Our Aims

Priorities

The Board of Colonial Foundation has determined that, for the time being, the Foundation's funds should, in the main, be directed towards assisting the following areas in the community:

•         * community health, including Aboriginal health
•         * education and vocational training
•         * migrant community welfare
•         * disadvantaged people in our society
•         * community quality of life, including the arts and cultural activities
•         * research in relation to any of these areas.

Colonial Foundation's Grant making Philosophy

The objective of Colonial Foundation's grants programs is to make positive contributions in defined areas of community need or community life. In assessing potential projects for funding it looks for one or more of:

• improved understanding and knowledge of a problem or area
• the gravity of a problem and the scale of potential benefits from successful outcomes of the project (leverage, or multiplier effect)
• sharing of improved knowledge so that others may benefit
• sustainability of the improvements or advances sought
• fuller realisation of prior successful work
• a significant role for the Foundation in the project, supported by a well qualified specialist organization.