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  • Eastern Bettong set for a return to Victoria

    25 Nov 2019

    A grant of $200,000 over two years will help Odonata establish a safe haven for the reintroduction to Victoria of the Eastern Bettong and other priority endemic endangered species within the new Orana Farm Safe Haven, on the Loddon River.

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  • Improving mental health support in rural Victoria

    17 Nov 2019

    The YouThrive Victoria Rural Leaders program is about to enhance its wellbeing component to create a specific focus on mental health.

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  • Changing the rules on protection and restoration of waterways

    4 Nov 2019

    The Ross Trust has provided a $100,000 grant towards the River Laws Program, to advance law and policy reform for the protection and restoration of urban waterways and for Indigenous water rights in the southern Murray Darling Basin

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  • Finding the hook to keep students engaged

    4 Nov 2019

    Gippsland students will be the first in Victoria to benefit from a program designed to make a significant impact on learning outcomes for vulnerable students, by ensuring they make successful transition from primary to secondary school.

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  • Advocacy toolkit to give communities a voice

    13 Oct 2019

    The Ross Trust has been profiled as a case study as part of Philanthropy Australia’s new online advocacy toolkit.

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  • First grants awarded under new strategy

    3 Sep 2019

    As part of our new strategy, the first grants to support organisations striving to achieve educational equity and biodiversity conservation in Victoria have been awarded.

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  • Philanthropy backs Statement from the Heart

    15 Jul 2019

    The Ross Trust has joined with fellow philanthropic organisations to sign an open letter to the First Nations of Australia, supporting the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

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  • New vision, new grants for the Ross Trust

    1 Jul 2019

    Educational equity and biodiversity conservation the funding priorities in the Ross Trust’s new granting strategy.

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  • No limits to learning on the Mornington Peninsula

    1 May 2019

    The Ross Trust has granted $120,000 over three years to a program which will use speech pathology to improve oral language of children, so they are ready to learn when they start school.

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  • Breaking down barriers for asylum seeker children

    30 Apr 2019

    The Refugee Migrant Children Centre (RMCC) will expand its work with young people from asylum seeker, refugee and migrant backgrounds with Braybrook and Sunshine Colleges, with the help of a $30,000 grant from the Ross Trust.

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