Documentaries can increase the effectiveness of your giving.
Philanthropic Grantmakers, Charities and Documentary Filmmakers care about the same community-minded themes and issues. These shared interests can inspire partnerships that can be immensely powerful. Working together, these groups can achieve their mutual goals and effect long lasting change.
Grantmakers have found that their giving can become more effective, and the outcomes more measurable and sustainable. Through the increased reach of documentary film, grantmakers have seen that the act of philanthropy itself has spread, becoming better recognised and supported.
The Documentary Australia Foundation offers a resource that aims to increase the effectiveness of grantmaking, and to educate and raise awareness around issues in the community through documentary film-making.
In addition, the Foundation provides Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status or tax-deductibility status to Grantmakers and donors to enable them to make grants to relevant documentaries.
Over 1000 foundations in the USA use the power of documentary to inspire social justice C they give every year to documentaries as part of a wider strategy for social change. Funding Media For Social Change
by Nan Rubin & Sharon Maeda
What is the Documentary Australia Foundation?
The Documentary Australia Foundation is a private philanthropic initiative that aims to inspire and nurture partnerships between philanthropic grantmakers, charities and documentary filmmakers. The Foundation provides all the information, guides and resources to help them work together to achieve their mutual goals.