Grants

At the Give Where You Live Foundation we continue to ask ourselves ‘How can we enable greater fairness, equity, inclusion, care, compassion and connection in our community?’ 

Our grants are a fundamental part of our supports for our community.
Our grants support essential services that are integral to our community and reflect our commitment to driving social and economic change, through addressing the underlying systemic and structural barriers that perpetuate inequity in the G21 region.

The Give Where You Live Foundation’s 2030 Strategy underpins and informs all areas of our work: 

• We exist to create a fairer, more equitable community across the G21 region. 

• We will use all our energy and resources, in partnership with our community, to help all people and places thrive.  

• We seek to be recognised as one of the most progressive Foundations in Australia.  

• We will catalyse systems change, build community assets and incubate social innovation, using research, design, data, evaluation, reflection practices and advocacy.  

Our Theory of Change outlines what we believe we need to do to achieve these ambitions: 

• Identify and address underlying systemic and structural barriers that inhibit opportunity and contribute to social and economic inequity in our region. 

• Take a whole of community approach to strengthen our empathy and understanding, community connections and resilience – ultimately building a movement for change. 

• Support the self-determination of Australia’s First Nations people, supporting Indigenous communities to meet their social, cultural and economic needs. 

Our 2030 Strategy and our Theory of Change are key considerations for our grants program. 

Our grants seek to drive meaningful impact in four priority areas, critical to driving greater fairness in our G21 region — food security, homelessness assistance, inclusive employment, and inclusive economic development.  

In 2025, the Foundation’s priority areas for grant funding are: 

• Food Security and Homelessness Assistance:
  To ensure all people at all times have access to sufficient and healthy food and to ensure that people have access to homelessness assistance to meet their urgent needs.  
• Inclusive Employment, and Inclusive Economic Development:
  To ensure that everyone who wants to work has the opportunity and support to work and a local economy that is equitable, locally led, inclusive, sustainable and regenerative. 

We fund organisations, initiatives and projects focused on these priority areas through our three grant streams.