Capitalising on opportunity: Scale Investors
Scale Investors is Australia’s First Women-Led VC Fund, Backing Women-Led Startups.
Going the distance: Trawalla Foundation
Supporting and advocating for women in leadership has been a long-standing focus for the Trawalla Foundation, the philanthropic foundation Carol established in 2004 with her husband, Alan Schwartz.
Global make over: MECCA M-POWER
Since its launch in 2017, M-POWER has focused on advancing gender equality, initially with a goal of helping 10,000 girls experiencing social and financial barriers to finish school. After achieving that milestone, M-POWER’s mission since 2022 has been to create a world where women and girls can thrive and achieve their full potential.
Generations of change: The Dyson Bequest
The Dyson Bequest shows how one family’s generosity can shift what’s possible for generations of women in medical research. Guided by John Dyson’s belief that “if we don’t try to create change, things never change,” the Bequest champions long-term, trust-based philanthropy, from the Dyson Fellowship for early-career women researchers to the transformational gift that made WEHI’s onsite childcare a reality.
How Two Questions are Leading to More Informed Giving at Perpetual
Informed Giving at Perpetual
By asking two simple gender-related questions in its grant applications, Perpetual is driving more informed giving. This approach helps funders see the gendered impacts of their philanthropy, leading to fairer, more effective outcomes for communities in Australia and globally.
AllPlay: Investing in Neurodiverse Girls
Australians Investing In Women is a proud member of MECCA’s social change movement, M-POWER, which supports a collective of more than twenty not-for-profit organisations working to improve opportunities for women and girls through education, participation in the economy and in public life and through enhancements to women’s health, safety and wellbeing. We recently spoke with […]
Measure by Measure – Investment by Design
A case study in gender lens measurement and reporting by ANZ Patterns of measurement have long been a cornerstone of human progress. Measurement allows us to gauge, compare, and make informed decisions. From tracking time, a heartbeat, or GDP, measurement empowers us to understand the world around us and our place in it. The concept […]
Global Corporates Taking The Lead
In 2008, Goldman Sachs introduced 10,000 Women: a five-year, $100 million global initiative to help grow local economies and bring about greater shared prosperity by providing 10,000 female entrepreneurs with a business and management education, access to mentors and networks and links to capital. The Goldman Sachs Foundation believes this investment ‘can have a significant […]
Transforming A Community In Crisis
In 2007, two courageous Indigenous women emerged from a Women’s Bush Meeting in the Kimberley region’s Fitzroy Valley determined to take a stand against the flood of alcohol decimating their community. Emily Carter and June Oscar from the Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre built consensus, then successfully campaigned for the introduction of alcohol restrictions in the […]