks governments to consider a change in their 4 Rural Communities Program, provided our seventh year focus. Or that a service providing support for homeless of support for small communities. The program responds people partners with a documentary film maker to highlight to the needs of communities as identifi ed by community the complex layers of issues that must be addressed by members, and grants make a direct contribution to the many sectors of society. Or that the philanthropic arm immediate needs of families and communities. of a major finance company works with a not-for-profit education service to demonstrate how good the service is, in Our grants are also directed towards making changes to real terms for real children, and to advocate for increased systems. By supporting and building services, with the goal government funding. that they expand into larger systemic change, we can create strong foundations for success. For example, we provided These examples do not surprise us for they are common multiple-year support to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen examples, day after day, of the way that we work together. Garden Foundation. From its small beginnings it has grown Yet at some level there is great hesitancy to admit that we from less than five kitchen gardens in schools in Victoria to are involved in serious programs and activities that bring become part of the Commonwealth Government’s recently about change. Perhaps we lose sight of the fact that our announced $12.8 million pilot program across Australia. goals, however expressed, are about bringing about change. This is a powerful example of a partnership between And perhaps we forget that change rarely happens without philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector that can engage a challenge to our thinking, beliefs, or ways of doing governments in systemic change. things. Or perhaps the language of change has become burdened with pejorative words such as “lobbying” and Our grants are also directed at the space in between “advocacy”. these ends of the continuum: at the level of the enabler and facilitator of change. Funding at this level supports Throughout the year there have been many activities that work that has a direct bearing on how people think about suggest we are all taking a fresh look at how we work something, on how policies are formulated or services together. There are examples of people from different planned, or on the evidence that is needed to support sectors coming together to discuss issues in common and new ideas. For example, support to the Lowy Institute to work out how each can influence a change process, for International Policy to create The Myer Foundation whatever that process might be. There is a new government Melanesia Program. It has been successful in helping approach to the concept of social inclusion and the roles to inform employment policies between Australia and that all parts of society play in changing systems and countries of Melanesia, which will strengthen the skills people’s lives. There is an acknowledgement by government capacity of Melanesia’s workforce. Similarly, a grant to the Refugee Council of Australia, for the Refugee and Humanitarian Program, has been made to ensure that the perspectives of member organisations and individuals are considered in government reforms of the family reunion policy. This will help the reunification of refugee families who have been split through conflict and displacement.

Philanthropy can be a significant player in bringing about change, at different levels, through its grantmaking programs. But it can also have an impact by collaborating with and creating partnerships between different sectors. As an active enabler, philanthropy can lead through ideas, by facilitating debate, and by raising issues for public 5 awareness.

One of the most untapped areas for philanthropy is collaboration within the philanthropic sector. The capacity for philanthropy to leverage other philanthropy is a resource that has enormous capacity to be applied. When philanthropic organisations join together with a common cause, much can be achieved. An example of this in the last year is the philanthropic support behind both the Australian Print Workshop and La Mama Theatre, to give the organisations the capacity to make financial investments in their infrastructure. In each instance, many philanthropic foundations and individuals got behind the call for support, in recognition of the valuable role that these organisations play in our society.

This last year opened up opportunities for cross-sector engagement, and for a fresh look at how philanthropy can be effective. The capacity for philanthropy to embrace an active role in creating change is, as always, an invitation and a challenge.

Christine Edwards Sidney Myer Fund

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Melbourne. for presentationinBairnsdaleand by south-easternindigenousartists Support forthecreationofnewworks [email protected] Ms. LeeDarroch the Landisme Ng woka,wokaNganin:IamtheLand& $17,205 VIC Banmirra ArtsInc. rhyme, CockRobin. and musiciansbasedonthenursery Development ofanewworkfordancers www.balletlab.com [email protected] Mr. MatthewMorse Robin $10,000 VIC Balletlab AssociationInc. live andrecordedsoundactors. projections ofpeopleandlandscapes, cross mediatheatrework,usingslide Development andperformanceofa www.talyachalef.com [email protected] Ms. Talya Chalef In OtherWords $5,000 VIC La MamaInc. Chalef, Talya Perth. work tobeperformedinMelbourneand The developmentofanewpuppetry [email protected] Ms. NancyBlack COOP $10,000 VIC Black HoleTheatre music composition. cross artformworkusingimagesand Support forthedevelopmentofanew [email protected] Ms. KarenBerger Semaphore $10,000 VIC Auspicious ArtsProjectsInc. 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I’llspeakfortheteaminsayingthat artists tocollaborateonandproduceasatisfying but itofferedusanopportunityasagroupof geographically estrangedArtistRunInitiative, a wideanddiverseaudienceforrelatively Not onlydiditofferanopportunitytoaccess was enormouslybeneficialtoourorganisation. “Being partofthe2008NextWave Festival Gorkem Acaroglu- Director/Devisor StoreRoomTheatre Workshop have beenpossible.” Without theSidneyMyerFund thiswouldnot towards aneventualpublic presentation. and developmymixed media ‘BareLife’project SidneyMyerFund“The hashelpedmeprogress Macbeth. a theatreworkbasedonShakespeare’s performance ofVisions ofDunsinane, Support forthedevelopmentand www.theatreatrisk.com [email protected] Mr ChrisBendall Visions ofDunsinane $12,000 VIC Theatre@Risk dialogue andcrossculturalexchange. hemisphere throughsouth-south the distinctvoicesofsouthern organisation thatbringstogether Support forTheSouthProject,an www.southproject.org [email protected] Ms. MagdalenaMoreno The SouthProject $25,000 VIC The SouthProjectInc. young Indigenousmusicians. Support foraworkshoptodevelop [email protected] Ms. Lyn Eales Support forEmergingArtists $11,080 VIC Inc. Tarerer GunditjProjectAssociation Strange Fruit. of newharnessesandpolestandsfor Support forthedesignandconstruction www.strangefruit.net.au [email protected] Ms. SueBroadway Pole ImprovementProgram $15,000 VIC Strange FruitProductionsInc. school students. by localcommunitymembersand iron fortheMerriwatownship,designed constructed fromtinandcorrugated Support forthecreationofamural www.upperhunter.nsw.gov.au [email protected] Ms. Tess Hynes Merriwa MainStreetCommunityMural $4,600 NSW Corporate Services,MerriwaOffice Upper HunterShireCouncil China inthe1900s. travelled to,andwasinfl uenced by, was anarchitectborninGeelongwho drawings ofArthurPurnell.Purnell approximately 50,000architectural Support forthecataloguingof [email protected] Dr. DerhamGroves The ArchitectureofArthurPurnell $20,000 VIC & Planning Faculty ofArchitecture,Buildings University ofMelbourne,The performances. Support forstudentscholarshipsand [email protected] Ms. AlisonLeach Performance Support VCA StudentScholarshipsand $5,000 VIC Victorian CollegeoftheArts University ofMelbourne,The 11 SIDNEY MYER FUND THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES “I had done some Suzuki, Viewpoints and Composition training with practitioners in Australia and found it valuable. However, it really made a big difference to study with people such as Barney and Leon who have had such a long history with the trainings, were part of their development, and have put so much deep thought into their work. Their ideas greatly clarified what the training is about, but also inspired me in terms of my own thinking about theatre, and life.” Karen Berger, Director/Composer, participant in the Victorian Arts Centre's Full

THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES THE ARTS Tilt - Professional Development Workshops Painting and drawing workshop at ArtPlay

Victorian Arts Centre Trust ARTS AND HUMANITIES LARGE GRANTS The Philanthropy Team ArtPlay and Signal $12,500 VIC City of Melbourne Full Tilt - Professional Development $150,000 VIC Established by the Arts and Culture Branch of the SIDNEY MYER FUND Workshops Artplay and Signal City of Melbourne, ArtPlay has been developed to Ms. Vanessa Pigrum Mr. Simon Spain provide interactive and innovative multidisciplinary arts 12 [email protected] [email protected] activities, led by professional artists, for children, young www.theartscentre.net.au Support for the activities of ArtPlay and Support for 15-20 artists from Signal, aimed at encouraging children people and their families. Melbourne to work and train with and young people to participate in dancers from SITI Company, New York. creative activity. Widely recognised as a unique and successful arts program for young people, ArtPlay, located in Birrarung Wundunarr Koo Community Centre Footscray Community Arts Centre Marr Park, has involved over 30,000 participants, $10,800 NSW $150,000 VIC employed over 50 national and international artists A New Belonging Becoming the Flagship Organisation for Professor Gillian Cowlishaw Artistic Collaboration With Communities and in 2006 alone, ran 295 workshops, performances [email protected] Ms. Jerril Rechter and events for children (3–13 years) and families. The Support for training Indigenous people [email protected] Sidney Myer Fund was instrumental in the formation to record the stories of indigenous Support for Footscray Community of ArtPlay, providing a $500,000 grant as part of the people in the Mt Druitt area. Arts Centre to become the fl agship organisation for artistic collaboration centenary grants program in 1999. x:machine with communities. Australian Business Arts Foundation Following feedback from young people and families and $10,000 VIC Total $300,000 an expressed need for a venue for teenagers, in 2008 the Senseless City of Melbourne will establish a new youth arts centre Ms. Olivia Crang [email protected] at the Signal Box in the Northbank precinct of the Yarra www.xmachine.com.au River. The Signal Project will expand ArtPlay’s activities Development and performance of an to include a wider age group (13–18 year olds) and as a experimental theatre work, performed result, the City of Melbourne will require an expanded as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival at fortyfi vedownstairs. management structure and resources to operate the combined program.

Total $910,170 From 2008–2010, the ArtPlay/Signal program will extend programming initiatives across new disciplines to create further opportunities for artistic collaboration between children, young people and artists, and for the professional development of artists. It will expand its existing partnerships and develop new ones with Melbourne-based, national and international arts bodies, educational organisations and youth programs to ensure access to and participation in its activities from all socio- economic and cultural sectors both within and outside the City’s metropolitan boundaries. Education

The aim of the Sidney Myer Fund’s Education Programs With the addition of three new projects, the Education - both the Education Large Grants Program and the Large Grants Program currently funds seven multi-year Education Small Grants Program - is to support equal projects receiving a total this year of $1,100,000. Each EDUCATION access to education for all students. Our programs project participates in its own on-going evaluation process endeavour to bolster initiatives that provide students and reports indicate each is progressing well against its with the opportunity to fulfil their potential and objectives. improve educational outcomes with a view to closing the achievement gap. The Large Grants projects cover a variety of themes, though one in particular stands out as expanding the SIDNEY MYER FUND The Education Small Grants Program aspires to support traditional definition of education and educational programs where a contribution of up to $10,000 will make context and content. The Peek-a-Boo Project at the Royal a significant difference. The program focuses on local Children’s Hospital is an infant/mother therapeutic program community and school-based, small, discrete projects to for infants from birth to 30 months, where the infant and achieve positive educational outcomes for 0-25 year olds. mother have been exposed to extreme family violence.

Of particular interest are projects from regional and remote By the time many of these children enter pre-school or 13 communities. school their defensive mechanisms and associated negative behaviours have become so entrenched that their social, Eligible schools and community organisations, and in emotional and academic learning is severely compromised. particular, those where there is evidence of high need The program aims to address the consequences of family and disadvantage, have received funding to enable them violence and provide early intervention to positively alter to purchase equipment, implement a program, provide the developmental trajectory of the child so that he/she may resources, promote skills and resilience, and allow young approach life without the very damaging burden of “past people to participate in educational experiences that they negative learning”. would otherwise not have had the opportunity to access. An interesting addition to themes of approved projects this A highlight amongst the site visits undertaken by year is that of gardening and sustainability. A number of Committee members this year was a trip to the Clontarf schools are choosing to base lessons around the creation Foundation’s Football Academies Project in Alice Springs. of a vegetable garden, from the planning through to Staff and Committee members witnessed firsthand the consumption stage. motivational power of football as a facilitator in giving young indigenous boys and adolescents a reason to come This year the Education Small Grants Program made to, and stay at school and the very positive impact of the 56 grants dispensing a total of $402,720. The average program upon them. grant made was $7,323. Grants ranged from as little as $1,620, allocated to Monbulk Pre-School in Victoria, for a In closing, I would like to recognise the work of Committee social skills course to help pre-school children with school members and thank them for their time and contribution readiness. The important work that is facilitated by a and, as always, extend a big thank you to our dedicated modest grant such as this, shows that a little can do a lot. staff. I would, in particular, like to thank our Education Program Manager, Elena Mogilevski, for her very high The Education Large Grants Program strives to provide calibre of work and at the same time recognise the multi-year funding and support for large scale projects that contribution of Kirsty Allen who did a sterling job while will create systemic, measurable and sustainable change. Elena was on maternity leave. The current Education Large Grants Program continues to focus on: Maree Shelmerdine, Convenor

• Indigenous/Regional and Remote Education;

• Enhanced Educational Outcomes; and

• Early Childhood Education. Grants made 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

“I hated to get up in the morning [, but] now I

EDUCATION have friends at Learning Ground.”

Tori, participant in the Chain Reaction Program

Berendale State School Burnside State School Southern Teaching Unit $7,500 QLD

SIDNEY MYER FUND $7,500 VIC Burnside Indigenous Webquest Crystal Creek Outdoor Education Camp Ms. Deirdre von Guilleaume Ms. Kristy Lang [email protected] [email protected] An art and technology program for A challenge camp for students at the indigenous students in a Sunshine Southern Teaching Unit, to provide an Coast primary school. opportunity for the development of team work, problem solving and confl ict Burra Community School 14 resoultion skills. $7,500 SA Travel Costs The no-dig garden established by Bulimba Creek Catchment Booborowie Primary School Mr. Roger Boehm Coordinating Committee $4,500 SA [email protected] Project Canberra www.burracs.sa.edu.au Mr. Ronnie Alderman Support for participation of 30 students EDUCATION SMALL GRANTS Bairnsdale Secondary College [email protected] from a rural school in South Australia $6,000 VIC www.boobps.sa.edu.au in a week long study trip to Canberra. Acacia Hill School Cultural Learning Centre Support for a small rural school in $10,000 NT Ms. Amy Lane South Australia to enable its Year 7 Capability Building Inc. Acacia Hill 2007 Performing Arts Project [email protected] students to travel to Canberra for $5,000 VIC Mrs. Marianne Langsford Redevelopment of a Koorie Education educational visits. EdSpace Learning Centre [email protected] Centre in the school with the aim of Ms. Maggie Fanning A perfoming arts project for students improving engagement of Aboriginal Bowraville Central School [email protected] with a range of disabilities, culminating students and improving the general $7,000 NSW Purchase of an interactive whiteboard in a public performance. school population’s understanding of Bowraville and Wilcannia: My Language and software for a specialist education Koorie culture. My Country facility in rural Victoria. Acacia Ridge State School Mr. Paul Le Cerf $8,000 QLD Bannockburn Primary School [email protected] Caulfield Park Community School The Sound of Music $9,700 VIC A school exchange program between $8,900 VIC Mr. Cam Wallace Literacy Intervention at Bannockburn two schools in New South Wales with Caulfi eld Park Community School [email protected] Mr. Rob Nelson high Aboriginal populations, with the Library www.acaciaridgess.eq.edu.au [email protected] aim of improving literacy and numeracy Mr. Simon Clarke Purchase of musical instruments to www.bannockburnps.vic.edu.au for indigenous students. [email protected] allow students in a disadvantaged Implementation of a reading instruction Establishment of a library, equipping school in Queensland to participate in a program (MULTLIT) for Grades 3/4 in a Bulimba Creek Catchment it with resources and employing a music program based on Rock/Pop and rural school in Victoria. Coordinating Committee librarian one day per week. African music. $6,000 QLD Bellingen High School Kids Healthy Food Garden Allambi Youth Services Inc. $10,000 NSW Mr. Wayne Cameron $7,000 NSW Establishment of Bellingen High School [email protected] Windale - Proud To Be Me - Program Aboriginal Resource Centre www.bulimbacreek.org.au Mr. Grahame Williams Mr. Shane Nelson Establishment of a no-dig garden in a [email protected] [email protected] remote indigenous school. A personal development program for Establishment of an Aboriginal resource at-risk boys and girls in Grade 6, centre within the school for the use of aiming to build their self esteem and students and teachers, to improve the resilience and to ease the transition to teaching of Aboriginal issues across the “The children will benefit from this project by secondary school. curriculum. enjoying the same advantages as the children in less isolated schools.” The Principal of Gwabegar Public School Galilee Inc. “I can’t believe we could build a trailer from $5,000 ACT Urayarra Indigenous Youth Skills and scrap to something we can use to cart our Education Program Mr Russell Styche canoes around on. How Deadly!” [email protected] Trudi Murray, Urayarra Indigenous Youth Skills and Education Program www.galilee.org.au A vocational training project for young, homeless indigenous people in the Australian Capital Territory. Chain Reaction Foundation Ltd. Cycling Scientists $7,500 NSW Canberra Environment & Sustainability Geelong Kindergarten Association Mt Druitt Learning Ground Resource Centre $5,000 VIC Refurbishment $10,000 QLD Hands On Project Ms Margaret Bell Cycling Scientists Ms. Janet Park [email protected] Mr. Chris Lauf [email protected] www.chainreaction.org.au [email protected] www.gka.org.au Refurbishment of donated premises for A touring science show for 60 A supplementary program for EDUCATION the permanent home of the Mt Druitt schools on the Cape York Peninsula, kindergartens in Geelong to enable Learning Ground. Queensland. them to meet the needs of all their children, including those with Mariah learning guitar at Coffs Harbour Police and Community Doveton North Primary School additional needs. Mt Druitt Learning Ground Youth Club $10,000 VIC (Chain Reaction) $5,000 NSW Kick Start in Literacy and Numeracy Good Beginnings Australia Limited Youth on the Go Mentoring Mr. Manuela Wintle $7,500 NSW Mr. Michael Bettison [email protected] Play and Learn Mansfield Autism Statewide Services SIDNEY MYER FUND [email protected] Purchase of resources necessary to Mr. Martin Bartlett $9,500 VIC www.pcycnsw.org.au run after-school literacy and numeracy [email protected] Bandaid A youth mentoring program targeting sessions for disadvantaged students www.goodbeginnings.net.au Mrs. Maggie Williams school boys and girls aged 12-18 years. and their parents. Establishment of a community-run play [email protected] group and parent support network in Purchase of 12 musical instruments Elizabeth, South Australia. Connect Child and Family Services Euroa Community Education Centre and employment of a specialist teacher Inc. Inc., The for 30 weeks to teach autistic children Gwabegar Parents and Citizens in rural Victoria social communication 15 $7,500 NSW $5,700 VIC Association Blackheath Community Hub Project Skills for the Future $4,000 NSW skills through a band workshop. Ms. Dianne Jackson Ms. Sherryn Browne Aid to children of Gwabegar Public School [email protected] [email protected] Mr. Kevin C. Tracey Marrickville West Public School www.connect.asn.au www.ecec.vic.edu.au [email protected] Association Establishment of a community hub in a Purchase of four laptops to be used Purchase of library and classroom $5,000 NSW local school, with the aim of connecting by young people studying for their resources, and support for student Audio Visual Equipment for Marrickville families to community services and Certifi cate in General Education in rural excursions, for a small rural school in West Primary School improving early childhood outcomes. Victoria. north-west New South Wales. Ms. Daell Martin [email protected] Cora Barclay Centre Footscray City College Innisfail State High School Purchase of audio visual equipment for $7,500 SA $7,500 VIC $6,000 QLD the school‘s small auditorium. Hearing Bridges - Life and Social Skills Community Action Educational Excursion to Canberra for Deaf Adolescents Mr. Ron Jevic Mrs. Julie Pozzoli Monbulk Pre-school Ms. Robyn Phillips [email protected] [email protected] $1,620 VIC [email protected] www.footscray.vic.edu.au A school trip for 40 Year 11 and 12 Social Skills Course A social and life skills course for A community service program for Year students to Canberra. Mrs. Becky Scott hearing impaired adolescents, aimed at 9 students which involves undertaking [email protected] improving self esteem, communication the SCOPE Young Ambassador Jerilderie Public School Parents and A social and emotional skills program skills and educational experiences. program and spending time working in Citizens Association for kindergarten children, aimed at community service organisations. $5,000 NSW improving their school readiness. The Updating of Reading Resources Mrs. Helen Harris [email protected] Purchase of new books - class and “As we venture into this new initiative, we are home readers - and resource materials to enhance the school’s literacy looking forward to working closely with parents program. and students to develop basic literacy and Maleny Primary P & C Association numeracy skills. We hope to break the cycle of $10,000 QLD Robotics classes for children and young disadvantage and empower the community by people at risk & gifted students Ms. Doris Woeffling [email protected] providing them with the building blocks for a Tim, Jacob, Callum and John of www.malenyss.eq.edu.au successful future.” Purchase of a robotics projects for use Ouyen Secondary College with by groups of students to develop maths two of the three Modified Lawn Assistant Principal, Doveton North Primary School on the Kick Start in Literacy and science skills and to engage those Mowers. and Numeracy Project at risk of disengagement at both ends of the spectrum, including at-risk and gifted students. "This class has definitely helped me decide on a career in Diesel Mechanics. I am doing work experience at four different workshops." John, student at Ouyen Secondary College

Morayfield Primary P & C Association Ouyen Secondary College $10,000 QLD $9,700 VIC Provision of Electronic Whiteboards Modifi ed Lawn Mower Challenge Mrs. Veronica Kostaschuk Mr. Nathan Binks [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.ouyensc.vic.edu.au Purchase of two interactive whiteboards A practical technology project to for Year 6 classrooms in a school in engage boys in education, the task EDUCATION Queensland. being to design and build a modifi ed lawn mower. Mossman State School $10,000 QLD Park Ridge State High School Chris Lauf shows three students of Lucinda State School the electrical Sydney and Canberra Trip $10,000 QLD output of a class-made wind generator Mr. Geoff Pelling Developing Multimedia Talents

SIDNEY MYER FUND [email protected] Ms. Kathy Sawtell www.mossmanss.eq.edu.au www.parkridgshs.eq.edu.au Cycling Scientists A school trip for up to 30 Year 6 and Purchase of mulitmedia software for 7 children from far north Queensland use in a number of classes, to enable The Cycling Scientists is an adventurous new science to Sydney and Canberra, focusing on students to develop mulitmedia skills Parliament and democratic processes. and improve their employability in the education programme committed to engaging the minds electronic games industry. and imagination of Queensland school students. Mount Isa Family Support Service and 16 Neighbourhood Centre Inc. Parry School The project is driven by two science education graduates $5,000 QLD $7,000 NSW who will deliver science shows to 60 schools and Testing for Dyslexia in School Children Literacy/Numeracy Tutor remote indigenous communities during their cycling in Remote QLD Ms. Cathy Nicholson Ms. Christine Buckland [email protected]. journey throughout Cape York Peninsula. The focus of [email protected] gov.au the science shows will be energy, including concepts of Testing of up to 15 children in Mount Engagement of a literacy tutor to chemical, mechanical and electrical energy, sustainable Isa for dyslexia, by a specialist and enable a specialist literacy and energy, sustainable transport, and the scientific process. using specialised equipment, with numeracy program to be delivered in an the aim that the children will receive alternative school in Tamworth. The science show has been developed to fit with the appropriate treatment and programs. Queensland science syllabus. Pormpuraaw State School Multicultural Sudanese Centre Inc. $10,000 QLD The aim of the project is to bring scientific concepts $10,000 VIC ICTs for Learning to life for primary and secondary students in north Community Members Suffering Poverty Miss Caroline Borrows Queensland. This is particularly important for primary Mr. Elhadi Abass [email protected] [email protected] Purchase of interactive whiteboards schools which often lack science trained teachers, and Provision of a small emergency fund for a remote indigenous school in for remote schools which lack access to curriculum to assist Sudanese and Horn of Africa Queensland. enhancing experiences and activities. The Cycling students who need assistance to Scientists expect to reach over 2000 students on their purchase school uniforms, textbooks, Redbank Plains Primary School public transport tickets and money for $7,500 QLD journey. extracurricular school-based activities. Alternative Lunch Program - Promoting Social Skills and Resilience “We cycled over 100kms on Monday to get out to Nerang State School Mr. Greg Horrigan Lucinda to see all three students and it was definitely $3,000 QLD [email protected] worth it. We spent about an hour and a half there Positive Social Play for Prep. Students A lunch time program for children Mr. Rod Kirkland experiencing difficulty with social and making a wind generator and exploring different shaped [email protected] emotional skills which impacts on their blades, plus playing with our solar panel and a giant A social skills development program behaviour and capacity to learn. (50ft) black ‘solar bag’ that floats when the air inside for Prep children in a school in regional warms up. I’m not sure who the kids are half the time - Queensland. the students or Chris and I!” (Danene, Cycling Scientist.)

“It is very rewarding for me personally to be involved in the Reading Rocks Program” Liz Diffen-volunteer, Torquay Primary School West End State School $4,000 QLD Hearing Learning Connection Mrs. Deborah Murphy [email protected] www.westendss.eq.edu.au Installation of classroom sound amplifi cation systems in the junior school classrooms of a primary school in Brisbane to improve the learning environment for hearing impaired children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Wollumbin High School $6,300 NSW Together We Learn

Mr. Ralf Van de Scheur EDUCATION [email protected]. gov.au [email protected]. Torquay Primary School children during a reading session of the Reading edu.au Rocks program A project bringing 20 students from two Intensive English Language Centres

located in metropolitan Sydney into a SIDNEY MYER FUND rural high school in New South Wales for Sassafras Primary School St. Albans Secondary College Toolooa State High School a week of cultural exchange activities. $5,000 VIC $10,000 VIC $7,000 QLD The project aims to break down Sassafras Sustainable School Project Hot House Growing for Life stereotypes and racism. Mr. Alex MacDonald Mr. Nicholas D'Aglas Mrs. Cathey Hale [email protected]. D'[email protected] [email protected] Yarrabah School gov.au Construction by students of a glass hhtp://toolooashs.eq.edu.au/wcmss/ $8,800 VIC www.sassafrasps.vic.edu.au house for propogation of native plants, Design and development of three Integrating Speech and Occupational 17 Purchase of materials for landscaping for use in an authentic learning garden areas by students at risk Therapy Into Classroom Environments as part of a sustainble schools program. of disengagement, with a view to Ms. Megan Bloom program. providing an authentic learning [email protected] Sunshine North Primary School opportunity and hence promoting A pilot program integrating Speech Seaspray Primary School $5,000 VIC engagement in education. Pathology and Occupational Therapy $10,000 VIC Community Awareness Program within the classroom learning Sustainable Seaspray Ms. Christina Komuves Torquay Primary School environment in a special development Mrs. Peri Dix [email protected]. $9,750 VIC school in Melbourne. [email protected] gov.au Reading Rocks Transformation of the school grounds www.sunshinepa.vic.edu.au Mrs. Pamela Kinsman Y-Care (South East Queensland) Inc. into a sustainable permaculture A life skills program for grade six [email protected] $5,000 QLD garden, providing learning students who are at risk, or are newly torquayps.vic.edu.au Education Retention Program opportunities and a greater sense of arrived migrants or refugees. A literacy support program, using Mr. Matthew Swift engagement for its students. community volunteers recruited, trained [email protected] Tabulam and District Community and supported by a specialist literacy www.ycare.org.au Spectrum Employment Services Preschool teacher. A program to address the needs Co-operative Ltd $3,750 NSW of students identifi ed as at risk of $5,000 NSW Two New Computers and Software Urunga Public School dropping out or disengagement, aiming Stepping Stones Mrs Sharon White $7,000 NSW to assist them to identify pathways to Ms. Cath James [email protected] Kitchen Garden training and employment. [email protected] Purchase of two computers to develop Ms. Liz Keen www.spectrumemployment.com pre-school children’s school readiness. [email protected] Purchase of equipment to support a Children, teachers, parents and Total $402,720 work experience program for up to 100 community members will work together students at risk of disengagement from to build a medium sized vegetable school. garden at the school.

West Albury Preschool Centre $10,000 NSW “We are so excited about the coming visit from Headstart Mrs. Jennie Kelly the Sydney students. We want to show them [email protected] Providing Preschool education everything about our life up here and ask them to children from impoverished backgrounds, opening opportunities for so many questions.” those children to be signifi cantly better prepared for school. Student, Wollumbin High School EDUCATION LARGE GRANTS The Stronger, Smarter CAF Australia $30,600 NSW Realities Project Timehelp Mr. John Winkett The Stronger, Smarter Realities Project is about [email protected] creating systematic and transferable change by arming www.cafaustralia.org Australian educators with the belief, skill and capacity Continuation and expansion of a volunteer program that links retirees to make profound changes to the learning outcomes of with local primary and secondary indigenous children. Over three years, the project will schools. engage principals, teachers and indigenous community leaders from 240 schools with high indigenous student Clontarf Foundation Inc., The $200,000 WA population, and support them to transform their schools Establishing a Football Academy in in such a way that delivers dramatically improved Alice Springs educational outcomes for indigenous student. The

EDUCATION Ms. Andrea Goddard The Royal Children’s Hospital process will build a critical mass of educators who [email protected] Integrated Mental Health Service’s www.clontarffootball.com will document their success stories so that they can be Support for the ongoing establishment Peek-a-Boo Club accessed and applied by other educators throughout of Football Academies in four high Australia. schools in Alice Springs, to provide a Evolve at Typo Station Ltd. pathway to success for vulnerable and $200,000 VIC The project has two streams: Principal Leadership SIDNEY MYER FUND at risk Indigenous boys and young men. Youth Development Program Program, and Teacher Leadership and Community The Football Academies use the boys’ Mr. Paul Stolz love of playing football to give them a [email protected] Leadership Program. The Principal Leadership Program reason to come to and stay at school. www.typostation.org.au will see four cohorts of 20 principals per year engage A combination of a long established in a leadership residential program at Cherbourg, Queensland University of Technology wilderness/pioneer experience program Queensland in which they are supported and challenged Division: Indigenous Education for at-risk young men with leadership Leadership Institute and extension programs at a range to stimulate positive change within their own schools. 18 $460,000 QLD of partner schools and alternative These principals will document their story of change Stronger, Smarter Realities Project learning settings. This supports the and this will be made accessible to other educators. Ms. Rebecca Hazell establishment and evaluation of [email protected] a program combining outdoor and The Teacher Leadership Program will enhance this Support the ongoing establishment challenge education with innovative of a training program for principals, programming in schools and alternative positive change process with the same 240 schools teachers and community leaders of learning settings for girls and boys through follow up visits and support by a high calibre schools across Australia where there aged 14-16 years. The project will Teacher Leadership team. This team will consist of are high numbers of indigenous take place in partnership with six to one Secondary and one Primary teacher who will students. The project is co-funded by eight schools and alternative learning the Telstra Foundation, Queensland settings in Victoria and aims to work in partnership to mentor and provide high level University of Technology and achieve leadership, self confi dence and professional development to teachers throughout Education Queensland and aims to education outcomes for 200 students Australia. achieve signifi cant improvements in directly and many more indirectly, educational outcomes for indigenous and to provide evidence for the value The Community Leadership Program will further students across Australia. of integrated outdoor and leadership enhance the process with the provision of mentoring, programs. Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation networking and empowerment processes for indigenous Limited University of Melbourne, The teacher aides, parents, community leaders (elders) and Division: Integrated Mental Health Centre for Equity and Innovation in community workers who are crucial to the development Service Early Childhood, Faculty of Education of young indigenous Australians. The process will also $150,000 VIC $59,400 VIC The Peek-a-Boo Club Early Childhood Framework Project - see the development of suitable resource materials to Ms. Wendy Bunston Project Design and Scoping. meet the respective needs of each community and it is [email protected] Professor Glenda MacNaughton intended that this will contribute to sustainability within www.rchfoundation.org.au [email protected] communities, and transferability to other communities Development of a gold standard manual Development of a detailed project and training package for delivery of the scoping and design for a two to three at a national and international level. Peek-a-Boo Club therapeutic program year project looking at the development for infants and their mothers who have of a national framework for early Even at this relatively early stage in the life of the experienced extreme family violence. childhood in Australia. project, a number of schools are showing benefits through positive steps initiated by their leaders, as a Total $1,100,000 result of their participation in the Stronger, Smarter Principals Leadership Program. Internal evaluation demonstrates that participating schools are already achieving improved attendance by their indigenous "I feel much more like her Mum now" students and performance in Years 3 and 5 literacy and numeracy tests. Participant in the Peek-a-Boo Club program Poverty and Disadvantage

“An Australia Free of Poverty” is emblazoned on the Mr Paris Aristotle, put forward a compelling case for action cover of the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s 2007 Annual research, the need for an improved evaluation framework Report. I remember wondering if this was a realistic vision and for infrastructure support so they can continue to for the Brotherhood when first announced some years provide the best services possible for a traumatised and ago, or merely a pipedream. I’m still unsure, but given struggling part of our community. It is worthwhile noting our increased ability to help, after a prolonged period that Foundation House was established 20 years ago with of sustained growth and prosperity, I believe we have an a seeding grant from The Myer Foundation. Over the years

obligation to ensure the vision is given every chance. It is it has expanded its service delivery dramatically, but, also AND DISADVANTAGE POVERTY certainly no longer beyond Australia’s reach to break the undertakes research, influences policy, and disseminates its poverty cycle, if we have the will to do so. experiences across the world.

Australia’s indigenous issues are most complex and Our Large Grants Program has now supported six projects, although they have received an almost overwhelming with a total commitment of $3.186 million over three amount of publicity in the recent past, remain at the years; Small Grants this year total $406,848. SIDNEY MYER FUND forefront of Australia’s social conscience. At a recent dinner, 19 Patrick Dodson talked about the increase in Aboriginal The expertise and counsel of Professor Dorothy Scott and youth suicide and drug dependency and, while admitting the Right Rev’d Dr Peter Hollingworth, given freely over the he didn’t have all the answers, thought there were areas year, has been invaluable. We would also like to thank Mr where we could assist by celebrating the uniqueness of the Julian Burnside QC who was an inaugural member of our Aboriginal community. Indeed, this is a principal thrust Committee but was forced to stand down during the year of one of our Large Grants through the employment of because of competing work commitments. We are extremely rangers using indigenous natural resource management fortunate that The Honourable Brian Howe, Professorial techniques in northern Australia. Aboriginal art is another Associate, Political Science, The Centre for Public Policy, area where we are able to celebrate the uniqueness of our The University of Melbourne, and Mr Hass Dellal, indigenous people. Executive Director and Company Secretary, Australian Multicultural Foundation, have agreed to join us. Last year we decided that a priority area for funding in 2007-08 should be migrant and refugee children and their This report includes a list of the 46 small grants. These families. After much research we decided to fund The grants concentrate on the immediate needs of a community Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and or organisation. They make an immediate difference. They Trauma (Foundation House) who, through its founder often help make ends meet. They allow an event, or an improvement, to take place which otherwise would not occur. Helping to help provide healthy nutritious, meals to malnourished people, using surplus food donated by businesses, and teaching Afghan Muslim women to swim are just two examples of where a relatively small grant has made a difference.

Finally, we would like to thank Christine Edwards, Jonathan Finighan, Vanessa Meachen and indeed all the Foundation and Fund staff, and especially Christine Dromart who is leaving after 10 years’ faithful service. Their commitment, attention to detail, and their good humour, have made the job of the Large and Small Grants Committees a pleasure.

Sandy Clark, Convenor Streetworx Love in Action’s Embassy Kids Choir “When I paid the gas bill there was nothing left for food. My children can now go to school having had breakfast, a packed lunch and a hot meal ready for the evening.” A beneficiary of the Dingley Village Community Advice Bureau's Food for the Pantry project

POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE Blinky Bill Portland Child Care Centre SMALL GRANTS Inc. $8,720 NSW Abbeyfield Society (North West Re-fence Yard and Re-paint Interior Melbourne) Inc., The Replacement of the fence surrounding $10,000 VIC the Child Care Centre and re-paint of Alterations and Refurbishment the exterior of the building. Boys of the Clontarf Foundation’s Alice Springs Football Academy Mr. Michael Roche [email protected] Broadmeadows Uniting Care Support for repairs and modifi cations $9,942 VIC Clontarf Foundation Alice to Abbeyfi eld‘s North West Melbourne Seen and Heard POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE POVERTY House. Ms. Kylie Rodgers Springs Football Academy [email protected] Ararat Golden Gateway Festival Establishment of a support group The Clontarf Foundation works to engage and support Committee Inc. for sole parents, in particular single young indigenous men in mainstream education until $4,000 VIC fathers, to reduce isolation, improve they complete Year 12, and then to assist them to Outings for the Aged parents‘ life management and find employment. The Foundation uses the vehicle

SIDNEY MYER FUND Councillor Gwenda Allgood, J.P. parenting skills and increase their [email protected] knowledge and networks. of Australian Rules Football to attract young men to 20 www.ararat.vic.gov.au attend and engage in school. A bus trip with the support of a nurse/ Broadmeadows West Primary School carer to enable elderly people living in $5,000 VIC The Alice Springs Football Academy operates in aged care homes to participate in the Breakfast Program partnership with three government secondary schools local Golden Gateway Festival. Mrs. Helen Wood and Yirara College, an independent secondary college [email protected] Banksia Gardens Community Centre Support for the school‘s free Breakfast for indigenous students. Effective leadership from the Meadow Heights Learning Shop Inc. Program, providing breakfast for 30 school’s administration, good partnerships with the $10,000 VIC children. individual schools involved as well as the Department Banksia Gardens Study Group of Employment, Education and Training, and strong Enhancement Project Carlton Primary School Mr. Jaime de Loma-Osorio Ricon $9,600 VIC support from families and students are all necessary [email protected] English Classes for Non-English components of the program. www.banksiagardens.org.au Speaking Women with Pre-school Aged Expansion of a study group, Children Students must continue to attend and work at school predominantly for refugee and asylum Ms. Rebecca Harris in order to participate in the Football Academy; they seeker students, based in a housing [email protected] estate in Broadmeadows. A project in collaboration with the remain engaged in class and actively participate in Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre schoolwork. The program is achieving outstanding Benalla Trust Foundation to provide free English classes to results, with greatly improved school attendance $10,000 VIC women of CALD backgrounds who have rates and with some senior boys who had previously Helping Local Families in Crisis pre-school aged children. Mr. Stephen London disengaged from the mainstream school system [email protected] Casey North Community Information returning to school. The program works in part Provision of emergency relief for Service Inc. because rather than imposing an artificial interest persons in necessitous circumstances $5,000 VIC on the young men participating, it capitalises on in the Benalla area. Making Ends Meet - Low Income Guide Ms Susan Naden Magee existing passion for football and provides support, Bendigo Family and Financial Services [email protected] encouragement and tangible outcomes from that Inc. Support for production of an updated passion. $10,000 VIC edition of a guide for low income Financial/Health/Education Program residents in the City of Casey. More importantly, young men are supported at a critical Ms Jenny Elvey time of their development into adults through the [email protected] A weekly group participation relationships they develop with Academy staff members, program for people from low income who provide mentoring and support. backgrounds, providing education on budgeting, healthy eating and craft skills. Communify QLD Inc. Disability Opportunities Victoria Inc. $10,000 QLD $10,000 VIC “SecondBite successfully lobbied in April for the Advocacy for Refugees and Asylum Children‘s Holiday Respite Camps Seekers Collaboration Network Ms Anna Taylor-Wood introduction of the ‘Civil Liability Amendment Coordinator [email protected] Ms. Karen Dare www.dov.org.au Bill 2008’ in Tasmania. This, coupled with [email protected] School holiday camps for children www.communify.com.au with disabilities, providing respite for the generous grant from the Sidney Myer Fund Support for a project providing support parents during school holiday periods. to African refugees and operating a has enabled SecondBite to begin researching multicultural collaboration network Disability Services Australia Limited and talking through the needs of agencies promoting the sharing of information $8,050 NSW and knowledge amongst Brisbane- Vocational training for people with a and community organisations that provide based agencies. disability Mr. Arran Saunders meals for people who are homeless or living in Cranbourne Christian Fellowship [email protected] Centre www.dsa.org.au disadvantaged circumstances Tasmania wide.” $10,000 VIC Training in Certifi cate II in Transport Room to Grow Garden - Stage 1 and Distribution for adults with SecondBite Tasmania Pilot Project Ms. Kathey Blackmont disabilities. [email protected] Establishment of a community garden Endeavour Ministries Inc. that will provide access to fresh, $5,000 VIC nutritious food to disadvantaged Crisis Management Lentil As Anything Inc. Nambour Community Centre Inc. POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE POVERTY individuals and families in the Mrs. Judy Martin $10,000 VIC $8,000 QLD Cranbourne neighbourhood with the [email protected] Refugee Mentoring and Training Cultural Connections Community produce to be distributed through www.andrewscentre.org.au Program Leadership various local agencies at low or no cost. Contribution to an emergency relief Ms. Grace McQuilten Ms. Naomi Wiley fund for families in crisis. [email protected] [email protected] Cystic Fibrosis Victoria Inc. Support for a mentoring program Support for the ‘Building a Better for 20 young people from refugee Community‘ training course for migrant $10,000 VIC Gawler Neighbourhood House Inc. SIDNEY MYER FUND Emergency Crisis Aid $5,000 SA backgrounds. communities, aiming to develop their Mr. Melissa Grenville Christmas Lunch 2007 leadership and communication skills, 21 [email protected] Mrs Dawn Kelson Lentil As Anything Inc. supporting their efforts to build healthy, www.cfv.org.au [email protected] $10,000 VIC sustainable communities. Provision of emergency funding for Support for a Christmas lunch for 130 Development Program families of cystic fi brosis sufferers in people who are fi nancially and socially Ms. Grace McQuilten O‘Connell Family Centre Victoria, including medical equipment, disadvantaged, living in the Gawler [email protected] Mercy Health & Aged Care travel expenses, food vouchers and region. Support for employment of an $5,000 VIC expenses associated with accessing accountant to organise and manage the Transitions: New Mums’ Groups hospital treatment such as petrol or Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre accounts of all fi ve Lentil as Anything Ms. Ann Johnson parking. Inc. sites. [email protected] Taylor Street Community Legal Service www.mercy.com.au Dingley Village Community Advice $9,000 QLD Migrant Resource Centre (Southern A postnatal support program for fi rst- Bureau Inc. Legal outreach service to Rainbow Tas) Inc. time teenage mothers at Mercy Hospital $5,000 VIC Beach, Tin Can Bay, Tiaro and Gin Gin $3,500 TAS for Women in Heidelberg. Food for the Pantry Ms. Lee Milcherdy Afghani Muslim Swimming Team Mrs. Marion Harriden, OAM [email protected] Ms. Anne Hamilton One Umbrella Australia [email protected] Support for travel for volunteer lawyers [email protected] $10,000 VIC A food parcel distribution program providing free legal advice and referral www.mrchobart.org.au One Million Meals to disadvantaged families and services to the people of remote Wide A project to provide swimming classes Mr. Marcus Godinho individuals living in the City of Bay regions. for newly arrived Afghani refugee [email protected] Kingston. women living in Hobart. www.oneumbrella.org.au Provision of meals to over 55 welfare Migrant Resource Centre North West agencies across metropolitan Victoria. Region Inc. Hume Branch Parramatta Young Christian Workers “About five months ago I said to Tom, ‘You $10,000 VIC $10,000 NSW Managing the Money Job Club know, for each of our members to have 2 pieces Ms. Grozdana Lukic Ms Sarah Lentern of fruit per day we need over 3000 pieces of [email protected] [email protected] www.mrcnorthwest.org.au www.ycw.org.au fruit per week.’ The next week Joelle rocked up A project to provide fi nancial Establishment of a weekly support and counselling and information sessions networking group aimed at fi nding with over 3000 pieces of fruit. And that has for newly arrived refugees and employment for young adults from migrants. refugee backgrounds living in Sydney‘s continued every week since.” western suburbs. Patrick Lawrence, Food Bank Coordinator, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which benefits from the One Million Meals project of One Umbrella Australia South Australian Contemporary Music Company $10,000 SA Ausmusic SA Musicians in Schools Program Mr. Daniel Randell [email protected] www.musicsa.com.au Support for a music training program in fi ve disadvantaged secondary public schools in South Australia which aims to retain and engage students from disadvantaged backgrounds in healthy school activities, providing them with a positive, lasting experience.

Streetworx Love in Action $10,000 NSW The Embassy Kids Choir Mr. Daniele Maisano [email protected] www.streetworx.org.au Support for a singing and dancing choir for children with disadvantaged

POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE POVERTY backgrounds in the Macquarie Fields and

Bankstown areas of western Sydney.

TADVIC Co-Operative Ltd. $10,000 VIC Publicity Campaign Ms. Fiona Still

SIDNEY MYER FUND [email protected] Young participants in the wearable arts project of the Alce Springs Desert Festival, their participation facilitated www.tadvic.asn.au 22 Support for the production of a DVD to by Tangentyere Council promote the work of an organisation of volunteers providing practical assistance to people with disabilities by Pintubi Homelands Health Service Riding for the Disabled Association SecondBite building or modifying equipment that $10,000 NT Tasmania $9,340 VIC meets their specifi c needs, when no The Healthy House $6,000 TAS SecondBite Tasmania Pilot project commercial solution exists. Ms. Jeanette Pastor RDA Coach Education and Training Ms. Katy Barfield [email protected] Ms. Cathy Bantick [email protected] Tangentyere Council Inc. $15,000 NT Fitout and furnishing of a purpose [email protected] www.secondbite.org CAYLUS Wearable Arts Project - Bush designed venue for a preventative www.tasrda.websyte.com.au Establishment of fresh food collection Access to the Big Event health program for young women Support for travel and accommodation and distribution operations in Hobart, Mr. Blair McFarland in Kintore, a remote Indigenous costs for RDA coach educators, enabling in order to address the underlying [email protected] community in the Northern Territory. the provision of training workshops in nutritional problems contributing to www.tangentyere.org.au all RDA centres in Tasmania. poverty and disadvantage. A project to involve young indigenous Queanbeyan and District Pre-School people in the Wearable Arts events, Association Inc. Rockdale Community Services Inc. Service to Youth Council Inc. workshop and awards at Alice Springs $9,690 NSW $10,000 NSW $8,406 SA Desert Festival. Access and Affordability Project Dunghutti Community Project Kitchens for Cooperative Foundation Mrs. Kay McGilvray Ms. Nouha Achmar Court Taskforce Community Agency Inc. [email protected] [email protected] Mr. Scott Whitmore $9,000 VIC Subsidised pre-school fees to enable www.rockdalecommunity.websyte.com. [email protected] Youth Outdoor Adventure Therapy children from low income households to au Support for renovations to Ms. Karenza Louis-Smith attend kindergarten. Training and education programs for accommodation for young people [email protected] young indigenous people involved in experiencing barriers to accessing www.taskforce.org.au Rockdale Football Club. independent accommodation. Provision of an outdoor adventure therapy program for young people Snugglepot Day Care Centre Inc. experiencing issues with drug and/ $10,000 NSW or alcohol use, who are homeless or at Snugglepot Community Crisis Care risk of being homeless and not engaged “This Crisis Care program has been a great Program with mainstream services. Ms. Lisa English help to reduce stress for families in need in our [email protected] Tweed Byron & Ballina Community [email protected] Transport Inc. community.” Provision of food, clothing and personal $10,000 NSW A local referral agency on Snugglepot Daycare Centre Inc.'s Community Crisis care items for children experiencing Daytime Bus Service Mrs. Penny Baldwin Care Program ongoing family crisis and trauma, who [email protected] attend an emergency day care program. A pilot project providing a bus service enabling an isolated Aboriginal community to access the local town for medical and social appointments during school holidays. Foundation House $219,534 VIC Refugee Health and Social Wellbeing Research Program: to improve service delivery to survivors of torture and trauma Mr. Paris Aristotle, AM [email protected] www.foundationhouse.org.au A research program which aims to build the capacity of the Foundation House to provide services based on sound action research and other evidence- based methods and to put in place an evaluation framework for the ongoing development of effective services to refugees. The program will have a primary focus on the needs of children, young people and their families.

Koori Resources & Information Centre Inc. Embassy Kids Choir of Streetworx Love in Action practicing in Canterbury $180,000 VIC Building Social Systems, Economic POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE POVERTY Opportunities and Social Cohesion in the Greater Shepparton Region for Indigenous People and the Broader Twin Rivers Community Care Wellington Collingwood Inc. POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE LARGE Community Association Inc. $10,000 VIC GRANTS Mr. Paul Briggs OAM $10,000 QLD Community Aid Collingwood [email protected] Eagleby Food Co-op Ms. Maria Attard-Dickson Australian National University, The

KRIC will work with individuals, SIDNEY MYER FUND Mr. Adrian Try [email protected] Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy community groups and indigenous [email protected] Support to develop the organisation‘s Research organisations to continue to drive 23 www.trcare.org.au fi nancial capacity, improving $300,000 ACT change for indigenous and non- Provision of equipment for a food its provision of material aid to Indigenous Poverty Reduction and indigenous communities. Through cooperative providing a low cost food disadvantaged people living in the Natural Resource Management in North the development of local leaders, service to assist families experiencing Collingwood area. Australia strong organisations, and effective disadvantage. Professor Jon Altman management practices, KRIC will Wild@Heart Community Arts [email protected] continue to be a leading oranisation ValleySport Auspicious Arts Projects Inc. www.anu.edu.au in building community consensus $15,000 VIC $8,200 VIC An action research project exploring and delivering opportunities for Koori Cycling Schools Programs Fifteen Minutes of Sane: strengthening the alleviation of indigenous poverty advancement. Mr. Shane Hughan the system with song through enhanced environmental [email protected] Mr. Phil Heuzenroeder management of Indigenous lands in VICSEG Limited www.valleysport.net.au [email protected] northern Australia, including some of $150,000 VIC Purchase of bikes and bike trailers Development of a new program to the most biodiverse areas in Australia. Establishment of a Refugee Family to implement a cycling program for connect people experiencing mental Resource and Mentoring Program Indigenous youth in the Shepparton illness with music. Brotherhood of St. Laurence Mr. John Zika region. $150,000 VIC [email protected] YWCA of Canberra HIPPY Australia - Home Interaction A program to assist vulnerable families Victoria Relief and Foodbank Limited $5,400 ACT Program for Parents and Youngsters from among recently settled refugee $10,000 VIC Ainslie Precinct Art and Drama Group Ms. Sarina Greco communities to understand and access 20 Pallet fridge and freezer for Bendigo Ms. Manja Visschedijk [email protected] the Australian early childhood service Satellite Distribution Centre manja.visschedijk@ywca-canberra. A program bringing together local system, so that both parents and Mr. Mike Cannon org.au community trainers and parents to children derive the benefi ts that are [email protected] www.ywca-canberra.org.au promote the development of their available. www.vrfb.com.au Support for weekly arts and drama pre-school children, and to establish Purchase of a 20 pallet fridge and classes for women living in public support networks for families. freezer for a warehouse in Bendigo, housing in Canberra‘s north. Total $1,099,534 which will allow the delivery of Clontarf Foundation Inc., The refridgerate and frozen food to rural $100,000 WA families in crisis. Total $406,848 Establishing a Football Academy in Alice Springs Ms. Andrea Goddard [email protected] www.clontarffootball.com Establishment of Football Academies "I get so much from meeting up with the other in four high schools in Alice Springs, to provide a pathway to success for women. I love the Ainslie Precinct Art and vulnerable and at risk Indigenous boys and young men. The Football Academies Drama Group." use the boys‘ love of playing football to Participant in the YWCA of Canberra's Ainslie Precinct Art and Drama Group give them a reason to come to and stay at school. Sidney Myer Fund General Grants

Australian Collaboration, The Council of Christians and Jews Trust for Young Australians Victoria Inc., The $20,000 VIC $40,000 VIC Australian Collaboration Education Storytelling for Intercultural Materials: Development and Connections Mr. William Clancy, AM

GENERAL GRANTS Dissemination Prof. David Yencken [email protected] [email protected] www.jcrelations.net www.australiancollaboration.com.au Production and distribution among Support for the development of schools of a handbook telling stories from resources relating to a series of fact Christian, Jewish and Muslim cultures, sheets providing information over a designed to promote understanding and tolerance amongst students. SIDNEY MYER FUND range of issues, used in secondary schools around Australia, and support for increasing the distribution of First Nations Foundation the resources to include tertiary $50,000 VIC institutions. Financial Inclusion of Indigenous Australians Ms. Colette McInerney 24 Australian Council for Children and [email protected] Youth Organisations Inc., The www.fnf.org.au $50,000 VIC Support to build a strong economic Safeguarding Children Networking future for Indigenous Australians, Seminars through assistance to make informed Ms. Katherine Sylvan fi nancial decisions. [email protected] www.accyo.org.au Future Directions International Pty Support for a program delivering Ltd. training and awareness sessions to $100,000 WA organisations to establish positive, Australia 2050 proactive strategies for the prevention Mr. Craig Lawrence, AM Merran Esson's Towong Tank, winner of the Poyntzpass Pioneer Ceramics of child abuse. [email protected] Award of Merit at the Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award at www.futuredirections.org.au Australian Print Workshop Inc. A study to ascertain the contextual the Shepparton Art Gallery $200,000 VIC character of the strengths, weaknesses Building the Future and social asymmetries of Australian Ms. Anne Virgo society as it has developed through a Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre Shepparton Art Gallery [email protected] natural accretion of migratory waves over Inc. $25,000 VIC www.australianprintworkshop.com 60,000 years, aimed at providing a policy $100,000 VIC Continuation of the Sidney Myer Fund Support for the refurbishment of framework for engaging national debate. RILC Coordination Project International Ceramics Award Australian Print Workshop’s building. Mr. David Manne Ms. Julie Adams La Mama Inc. [email protected] [email protected] Brotherhood of St. Laurence $250,000 VIC www.rilc.org.au Support for the Sidney Myer Fund $40,000 VIC Building Acquisition Support for a legal service providing International Ceramic Award in Teeth First Fund Ms. Liz Jones free legal advice and assistance association with La Trobe University. Mr. Tony Nicholson [email protected] to asylum seekers, refugees and [email protected] www.lamama.com.au disadvantaged migrants. St. George the Martyr Anglican Church Establishment of a dental health A contribution to the acquisition of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne program for disadvantaged people. La Mama building in Carlton. Refugee Council of Australia Inc. $18,000 VIC $106,128 NSW Restoration of Stained Glass Windows Carroll, Alison National Library of Australia Supporting Refugee Communities: Mrs. Margaret Wright University of Melbourne (Asialink) $375,000 ACT Sustainable Employment Pathways and A contribution to the restoration of $30,000 VIC Establishment of the Treasures Gallery Structural Reforms to the Refugee and the church‘s historic stained glass Art in Asia 1900-2000 Ms. Doreen Mellor Humanitarian Program windows. Mr. Paul Power Ms. Alison Carroll [email protected] [email protected] St. Paul‘s Cathedral Melbourne [email protected] www.nla.gov.au www.refugeecouncil.org.au $10,000 VIC Publication costs for The Revolutionary Support for the establishment of a permanent gallery displaying national Core support for the peak body for over General Purpose Century, Art in Asia 1900-2000. treasures, including manuscripts and 280 not-for-profi t organisations dealing The Very Rev‘d David Richardson maps, music and printed collections, with refugee issues. [email protected] and digitised versions of documents A contribution to the Cathedral important in Australia‘s history. Restoration Fund. State Library of Victoria Foundation Victoria University of Technology $120,000 VIC Access and Success, School of Glass Photographic Formats Digitising Education Michael van Leeuwen $48,000 VIC www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au Kinder Kinder to Kinder College Digitising of negatives of the picture Ms. Natalie Vernuccio collection of the library which relate to [email protected] the history of Victoria, which will result www.vu.edu.au in high resolution images capable of A program giving children who would being downloaded by the public for use otherwise miss out, a kindergarten at no charge. experience, and giving their parents access to skills development and Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden learning opportunities. Foundation Ltd. $64,000 VIC Victorian Women‘s Housing Kitchen Garden at Yarrunga Primary Association Ltd. School $50,000 VIC Ms. Ange Barry Increasing Organisational Capacity to [email protected] Substantially Grow the Organisation www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au Ms. Jeanette Large Support for the development of a [email protected] GENERAL GRANTS kitchen garden program at a school in www.vwha.org.au rural Victoria. Support for a supported social housing project for low income women and Swinburne University of Technology children. Asia-Pacific Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment TOTAL $1,746,128 $50,000 VIC SIDNEY MYER FUND General Support Michael Liffman www.swin.edu.au Support towards the consolidation and expansion of the current work of the Richard Kendall adjusts focus on the copy camera Centre to achieve a level of activity which 25 ensures its ongoing impact and viability. State Library of Victoria Foundation

Glass Photographic Formats Digitising

The Trustees of the Sidney Myer Fund have committed $240,000 to enable the State Library to create digital photographs from the enormous collection of glass plate and glass lantern slides held by the Library.

Over 50,000 pieces tell the story of life in Victoria from 1860 to 1950. In their original state, they are precious and fragile pieces, and are preserved and stored under strict standards of archival care. Consequently, it is very difficult for them to be made available to the public.

The public has many reasons to view and use these photos, including private family research, study at primary, secondary and tertiary education, research for writing and publishing, creative work, and personal interest.

Digitising the photographic plates and slides will make them completely accessible, and an additional plan to place them on the Library’s website will ensure that this access is free, at any time, to anyone in the world.

The project has been underway for just over a year, and in this time over 18,000 rare and fragile glass plate negatives have been preserved. The originals have An etching printed by Australian Print Workshop in collaboration with been rehoused in archivally sound packaging and their artist Louis Karadada. digitised images are available via the Library’s online catalogue. See www.slv.vic.gov.au Sidney Myer Fund Special Projects

2007 SIDNEY MYER PERFORMING ARTS AWARDS

Ros Warby $40,000 2007 Individual Award Winner The Song Company $40,000 SPECIAL PROJECTS Joint winner 2007 Group Award Tasdance $40,000 Joint winner 2007 Group Award Ian Scobie $15,000

SIDNEY MYER FUND 2007 Facilitator’s Prize The 2007 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards were presented at the National Institute of Circus Arts, Sue Nattrass presenting the Facilitator’s Prize award to Ian Scobie. Melbourne on Friday 22nd February 2008. Photo: Casamento Photography 26 The judging panel members for the 2007 Awards were David Bates, Hilary Crampton, Bin Dixon-Ward, Michael Kantor, Lyndon Terracini, Kerry Gardner (representing the Arts and Humanities Committee of the Sidney Myer Fund) and Carrillo Gantner (representing the Trustees of the Sidney Myer Fund).

The awards were presented by Sue Nattrass. Students from NICA and performers from CircaNICA provided entertainment, which included a group act called ‘Worms’, a trapeze act and a group bike act.

The 2007 Individual Award was won by dance artist Ros Warby. Ros was described by the judges as “fearless and uncompromising in her performances, willingly Members of The Song Company, joint Group Award winner with relinquishing conventional expectations of beauty and Carrillo Gantner. Photo: Casamento Photography grace and awakening in the viewer a recognition of emotion, sensation and experience that so often remains unacknowledged”. Ros received a prize of $40,000, and a place in The Colloquium, The Cranlana Programme’s centre-piece seminar.

In 2007, the judges awarded two Group Awards, to Tasdance and The Song Company. Each group received a prize of $40,000.

Tasdance’s mission is to ‘create passion for and engagement with contemporary dance’. The group does this through creating and presenting contemporary dance, and by taking dance to theatres and schools through its annual education program.

The Song Company is Australia’s only full-time professional Annie Greig and Mark Kelleher of Tasdance, joint Group Award winner. vocal ensemble, and since 1990, The Song Company has Photo: Casamento Photography demonstrated their unique ability as one of the world’s Support of a training pilot program which aims to build capacity for indigenous people for conservation management.

Foundation for Young Australians $30,000 Provision of Merlyn Myer Leadership Awards

In 2000, Dame Merlyn Myer’s granddaughters marked the 100th anniversary of her birth by creating a special project in her name, the Merlyn Myer Leadership Awards.

Each year, the Merlyn Myer Leadership Awards are made Sue Nattrass presenting the Individual Award to Ros Warby. to a remarkable group of Year 11 students from around Photo: Casamento Photography Victoria, who receive $2,000. In 2008, 14 students received Leadership Awards. In addition, a group of students are awarded Merlyn Myer Role Model Awards. In leading groups of this genre. The judges said the group 2008, 15 students were awarded $500 each for Role Model SPECIAL PROJECTS has “developed its style by successfully integrating serious Awards. scholarship, tonal clarity, vocal daring and unbridled performance dynamics”. These outstanding students demonstrated a commitment to leadership, community involvement and academic The Facilitator’s Prize went to Ian Scobie, a successful arts achievement. facilitator who has contributed to the diversity and quality of performing arts available to audiences in Australia. Ian Congratulations to the following students: SIDNEY MYER FUND established Arts Projects Australia in 1997, an independent Merlyn Myer Leadership Awards 2008 arts and event manager and producer with a full-time staff of eight, producing international tours nationally and tours Dania Ayoub Campbell McLean in Australia. Jackson Clarkson Tracey Richardson 27 Matthew Croft Storm Robbins BACK TO SCHOOL PROGRAM Nyachiew (Rebecca) Dingkar Joseph Rokebrand Melissa Doyle Ellie Van der Westhuizen Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal $200,000 Beau Kuchel Daniel Walsh Tim McGregor Tarli Westerland The Sidney Myer Fund provided a grant of $200,000 to the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) to support the 2008 Back to School Program. Merlyn Myer Role Model Awards 2008

The Back to School program, which was an initiative Naha Abdallah Rachel Micallef of the Sidney Myer Fund, provides practical support to Mariah Andrews Chelsea Murray school children at the beginning of the school year, and Ruby Clementson Erin Ryland in some cases, mid-year. FRRR works with community Georgia Cowdery Cassandra Schill organisations to facilitate the giving of $50 vouchers, which Stephanie Cowdery Casey Taylor are redeemable for items essential for the school year, such as Elle Guthrie Chloe Torney school uniforms, clothing, school bags, books and stationery. Jackson Harnwell Tye Vocale Robert James The program has grown significantly since its inception, both in geographical reach and through the number of Marcus Oldham College $15,000 vouchers distributed. Merlyn Myer Scholarship

Marcus Oldham College was established in 1962 as the MERLYN MYER FUND only independent provider of rural business management Each year, the granddaughters of Merlyn Myer, (Joanna education in Australia. Reflecting Merlyn Myer’s interest Baevski, Samantha Baillieu, Lindy Hayward and Sally in agricultural and rural life, the granddaughters support Lindsay) fund a number of special projects in honour the Merlyn Myer Scholarship at Marcus Oldham College. of their grandmother. In 2008, these projects included This scholarship is aimed at encouraging young women the Merlyn Myer Leadership Awards, the Merlyn in the study of agricultural management, and provides Myer Scholarship, and a grant to Australian Wildlife financial support for the first and third year of study. Conservancy. In 2008, Philippa Dawes-Love from Naracoorte, South Australian Wildlife Conservancy $10,000 Australia was awarded the Merlyn Myer Scholarship. Indigenous Employment and Training pilot project The Myer Foundation

The Myer Foundation was established in 1959 by Sidney Myer’s sons, the late Kenneth Myer and Baillieu Myer. It is now supported by three generations of Myer family members, and represents their continuing commitment to philanthropy.

Kenneth Myer AC Baillieu Myer AC Beyond Australia

In 2007-08, the Beyond Australia Committee of The Myer its Journalism Professional Practicum Program through Foundation made four new grants totalling $1,100,000 which 25 high performing journalist students from 13 for the first year of those three-year projects. The small Australian universities travelled to Indonesia where they number of large grants is evidence that the Foundation’s had a two week language and culture course and four new model for philanthropy being a smaller number of week internship at well-known Indonesian media outlets. BEYOND AUSTRALIA larger, multi-year grants, is well established. The program provided Australian students of journalism with an opportunity for journalism education in a new Beyond Australia provided funding to five major projects in cultural setting and served as a mechanism for promoting 2007-08, namely: broader understanding across the often fraught Australian- • The Myer Foundation Melanesia Program at The Lowy Indonesian divide. Institute. The ASPBAE Education Project in Papua New Guinea, • Murdoch University – Australian Consortium for funded in 2007-08 to the level of $675,000 over three THE MYER FOUNDATION In-Country Indonesian Studies. years, builds capacity in PNG to support the access to, and advocacy for, the educational needs of communities. • The Asia Pacific Journalism Centre’s Indonesian Education in PNG is a national issue, in large part because 29 Journalism Fellowship Program. of the policy vacuum at government level. This project, • The Australia Indonesia Institute – School BRIDGE Project. which builds on some ground breaking work supported by NZAID, gathers quality data about literacy and educational • The Asia South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education – experiences in PNG. This data has never been gathered Papua New Guinea Education Project. before, and enables educational research which informs The fi rst three of these projects were funding commitments policy development by the government. made over three years commencing 2006-07, and the last The School BRIDGE Project, managed by the Australia two were funding in commitments made in 2007-08. In Indonesia Institute and the Asia Education Foundation has addition to these larger multi-year grants, Beyond Australia attracted considerable attention since commencement in made two other grants in 2007-08, namely: late 2007. This project is modelled on highly successful • University of Sydney - Ken and Yasuko Myer Fellowship projects managed by the same groups: The Australian program Teacher Exchange Program and school education • Hoc Mai – The Australian Vietnam Medical Foundation initiatives. The project gives an opportunity to teachers at The University of Sydney - Engaging with Asia to travel to and from Indonesia providing them with a rich inter-country experience. The project was specifically During the year, the three projects funded in 2006-07 referenced by Foreign Minster Stephen Smith in Perth in made sound progress towards achieving their objectives. February 2008 where he said that Foreign Ministers of At Lowy, Jenny Hayward-Jones was appointed as the both countries “encourage young Australians to go to Executive Director of The Myer Foundation Melanesia Indonesian universities to study… and Indonesian teachers Program and the Program was officially launched in to come to Australia to teach languages”. Sydney by The Hon Duncan Kerr SC MP and The Hon Bob McMullen MP. Then in May, the Governor General, Beyond Australia is a strong believer in the power of His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO exchanges as a way of building impact, influence, and MC launched the Program in Canberra. Jenny Hayward- understanding between the peoples of Asia and Australia. Jones has been active in recent months with a number of Over the years, Beyond Australia has funded journalism publications about the Program’s work. exchanges, doctor exchanges, teacher exchanges and student exchanges with various Asian countries. The Asia Pacific Journalism Centre successfully completed its Understanding Near Neighbors Fellowship program for Beyond Australia is supported by Elena Mogilevski who early to mid-career journalists in July 2008. Eight Australian took over from Kirsty Allen during the year. As Chairman journalists took part in the 17-day program which focused of Beyond Australia, I thank Elena for her work during the on political, social, cultural and religious life in Indonesia. year, and I also thank Beyond Committee members Kathe Kirby and David Inglis for their support and counsel during The Murdoch University – Australian Consortium for the year. In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) reestablished Sidney Myer, Convenor Grants made 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

The Lowy Institute

BEYOND AUSTRALIA The Myer Foundation Melanesia Program

The Lowy Institute for International Policy is an applied research institute dedicated to the development of Australian international public policy for Australia and its region. A multi-year project, The Myer Foundation Melanesia Program at the Lowy Institute examines the

THE MYER FOUNDATION situation within Melanesia and the existing Australian and other external relationships with Melanesia. The Program will produce a series of publications and events 30 that discuss the current situation and provide policy Ella Davison (L) and Anne Lin (R) en route to Jakarta to begin the recommendations for how Australian policies in the Journalism Professional Practicum region and other external interventions in the region might be made more effective, in the interests of both Asia Pacific Journalism Centre Department of Foreign Affairs and the Melanesian people and Australia. Given the depth $100,000 VIC Trade of the Australia-PNG relationship and PNG’s dominant Indonesian Journalism Fellowship Australia Indonesia Institute size in Melanesia, this Program will focus 60-70% of its Program $200,000 ACT efforts on PNG. Solomon Islands, East Timor and other Mr. John Wallace School BRIDGE Project [email protected] Mr. Chris Munn Melanesian countries will comprise much of the balance www.journalists.org.au [email protected] of the Program. Journalism fellowships in Indonesia for www.dfat.gov.au/aii early to mid career journalists and a one This project consists of an Indonesian The project aims to achieve: year fellowship for senior journalists. Visiting Teacher Program, bringing Indonesian educators to primary 1. A better understanding by Australia and the Asia South Pacific Bureau of Adult and secondary schools in every state international community of the challenges facing Education for a short period of teaching and $225,000 ACT learning, and cultural exchange; the Melanesia, particularly PNG. Building Capacity for Community establishment of a schools twinning Engagement on Education Policy in program, through development of online 2. Strategic evaluation of the scope of Australian policy Papua New Guinea resources and training; and involvement in Melanesia from the aid program Mr. Bernie Lovegrove a small grants program for schools to and the country-specific interventions, to support [email protected] further their twinning relationships with regionalism. This would include policies that are A project to allow the Educational Indonesian schools. Experience Survey, which has been politically sensitive in Australia, such as labour successfully undertaken in two Papua Lowy Institute for International Policy migration and public-private partnerships for health New Guinea provinces to date, to be $350,000 NSW and education service delivery. extended into additional provinces and Melanesia Program for the results of the survey to be used Ms. Martine Letts 3. Policy recommendations that will address these to support civil society engagement in [email protected] education planning and policy debates, www.lowyinstitute.org problems and suggest solutions to be implemented at local, provincial and national levels. Establishment of a Melanesia Program by Australian and Melanesian governments, and which will examine the situation within by non-government players such as NGOs and Melanesia, with a focus on Papua New businesses involved in the region. Guinea, and the existing Australian and other external relationships with Melanesia. BEYOND AUSTRALIA

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Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies students celebrate their arrival in Jakarta as part of their journalism practicum

Murdoch University University of Sydney Australian Consortium for In-Country Div: Media and Communications Indonesian Studies $45,000 NSW $125,000 WA Ken and Yasuko Myer Fellowship ACICIS Expansion 2007-2011 program 2008 to 2010 Professor David T. Hill Adjunct Professor Richard Broinowski [email protected] [email protected] www.murdoch.edu.au A Fellowship Program that provides Reestablishment of a student practicum selected students in journalism the program in Indonesia and development opportunity to work as interns for of new study options within the ACICIS English-language newspapers in a program. number of capital cities in south east Asia. University of Sydney Hoc Mai - The Australian Vietnam Medical Foundation Total $1,097,000 $52,000 NSW Engaging with Viêt Nam‘ Medical Student Scholarship program Ms. Rhondda Glasson [email protected] A project to provide a rich diversity of formal and informal learning opportunities for second and third year Australian medical students through studying medicine in an Asian country. Sustainability and the Environment

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land Sustainability and the Environment Committee made a belongs to no one. commitment of $1,600,000 ($400,000 per year for four years) to support this important program. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l’origine et les SUSTAINABILITY

fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes, 1755 In the area of Water, the Committee again sought advice from a range of experts on where philanthropic funds Australia is a unique treasure. One of the most biologically might best be able to make a difference in this considerable diverse countries on the planet, it is home to more than area. Public education and community-scale grants were one million species of plants and animals, many of which determined to be an effective vehicle for impacting change are endemic to this country. With the world’s attention in the area of water. A grant to the Royal Botanic Gardens turned to the imminent threat of climate change, we are Melbourne, (RBG) of $1,200,000 over 3 years will see the THE MYER FOUNDATION more and more aware of the threats posed to our natural restoration of ‘Guilfoyle’s Volcano’, a blue stone reservoir environment. The Sustainability and the Environment which has been hidden from the public by trees and shrubs Committee has responded to what we believe to be vitally since the 1950s. The ‘volcano’ will not only be a focal important issues to Australia’s natural environment, being 32 point for the gardens, but will provide important water threats to biodiversity, water, and the conservation of the supply and conservation education to school children and environmental integrity of Australia’s north. the general public visiting the gardens. The Volcano project In what has been a significant year, the Sustainability is Phase 1 of a planned 3 phase program by RBG to create and the Environment Committee has made five grants permanent non-potable water security for the gardens. totalling $1,110,000. The Committee has made multi- As Rousseau states ‘the land belongs to no one’. We are year commitments to projects within our focus areas of custodians, trustees for future generations and as we enter Biodiversity, Water and Northern Australia. a period of increasing uncertainty, we must carry out our In the area of Biodiversity, the Committee hosted a fiduciary duties to the very best of our capabilities. We roundtable discussion, at which a number of key scientists, all now need to personally engage, in whatever way is conservation groups and government representatives spoke appropriate in our circumstances to meet the challenges about what they believed to be important issues facing ahead. biodiversity. Informed by this roundtable discussion, My thanks as always to the Committee for their support the Committee resolved to support a strong organisation and enthusiasm for the projects embarked upon this year. working in the area of landscape scale conservation. To Debra Main, the Sustainability and the Environment Bush Heritage Australia (BHA) owns and manages Program Manager, for the dedication, passion and 30 reserves covering 938,076 hectares across six states, thoroughness by which she executes her role. There is an as well as working in partnership with the owners of enormous amount of work that goes into researching and neighboring properties, pastoralists, government, scientific then delivering these projects. It is a very collaborative institutions, indigenous groups, and other conservation approach and we thank our project partners for their organisations. The grant of $700,000 over three years to contribution, commitment and effort in assisting us in BHA will assist them to develop their core organisational delivering our philanthropic activities. capacity and enable BHA to continue their important work David Shelmerdine, Convenor in biodiversity conservation.

Northern Australia has extensive and important cultural and heritage values. Stretching from just west of Cairns in the east to Broome in the west, the tropical savannah region in the north is one of the largest intact regions of its kind in the world. The importance of economically and environmentally sound development in the north is the basis of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s work through its Northern Australia Program. This year, the Australian Conservation Foundation Bush Heritage Australia $400,000 $300,000 VIC VIC Support for Bush Heritage Australia‘s Northern Australia Program Core Capacity Ms. Denise Boyd Ms. Lea-Anne Bradley [email protected] [email protected] www.acfonline.org.au www.bushheritage.org Support for the protection of the natural Support for capacity building projects and cultural heritage values of northern for Bush Heritage Australia. Australia, and ensuring socially and culturally appropriate economic Land & Water Australia development in the region. $65,000 ACT Australian Environmental Grantmakers Tropical Rivers Ecosystem Services Network Mr. Andrew Campbell $5,000 VIC [email protected] Establishment Support Develop the ecosystems services model Ms. Amanda Martin to determine the value provided to [email protected] society by aquatic systems in northern SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABILITY

Support for the Australian Australia. Environmental Grantmakers Network as The concept plan for the redevelopment of Guilfoyle’s Volcano. a Sustaining Supporter. Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne $400,000 VIC Bush Heritage Australia The Volcano Project $5,000 VIC Mr. Robert Packer Royal Botanic Gardens Fire Management at Carnarvon [email protected] Ms. Lea-Anne Bradley www.rbg.vic.gov.au

Melbourne - Guilfoyle’s [email protected] Support to redevelop Guilfoyle‘s Volcano THE MYER FOUNDATION Volcano Project www.bushheritage.org to assist with the Garden‘s water Purchase of equipment to assist with sustainability objectives and to educate The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne (RBG) was fi re monitoring and management at the public on effi cient water use. Carnarvon Station Reserve. established in 1846 on the southern bank of the Yarra 33 River. The RBG’s first full time Director, Ferdinand TOTAL $1,175,000 von Mueller, who was appointed in 1857, became one of the most acclaimed botanists of the 19th century. Mueller established the Garden’s science centre, the National Herbarium of Victoria, and amassed a range of plants from all over the world. In 1873, Mueller was succeeded by William Guilfoyle, who created the picturesque landscape style gardens that we know today. Guilfoyle’s garden included sculpted lawns, meandering paths and lakes. The volcano, or water reservoir, was part of Guilfoyle’s initial plans for the gardens.

In 1876, a spectacular bluestone reservoir was built at the highest point of the gardens to provide gravity fed irrigation to the lower beds. This volcano structure was the main water supply for the gardens for about Emergent Hoop Pines, McIlwraith Range, Cape York Peninsula, an area of 60 years until it fell into disrepair. In order to enhance high environmental value in northern Australia the historic landscape of the gardens, and to provide (photo: K. Trapnell) water education to over one million visitors to the garden each year, the site will be redeveloped over the next three years. “ACF is very supportive of this process that sees indigenous people attain formal title to The Guilfoyle’s Volcano project will expand the RBG’s already extensive water education program. their traditional lands, and have a role in its Currently, over 25,000 students attend RBG education ongoing management. We strongly believe our programs each year, and the current programs are at capacity. The site of Guilfoyle’s Volcano will provide an involvement in such an initiative ensures there additional opportunity for students and approximately are solid environmental outcomes as well as 300,000 visitors annually to learn about water conservation. The Volcano project will be an effective land justice for indigenous people on Cape education tool, given the integration of water efficient York. ACF is absolutely committed to delivering plants in the design, and the delivery of site specific on these two goals through our work across education programs and tours and educational signage. northern Australia.” Mr. Don Henry, CEO, Australian Conservation Foundation G4

G4 This year saw a number of changes to the G4 Committee. The Committee also provided a large grant to the Cobaw

In accordance with the Committee’s policy, several older Community Health Service in support of their Building a members have stepped down to make way for younger Rural Voice project. The project will address issues facing members to contribute to the work of G4. It is also same sex attracted (SSA) young people living in rural areas important to acknowledge the contribution that Professor of Victoria. The project aims to improve the mental health Patrick McGorry has made over a number of years as an of SSA young people in two ways. Firstly, it will establish a external Committee member. Professor McGorry has had supportive and moderated online drop-in centre. Secondly, THE MYER FOUNDATION to stand down and in his place Professor Alison Yung has it will develop a young people’s council that will work kindly joined the Committee. with partner organisations to raise awareness about sexual diversity and reduce social isolation and homophobia. G4 continued to refine its grant-making programs with minor changes to the Small Grants Program at the The Committee was also very pleased to have the beginning of the year. The Committee has also reviewed opportunity to support EastWeb. EastWeb is a youth- the role and responsibilities of the Committee members run sub-fund of the Melbourne Community Foundation.

34 and program staff. G4 agreed that in the future, members The Committee has had an on-going connection with would have a more active role in deciding which projects EastWeb and this grant provided an opportunity to further get funded. To this end, the program staff would only support its development. By providing funds for capacity perform preliminary research and present all eligible building, the Committee hopes that EastWeb will be better projects for discussion by the Committee. It remains the placed to deliver on its mission to develop partnerships responsibility of the Committee members to determine with indigenous, refugee and asylum seeker communities which of the eligible projects are to be funded. across Victoria, and collaborate with these communities to establish projects that build community capacity and To make sure that G4-funded projects are as far-reaching as address the root causes of disadvantage. possible, the Committee continued to look at opportunities to evaluate funded projects. On a number of occasions Jonathan Myer, Convenor the Committee has offered additional funds, on top of the original amount requested, to assist with project evaluation and and communication of these findings. The Committee Simon Herd, G4 Committee Member strongly believes that projects can have a much greater impact if their evaluations and lessons learned are shared widely.

This year presented a diverse range of grant proposals for the Small Grants and Large Grants Programs. Under the Large Grants Program, the Committee was particularly pleased to fund a project to be conducted by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council. This project uses innovative multimedia technology to address issues of remoteness, lack of knowledge about mental health issues that can exist in Indigenous communities and the absence of culturally appropriate material on issues of mental health. This model of health promotion has been successfully introduced in north Queensland and some coastal communities in New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia. Grants made 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

Edmund Rice Camps for Kids WA Inc. Friends of the Earth (Australia) G4 $5,000 WA $5,000 VIC Eddie Rice Environmental Education Climate Change Youth Movement Experience Building Skills Workshop Ms. Kellie Carnaby Ms. Louise Morris [email protected] [email protected] www.edmundricecampswa.com.au www.foe.org.au A bush camp for disadvantaged A series of skills development young people in Perth, with a focus workshops for young people around THE MYER FOUNDATION on environmental education and Victoria on climate change action. development of bush survival skills. Camp participants are matched with Gold Coast Drug Council Inc. volunteer camp leaders on a one-to- $5,000 QLD one basis and the camp provides the Arts Workshops for Young People volunteers with opportunities to develop Mr. Adele Pavlidis leadership and mentoring skills. [email protected] www.headspace.org.au Epilepsy Association Workshops for 20 young men and $4,450 NSW women displaying early signs of mental 35 Getting up close and personal with reptiles (Edmund Rice Camps Youth Camp (WA) health issues. for Kids) Ms. Carol Ireland [email protected] Kalumburu Aboriginal Corporation www.epilepsy.org.au $5,000 WA A camp in Western Australia for young A Deb Ball for Kalumburu G4 SMALL GRANTS Colac Area Health girls and boys aged 12-18 years who Ms. Leonie Cameron Family Services - Children‘s Counselling have epilepsy, to build peer networks [email protected] Balga Detached Youth Work Project $5,000 VIC and improve self-esteem and resilience. Support for a Debutants Ball for Inc. ‘Girls Talk‘ Group Work Program a remote Aboriginal community in $5,000 WA Ms. Tamara Holmes Express Media Western Australia. The Fruits of Our Labour [email protected] $5,000 VIC Mr. Mike Dixon www.colacareahealth.com.au Voiceworks Readers‘ Group Lead On Australia Ltd. [email protected] A therapeutic group work program for Mr. Bel Schenk $5,000 VIC A skills development program for young women in the Colac area who [email protected] Lead On Living On The Edge disengaged youth. have experienced violence and abuse. www.expressmedia.org.au Ms. Marita Tomlinson A facilitated discussion and writing [email protected] Brotherhood of St. Laurence Conservation Council of the South development group for young people www.leadon.com.au Ecumenical Migration Centre East Region & Canberra Inc. interested in developing their A leadership development and $5,000 VIC $3,000 ACT professional writing skills. environmental education program for Yarra Eagle Refugee Soccer Program Green Screen young people aged 12-25 in the Swan Mr. Simon Tengende Ms. Trish Harrup Footscray Youth Housing Group Inc. Hill area. [email protected] [email protected] $5,000 VIC Purchase of equipment, and payment of www.consact.org.au Implementing the Homeless Assistance Lismore & District Womens Health a small coaching stipend, for a soccer An environment and sustainability Sector Standards (HASS) Centre Inc. team of young African and West Papuan festival for young people in the Mr. Derek Wilson $5,000 NSW refugees in Melbourne. Canberra area. [email protected] Young Women - Leaders in Life Capacity development for a youth Ms. Lizette Twisleton Centre for Sustainability Leadership Diversitat housing group in Melbourne‘s west. [email protected] $5,000 VIC $4,000 VIC A leadership development workshop CSL Curriculum Development: Project Geelong Culturally & Linguistically program for young women in three Management Skills Diverse & Refugee Young People Forum towns in the Northern Rivers region of Ms. Larissa Brown Ms. Pamela Rodriguez New South Wales. [email protected] [email protected] www.csl.org.au www.diversitat.org.au Curriculum development for a A two day forum for young people from sustainability leadership program refugee and humanitarian visa entry “ I had the best time ever, I am looking forward targeting young adults. backgrounds, to identify their needs in relation to settlement and integration to seeing the tree that I planted grow up. into the wider Geelong community. Thanks heaps.” Participant, aged 14, Edmund Rice Camps for Kids WA Inc. G4

A daring adventure – Annabelle and Graham take a fun ride on the flying fox Ocean Grove Neighbourhood Centre development program participants Epilepsy Action THE MYER FOUNDATION Epilepsy Action, also known as Epilepsy Australia, Marist Youth Care Ltd. Orygen Research Centre $5,000 NSW Psychiatry provides education and support services to children Youth Create Art Specialist Workshops $5,000 VIC and adults with epilepsy or other seizure disorders Ms. Pauline Robertson Evaluation of the Headsmart project across Australia. It is based in New South Wales but [email protected] Mr. Jo Robinson has professional staff around Australia, and works in www.maristyc.com.au [email protected] A series of specialist art workshops, www.orygen.org.au partnership with state-based Epilepsy Associations. culminating in a public exhibition for A research project looking at the Services include individual support, community 36 young people in Marist Youth Care effectiveness of a depression education education, provision of information and referral residential programs. program in a metropolitan high school. programs. Molenda Lodge Inc. Otesha Project Australia, The Epilepsy Australia has been running camps for young $3,100 TAS Sustainable Living Foundation Circus in a Park for Youth $5,000 VIC people in the eastern states for nearly 20 years. The Mrs. Rossi June Marshall Skit/Presentation development and Tour camps provide opportunities for young people with [email protected] Coordinator epilepsy to experience activities and challenges that Circus training for disadvantaged youth Ms. Angela Jones they have hitherto been sheltered from, due to the in Tasmania. [email protected] Support for the planning of two vulnerability of their condition. Ocean Grove Neighbourhood Centre regional bicycle tours and development Inc. of a presentation for a Cycling for It is not unusual for young people on these camps to $5,000 VIC Sustainability group. have seizures while there. For most of the young people, Drop In this will be the first time they have actually seen what a Mr. Nicki Dunne Scout Association of Australia, The/ [email protected] Western Australian Branch seizure looks like – it’s a very confronting yet ultimately A youth development program for 12-17 1st Toodyay Scout Group positive experience, as it helps them to understand the year olds, through a series of monthly $5,000 WA fear and concern of people around them. workshops. Telling Tales Out of School Ms. Samantha Connor Support for this project gave 20 young people with [email protected] epilepsy the opportunity to participate in an activity An oral history project involving young people and elderly people in regional they are likely to have been kept from previously due to Western Australia. their epilepsy.

“I applaud the panel for caring for our community – giving their valuable time. There can never be enough love/time given to our children and families to introduce more skills to help us be parents.” A parent attending the Shakespeare in Queen's Park Festival: Romeo and Juliet Community Forum G4

Western Australia Youth Theatre student dress rehearsals for YMCA of Sydney: Shane Couper teaches the junior leaders about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gilmore College, 2008 setting anchors

Southern Otway Landcare Network The Trustee for Catholic Education Western Australian Youth Theatre G4 LARGE GRANTS THE MYER FOUNDATION $3,000 VIC South Australia Environmental Trust Company Production of Landcare Themed Division: Marine Discovery Centre $5,000 WA Cobaw Community Health Service Education Kits for Primary and $5,000 SA A Midsummer‘s Night Dream: $50,000 VIC Secondary Students Climate Change Model Shakespeare in Schools 2008 Building a Rural Youth Voice Ms. Kristen Lees Mr. Tim Hoile Ms. Lisa Schreiber Ms. Sue Hackney [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Development of environmental www.marinediscoverycentre.com.au www.wayouththeatre.org.au www.cobaw.vic.gov.au education kits for use with primary and The project is to develop and build A theatre project working with school Establishment of a virtual drop-in secondary students. climate change model for the Marine students to rehearse and perform a centre and a rural young person‘s 37 Discovery Centre in Adelaide. Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night‘s council, to advocate and raise St. Vincent de Paul Society State Dream. awareness of sexual diversity and Council of NSW University of Southern Queensland homophobia. $4,500 NSW Faculty of Arts Windana Society Inc. The Youth Reach $5,000 QLD $5,000 VIC Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Mr. Tim McGovern Shakepeare in Queen‘s Park Festival: Reconnecting our Youth to Our Yankunytjatjara Women‘s Council [email protected] Romeo and Juliet Community Forum Community $50,000 NT www.sydneyvinnies.org Doctor Rebecca Scollen Ms. Fiona Jordan Evaluation of the use of Multimedia A recreational sports program for [email protected] [email protected] and Interactive Technologies for Health disadvantaged youth in the Sydney www.usq.edu.au/artsworx www.windana.org.au Promotion and Awareness Raising in Northern Beaches area. The project is to deliver a community A project to extend the therapeutic Remote Aboriginal Australia fourm at a large thetare festival in experience of clients of a youth drug Ms. Sue Cragg TEAR Australia Inc. a regional Queensland city, looking and alcohol treatment service, by [email protected] $2,000 VIC at social issues including family providing access to community and Establishment of touch screen mental General Purpose dysfunction and suicide, using the cultural events. health information sites in three Mr. Ashley Humphreys Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and indigenous communities in Central [email protected] Juliet as the basis for discussions. YMCA of Sydney Youth and Community Australia. www.tear.org.au Services Incorporated Grant made in memory of Tony Price University of Technology Sydney $5,000 NSW (Arlene Buchan‘s partner). Development Office Changing Minds, Bouncing Back Total $100,000 Support for projects that assist families $5,000 NSW Ms. Marika Rogers in poor communities through relief and Indigenous Cultural Connection Project [email protected] development initiatives. The projects Ms. Maggie Ramsay www.ymcasydney.org/yarramundi.php G4 OTHER GRANTS provide people with services and [email protected] A youth leadership program, taking opportunities such as clean water and www.isf.uts.edu.au place during four camps for young Melbourne Community Foundation sanitation, basic education, community A peer support and homelands people in the Sydney area. EastWeb Fund health and income generation schemes. connection program for Indigenous $36,000 VIC tertiary students. Staff Support Total $139,050 Ms. Nina Collins [email protected] www.communityfoundation.org.au “This program means everything to me. It will Support for a paid staff position for a youth lead philanthropic organisation, help me get a job for the future and help me EastWeb. with my self esteem. It also means that I am able to work with some really great people that TOTAL $36,000 I really get along with.” Cody Brown, 17, a participant in YMCA of Sydney Youth and Community Services Inc. Changing Minds, Bouncing Back project The Myer Foundation General Grants

Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium Collections Council of Australia Ltd. Ltd. $120,000 SA $50,000 CollectionsCare APPC Biennial International Conference Ms. Maragret Birtley - Diaspora Giving: An Agent of Change [email protected]

GENERAL GRANTS in Asia Pacifi c Communities? www.collectionscouncil.com.au Ms. Rory Tolentino Implementation of one regional hub for [email protected] the preservation and maintenance of Support for a conference to explore a range of art collections of national issues of international giving and importance philanthropy. Committee for Melbourne Inc. Asialink Centre, The $10,000 VIC

THE MYER FOUNDATION University of Melbourne Foundation Contribution $400,000 VIC Ms. Sally Capp Continued Support and Projects 2008- [email protected] 2009 www.melbourne.org.au Ms. Jenny McGregor General support towards the 38 [email protected] organisation‘s mission to enhance www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au Melbourne as a dynamic, commercial, Water seminar run by the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Core organisational support for the technological, intellectual and cultural Network, hosted by The Myer Foundation continuation of work with business, capital. government, philanthropic and cultural partners to initiate and strengthen Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Foundation for Rural and Regional International Women‘s Development Australia - Asia engagement. Australia - Indonesia Institute Renewal Agency $50,000 ACT $75,000 VIC $1,750 VIC Australian Environmental Grantmakers School BRIDGE Project Small Grants for Small Rural IWDA‘s Feast 2008 Network Mr. Chris Munn Communities Program Ms. Melissa Birks $50,000 VIC [email protected] Ms. Sylvia Admans [email protected] Core Support 2008 www.dfat.gov.au/aii [email protected] www.iwda.org.au Ms. Amanda Martin Support for a project to be implemented www.frrr.org.au Support for an event bringing top [email protected] by the Australia-Indonesia Institute in Support for a collaborative initiative female chefs together to celebrate good Support for the establishment of the partnership with the Asian Education that takes philanthropy to small rural food and the empowerment of women. Australian Environmental Grantmakers‘ Foundation, aiming to increase cultural communities through a coordinated Network. understanding and build relationships delivery program. Philanthropy Australia Inc. between schools in Australia and $25,000 VIC Indonesia. Howard Florey Institute Leading Member Fee $500,000 VIC Ms. Gina Anderson Neuroscience Centre [email protected] Mr. Alun Evans www.philanthropy.org.au “IWDA’s Feast is an event that recognises [email protected] Continuation of The Myer Foundation‘s www.hfi.unimelb.edu.au support to Philanthropy Australia as one the interconnectedness of our lives and the Support for the development of a of its leading members. major new neuroscience research centrality of food security as a basic human facility, bringing together the Brain Research Insititute, the Howard Florey right. Food security in developing countries Institute and the National Stroke depends on the empowerment of women and Research Institute, to form the Florey Neuroscience Institutes. this Feast will contribute to this empowerment by raising funds for projects to improve the quality of women’s lives.” Jane Sloane, Executive Director, IWDA “It was a great privilege to be invited to share the Victorian experience in Korea. We were able to talk with workers working with victims of ‘Wife Assault’ in Korea and share the changes that have occurred in Victoria over the past three years in particular. The Korean delegates greatly appreciated hearing Victoria’s experience which has inspired them to think about systemic changes they could

Ken and Yasuko Myer Journalism Fellows work towards.” GENERAL GRANTS

WIRE participant in the Korea Women’s Hotline International Symposium Ken and Yasuko Myer University of Sydney Fellowship Program Division: Media and Communications $12,000 NSW Through this program, three young journalists Ken and Yasuko Myer Fellowship undertake four to five weeks’ work in the newsrooms Program 2007

Adjunct Professor Richard Broinowski THE MYER FOUNDATION of major newspapers in Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Manila [email protected] or Kuala Lumpur. These placements add to young A Fellowship Program that provides Australians’ knowledge about Asian economic, political selected students in journalism with the opportunity to work as interns for and social issues. Graduate journalists are then better 39 English-language newspapers in a placed to report more accurately about and with number of capital cities in south east greater insights into issues relevant to the region, and Asia. Australia’s place in it. Women‘s Information & Referral This program was established in 1999, and since then Exchange Inc. (WIRE) over 46 young journalists and students have benefitted $4,000 VIC Korea Women‘s Hotline International from the scheme, and 30 of these have been directly Symposium funded by The Myer Foundation. According to the Ms. Samiro Douglas Director of the scheme, Professor Richard Broinowski, [email protected] Fellows return from their assignments in Asia with a www.wire.org.au Support to enable three Victrorian sense of professional achievement and the motivation to women from WIRE and Domestic work as journalists in the Asian environment. Violence Victoria to attend and present at the Korea Women‘s Hotline The ultimate objective of this program is to ensure deep “International Symposium on the and accurate understanding between Australia and Asia Independence and the Self Support of Wife Assault Survivors“. through enlightened and informed media.

TOTAL $1,297,750

Family Grants Program

The Family Grants Program provides matching funding for grants made by family members to charitable organisations and projects of their choice. The matching grants are paid through The Myer Foundation. Fifty five grants were made in the last year ranging in amounts from less than $2,000 to $50,000. FAMILY GRANTS PROGRAM FAMILY An innovative feature of the program is that it recognises time given by younger members of the family. For those people who donate their time to organisations by sitting on Boards or management committees, or doing volunteer service work, their time is recognised as a valuable form of philanthropic giving. A sliding scale matches time spent to

THE MYER FOUNDATION amounts of money, and this is then paid to the particular

40 organisation. The Program provides an opportunity for a diverse range of Adult learners at the Fitzroy Learning Network grants to be made including the arts, physical infrastructure and maintenance, the environment, paediatric research, family and community support and children’s services. Blaze Warrender Foundation Creative Children‘s Protection Society Inc. Art Supporting Wild Life $5,000 VIC This is a relatively new program and as it takes hold, it $7,500 VIC General Purpose demonstrates that it has become part of family members’ Use Of Art as a Communication Tool Ms. Bernadette Burchell yearly giving plans. to Raise Awareness of the Issues of [email protected] the Human Impact on Wildlife and the [email protected] Environment Focussed Primarily Around Young People Fitzroy Learning Network Inc. Asialink Centre, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Mr. Blaze Warrender $5,000 VIC University of Melbourne Art Inc. [email protected] Ongoing Education programs $10,000 VIC $10,000 VIC Ms. Colleen Duggan AsiaLink 500 Fund Support the Development of Practicing Bush Heritage Australia [email protected] Ms. Jenny McGregor Australian Artists and New Talents $28,560 VIC www.fitzroylearningnetwork.org.au [email protected] Through Commissions, Curatorial Anchors in the Landscape Campaign: Clinics and the Annual NEW Exhibition Development of the Kaanju Homelands Flemington Kensington Community Asialink Centre, The Ms. Alice Gerlach Indigenous protected area project Legal Centre University of Melbourne www.accaonline.org.au Ms. Lea-Anne Bradley $2,500 VIC $20,000 VIC [email protected] Capacity Building ASEAN ISIS Inaugural Meeting - Australian Chamber Orchestra www.bushheritage.org Ms. Kathy Richardson December 2008 $5,000 NSW [email protected] Ms. Jenny McGregor Support for ACO‘s Emerging Artists and Chamber Music Australia [email protected] Education Programs $5,000 VIC Great Barrier Reef Research www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au Ms. Lillian Armitage Program preparation for 2008/09 Foundation [email protected] performance year $8,690 QLD Asylum Seeker Resource Centre www.aco.com.au Ms. Avril Everingham General Purpose $35,000 VIC [email protected] Mrs. Judith Stewart Refugee Assistance Programs Australian Chamber Orchestra bwoodroffe@chambermusicaustralia. [email protected] Mr. Kon Karapanagiotidis $5,000 NSW com.au www.barrierreef.org [email protected] Emerging Artists and Education www.asrc.org.au Programs Children First Foundation Great Barrier Reef Research Ms. Lillian Armitage $2,500 VIC Foundation Australian Cancer Research [email protected] General Purpose $12,750 QLD Foundation www.aco.com.au Ms. Margaret Smith The Chairman‘s Panel $4,000 NSW [email protected] Mrs. Judith Stewart Cancer Research www.childrenfirstfoundation.com [email protected] Mr. David Brettell www.barrierreef.org www.acrt.com.au Guide Dogs Victoria Open Family Australia Inc. $2,220 VIC $2,000 VIC General Purpose General Purpose Dr. Graeme White Ms. Sue Renkin www.guidedogsvictoria.com.au [email protected] www.openfamily.com.au International Social Service $10,000 VIC Ormond College Casework Expenses $5,000 VIC Ms. Maria Brett General Purpose [email protected] Ms. Ann Badger www.iss.org.au www.ormond.unimelb.edu.au

Kaldor Arts Projects Ltd. Riding for the Disabled Association of $5,000 NSW Victoria Inc. General Purpose $1,250 VIC Ms. Louise Merhi General Purpose Ms. Barb Heine La Trobe University [email protected] $10,000 VIC www.rdav.asn.au Bush Heritage's Indigenous Partnerships Officer, Sarah Eccles (far La Trobe University Rowing Club right), Peter Taylor of the Federal Government's National Reserve System Mr. Michael Burgess Salvation Army Australia Southern programme (2nd from left), Project Coordinator, David Claudie (2nd from

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right), and additional Traditional Owners at the launch of the Kaanju www.latrobe.edu.au $40,000 Ngaachi Indigenous Protection Area on Kaanju homelands. New Life 2008 Photo: Matt Appleby. Lighthouse Foundation, The General Eva Burrows, AC $1,500 VIC Lighthouse Live-in Care Program Seafarers Welfare Fund Trinity College Foundation Victorian Arts Centre Trust Ms. Jennie Lawlor $20,000 VIC $5,000 VIC $50,000 VIC www.lighthousefoundation.org.au Renovation of the Dome Save the Bul project Ken Myer Asian Performing Arts

Ms. Janet Gatehouse Ms. Jennifer Wraight Endowment THE MYER FOUNDATION Lipohar, Reuben James [email protected] [email protected] Ms. Susanne Williamson 41 Australian National Academy of Music www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au susanne.williamson@theartscentre. $5,000 VIC Second Bite net.au Intensive Lessons with Mira Yevtich in $5,000 VIC Trustee for Country Fire Authority & www.theartscentre.net.au Sydney General Purpose Brigades Donations Fund Mr. Reuben James Lipohar Ms. Katy Barfield Balnarring Fire Brigade Victorian Arts Centre Trust [email protected] $5,000 VIC $5,000 VIC Lort Smith Animal Hospital www.secondbite.org New Fire Truck for the Brigade First Call Fund $1,500 VIC Mr. Graeme Briggs Ms. Sandra Makris General Purpose Song Room Inc., The [email protected] [email protected] Mr. Ric Holland $10,000 VIC www.theartscentre.net.au [email protected] Promotion of Young People‘s Creative University of Melbourne Potential and Academic Results in Faculty of the Victorian College of Victorian Arts Centre Trust Manning Clark House Inc. Disadvantaged Schools the Arts $7,500 VIC $20,000 ACT Ms. Caroline Aebersold $2,000 VIC Support of Artistic Development Holding of Conferences [email protected] Fiona Myer Award Ms. Susanne Williamson Mrs. Dymphna Clark www.songroom.org.au Ms. Jan Murray susanne.williamson@theartscentre. [email protected] [email protected] net.au Tapestry Foundation of Victoria, The www.theartscentre.net.au Murdoch Children‘s Research Institute $25,000 VIC University of Melbourne $3,000 VIC Tapestry for the Great Hall, National Faculty of the Victorian College of Willaura District Kindergarten Research Work in Relation to Diseases Gallery of Victoria the Arts $5,000 VIC in Young Children www.victapestry.com.au $5,000 VIC Update of facilities at the Willaura Ms. Alyssa Jones Art 100 Kindergarten [email protected] Tapestry Foundation of Victoria, The Ms. Alison Leach Mr. Pat Millier $5,000 VIC [email protected] National Gallery of Australia General Purpose Youth Projects Inc. $35,000 ACT www.victapestry.com.au University of Melbourne $5,000 VIC Council Exhibition Fund Faculty of the Victorian College of Living Room Reclink Football Team 2008 Ms. Lyn Conybeare Tapestry Foundation of Victoria, The the Arts and Beyond [email protected] $10,000 VIC $2,000 VIC Dr. Frances Bramwell www.nga.gov.au General Purpose Fiona Myer Prize (third year) [email protected] www.victapestry.com.au Ms. Alison Leach National Gallery of Victoria [email protected] Zoos Victoria Foundation $5,000 VIC Trinity College Foundation $5,000 VIC Art Acquisition $5,000 VIC Victoria University of Technology Zoos Victoria Foundation Annual Lecture Ms. Debra Adamidis Trinity College Choir Tour $2,000 VIC Ms. Laura Maloney [email protected] Ms. Jennifer Wraight Fiona Myer Prize (fi nal year art student) www.zoo.org.au www.ngv.vic.gov.au [email protected] Mr. John Barmby www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au [email protected] www.vu.edu.au TOTAL $491,470 Health

Our funding in the Health Program this year reflects the same diversity of interests as in previous years. We have HEALTH responded to different requests for support and still see that many relate to projects focussed on community and population health issues.

Population health has received a lot of attention in the public as Australia’s community continues to experiences

THE MYER FOUNDATION high incidences of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other conditions that are related to life-style and are highly preventable. In particular, the health of indigenous people has attracted national attention with graphic data and depictions of poorer health outcomes for indigenous people compared with non-indigenous people.

42 In this last year, following a review, Trustees decided to Health practitioner and child – participants in the screening service for indigenous children in remote Queensland communities, a project of the focus the health program on providing scholarships for Royal Children’s Hospital post-graduate students working and researching in the area of community and population health. Scholarships will be awarded for three years. A generous stipend will Menzies School of Health Research Royal Children‘s Hospital Foundation facilitate high class research and an additional allowance Division: Child Health Trusts & Foundations $50,000 NT $35,000 QLD will provide for other travel and research related activities. Vaccine Response Study Establishment and Evaluation of a The objectives of the program are to deepen research Dr. Ross Andrews Novel Health Screening Service for in this area across a wide range of disciplines and to [email protected] Indigenous Children in a Remote improve health outcomes at the level of communities and A research project investigating Queensland Community the effi cacy of vaccinations for Ms. Tegan Jones populations. pneumococcal disease among [email protected] Aboriginal people. This research seeks www.workingwonders.com.au Our goal is to have an impact on conditions that reduce life to address the issue of continuing high Establishment and evaluation of and the quality of life, especially in areas where this impact levels of pneumococcal disease among an online health screening service is preventable. Aboriginal people, despite widespread for indigenous children in remote vaccination. Queensland communities Australian Medical Students‘ Cunningham Dax Collection Association The Mental Health Research Institute Rochester & Elmore District Health Royal District Nursing Service $50,000 VIC $40,000 VIC Service Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of 2008 AMSA Global Health Conference The Cunningham Dax Collection as a $10,000 VIC Community Health Asia-Pacifi c Delegation Project Community Resource (Stage 2) Youth Health Promotion Van $50,000 VIC Mr. David Humphreys Dr. Eugen Koh Mr. Duane Attree Forever Healed: Breaking the Cycle of [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Wound Recurrence Among Persons with ww.amsa.org.au/ghc2008 Support for the strategic repositioning www.redhs.com.au Chronic Leg Ulceration Support for travel and accommodation of the Cunningham Dax Collection Fitout of a van with AV equipment and Ms. Terry Gliddon costs of international medical students as a community resouce through CPR dummies for health promotion [email protected] to attend the 2008 Global Health increased accessibility and partnership among young people in north western www.rdns.com.au Conference. development. Victoria. A clinical research project to investigate the optimum management of healed leg Charles Darwin University ulcers so as to prevent ulcer recurrence. Graduate School for Health Practice $50,000 NT Indigenous Pathways to Midwifery Professor Lesley Barclay [email protected] www.cdu.edu.au/gshp A training program to prepare indigenous women for the midwifery course at Charles Darwin University. HEALTH

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Southern Health Development Victoria University of Technology $30,000 VIC Faculty of Health, Engineering and 43 Early Arrived Early Intervention - Science; School of Nursing and Charles Darwin University – occupational therapy in neonatal care Midwifery Indigenous pathways to midwifery Mr. Danny Schwarz $20,000 VIC [email protected] The Australian Community Centre for This project will provide support to indigenous women www.southernhealth.org.au Diabetes Network: Improving Diabetes Support for a program of specialist Education Services in Melbourne‘s West in the Northern Territory who are participating in occupational therapy for high risk Dr. Daniel Chew a transition program to undertake a Bachelor of premature infants, to achieve optimal [email protected] Midwifery. The Charles Darwin University has a developmental outcomes. www.vu.edu.au commitment to assist students to enter degree level Development of strong diabetes education capabilities in the western courses, and this project has arisen directly from the region of Melbourne. objective of attracting more women into the Bachelor of Midwifery course. Yothu Yindi Foundation, The $5,000 NT At a recent Garma Festival child and maternal health Dilthan Yolngunha - The Healing Place workers outlined the need for more indigenous midwives Ms. Amy Jo Vickery [email protected] in their local communities. Indigenous women may be www.garma.telstra.com hesitant to attend hospitals because this takes them away Support for a healing centre run by from their community and home. In 2001, two thirds Yolgnu women using traditional healing of all discrete Aboriginal communities were located 100 practices and mainstream medicines. kilometres or more from the nearest hospital1. TOTAL $340,000 This project will enable indigenous women’s participation in a transition program which will assist to develop skills in essay writing, research, exam techniques and Poster for the Indigenous study methods. The development of these skills over a Pathways to Midwifery project of six month program will allow women to transition from Charles Darwin University paid employment to the midwifery course.

A greater number of indigenous midwives will help to provide culturally sensitive services for women and children closer to their own communities. It is hoped that this pilot project will become a permanent program within the University.

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2003, “The Health and Welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples”, Fourth Edition, Canberra Asialink

The Asialink Board once again noted the prodigious work includes an AEF interview with BHP Billiton chief Marius of the organisation over the last year. Provided are brief Kloppers. ASIALINK ASIALINK highlights, illustrating the breadth of Asialink’s national and international programs. ASIALINK LEADERS PROGRAM PROJECTS INDONESIAN PRESIDENT AT ASIALINK CONVERSATIONS One example of the Asialink Leaders Program creating Asialink conducted ‘APEC 2020 – The Asialink change in resource-poor countries is the project conducted

THE MYER FOUNDATION Conversation for Leaders’ in Sydney, following the APEC by Dr Kate Armstrong. Financial burdens are one of 2020 Summit. Indonesian President Dr Susilo Bambang the greatest difficulties faced by families of children Yudhoyono delivered the keynote to participants from with chronic disease. Dr Armstrong links families of ill 19 countries, across the government, corporate and children in Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and Pakistan to NGO sectors. Participants debated free trade, nuclear affordable pharmaceuticals, education and specialist care. proliferation and climate change – with attention on the 44 divide between the developed and developing world over carbon emissions. ASIALINK DANCE INITIATIVE

Over 17 years, Asialink arts residencies have supported more than 450 artist residencies in Asia. A major extension to this was Neon Rising, an Australia-Japan dance collaboration program. In 2007 Asialink produced a major publication on Neon Rising, detailing the work of choreographer Leigh Warren, whose work ‘Wanderlust’ ran for two seasons at two of Tokyo’s premier theatres; Kate Denborough, whose work was performed in Osaka and Tokyo; Tess de Quincey’s ‘Improlab’ whose work ran at the Sydney Opera House; and Sue Healey’s ‘Time Will Tell’, that attracted global attention as a finalist in international film and video festivals.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudohoyono at the Asialink Conversations

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Asialink’s education arm, the Asia Education Foundation, is targeting principals in its new Australia-wide campaign called Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia, launched by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard in May 2008. 133 principals will build studies of Asia in their Asialink board member Phil Scanlan AM, with Peter Yates, Dato Dr schools as part of the project, resourced by the AEF. The Michael O.K. Yeoh and Christopher Howard at the APEC 2020 - Asialink Conversations for Leaders AEF produced a stirring DVD to build Asia awareness that ASIALINK ASIALINK

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Dr Kate Armstrong's project assisting children with chronic illness in Ho ASIALINK HEALTH IN SICHUAN DISASTER Chi Minh City, Vietnam Asialink’s groundbreaking psychological first aid program for China was finalised in March this year. In May, the earthquake hit Sichuan. The Chinese Government acted quickly and dropped 100,000 copies of leaflets devised by Asia Australia Mental Health (Asialink’s community health partner) across Sichuan. The leaflets used simple language to teach communities how to treat psychologically traumatised children, whom doctors could not reach. Additionally, a team of Chinese psychiatrists, trained by the AAMH in specialist disaster care, was deployed to aid acutely traumatised children.

TOTAL $400,000 Trustees, Directors, Members, Staff and Committees 2007-2008

SIDNEY MYER FUND THE MYER FOUNDATION THE MYER FOUNDATION STAFF Chairman Founder, Life Governor & Emeritus GRANTMAKING COMMITTEES Chief Executive Officer Carrillo Gantner AO Director Christine Edwards Baillieu Myer AC Beyond Australia Large Grants Sally Lindsay Sidney Myer (Convenor) Program Manager Andrew Myer Life Governor Carrillo Gantner AO Kirsty Allen Sidney Myer Neilma Gantner David Inglis Debra Main Kathe Kirby Elena Mogilevski (returned from SIDNEY MYER FUND GRANTMAKING President Stephen Shelmerdine AM maternity leave February 2008) COMMITTEES Carrillo Gantner AO G4 Small and Large Grants Administration Manager The Arts and Humanities Large and Vice Presidents Jonathan Myer (Convenor) Christine Dromart Small Grants Martyn Myer AO Arlene Buchan Kate Shelmerdine (Convenor) Sidney Myer Simon Herd Administration Assistant Carrillo Gantner AO Stephen Shelmerdine AM Patrick McGorry (until May 2008) Amy Williamson (until March 2008) Neilma Gantner Edwina Myer 46 Kerry Gardner Directors Emily Myer Company Secretary Joanna Baevski Jonathan Myer Helena (Nell) Myer (from May 2008) Peter Winneke Samantha Baillieu Rupert Myer AM Laura Myer Sandy Clark Sue Nattrass AO Patrick Myer Simon Herd William Shelmerdine Matthew Shelmerdine Rupert Myer AM Lady Southey AC Tom Shelmerdine Maree Shelmerdine William Shelmerdine (until May 2008) Lady Southey AC Education Small Grants Alison Yung (from May 2008) Anna Spraggett Maree Shelmerdine (Convenor) Louise Myer Sustainability and the Environment Members Sidney Myer Large Grants Dellarose Baevski David Shelmerdine (Convenor) Dashiell Gantner Samantha Baillieu Education Large Grants Vallejo Gantner Kerry Gardner Maree Shelmerdine (Convenor) ZiYin Gantner Martyn Myer AO Joanna Baevski Kerry Gardner Patrick Myer Baillieu Myer AC Lindy Hayward Lady Southey AC Louise Myer Kate Herd Anna Spraggett Natalie Herd Jessica Lindsay Poverty & Disadvantage Small Jonathan Lindsay Grants Sally Lindsay Sandy Clark (Convenor) Timothy Lindsay Carrillo Gantner AO Andrew Myer Sally Lindsay Annabel Myer Louise Myer Edwina Myer Lady Southey AC Emily Myer Jonathan Myer Poverty & Disadvantage Large Laura Myer Grants Louise Myer Sandy Clark (Convenor) Lucy Myer Julian Burnside QC (until March Helena (Nell) Myer 2008) Patrick Myer Carrillo Gantner AO Sarah Myer Right Rev. Dr. Peter Hollingworth AC OBE David Shelmerdine Louise Myer Kate Shelmerdine Dorothy Scott OAM Laura Shelmerdine Lady Southey AC Matthew Shelmerdine Tom Shelmerdine William Shelmerdine Sidney Myer Fund Trustees

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Absent, left to right: Lady Southey AC Joanna Baevski

The Myer Foundation Directors Left to right, back row: Martyn Myer AO, Sidney Myer, Carrillo Gantner AO, Rupert Myer AM, Stephen Shelmerdine AM, Sandy Clark, Simon Herd

Left to right, front row: Samantha Baillieu, Anna Spraggett, Maree Shelmerdine

Absent: Peter Winneke (Company Secretary), Christine Dromart, Amy Williamson

The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund Staff Left to right, Debra Main, Kirsty Allen, Christine Edwards, Elena Mogilevski Grants by funding program

The Myer Foundation The Arts and General Grants 18% Humanities 11%

Sidney Myer Fund and Education 13% The Myer Foundation G4 Fund 2% Sustainability & Grants by Focus Area 2007–2008 the Environment 10% Poverty & $ Disadvantage 14% Sidney Myer Fund Beyond Australia 10% Funding Program Committees Health 3% The Arts and Humanities 300,000 The Arts and Humanities - Small Grants Program 910,170 Sidney Myer Fund Education 1,100,000 General Grants 19% Education - Small Grants Program 402,720 Poverty & Disadvantage 1,099,534 Poverty & Disadvantage - Small Grants Program 406,848 Health 340,000 Grants by primary beneficiaries Previous Committees -75,000

Sub Total 4,484,272 Migrants/Refugees Disability 3% Asylum seekers 7% Students 22% General Grants 1,746,128 Economically Merlyn Myer Fund Grants 55,000 disadvantaged Sidney Myer Fund Back to School Program 200,000 10% Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards 145,000 48 Sub Total 2,146,128 Local community Indigenous 13% 5% Total Sidney Myer Fund Grants 6,630,400

The Myer Foundation Funding Program Committees Youth 13% Beyond Australia 1,097,000 Whole community 27% Sustainability & the Environment 1,110,000 G4 Fund 275,050

Other Grants by geographical distribution 2009 Commemorative Grants Program 195,000 General Grants 397,750 International 5% ACT 1% Family Grants Program 491,470 National 12% NSW 16% Asialink 400,000 Howard Florey Institute 500,000 NT 5% Total The Myer Foundation 4,466,270 QLD 11% WA 4% Total Foundation and Fund Grants 11,096,670 SA 4% TAS 2% Administration Costs / Programme Development 1,632,687

Administration Costs as a % of Grants Three Year Rolling Averages* VIC 40% 2007/08 13.6% 2006/07 12.4% 2005/06 12.9% Grants by geographical reach of project *This figure is shown as a three year rolling average due to the material impact "special project" grants have on the calculation. Statewide 10% National 12%

Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation International 5% Cumulative Grants Summary Total $ Pre 2007/08 105,651,830 2007/08 11,096,670 Total 116,748,500* Rural and Metropolitan regional 31% areas 42% *Not adjusted to current day values. Contact Details:

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