GRANT WINNERS
Our past grant recipients are all beacons for change and a more equal world
2024 Grant Recipients
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B.I.G. Change
We committed $1 million to be granted over 3 years to the Grata Fund’s work in strategic litigation. Grata Fund makes justice more accessible in the areas of climate justice, human rights, and democratic freedoms. For example, Uncles Pabai and Paul’s climate case at the Federal Court. The funds will be used to create a pool of guarantees to support future legal action, to employ Indigenous lawyers.
$1 million (over 3 years)
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B.I.G. Change
We committed $1M to be granted over 3 years to fund the National Justice Project’s research into a community-based, non-police emergency response to address discriminatory policing in cases involving people experiencing domestic and family violence, people living with disability and people experiencing mental ill-health.
$1 million (over 3 years)
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B.I.G. Change Runner Up
We supported the Australian Democracy Network’s #OurDemocracy Alliance project, bringing together civil society with the goals of (1) Introducing a Lobbying Act and an independent body to regulate the activities of lobbyists and (2) reforming federal campaign finance laws to make transparent and limit influential, unethical transactions.
$100,000
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B.I.G. Future
We supported the Australian Parents for Climate Action with our to aid their federal court case challenging EnergyAustralia for misleading over 400,000 consumers about its “carbon neutral” energy products, which are primarily generated by burning fossil fuels. This is an important greenwashing case, challenging the harmful practice of “offsetting” harmful emissions simply by buying carbon credits.
$100,000
2023 Grant Recipients
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B.I.G. Change Winner
A campaign for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament that is enshrined in the Constitution. It is now time for The Australian people to come together through a referendum and make this fair and practical change.
$500,000
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B.I.G. Change Winner
In partnership with Pasifika communities, scientists, economists, and data-visualisation experts, EDO will establish a new methodology to determine the true intergenerational costs of climate change. The true costs value cultural connection and identity, stewardship of ecological systems and other losses of inheritance associated with traditional knowledge and Indigenous lifeways, which have sustained Pasifika and Indigenous people for thousands of years.
$500,000
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B.I.G. Future Winner
Many Australians feel deeply concerned yet powerless when it comes to climate change. The Better Futures Australia program establishes sector working groups, fostering collaboration among those with shared concerns, enabling them to enhance their sector's climate ambition and amplify their own voices to be heard by decision-makers. These groups serve as a platform for collective advocacy, strengthening the national response to climate change.
$100,000
2022 Grant Recipients
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B.I.G. Change Winner
A campaign for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament that is enshrined in the Constitution. It is now time for The Australian people to come together through a referendum and make this fair and practical change.
$1 Million
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B.I.G. Change Runner-Up
An international organisation dedicated to the recovery of women and children who have endured extreme abuses. Hagar does whatever it takes to help survivors of slavery, human trafficking and abuse in Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore and Myanmar. In this application they are seeking to upscale their operations by training other NGO’s to work together.
$100,000
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B.I.G. Change Runner-Up
Menzies is the nation’s leader in Indigenous and tropical heath research, discovering ways to improve the health and well-being of people living in disadvantage. Their application was to train more Indigenous health professionals in the top end.
$100,000
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B.I.G. Future Winner
Beyond Zero produces independent economic and public policy research on the transition of advanced economies to a zero emissions model. Their application focused on The Narrow Path, a major research program which will demonstrate how Australia can reduce emissions to zero across our six most carbon-intensive sectors, specifically in the Hunter Valley Renewable Energy Industrial Precinct.
$60,000
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B.I.G. Future Runner-Up
Karrkad Kanjdji Trust brings together Indigenous ranger groups, communities and philanthropists to address some of our nation’s most pressing issues. Their application sought to support Indigenous rangers to use customary fire knowledge to reduce the prevalence of hot and destructive fires and abate GHG emissions across Arnhem Land.
$30,000
