Project Manager + Acting Executive Officer role
A call to action Your community made you. You make your community. You know this. You are an experienced community-builder. You have been sharpening your project leadership and operational management skills in a community context, and are ready for a new challenge. Now, you desire for more. Are you the sort of person who likes […]
2022 Bakers Dozen Social Justice Annual Grants
Last week the Board approved four annual grants of $5,000 from the Bakers Dozen Social Justice Fund. In total, 17 applications were received with a total ask of $80,320, with a wide range of approaches about how local organisations thought about Social Justice, from emergency relief, to cultural connections, to community engagement. The Bakers Dozen […]
The Inner North Community Foundation Needs Your Help
The Inner North Community Foundation been working for more than 15 years to make our community a better place for all. We are now faced with the challenge of doing even more because the need in the community is not going away. Are you the sort of person who likes a challenge? Do you want […]
2022 Pathways to Employment Grant Recipients
The Inner North Community Foundation today announced community grants to 10 charitable organisations which focus on helping disadvantaged people in Melbourne’s inner north through the Foundation’s 2022 Pathways to Employment grants program, our annual grants round proudly supported by IntoWork Australia. The 10 organisations are found here. It also marks the public celebration of a […]
Young Changemakers 2022
The Young Changemakers Program was established by the Inner North Community Foundation (the Foundation) and the Community Bank Clifton Hill – North Fitzroy in 2015 based on similar initiatives run by other community foundations across the globe. This year, students from Northern College of Arts and Technology and Wurun Senior Campus participated in the Young […]
Join the Bakers Dozen Social Justice Fund
Have a passion for social justice? The Baker’s Dozen Social Justice Fund makes grants to organisations in Melbourne’s inner north for initiatives and projects which advance social justice. In keeping with Christopher Baker and Kerri Hall’s intent when they kick-started the Fund, the Inner North Community Foundation is committed to bringing community voice into how the Fund works, […]
Inner North Report #2: Who We Want to Be
The Inner North Report #2: Who We Want to Be was launched on Thursday 24th March 2022 at North Fitzroy Library (Bargoonga Nganjin), with over 80 local people attending. At the launch of the Inner North Report #1, Who Are We, we asked people to join us in becoming the eyes and ears on the ground so that […]
Bakers Dozen Social Justice Fund Launch
The Bakers Dozen Social Justice Fund Launched online on 16th September 2021, with the announcement of the first grants to six local charities. Over 100 people gathered via zoom to learn more about the Bakers Dozen Social Justice Fund, that has been established through a bequest left by Dr Christopher Baker and Ms Kerri Hall. […]
2021 Pathways to Employment Grant Recipients
The Inner North Community Foundation today announced community grants to 10 charitable organisations which focus on helping disadvantaged people in Melbourne’s inner north through the Foundation’s 2021 Pathways to Employment grants program, our annual grants round proudly supported by IntoWork Australia. The Foundation aims to be adaptive to the evolving needs of the community. This […]
Covid-19 Disaster Relief Fund
The Foundation launched its Covid-19 Disaster Relief Fund 12 months ago, to respond to the uncertainty and crisis presented by the pandemic. The bulk of funds were granted back between March and September 2020. Funding was allocated through: $153,000 in 102 Rapid Response grants. At time of writing, 90/102 organisations have acquitted funds or asked […]