Australian Communities Foundation’s flagship Impact Fund explores how best to achieve genuine and lasting change through philanthropy. Our work consistently shows that advocacy and movement building is key. 

But change can take time. Many in our giving community know this from experience. Our Impact Fund community has contributed to some incredible wins for a more just Australia – often through long-term continued support of movements.

Ahead of this year’s Impact Fund Showcase in October, we are excited to host this special Learning Circle on the challenges and opportunities of movement building and advocacy philanthropy. This session will introduce you to this increasingly critical work before we come together to support movements through this year’s Impact Fund program.

Join us at this interactive session to: 

• Better understand what is meant by funding movements and advocacy
• Learn how this giving strategy can achieve lasting change
• Unpack the elements of best-practice philanthropy for this approach
• Explore ways you can resource movements and campaigning beyond funding.

We’ll be joined by global and local experts in philanthropy and movement building: Linh Do (The Wattle Fellowship), Rathana Chea (Rathana.org) and Yahya Alazrak (Resource Generation USA).

Thursday 5 September
11am – 12:15pm AEST
Online via Zoom – Access link to be provided on the day of the event

Linh Do, Director, The Wattle Fellowship

Linh Do is passionate about climate justice and social inequality. Having spent the last decade working across advocacy and engagement, media and social enterprise, Linh is currently the Director of the Wattle Fellowship. She is a board member at Climate Action Network Australia, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and a research committee member of the Centre for Policy Development. The Linh Do Fund furthers social justice and environmental outcomes by supporting leading community changemakers.

Rathana Chea, Co-CEO + Principal Consultant, Rathana.org

For over 25 years Rathana has been leading campaigns, building organisations and growing leaders that transform our world. He has worked in environmental sustainability and human rights leadership roles across the globe. With his namesake international consultancy group Rathana.org, he has coached and mentored leading change agents like UNICEF and OzHarvest to help turn their ambitions into reality.

Yahya Alazrak, Executive Director, Resource Generation, USA

Yahya comes to social justice work with a belief that our collective liberation is possible. With deep experience in organising, they were appointed Executive Director of Resource Generation in 2021. Yahya enters movements from many places, including being the child of a trans and Muslim activist and leader, and their experience of racialisation and anti-war movement work post-9/11.

Register

This session is open to Australian Communities Foundation fundholders and clients, and our friends in the philanthropy sector. Contact us to register.