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In the community: Video spotlights

Supporting youth employment in Australia

Research commissioned by the Macquarie Group Foundation shows there is a gap between employers who want to attract and retain people into entry level roles and young people who are keen to access those roles but lack the experience or skills employers are looking for.

Four non-profit organisations working in different ways to address this gap are Social Ventures Australia, YLab Global, Shoreline and Generation Australia. By taking a flexible approach to funding and putting equity at the heart of the Foundation’s work, we are supporting them to build a better for young Australians.

Instituto Four

Watch the video to learn more about Instituto Four and our strategic grant partnership with the organisation that honours the legacy of the late Hitoshi Castro, who was a leader at Macquarie for nearly 30 years. This grant to Instituto Four marks the Macquarie Group Foundation’s first employment-focused grant in Brazil.

White Box Enterprises

The Macquarie Group Foundation’s commitment to breaking down barriers to employment has led it to become one of three impact investors taking part in the White Box Enterprises Payment By Outcomes (PBO) trial.

Generation UK

Macquarie Group in partnership with the Green Investment Group and non-profit Generation UK, delivered a first-of-its-kind initiative in the UK to equip unemployed people facing barriers to employment with profession-specific training to enter the green sector. Hear from three of our graduates, Barbara, Faisa and Mohigul who are now fully employed and working within the green sector.

The Opportunity Network

A grant partner since 2017, The Opportunity Network supports college and career success for underrepresented students through an emphasis on personal and professional networks, as well as social capital. These tools help students navigate and thrive in both the college landscape and professional world.
 

In this video hear about The Opportunity Network's work to promote racial equity in higher education and career attainment in the US, and learn more about our partnership with the non-profit organisation.

Raise Foundation

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.

Our strategic focus in EMEA

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.

Responding to modern slavery in Asia

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.

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