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Impact Fund:
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Become an Impact Funder or continue your support

Become an Impact Funder

There is great joy in coming together to back a positive vision for our future.

Interested in becoming an Impact Funder or continuing your support? We invite you to join us because smart changemakers need wise backers who understand that change takes time.

There are three key ways you can become an Impact Funder or extend your existing support.

1.

Support the work behind the Impact Fund

Support the Impact Fund’s core costs so we can continue to build this important work. This model adds so much value, but it is resource-intensive, and necessarily so.

Your support will mean we can mobilise even more ambitiously for our partners and continue to grow this game-changing and high-impact approach to giving.

Contribute directly

Contact us to contribute from your ACF Fund

2.

Give an untied donation or bequest to the grants pool

When you give an untied donation to the Impact Fund, you enable our community to respond to windows of opportunity for positive change.

If you are interested in leaving a legacy to the people who come after us, consider leaving a bequest to the Impact Fund.

Contribute directly

Contact us to contribute from your ACF Fund

3.

Give to an Impact Partner

We are so excited about the breadth of talent in the Impact Fund, game-changers one and all, who are continuing their important work towards a fairer and more sustainable Australia.

Explore our cohort of Impact Partners here and contact us to make a contribution.

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“The Impact Fund curation has been fantastic. You share in the enthusiasm about impact with other donors – you all feel good about it. I’m so used to deliberating long and hard about how and why we donate. The idea it can be organised collaboratively and effectively with an eye to real impact is very compelling.” 

Jackie Yowell (Fairer Futures Fund), Impact Funder 


Thank you

TO OUR IMPACT FUNDERS

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to the 100+ Impact Funders who have already shared in our vision of philanthropy for the people. 

Together, we are shifting the balance of power for a fairer and more sustainable Australia. 

TO OUR FRIENDS IN PHILANTHROPY

We acknowledge that the incredible achievements in this report have been supported not only by the Impact Fund, but by many other trusts and foundations. We celebrate the collective generosity and vision of philanthropy in Australia. 

TO OUR IMPACT PARTNERS

Thank you to our 40+ Impact Partners who are leading the way on our journey towards a fairer and more sustainable Australia. 

Download the report

“Impact is a word that’s used freely and ambitiously, but it’s a word that carries real bite when you look at the range of projects, and their outcomes, that have been supported by the Impact Fund.” 

Eric Beecher, Chair, Australian Communities Foundation

MAKING CHANGE TOGETHER

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Got a question or want to discuss how you can get involved? Contact the team.

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