Grant stories

  • Improving Farms for the Future

    The Ross Trust is pleased to be supporting Sustainable Farms, an initiative that has been conducting wildlife surveys on farms for more than 20 years to determine how plants and animals respond to ...

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    Fund amount:
    $300,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2021

  • Funding to Support Advocacy for Asylum Seekers

    A leading social justice legal centre is able to employ a senior solicitor to protect and promote the human rights of asylum seekers, thanks to Ross Trust funding.

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    Fund amount:
    $150,000

    Program area:
    Other

    Year:
    2021

  • Helping Students Thrive

    After previously supporting Wallaroo Primary School with smaller grants, The Ross Trust has recently committed $120,000 over three years to the school’s Thrive Program.

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    Fund amount:
    $120,000

    Program area:
    Educational Equity

    Year:
    2021

  • Keeping At-Risk Girls Supported and Safe

    The Ross Trust is pleased to be supporting a Mornington Peninsula program that is helping teenage girls who are at risk of ‘falling through the cracks’ and landing in the justice and care system.

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    Fund amount:
    $75,000

    Program area:
    Educational Equity

    Year:
    2021

  • Cultural education portal to boost links with First Nations people

    A unique new online learning portal will provide an opportunity for all Victorian students to make connections with First Nations Elders.

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    Fund amount:
    $120,000

    Program area:
    Educational Equity

    Year:
    2021

  • A long and loyal relationship

    In the early 2000s, The Ross Trust took what was then a bold step – supporting the newly formed Asylum Seekers Resource Centre (ASRC). While it might not seem significant today, philanthropies then...

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    Fund amount:
    $1.9 million across 14 grants

    Program area:
    Vulnerable Victorians

    Year:
    2003 - 2020

  • Riding out the storm with the community

    Victorians were shocked by the severe storms and floods that ravaged Gippsland and the Dandenong Ranges in the winter of 2021 – but The Ross Trust has been there to support the communities as they ...

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    Fund amount:
    $130,000

    Program area:
    Other

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2021

  • Helping Afghans in crisis

    The Ross Trust is providing critical support to Refugee Legal - an independent community legal centre specialising in refugee and immigration law, policy and practice - to enable them to provide vi...

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    Fund amount:
    $85,000

    Program area:
    Other

    Location:
    Global

    Year:
    2021

  • Supporting communities in COVID crisis

    The Ross Trust is providing desperately needed emergency assistance to Victorian communities that are heavily impacted by COVID.

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    Fund amount:
    $90,000

    Program area:
    Other

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2021

  • Funding to map our platypus population

    The Ross Trust is thrilled to be playing a vital role in the Great Australian Platypus Search, which has begun in Victoria as one of the largest citizen scientist projects in the world.

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    Fund amount:
    200,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2021-2022