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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