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Victorian Women’s Trust
Bryony Green
Victorian Women’s Trust
Advocacy &Research
Progressive Grantmaking
Harm Prevention Projects
Victorian Women’s Trust
VictorianBenevolent Women’s Trust
Dugdale Trust for Women &Girls
• Established 1985• $6 million to 500 projects across Victoria• Oldest women’s funds in the world
Victorian Women’s Trust
Our Impact 13/14
1985 to 1995 – survival, rape and murder as a result of women as a result of domestic violence and advocating forchange.
• 1989 & 1990 Domestic Murders Research Project• 1989 Does the Man in your Life have a Gun• 1995 Blood on Whose Hands• 1995 Survivors Stories
Prevention of violence against women and girls has been a constant theme
Educational projects
• 1998 -When Love Hurts• 2007 - Triple Ms: Modern
Media Mediums• 2009 - Love Control• 2013 iMatter
Health and intervention • 2006 Peak-a-Boo Club• 2011 Family Violence in General Practice Peer
Education • 2012 Champions of Change• 2013 Homeless Mothers and Babies
Psychological Wellness Program
PACTS - Monash
• Module 1: Defining ‘Family Violence'
• Module 2: Identifying and recognising FV
• Module 3: Assessing and responding to risk
• Module 4: Responding well• Module 5: Management and
referral pathways• Module 6: Safety, reflection and
self-care
Breaking down family violence by regions and target group
Disability
Rural and Regional
CALD Communities
Indigenous Age
More recently….
Broader understanding of FV
• 2011 Addressing Economic Abuse• 2012 Breaking the Mould project • 2013 Restoring Financial Safety: Legal Responses to Economic Abuse• 2014 Economic Security for Survivors
• Many of these small grants have tackled hard issues that others are less inclined to support.
• Several have addressed issues ahead of their time. • Some grants have opened up new research and policy issues. • Many grants have seeded important organisations.• At the core of all our grants is political, economic and social
equality.
Our grantmaking…bold, progressive, feminist
• Gender lens• More collaboration (collective impact)• More competition• People giving more $$$, but not more people giving• More females give (but men give more $$$)• Next gen want to be more active with their giving• Digital platforms are changing the way people give
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