Projects
Connecting funders to impactful projects that benefit women and girls across a range of social issues.
We are delighted to present this Online Project Showcase, in an effort to connect our growing community of philanthropic funders to the many wonderful organisations whose projects target women and girls and deliver greater gender equality.
This is a curated bank of projects that support women and girls across a range of social issues, locally and internationally. Whether your passion is education, the arts, safety from violence, medical research or the environment, inter alia, we can suggest a project to drive impact and advance gender equality by investing in women and girls.
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Women's Community Shelters
Help us build an Australia where women and children are safe, secure, supported and equal
Women’s Community Shelters (WCS) is a DGR1 charity, registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission. Our mission is to work with local communities to establish new crisis accommodation shelters for women and children who are homeless or leaving domestic...
Women's Community Shelters
Help us build an Australia where women and children are safe, secure, supported and equal
Women’s Community Shelters (WCS) is a DGR1 charity, registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission. Our mission is to work with local communities to establish new crisis accommodation shelters for women and children who are homeless or leaving domestic...
Stella
The Stella Count
Stella strives for a community where the power and influence of writing and stories are not limited by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, disability or age. We believe that Australian women’s writing and stories play a powerful role in shaping...
Stella
The Stella Count
Stella strives for a community where the power and influence of writing and stories are not limited by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, disability or age. We believe that Australian women’s writing and stories play a powerful role in shaping...
Older Women in Cohousing Inc.
WINC Middle Women Housing Fund
Older Women in Cohousing [WINC] is creating a new model – the Middle Women Housing Fund – to enable women with insufficient assets to take part in the WINC cohousing community. These ‘middle women’ have some assets – but too...
Older Women in Cohousing Inc.
WINC Middle Women Housing Fund
Older Women in Cohousing [WINC] is creating a new model – the Middle Women Housing Fund – to enable women with insufficient assets to take part in the WINC cohousing community. These ‘middle women’ have some assets – but too...
Hagar Australia
Empowering Women for a Better Future
The overarching program, The Whole Journey, provides comprehensive trauma-informed support program for women and children affected by human trafficking, slavery and abuse. Through their healing journey, survivors are supported to make choices ensuring their physical and mental health needs are...
Hagar Australia
Empowering Women for a Better Future
The overarching program, The Whole Journey, provides comprehensive trauma-informed support program for women and children affected by human trafficking, slavery and abuse. Through their healing journey, survivors are supported to make choices ensuring their physical and mental health needs are...
WomenCAN Australasia
The Placement Circle
The project will help women gain training in the trades sector where there is a huge skills shortage, high job demand and under representation of women. Through The Placement Circle (TPC) , we will recruit 15 women and support them through...
WomenCAN Australasia
The Placement Circle
The project will help women gain training in the trades sector where there is a huge skills shortage, high job demand and under representation of women. Through The Placement Circle (TPC) , we will recruit 15 women and support them through...
Women’s Property Initiatives
Homes to Help
Women’s Property Initiatives (WPI) mission is to build a secure future for women and children in need by developing and providing good quality, long term affordable housing. In partnership with Platinum Institute Australia (PIA), a registered training organisation operating in...
Women’s Property Initiatives
Homes to Help
Women’s Property Initiatives (WPI) mission is to build a secure future for women and children in need by developing and providing good quality, long term affordable housing. In partnership with Platinum Institute Australia (PIA), a registered training organisation operating in...
The Royal Women's Hospital
The Cornelia Program: Breaking the cycle of homelessness for vulnerable women and their babies
The Royal Women's Hospital needs help to help break the cycle of homelessness for vulnerable women and their babies. The Women’s, Launch Housing and HousingFirst have collaborated to develop the Cornelia Program – an Australian-first initiative that aims to break the cycle of homelessness and support pregnant women and new mothers to develop a lasting bond with their babies.
The Royal Women's Hospital
The Cornelia Program: Breaking the cycle of homelessness for vulnerable women and their babies
The Royal Women's Hospital needs help to help break the cycle of homelessness for vulnerable women and their babies. The Women’s, Launch Housing and HousingFirst have collaborated to develop the Cornelia Program – an Australian-first initiative that aims to break the cycle of homelessness and support pregnant women and new mothers to develop a lasting bond with their babies.
The Brotherhood of St Laurence
Pilot: improving inclusivity of Stepping Stones to Small Business program
Stepping Stones To Small Business is a program run by the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL), tailored to women from refugee and migrant and asylum seeking backgrounds and uses a strengths-based, capabilities approach to build upon each participant’s strengths and life experiences. The program aims to increase economic participation and financial wellbeing through education, mentoring and support.
The Brotherhood of St Laurence
Pilot: improving inclusivity of Stepping Stones to Small Business program
Stepping Stones To Small Business is a program run by the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL), tailored to women from refugee and migrant and asylum seeking backgrounds and uses a strengths-based, capabilities approach to build upon each participant’s strengths and life experiences. The program aims to increase economic participation and financial wellbeing through education, mentoring and support.
Fair Agenda
Funding the fight for a safer future
The next six months is critical to shape government responses for years to come. The Morrison Government is hosting a National Women’s Summit and preparing a new National Plan To Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children to guide the next 12 years. Fair Agenda is campaigning for stronger prevention of gender-based violence, better access to services and improved legal responses for survivors.
Fair Agenda
Funding the fight for a safer future
The next six months is critical to shape government responses for years to come. The Morrison Government is hosting a National Women’s Summit and preparing a new National Plan To Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children to guide the next 12 years. Fair Agenda is campaigning for stronger prevention of gender-based violence, better access to services and improved legal responses for survivors.
AusCam Freedom Project
Preventing sexual exploitation of girls in Cambodia
The AusCam Freedom Project will provide girls and young women with the support they need to resist the gendered risks and barriers that limit their opportunities in Cambodia, where gender-based violence, discrimination and unequal gender norms have caused girls and young women to be vastly undervalued. Your support will fund tutoring, homework clubs, and material scholarships for girls who have been identified as vulnerable to trafficking.
AusCam Freedom Project
Preventing sexual exploitation of girls in Cambodia
The AusCam Freedom Project will provide girls and young women with the support they need to resist the gendered risks and barriers that limit their opportunities in Cambodia, where gender-based violence, discrimination and unequal gender norms have caused girls and young women to be vastly undervalued. Your support will fund tutoring, homework clubs, and material scholarships for girls who have been identified as vulnerable to trafficking.
Just Peoples Ltd
Provide Business Skills Training to Ugandan Locals and Refugee Women
On the traditional and isolated Buyiga Island in Uganda, there are few resources to go around. Refugees that enter Uganda from Rwanda, South Sudan and Burundi are often sent to the island to create a new life, stretching resources even...
Just Peoples Ltd
Provide Business Skills Training to Ugandan Locals and Refugee Women
On the traditional and isolated Buyiga Island in Uganda, there are few resources to go around. Refugees that enter Uganda from Rwanda, South Sudan and Burundi are often sent to the island to create a new life, stretching resources even...
Just Peoples Ltd
Fight period poverty and stigma in Bangladesh with education
Talking about periods is a social taboo in most parts of Bangladesh. As a result, many girls don’t understand what’s happening to their bodies when they get their first period, let alone how to manage it safely. Using unhygienic materials like rags and old bedsheets, instead of proper sanitary products, leads to frequent illness, embarrassment and skipping school.
Just Peoples Ltd
Fight period poverty and stigma in Bangladesh with education
Talking about periods is a social taboo in most parts of Bangladesh. As a result, many girls don’t understand what’s happening to their bodies when they get their first period, let alone how to manage it safely. Using unhygienic materials like rags and old bedsheets, instead of proper sanitary products, leads to frequent illness, embarrassment and skipping school.
Just Peoples Ltd
Support Rural Women And Babies in Kenya to Create Life Saving Kangaroo Wraps for Premature Babies
Babies born prematurely account for 12% of all under 5 mortality in Kenya. In poorly-resourced rural Kenyan hospitals, incubators are costly and unreliable due to power shortages. Healthcare providers advocate for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) to reduce infant mortality in...
Just Peoples Ltd
Support Rural Women And Babies in Kenya to Create Life Saving Kangaroo Wraps for Premature Babies
Babies born prematurely account for 12% of all under 5 mortality in Kenya. In poorly-resourced rural Kenyan hospitals, incubators are costly and unreliable due to power shortages. Healthcare providers advocate for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) to reduce infant mortality in...
Just Peoples Ltd
Support Sexual Health Education For 70 Women in Vietnam
For the conservative Co Tu ethnic group in Danang, Vietnam, getting pregnant while unmarried is considered so shameful that expectant single mothers are often ousted from their families and villages and left to look after themselves. In such a hostile...
Just Peoples Ltd
Support Sexual Health Education For 70 Women in Vietnam
For the conservative Co Tu ethnic group in Danang, Vietnam, getting pregnant while unmarried is considered so shameful that expectant single mothers are often ousted from their families and villages and left to look after themselves. In such a hostile...
Just Peoples Ltd
Women-friendly toilets in Bangladesh Slums
This project exists to renovate 25 communal toilet facilities in slum communities across Dhaka to ensure they are safe and “women-friendly”. Toilets will be accessible 24/7, have lockable cubicles, and be equipped with menstrual facilities and running water. The facilities...
Just Peoples Ltd
Women-friendly toilets in Bangladesh Slums
This project exists to renovate 25 communal toilet facilities in slum communities across Dhaka to ensure they are safe and “women-friendly”. Toilets will be accessible 24/7, have lockable cubicles, and be equipped with menstrual facilities and running water. The facilities...
Just Peoples Ltd
Jobs and clean water for Bangladeshi women
Every year monsoons sweep across Bangladesh destroying homes, infrastructure and livelihoods, particularly on small islands and river lands. When floods hit, entire communities are left with only dirty flood water to drink as emergency rescue teams struggle to access the...
Just Peoples Ltd
Jobs and clean water for Bangladeshi women
Every year monsoons sweep across Bangladesh destroying homes, infrastructure and livelihoods, particularly on small islands and river lands. When floods hit, entire communities are left with only dirty flood water to drink as emergency rescue teams struggle to access the...
Pollinate Group
Empowering women to bring clean energy access to the world's most neglected communities
Pollinate Group works with marginalised communities living in extreme poverty in India and Nepal who have been overlooked by most other development actors. Since 2012, our work has shown that with skills and support, women living in extreme poverty are able to access dignified employment and improve their quality of life.
Pollinate Group
Empowering women to bring clean energy access to the world's most neglected communities
Pollinate Group works with marginalised communities living in extreme poverty in India and Nepal who have been overlooked by most other development actors. Since 2012, our work has shown that with skills and support, women living in extreme poverty are able to access dignified employment and improve their quality of life.
Women's Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) - hosted by The Green Institute
Women Leading Change
WELA has recently embarked on an expanded mission to empower, support, fund and diversify women’s leadership for our environment and climate action, to transform Australia’s response to these crises. Empower: Increasing numbers of women from diverse backgrounds and sectors are...
Women's Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) - hosted by The Green Institute
Women Leading Change
WELA has recently embarked on an expanded mission to empower, support, fund and diversify women’s leadership for our environment and climate action, to transform Australia’s response to these crises. Empower: Increasing numbers of women from diverse backgrounds and sectors are...
Fitted for Work
Fast tracking Women into Employment
Fitted for Work believes that every woman is entitled to economic security and we believe the best way for a women to achieve this is through employment. We know that women have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, particularly regarding employment. Fitted for Work has a proven, simple and elegant formula that offers a profound return on investment.
Fitted for Work
Fast tracking Women into Employment
Fitted for Work believes that every woman is entitled to economic security and we believe the best way for a women to achieve this is through employment. We know that women have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, particularly regarding employment. Fitted for Work has a proven, simple and elegant formula that offers a profound return on investment.
SisterWorks Inc.
SisterWorks Employment Pathways Program
Research commissioned by SisterWorks identified a lack of partnerships between not-for-profits and businesses as a ‘missing piece of the broader puzzle’ of migrant, refugee and asylum seeker employment. To bridge these gaps, SisterWorks is implementing a dedicated partnerships and careers support approach to simultaneously work at an individual level with Sisters to address barriers to economic participation whilst also focusing on partnerships with social enterprises and businesses that offer paid employment opportunities.
SisterWorks Inc.
SisterWorks Employment Pathways Program
Research commissioned by SisterWorks identified a lack of partnerships between not-for-profits and businesses as a ‘missing piece of the broader puzzle’ of migrant, refugee and asylum seeker employment. To bridge these gaps, SisterWorks is implementing a dedicated partnerships and careers support approach to simultaneously work at an individual level with Sisters to address barriers to economic participation whilst also focusing on partnerships with social enterprises and businesses that offer paid employment opportunities.
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If you have a project that invest in, or benefit women and girls and advance gender equality, we would love to hear from you. Please register and we will review your submission.