Back to: Westpac Foundation

Chutzpah
The Chutzpah Factory College of Entrepreneurship is an innovative educational initiative designed to engage 'at risk' youth in the world of business. Its mission is to turn conduct disorder into ethical entrepreneurship. With grant support from the Westpac Foundation, Chutzpah aimed to strengthen relationships with education providers and business networks; consolidate existing partnerships, maintain and grow presence throughout Indigenous Australia, working with Indigenous Business Partnerships and review the potential to establish the Chutzpah Indigenous Entrepreneurship college in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

Mission Australia (Girradoola Pathways)
Mission Australia's 'Pathways to Prevention' Project focuses on the major life transitions children face between the ages of 0-13 years. The program brings existing support services together through an overarching framework and identifies and fills the gaps in service provision, ultimately providing children and their families with the support and resources they need to ensure their 'life transitions' are successful. The Westpac Foundation provided grant support for the establishment of the Girradoola Pathways Project in Western Australia.

Wunan Foundation
The Wunan Foundation has been awarded for their work in indigenous communities in the East Kimberley. Wunan provides indigenous young people with support in education and employment. This project aims to develop a cohesive 'Job Pathways' strategy to significantly lift youth employment in the region. The project also aims to engage Government and the community more effectively to develop a working Regional Partnership focused on improving employment capacity among local Indigenous youth. The project also encourages other activities within the region that promote improved job pathways and in particular encourages employers in the region, currently not routinely employing young Indigenous people, to become actively involved in the Initiative so that some of the existing structural barriers are gradually broken down – thus also building local industry capacity.

Artstories - Charles Darwin University Foundation
Artstories is a family focused, arts based approach to literacy and language learning. The Westpac Foundation provided funding support for ArtStories to design an approach to arts and community partnership to support improved literacy and social outcomes for Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.

BighART
BighART is a national organisation piloting non-welfare, task focused, long term arts/media/culture driven projects with marginalised people that build capacity and grassroots support through community leadership projects. The Westpac Foundation provided support to bighART's GOLD project which aims to help reengage young people in education through a media/arts project centered on the issue of water. The project includes training/mentoring in digital and media skills around a campaign to instigate behaviour change in the use of water in the broader community.

Daystar
Daystar provides valuable support to children in disadvantaged communities through in-school programs which aim to better educate, encourage and impart social skills to children in need. With support from the Westpac Foundation, Daystar developed the Community In School Engagement project, designed to provide holistic early intervention and prevention programs for disadvantaged children at primary and secondary schools in South West Sydney

Mayumarri
Mayumarri Trust is a not for profit organisation based in NSW which provides a safe affordable healing program for survivors of childhood abuse and trauma. The trust is managed day to day by residents of the Mayumarri community, supported by facilitators trained in the Mayumarri healing model. The Westpac Foundation provided support for the Trust.

YWCA
The YWCA's "Y It Takes A Village" project is an innovative response to real and pressing needs within the community. This project aims to build relationships between the government and non-government sector which have largely operated independently of one another. Through its early intervention, monitoring and supporting of individuals at critical times throughout their lives, the Y ITAV model is preventative in its approach.