ANNNOUNCEMENT Flagship Grants

The Ian Potter Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new, dedicated stream of work – Flagship Grants, as part of its existing major grants program.

Through these new initiatives, the Foundation anticipates investing substantial funds over an extended period to support ambitious efforts to deliver transformative impact on pressing and entrenched issues of real significance facing the nation.

We will not issue 'open calls' through grant rounds for Flagship Grants. Instead, we will proactively identify issues and partners and co-develop the most appropriate ways to deliver lasting impact. We will do this in line with our funding principles and in genuine collaboration with other philanthropic organisations, the NFP sector and prospective partners appropriate to the issues.

The Board ofThe Ian Potter Foundation recently appointed Rohan Martyres to the newly created Major Grants Development Manager role to meet this aim.As a senior team member at the Foundation, Rohan will lead the development of new Flagship Grants.

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In the Foundation's latest funding round, the Board awarded 34 grants totalling $15,990,344.

These included $7,222,000 to seven Environment grants, ten Community Wellbeing grants (totalling $3,513,000), four grants in the Early Childhood Development program ($2,495,000), plus a further three grants ($1,615,000) funded by TheAlec Prentice Sewell Gift

In the Arts program, a grant of $720,000 was awarded to Takso, an adaptive evaluation tool that aims to enhance the evaluation capacity of the cultural sector, and $215,344 was distributed toThe Ian Potter Cultural Trust to fund grants for individual artists.

Atotal of $210,000 was also awarded in Impact Enhancement grants to support a range of existing partner projects.