Our stories

Raise Foundation’s mission is to improve the wellbeing of young people in Australia at risk of disengaging, by delivering best-practice mentoring programs.
 

Our grant supports the development of the Raise online training platform which is designed to improve the accessibility, efficiency and efficacy of Raise’s training and help it scale.

Across Macquarie’s regions we maximise our social impact by focusing our grant making on particular community areas within each region.

In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) our strategic grant focus is on supporting organisations that promote social mobility for young people through education and employment opportunities. We do this through our strategic grant partners.

Hear from our strategic grant partners and staff volunteers on the work that is being done across EMEA.

Through the use of technology, Hello Sunday Morning supports people seeking to change their relationship with alcohol. In 2015, Hello Sunday Morning won Macquarie’s Social Innovation Award and, using the $300,000 grant, it sought to address a gap in the health sector around screening and brief intervention tools for moderate or risky, non-dependent binge drinkers. Results from Hello Sunday Morning’s first year of deploying funds have positively affected its target clients in both reach and impact. 

The Fogarty Foundation provides educational opportunities for Western Australians. After being awarded Macquarie’s Social Innovation Award in 2014, Fogarty used the $100,000 grant to scale up its EDvance program. This initiative aims to improve the educational outcomes of students in low socio-economic communities by providing principals working in low-SES schools with leadership and management skills. In this way it helped develop targeted school improvements. 

In late 2014, the Macquarie Group Foundation embarked on a long-term, regional project in Asia around preventing and responding to modern slavery, specifically on issues affecting migrant domestic workers. This has resulted in the release of a regional research report, Modern Slavery in East Asia: Protecting the rights and promoting the autonomy of domestic migrant workers from Indonesia and the Philippines (modernslavery.seefar.org) and subsequent strategic grants based on the report’s recommendations.

For nearly 30 years Mother's Choice in Hong Kong has supported more than 51,000 young women, cared for 3,600 babies and assisted with 1,400 successful adoption cases. The Mother’s Choice team have benefited from Macquarie’s support in a variety of ways, from event hosting to senior management mentoring, human resources advice and staff fundraising.

Jawun forms partnerships to benefit corporate, government and Indigenous Australia, and together they improve the lives of Indigenous people around Australia by supporting Indigenous communities on the ground. Macquarie Group’s partnership with Jawun commenced in 2014 and since then around ten Macquarie secondees have shared their expertise with Indigenous organisations and local community leaders in Cape York and the East Kimberley region. The Macquarie Group Foundation has also provided Jawun with a three-year grant to fund their Regional Director role in East Kimberley.

The partnership between Macquarie Group Foundation and Streetwise Opera began in 2008, leading to Macquarie becoming Streetwise’s principal corporate supporter. Macquarie’s support has enabled Streetwise to transform its position as an arts organisation, raising its profile, increasing audience reach, generating better opportunities for its homeless participants and creating innovative opera productions across England.