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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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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
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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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
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, 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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