Empowering tomorrow. This is where philanthropy meets vision. Over our 20 year history, we have championed and empowered sport and recreation programs that cr...
StreetSmart Australia
Sports and Homelessness
GOAL
$50,000
australia > NATIONWIDE > Metro and regional
30/07/2024 > 31/12/2024
FIELD OF INTEREST
- Health/wellbeing and medical research
- Social inclusion and justice
TARGET POPULATION
- People experiencing or at risk of homelessness
- People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
PROJECT SUMMARY
Empowering tomorrow. This is where philanthropy meets vision. Over our 20 year history, we have championed and empowered sport and recreation programs that create change for people experiencing homelessness and at risk populations, including children. From street soccer programs, to running clubs and basketball games, we have helped increase access to these changing and life saving programs across Australia.
StreetSmart is aiming to fund $100,000 of sporting and recreational community investment over the next 12 months:
– Funded access to sport teams, programs and activities for vulnerable participants
– Equipment and uniform/clothing costs covered
– Transport
– Tailored program costs (eg: mentors, leaders and specialised support), enabling programs to identify and recruit participants within the community sector
Supporting these programs sits under our “Enhancing Health, Wellbeing and Social Inclusion outcomes” Impact pillar. It is well known that homelessness takes a toll on your health. 65% of people who have experienced homelessness have a long-term health condition, and 34% have a mental health condition. 1 in 4 within this cohort would rate their health as fair or poor. Building connection and resilience are often seen as an important part of any housing program.
“StreetSmart’s support helped re-engage our young people through weekly participation based basketball sessions. We will also involve the parents by having family gatherings to increase social cohesion. When these children and young people become disengaged and bored, they are at greater risk of becoming involved in petty crime and ending up in youth detention.”
PROJECT OUTCOMES
Sport and recreation is a powerful motivator, connecting many people from different backgrounds in a common goal and passion.
It is also a successful tool to engage and help people experiencing homelessness and social isolation. Research, and our own lived experiences, tell us that more frequent social contact is associated with higher life satisfaction and better, overall health and wellbeing outcomes. Conversely, social isolation and loneliness can have significant, negative impacts for many people’s health and wellbeing.
“Small sporting and rec programs like ours run on such little available administration time and funds so even a relatively small grant such as this one really does make a huge difference. With all of our costs increasing year on year it is so wonderful to receive this support from you.”
People directly impacted:
- Children in refuges, often with their mother/parent fleeing domestic violence
- At risk youth seeking peer to peer connections
- Rough sleepers connecting to social interactions
- Migrants and Refugees who are isolated
Programs and clubs:
- Soccer and football teams
- Running clubs
- Basketball teams
- Hiking and camping groups
- Walking and social groups
StreetSmart Australia
At StreetSmart, for the past 20 years, we have championed and supported local grassroots organisations providing services to people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. This focus came out of the direct experience of our Founder, Adam Robinson, working in smaller front-line community services and seeing how they provided vital support services and strengthened local communities, yet were under-resourced by Governments, while experiencing real barriers to fundraising, including lack of capacity to make formal applications for funding. We know local leaders, volunteers and community groups are best placed to identify what support their communities need, and have solutions and mechanisms in place that work for them and their community. They are the lifeblood of our suburbs, towns and regions and play a critical role in innovating, creating change, and building caring and resilient communities.
To date StreetSmart has distributed over $12 million in funding across 1000+ community project supporting homelessness, and we still operate at a local, grassroots level to fund critical services.
We Believe: everyone should have a safe and secure place to call home. It is a basic human right. Ending homelessness will take a whole of community response.
We Empower: through innovative campaigns we enable and empower communities to raise vital funds and awareness to bring about change for people experiencing homelessness or at risk.
We Support: we keep it grassroots, we keep it local. We seek out, support and partner with small organisations and projects, in the communities where funds are raised.
BUDGET BREAKDOWN
TOTAL BUDGET: $100,000
FUNDING
| Funding source | Amount |
|---|---|
| StreetSmart philanthropic donor (confirmed) | $15,000 |
| StreetSmart individual fundraising (confirmed) | $15,000 |
| Corporate sponsor (confirmed) | $20,000 |
| Funding gap (unconfirmed) | $50,000 |
EXPENSES
| Expense item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sporting program funding | $50,000 |
| Sporting individual funding | $20,000 |
| Sport and Rec equipment | $20,000 |
| Project Management | $10,000 |
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