Queensland Community Foundation (QCF) is distributing over $3 million to Queensland charities in 2020 offering support to charities that have been significantly impacted by the effects Covid-19 on their regular fundraising channels. Over $3 million will be distributed including $500,00 in grants to grass roots causes assisting. with vital capacity building operations. Our capacity building [...]
We are beyond excited to launch our 2020 Photo Challenge with our very first outdoor advertising campaign which launched today across Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Like so many other organisations Queensland Community Foundation has had to adapt to the new Covid-19 world we inhabit and as we can't gather in person to celebrate our [...]
Emerge in Toowoomba is a vibrant social enterprise catering company and cafe that provides a dedicated youth space and employment pathway as well as semi -independent accommodation for local young people who are homeless, at-risk or experiencing disadvantage. In 2020, Emerge is planning to host a young mothers meet up group fortnightly, an LGBQTI youth [...]
It's fair to say that Covid-19 put a serious spanner in the planning of this year's QCF Photo Challenge and Philanthropy Awards, as it did for so many events this year. Traditionally we run our photo competition through April but in consultation with our long standing sponsor of the challenge, Northern Trust, we decided to [...]
Noosa Flexible Learning Centre is a part of Edmund Rice Education Australia’s national initiative, Youth+, which aims to respond to the needs of young people in the local community. They offer educational pathways for young people aged 12-25. They provide young people with an opportunity to re-engage in education in a flexible, supported learning environment. [...]
UMI Arts is an Indigenous organisation. They hold a number of art exhibitions each year for emerging and seasoned artists and run a music festival Big Talk One Fire to showcase Indigenous artists, dancers and culture. They also showcase their members’ artwork at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Umi wanted [...]
The Gulf Area Community (in North West Queensland) has received a boost of over $300,000 from Queensland Community Foundation’s Gulf Area Community Social Development Fund (GACSDF) which aims support the local community in Waanyi, Mingginda, Gkuthaarn and Kukatj country, and people within Burke Shire Council, Carpentaria Shire Council, Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire and Mornington Shire Council. [...]
Seven Sunshine Coast charities have received grants totalling just over $36,000 this month to support their wonderful work within the local community. The Sunshine Coast Community Foundation (SCCF) awarded the seven grants to a wide range of projects that provide critical support to our most vulnerable community members as part of Queensland Community Foundation’s (QCF) [...]
Over $35,000 has been given to local North Queensland charities this week to help them continue to provide vital services to our community, bringing the total grants from North Queensland Community Foundation to over $140,000 in grants to the region since 2016. The North Queensland Community Foundation (NQCF) has allocated seven grants to projects that [...]
A Little Day Out will make a BIG difference to CF families on the Gold Coast and we are thrilled to be able to grant Cystic Fibrosis Queensland $2,000 to help out in a small way 🧡 Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry identified 88 sufferers living in the Gold Coast region with studies measuring high rates of depression and [...]
