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Tier One: Significant grants of up to three years' duration to organisations and projects that are national or quasi national in scope:

Beyond Empathy
Beyond Empathy aims to change the lives of individuals experiencing issues such as violence, poverty, lack of opportunity and marginalisation. Through film, theatre, dance, music, multimedia, digital media and visual arts projects, Beyond Empathy helps participants tell their story, build skills and create new opportunities and pathways in life. Funding from the Westpac Foundation is being used for Beyond Empathy's BEWaY project, which aims to increase the number of Beyond Empathy arts workers and create a community toolkit for use by other arts organisations and welfare workers.

The Song Room
The Song Room provides music and performing arts programs as a way to engage young people and is expanding its programs nationally thanks to a three year grant from the Westpac Foundation. Since 1999 more than 100,000 disadvantaged children have benefited from The Song Room's in-school and holiday programs.

WorkVentures
This project provides affordable personal computers to Indigenous residents and the setting up local PC distribution centres to service each community. In addition, the project will include initiatives to strengthen the capacities of key Indigenous organisations that support the project communities. WorkVentures will collaborate with Indigenous Not-For-Profit (NFP) organisations that currently support these communities. The project aims to enhance the social and economic opportunities for residents through increasing the ownership and access of PCs within communities.