Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration & Exile – Canberra Conference
On November 14th the first Queer Displacements conference opened in Canberra. “Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration & Exile” was the first conference in Australia to focus on the contemporary issues facing LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum and refugees. What a wonderful, challenging, and enlightening event it was! I had the great privilege to attend and present a […]
Meet Our Grant Recipients for Round 3 2019
Four times each year, Pride Foundation Australia offers up to $500 in funding to five individuals, organisations and communities working on projects that directly benefit the LGBTIQA+ community, who would otherwise be limited by the constraints of other funding programs. We’re thrilled to announce the recipients for the September 2019 Small Grants! Rainbow Disability SA […]
An Update on Our Work Around LGBTIQA+ Refugee and Asylum Seekers
Through the work of our expert LGBTIQA+ Refugee and Asylum Seeker advisory group, we have developed a list of key issues. These include: Connecting with other LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers in Australia – they find it very difficult to connect with each other Information access – they also find it very difficult to access […]
An Award Winning LGBTIQ+ Disability Initiative
Pride Foundation Australia were recognised for ‘Excellence in Creating Inclusive Communities’ at the 2019 Victorian Disability Awards this month. Our LGBTIQ+ Disability Initiative, lead by board member Ian Gould, received a Highly Commended award. The award was presented by the Victorian Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers, Hon Luke Donnellan. We send our thanks to […]
Big Returns for Small Investments
Pride Foundation Australia believes in philanthropy as a force that initially makes small changes, from which big things grow and bigger changes happen. Since Pride Foundation Australia started our disability initiative, we have seen a new collaboration between Thorne Harbour Health and Inclusion Melbourne on a project to provide advocacy training for LGBTIQ+ people with […]
Congratulations to Jake Lewis and the team at VALID
They’ve just reached the end of the Pride Foundation initiated Victorian Government grant to scope the needs for a self-advocacy group for LGBTIQA+ people living with disabilities. Jake and the team have achieved some incredible things throug this project: They’ve developed a Needs Assessment Questionnaire, promoted it and received 160+ returns. We’ll be sharing the […]
Congratulations to our Round 2 Small Grant Recipients
Each project has received $500 towards their project. LGBTIQ Library Exchange Family Access Network (FAN) received a PFA grant to start a LGBTIQ+ book exchange for clients living in their LGBTIQ+ specific transitional properties. Come Out and Play Bushrangers Basketball is the first LGBTIQ+ club to enter into women’s basketball associations in Victoria. With the […]
Congratulations to Yooralla!
Their project “My Identity…My choice” has been chosen for the first PFA-Myer grant round for 2019. They will receive $20,000 towards the development and delivery of two LGBTIQA+ awareness training modules that will be developed in collaboration with Inclusion Melbourne. Once the project is complete, the modules will be freely available for disability services nationally. Rod Carracher, the Chief Practitioner at Yooralla, had this to […]
Ruth McNair at Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System
On Wednesday 17th July, Pride Foundation Australia’s Chair-person Dr Ruth McNair was one of several LGBTIQA+ advocates who spoke at the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. Speaking from her experience as a GP at Fitzroy North’s Northside Clinic, she provided examples and evidence on the lack of services for LGBTIQA+ people in rural […]
LGBTIQA+ Disability Research Project- Pride Foundation Australia and Deakin University
After the success of our Disability Forum in February, and our work with Inclusion Melbourne last year, Pride Foundation Australia has continued our focus on LGBTIQA+ Disability and raised funds for a new project with Deakin University. Ruth McNair and Ian Gould attended the first meeting to get updates on progress, plans, and met half […]
Supporting LGBTIQA+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers
This year, Pride Foundation Australia identified LGBTIQA+ refugees and asylum seekers living in Australia as one of our areas of focus for 2019. We have been working alongside our LGBTIQA+ refugee and asylum seeker advisory group to identify the priority issues that would benefit from our funding, including grant rounds, commissioning research, and supporting collaboration. In the lead […]
Meet Ruby Mountford – Our New Marketing and Administration Officer
Ruby (who uses they/them pronouns) joined the team in late April, and as their first bit of official business, worked with Ruth to successfully apply for a place in Our Community’s Social Fundraising Fellowship. Since then, they have been developing and implementing our end of financial year fundraiser, as well as learning the ins and […]
