Philanthropic

Organisations

Philanthropy Australia
www.philanthropy.org.au
The national body for Australian philanthropic trusts and foundations offers a comprehensive directory with links, networking opportunities, services and information to promote philanthropy.

Benton Foundation
www.benton.org
The Benton Foundation is a private foundation, an institutional hybrid, bridging the worlds of philanthropy, public policy and community action.

The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Current priorities include: promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age in which the benefit to the public is paramount; raising awareness among funders and nonprofits on their stake in critical policy issues; enabling communities and nonprofits to produce diverse and locally responsive media content.

The Council on Foundations
www.cof.org
The Council on Foundations is a membership organization of more than 2,000 grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide. The council provides leadership expertise, legal services and networking opportunities-among other services-to our members and to the general public.

Foundation Center
www.fdncenter.org
The Foundation Center is the USA's leading authority on philanthropy and is dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy.

Grantmakers Without Borders
www.internationaldonors.org
Grantmakers Without Borders is a unique funders network committed to increasing strategic and compassionate funding for international social change. Grantmakers Without Borders arose out of a concern that US-based philanthropy provides only marginal support to the developing world, and frequently in ways that do not get at the root causes of social ills.

Social Ventures Australia
www.socialventures.com.au
The SVA Boost Fund is Australia's first venture philanthropy fund. It supports social ventures focused on bringing their organisation to scale with clear, accountable and measurable programs and a capacity to produce long-term community benefits.

The bulk of the funding to social ventures is aimed at developing management and organisation depth, to enable program growth.