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20 Mar 2018

Less than 1% of Australia’s grant-making charities have supported LGBTI communities. Are we doing something wrong?

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In Australia in 2016, over $4 billion was allocated by grant-making charities to applicants in the form of grants and donations.

Of the more than 10,000 grant-making charities in Australia, only 83 reported that they had reached the LGBTI communities with their funding.

The report, published by the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission, does not specify the dollar amount that went to our communities, but with less than 1 per cent of over 10,000 grant-making charities allocating funding to the LGBTI communities, the situation doesn’t look good.

Rachel Tyler Jones spoke with the Executive Director of The Channel, Georgia Matthews,  who has called the situation “pretty bleak”, start by talking to Georgia about her organisation ‘The Channel’.

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