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Tuesday, 22 August 2023

Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 2024 information session

View our recording of the information session held on Friday 25 August.
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Monday, 31 July 2023

Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 2024 Opens

The Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships program has opened for expressions of interest today, seeking exceptional leaders with breakthrough solutions to Australia’s most pressing social and environmental problems.
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation's new five-year strategy

From 1 July 2023, a new five-year strategic period (FY24–28) comes into effect for both Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation
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Monday, 08 May 2023

2023 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellows Announced

The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund are pleased to announce that the 2023 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships have been awarded to Emma Cutting, Rebecca Scott and Laura Simmonds.
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Monday, 01 May 2023

Philanthropy pledges support for Yes campaigns for Voice

The Myer Foundation is proud to join an alliance of 31 of Australia’s leading trusts and foundations pledging $17 million to support Yes campaigns for Voice.
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Monday, 21 November 2022

2022 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards – winners announced

The winners are: Marrugeku (Group Award, $90,000); Eryn Jean Norvill (Individual Award, $60,000); Deirdre O’Brien (Facilitator’s Prize, $25,000)
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Tuesday, 04 October 2022

Meet the 2022 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows

Nine creatives from around Australia will each receive an unrestricted, tax-free grant of $160,000 over two years. Find out who they are.
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Monday, 05 September 2022

Social Impact Leadership Australia announces its second cohort

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Friday, 22 July 2022

Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 2023 Opens

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Wednesday, 18 May 2022

2022 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellows Announced

The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund are pleased to announce that the 2022 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships have been awarded to Adam Davids, Estelle Lucas and Jamal Elsheikh.
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Tuesday, 15 March 2022

2021 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards – winners announced

The winners are: All the Queens Men (Vic), Australian Digital Concert Hall (Vic), Blakdance (Qld), Clare Watson (WA), Erin Milne (Vic), James Berlyn (WA), Jenny M Thomas (Vic), Speak Percussion (Vic).
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Friday, 04 February 2022

Applications now open for Social Impact Leadership Australia - Victoria and Tasmania

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Monday, 24 January 2022

Vale Sidney Baillieu Myer AC

Mr Myer, Co-Founder and Past President of The Myer Foundation, died at his home on 22 January 2022, aged 96.
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Friday, 07 January 2022

Social Impact Leadership Australia - first retreat held

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Thursday, 07 October 2021

Meet the 2021 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows

Nine creatives from around Australia will each receive an unrestricted, tax-free grant of $160,000 over two years. Find out who they are.
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Friday, 27 May 2022

$2 million in collaborative grants for innovation in youth unemployment announced

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Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Post COVID-19 Innovation and Collaboration Grant Round

Grants to support innovative, collaborative initiatives in the social and/or arts sectors focusing on quality employment outcomes for young people and/or older women experiencing disadvantage.
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Monday, 12 July 2021

Social Impact Leadership Australia - inaugural cohort announced

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Monday, 28 June 2021

Supporting capacity of organisations in Victoria’s bushfire-impacted communities

The Sydney Myer Fund has partnered with the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal to build the capacity of local organisations playing a central, coordinating or networking role in the recovery of Victorian communities...
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Friday, 23 July 2021

Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 2022 opens

The Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships 2022 program has opened for applications today, seeking exceptional leaders with breakthrough solutions to Australia’s most pressing social and environmental problems and the capacity to bring them to fruition.
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