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$67,400 boost to create homes, feed families, and care for pets

By Grant Impact, Homelssness Healthcare, LGBTQI+, Making a Home, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart Projects

We are excited to share that the continued generosity of our monthly donors, those who chipped in to our End of Year Appeal, and philanthropic partnerships and trusts has resulted in a $67,400 funding boost across 16 grassroots organisations. We channelled funding into areas with high rates of need and vulnerability, plugging funding gaps for programs that are responding to the critical needs of their community. Grants are helping to keep people families fed, those with pets care for their furry friends and access inclusive accommodation, and set up new havens of safety and independence.

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10 Grants Creating Better Outcomes for People Interacting with the Justice System

By Grant Impact, Homelssness Healthcare, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart Projects

Being without a home makes it hard to build a stable, healthy life and find a job. We know that people leaving prison are at a very high risk of homelessness, and to break the cycle, people leaving prison need pre-release and post-release support. That’s why we funded 10 organisations across metro and regional areas to support a range of pre/post release support programs and responses.

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Corporate collaborations fund $41,750 for homelessness and housing programs

By Grant Impact, Homelssness Healthcare, LGBTQI+, Making a Home, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart Projects

Working closely with corporate partners has enabled 9 grants totalling $41,750 to fund homelessness responses and housing outcomes across Australia. Thanks to these partnerships, 31 households are being supported to exit out of homelessness into safe and sustainable homes, and 170 people facing and experiencing homelessness are gaining access to immediate and ongoing support.

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$89,150 to keep the doors open for small organisations

By Grant Impact, Homelssness Healthcare, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart Projects

The rising demand and falling funding for ‘on the ground’ and small community organisations is a perfect storm that is limiting the ability of these vital programs to remain open for people in need. Our generous donors and dedicated monthly supporters throughout October along with a philanthropic partnership have delivered crucial funding to 19 organisations across Australia. This $89,150 is filling funding gaps for these organisations to empower communities to better respond to and prevent homelessness in ways that work for them.

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Helping those sleeping rough to keep safe, healthy and connected

By Grant Impact, Homelssness Healthcare, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, Rough Sleeping, StreetSmart Projects

As the cold winter months took hold and made life increasingly dangerous and difficult for people sleeping rough, we have directed $110,500 to deliver a range of critical care responses to those who had no where else to go but the street, a car, a tent. Our generous donors and dedicated monthly supporters throughout July and August along with a philanthropic partnership have delivered crucial funding to 15 organisations across Australia.

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From Crisis to Comfort: 4 Years of our SleepSafe Initiative

By Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, SleepSafe, StreetSmart Projects

It’s been 4 years since the inception of SleepSafe and although it’s growth and reach has expanded since, the belief in and commitment to providing practical support, care, and dignity to those in crisis has not. At it’s heart, SleepSafe helps Australian’s facing homelessness and hardship to feel worthy, safe, and cared for. Having distributed over 108,000 kits (and counting) we reflect on what it means to have a safe night sleep, and how sleep kits help bring comfort to those in crisis.

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Funding Meanwhile Use Projects to Reduce Homelessness

By Homelessness in the news, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart News, Youth

As Australia grapples with the deepening and costly homelessness crisis, leaders are advocating for an uptake of more creative and innovative approaches like ‘meanwhile use’ and ‘change of use’ projects. StreetSmart have funded ‘meanwhile use’ projects before and have recently collaborated with grant recipient Bridge It, in Melbourne, to fund another much-needed innovation to reduce youth homelessness. 

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A SleepSafe milestone: 100,000 sleep kits distributed nationally

By Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, SleepSafe, StreetSmart Projects

We are incredibly excited to have just wrapped up our latest SleepSafe distribution, bringing the total number of distributed kits to over 100,000! That is over 100,000 moments of care, dignity and comfort provided to people in crisis and facing hardship. Without the generosity of Sheridan customers and the day in and day out advocacy of their staff for our SleepSafe collaboration, this impact would not have been possible.

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Relief for those in acute hardship this winter

By Community Grants, Grant Impact, Homelessness in the news, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, Winter Appeal

For too many people food and groceries are an optional extra. As the cost-of-living crisis deepens, more and more people are skipping meals to pay their rent, power and other bills. Many are turning to local charities for food relief, for the first time in their lives, and local food banks are struggling to keep up with demand, often running out of basic staple items. That’s why we have just boosted funding to 10 food relief programs, distributing a total of $80,000 so that people in acute hardship can be supported. We are continuing this support and are calling on you, our network, to join us and give what you can, or share with your networks.

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DineSmart fundraising dinner boosts total tally to $176,723

By Community Grants, DineSmart, Grant Impact, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart News

It’s been a special year for our annual DineSmart campaign which celebrated two decades of collaborative impact with the hospitality industry. Last month we held a 20th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner to recognise this incredible milestone and scale up the impact of the fundraising throughout DineSmart December. The event was a roaring success and has brought this year’s DineSmart tally to $176,723 in funds for employment, training and education programs for vulnerable people.

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