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Weedy Seadragon. Image courtesy of SIMS, photography by Erik Sclogl.
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
Researching, learning, improving In the latest funding round, the Board of Governors approved over 50 grants valuing $4.8 million. Interestingly, the average size of the grants approved by the Board in this latest round continues to increase, not only in dollar terms, but also in average duration. This reflects the Foundation’s continuing focus on strategic and well-informed grant-making. The Foundation’s own internal evaluation of historic grants suggests that larger, longer duration grants are most effective in achieving outcomes and having the greatest impact. Informing our grantmaking in this way is integral to our process. The program management team and I will continue to spend more time developing relationships with organisations, understanding their people and their capabilities, and supporting those best placed to achieve their specific goals. I expect this approach will see the Foundation awarding fewer but larger, more targeted grants. This trend will be explored further in our forthcoming Annual Report (due in October) which I encourage you to read when it is published. In the past months, our team has been compiling program-specific Grantee Learnings. We have now distilled the collective learnings reported to the Foundation by grantees in
several program areas since 2009 and made them available for download (see below). Subscribe Past Issues They are invaluable resources for grantees and grant-seekers which I also encourage readers to review. Learnings from other program areas will be added over time. Lastly, on behalf of the Foundation’s Board, myself and our team, I wish to heartily congratulate Dr Peter Steinberg, CEO and Director of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS) on receiving the Silver Jubilee Award of the Australian Marine Sciences Association. This is a well-deserved accolade for one of Australia’s leading marine scientists. The Foundation has been a strong supporter of SIMS since 2007, and it is pleasing to see Peter recognised in this way, and more pleasing to see that SIMS, under Peter’s leadership, has become a leader in collaborative research and training in marine sciences. Craig Connelly
ROUND UP
53 new grants, $4.8 million
L-R: Esther Abram, AEGN; Jill Reichstein, Chairwoman AEGN; the Hon Josh Frydenberg, Minister for Environment & Energy; Craig Connelly, CEO of The Ian Potter Foundation; Amanda Martin, CEO of AEGN.
The September Board meeting considered grants for Round 2, 2017. Thirty-eight grants were awarded, totalling $2.2 million. A further 15 grants valued at $2.6 million were approved subject to certain conditions being met (e.g. additional funding being raised). These grants will be announced at a later date. Applications were considered in the following program areas: Community Wellbeing, Education, Environment & Conservation, Medical Research, Science and Knowledge & Learning. Applications were also considered for funding by The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift.
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IN THE NEWS
Building on success
Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC, Governor of Tasmania meets Taylor and son Malikaye at Karinya. Image: Paul Scrambler, courtesy of The Examiner.
Patron visits Karinya Karinya Young Women's Service in Launceston, Tasmania received some great media attention when they hosted their patron, Her Excellency Professor Kate Warner AC, Governor of Tasmania, in August. Karinya offers a highly successful Launceston-based program supporting young parents in difficult circumstances. Our Community Wellbeing program manager, Dr Alberto Furlan, also attended with the Governor and was taken on a tour of the shelter. Karinya received a Community Wellbeing grant of $114,000 in 2015 from the Foundation. Speaking to The Examiner, Dr Furlan said Karinya’s Young Mums ’n’ Bubs program is a major success and he hopes to see it continue with state or federal funding. “Without any doubts, one of the best programs we’ve funded in the past five years. It’s been really successful in providing support for the mothers and young children, and fathers in some cases” Dr Furlan said. Read more...
Foundation for the future Construction of the new Ian Potter Southbank Centre (part of the new Melbourne
Conservatorium of Music) has commenced. The Centre is part of a larger redevelopment Subscribe Past Issues Translate of the VCA site in the heart of Melbourne’s arts precinct. This new world-class facility is funded by the University of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government with additional philanthropic support including $9 million in Major Grants from the Foundation. Learn more...
Breaking new ground In early September, Orygen officially broke ground to commence building the new facilities for The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health in Parkville. This capital project sees the demolition of sub-standard buildings and the construction of a new stateof-the-art purpose built centre that will house clinical, research, education and training services. The sod turning was officiated by the Victorian Minister for Mental Health, the Hon Martin Foley MP. Orygen received a Major Grant of $3 million in 2017 from the Foundation. Learn more...
PROGRAM AREAS
Funding objectives update
TheatreiNQ's Alice in Wonderland (2017), adapted and directed by Terri Brabon. Pictured: Brendan O'Connor (The Caterpillar) and Emma Smith (Alice). Image: (c) Chrissy Maguire 2017.
Arts funding objectives revised Recently, the Foundation completed a review of more than 200 Arts grants acquitted since 2009. This review led to the Board's decision to refine the Arts funding objectives effective
for all future grants. The revised funding objectives are now published on the Arts program Subscribe Past Issues Translate area page of The Ian Potter Foundation website.
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OUTREACH
Sector Engagement
The Ian Potter Foundation Evaluators Pool (TIPFEP)
New Grantee Learnings available
Each year the Foundation calls for submissions from independent evaluators. From these submissions, Dr Squirrel Main, our Research & Evaluation
Earlier this year, the Foundation published the first in a series of Grantee Learnings including General Learnings, Medical Research and Arts Learnings. We have
Manager, identifies a pool of high-quality evaluators that we can recommend to grantees seeking external evaluation.
since added Community Wellbeing Grantee Learnings.
TIPFEP 2017 is available for download from our website.
Further program-specific Grantee Learnings will be made available over the next few months.
Find TIPFEP list here...
Find Grantee Learnings here...
Grantee news
Grantee news
PlantBank wins global award
New Ecotourism venture
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Tissue culture and beyond. Image courtesy of PlantBank.
Tiger Quoll. Image by Lucia Griggi
The Australian PlantBank has been awarded a prestigious Global Seed Conservation Challenge award in Geneva.
The Conservation Ecology Centre has been given local council approval to
The award for Greatest Progress in Seed Conservation recognises the world-class collecting and research efforts of the PlantBank science team.
Located just west of Apollo Bay, the new attraction will be the first of its kind on the Great Ocean Road. Visitors will be able to walk along designated paths and raised walks to observe native wildlife in their natural habitat, now also free of introduced predators.
PlantBank, located at The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, is the largest native seed bank in Australia and one of the largest in the world. The Foundation congratulates the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust on receiving international recognition from its peers.
develop a new ecotourism attraction in the Otways.
This new venture will enable the Conservation Ecology Centre in the Otways to educate the public while generating revenue for its invaluable conservation work in the region.
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The Ian Potter Wildlife BioBank
During Science Week (12-20 August),
What's New
An Introduction to the Ian Potter Foundation webinar
In May, CEO Craig Connelly and the
Melbourne Museum released a short Subscribe Past Issues video on the new state-of-the-art Ian Potter Australian Wildlife Biobank as part of their Discover Documentary series. The three minute video explains the importance of the Biobank which is the fauna equivalent of a seed bank, preserving animal tissue samples. This new state-of-the-art facility extends Melbourne Museum’s role of collecting and preserving specimens beyond creatures great and small to living tissues that can aid biomedical research as well as species conservation work.
program management team travelled to Translate Brisbane to conduct our annual Introduction to The Ian Potter Foundation forum. Over 200 grantees and grantseekers attended the event held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. For the first time, the general information session was also made available as a webinar. The recorded session can be viewed on the Foundation's YouTube channel. Next year, we hope to record the break-out sessions covering specific program areas as well as the popular session on evaluation.
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