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Grant recipient of Women facing homelessness grants: Wellsprings for Women

$76,750 to support women experiencing homelessness

By Community Grants, Grant Impact, Older women, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, StreetSmart Projects, Youth

Often grappling with impossible decisions between homelessness or violence and poverty, women and gender diverse people increasingly have nowhere safe to turn. They face persistent and systemic barriers to accessing housing and often experience ‘hidden’ forms of homelessness. Our community raised funds through September and October and 15 grants have been distributed to respond to this growing need.

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15 Grants Providing Critical Services for People Sleeping Rough

By Community Grants, Grant Impact, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, Rough Sleeping, StreetSmart Projects

Rough sleeping is dangerous, traumatic, and often life-threatening. In July and August, the StreetSmart community focused on raising funds and awareness to support people sleeping rough, funding programs that care for their immediate needs and help to end their experience of homelessness.

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StreetSmart community provides warmth through Winter

By Community Grants, Grant Impact, Projects StreetSmart, Recently Funded, Rough Sleeping, StreetSmart Projects, Winter Appeal

Our Winter Appeal, throughout May and June, was launched to respond to the rising numbers of people experiencing homelessness who are facing dangerous and difficult living conditions Thanks to our donor community, along with corporate and philanthropic supporters who took part, our collective efforts have resulted in $236,250 in grants to provide warm food, clothing, material aid, and housing support. Additionally, $313,984 in SleepSafe kits were distributed through our partnership with Sheridan to those facing homelessness and housing insecurity.

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Corporate Collaboration creating change by supporting Hamlet Cafe

Corporate collaboration creating change

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

The Alternative Dairy Co have taken their Team Championship across the country, raising funds to provide hospitality based training and employment opportunities to at-risk cohorts. With a localised impact on the ground at each of the 7 locations, it’s a remarkable example of a corporate partnership that takes a whole of community approach to bringing about change for those in need.

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Rough sleeping is life-threatening, but it’s also solvable.

By Homelessness in the news, Projects StreetSmart, Rough Sleeping, StreetSmart Projects

Sleeping rough on the streets, in cars or tents is increasingly the only option left for thousands of people in Australia. Families are sleeping in cold, damp tents and people are spending years living on streets. This type of homelessness is dangerous, traumatic, and often life-threatening. But it is also solvable.

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Brunswick South Primary School staff and StreetSmart team discuss how Schools for Change resources help to shift the narrative on homelessness

Teachers and students help shift the narrative on homelessness

By Homelessness in the news, Projects StreetSmart, Schools for Change, StreetSmart Projects

80 young students in Melbourne’s northern suburbs have been tackling the enduring barriers to ending homelessness: stigma, myths, and misconceptions. We chat with them about how our Schools for Change classroom resources help to shift the narrative on homelessness, deepen empathy, bust myths, and empower students to stand up for the rights of others.

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